Competitors & Pricing

The competitive landscape in the memory/AI-cloning space and how each vendor prices.

This list includes full software products and excludes tools/plugins e.g. claude-mem or agentmemory.

TL;DR: Vast majority of competitors treat memory as a search problem; very few treat memory the way we do, which is beyond search.

Documents

For comprehensive analysis, reference these two deep research Claude Artifacts:

• Competitor Analysis
  • Only vendors with verified funding round or top-10 Github stars are ranked
  • Based around the framework from Engramme’s Memory is Not Search
• Pricing Analysis
  • Contains simulation of vendor prices across variable workloads compared to Honcho

Landscape

37 vendors total are comprised of the original 14 (#1–14) plus ones surfaced across the two deep research analyses (#15–37).

• Description is each vendor’s own self-positioning, taken from their site or GitHub (2026-07)
• Category is a taxonomy from Memory is Not Search
  • Default
    • In-weights = baked into model weights (e.g. digital twin)
  • Search
    • RAG = retrieval over a store
    • Agentic = an LLM controller manages what’s stored/retrieved
  • Beyond Search
    • Proactive = surfaces relevant context without an explicit query

#	Vendor	Vendor self-description	Category
1	Memobase	User profile–based long-term memory for AI chatbot apps	RAG
2	Memori	Agent-native memory infrastructure	Agentic
3	mem0	AI memory that persists across sessions and agents	Agentic
4	Supermemory	The memory layer for AI agents	RAG
5	Zep	Agent memory, at enterprise scale	RAG
6	backboard	Sovereign AI infrastructure for organizations	RAG
7	letta	An AI research lab building machines that learn	Agentic
8	acontext	Agent skills as a memory layer	Agentic
9	memU	Personal memory across agents	Agentic
10	memv	Contextual memory for your multimedia	RAG
11	automem	Persistent memory for MCP-compatible AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT…)	RAG
12	mnemosy	The first AI memory that thinks like a brain	Agentic
13	mengram	Persistent memory so your AI finally knows who you are	RAG
14	Aura	Cognitive memory for AI agents	Agentic
15	ByteRover	Share the right context across your agents and team	Agentic
16	cmem.ai	Your agents finally remember	Agentic
17	Cognee	Open-source memory platform for agents	RAG
18	Engram (EngramLab)	AI has learned the world — now it should learn yours	In-weights
19	Engramme	Omniscient AI to augment human cognition	Proactive
20	EverMemOS	Give your AI agent self-evolving memory	Agentic
21	Graphify	The code knowledge graph for AI coding assistants	RAG
22	Graphiti	Build real-time knowledge graphs for AI agents	RAG
23	Hindsight (Vectorize)	State-of-the-art memory for AI agents	Agentic
24	LangMem (LangChain)	Helps agents learn and adapt from their interactions over time	Agentic
25	MemClaw	The shared cognition layer for enterprise AI agents	Agentic
26	Memary	The open-source memory layer for autonomous agents	Agentic
27	Memdex	Turn every AI conversation into reusable local memory	RAG
28	Memories.ai	The world’s first large visual memory model — AI that remembers video	RAG
29	MemMachine	Build agents that learn, with memory that lasts	Agentic
30	MemPalace	The best-benchmarked open-source AI memory system	RAG
31	memvid	Serverless single-file memory layer to replace complex RAG pipelines	RAG
32	MythOS	Stop re-explaining yourself to your AI	RAG
33	OpenMemory	Memory that feels handcrafted for autonomous agents	Agentic
34	OpenViking (Volcengine)	The context file system for AI agents	RAG
35	Papr	Turn data into intelligence	RAG
36	Pinecone	Next-generation vector search, an API call away	RAG
37	Second Me	Where AI brings real connections back	In-weights
★	Honcho (us)	Identity layer for AI agents — models user psychology via theory-of-mind	Proactive