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Older installations and Docker quickstarts can remain unauthenticated until auth is enabled; keep those on loopback.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The MIT software can run locally without a project account. Search has a zero-LLM mode; optional consolidation or configured model use can incur provider charges. 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Credit is prepaid from $0.50, with optional auto-recharge (https://docs.cognee.ai/cognee-cloud/functionality/account-and-billing). 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The replacements remember, recall and forget had shipped on 10 April and the tools reference now lists what went, so we deduct at the low end (https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/b52fcc335f6bfc090d1c892afa9c4e81909336fe)" ], "verdict": "Apache-2.0 library, REST server and MCP server, all self-hostable, with local models and no LLM key since 1.6.0. No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region.", "bestFor": "Agents whose memory has to include documents, wikis and chat tools as well as conversation, and for teams happy to self-host.", "strengths": [ "Apache-2.0 library, REST server and MCP server, all self-hostable, with local models and no LLM key since 1.6.0", "7-tool MCP server with search_tools and call_tool for reaching the rest on demand", "Public OpenAPI 3.1 file with 46 paths and error models", "Metered Cloud at $1 per million tokens, 1 million free with no card", "Eight stable PyPI releases from 15 August to 29 September 2026, with CI passing on main" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region", "Cloud calls hung rather than failing when a tenant ran out of credit (August 2026), and the issue is still open", "Billing docs and pricing page disagree on plans and the free allowance", "Library telemetry is on by default and sends a persistent machine ID and an ID derived from the LLM key", "11 MCP tools were removed in May 2026 without a version bump or notice" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use remember, recall and forget. The older cognify, search and delete MCP tools are gone", "Always include /api/v1 in REST paths", "Check cognify_status before querying data you added with background=true", "Never pass everything=true to forget unless you mean to wipe all of the user's memory", "Set a client timeout on Cloud calls and treat HTTP 402 as an empty balance, since an empty balance has also shown up as hangs" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 35, "reliability": 50, "schema": 85, "security": 39, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 63 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install cognee", "http": "# COGNEE_URL is your tenant host, e.g. https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai\ncurl -X POST \"$COGNEE_URL/api/v1/search\" -H \"X-Api-Key: $COGNEE_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"query\":\"What does the user prefer?\"}'", "claudeCode": "docker run -d -e TRANSPORT_MODE=http -e LLM_API_KEY=$LLM_API_KEY -p 8000:8000 cognee/cognee-mcp:main\nclaude mcp add --transport http cognee http://localhost:8000/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "cognee": { "args": [ "run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "LLM_API_KEY", "cognee/cognee-mcp:main" ], "command": "docker", "env": { "LLM_API_KEY": "${LLM_API_KEY}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cognee" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard token processing", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 1, "note": "1 million tokens free" }, { "item": "Extra workspace", "unit": "month", "usd": 5 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Topoteretes UG (haftungsbeschränkt)", "domain": "cognee.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.cognee.ai/gtc-eu", "privacy": "https://www.cognee.ai/privacy-notice", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-02", "notes": [ "The general terms, updated 27 March 2026, name Topoteretes UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 252065 B, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 39-40, 10999 Berlin, under German law.", "www.cognee.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and we found no status page.", "The privacy notice, current version 20 September 2026, says Cognee Cloud is operated by Cognee Inc. and hosted in AWS us-east-1, while the general terms name Topoteretes UG in Berlin. 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"11k stars", "b": "31k stars, 21k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (4)", "b": "3/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "AI Memory scores 55.7 (C) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on schema \u0026 documentation, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, AI Memory or Cognee?" }, { "answer": "AI Memory runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Cognee has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call AI Memory and Cognee without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for AI Memory. Cognee is open source (Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are AI Memory and Cognee open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 65 against 59", "Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 39", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35" ], "also": [ "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5", "No incidents deducted, where Cognee loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "AI Memory keeps shared project memory and task handoffs across coding agents.", "slug": "ai-memory", "watchFor": "Existing deployments may still lack authentication" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 65", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 50", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 66 against 35" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Agents whose memory has to include documents, wikis and chat tools as well as conversation, and for teams happy to self-host.", "slug": "cognee", "watchFor": "No 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reference server)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-memory-reference-server" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-supermemory.json", "title": "Cognee vs Supermemory API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-supermemory" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-zep.json", "title": "Cognee vs Zep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-zep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-ai-memory.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs AI Memory", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-ai-memory" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-context-mode.json", "title": "AI Memory vs Context Mode Engine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-context-mode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-graphicle.json", "title": "AI Memory vs 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Cognee leads on schema \u0026 documentation, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do memory search.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "ai-memory": "Cross-agent task handoffs and shared search. Existing deployments may still lack authentication.", "cognee": "Apache-2.0 library, REST server and MCP server, all self-hostable, with local models and no LLM key since 1.6.0. No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-cognee", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-cognee.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-cognee.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-cognee.min.md" }, "markdown": "AI Memory scores 55.7 (C) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on schema \u0026 documentation, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do memory search.\n\n- AI Memory: grade C, 55.7/100, rank #733 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ai-memory.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ai-memory.json\n- Cognee: grade C, 54.6/100, rank #769 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cognee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cognee.json\n- Best memory layers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-memory/index.md\n- All 103 memory comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-memory/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### AI Memory (C)\n\nGood for: AI Memory keeps shared project memory and task handoffs across coding agents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 39\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5\n- No incidents deducted, where Cognee loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Existing deployments may still lack authentication\n\n### Cognee (C)\n\nGood for: Agents whose memory has to include documents, wikis and chat tools as well as conversation, and for teams happy to self-host.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 65\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 50\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 66 against 35\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AI Memory | Cognee | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 50 | even |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 85 | Cognee +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 59 | AI Memory +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 55 | 39 | AI Memory +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 35 | AI Memory +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 82 | Cognee +32 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 66 | Cognee +31 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.7 · C** | **54.6 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AI Memory | Cognee |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | Platform |\n| Vendor | Fabio Akita | Cognee |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP, stdio, SSE (legacy) |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | 7 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-03-27 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 11k stars | 31k stars, 21k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**AI Memory.** Cross-agent task handoffs and shared search. Existing deployments may still lack authentication.\n\n**Cognee.** Apache-2.0 library, REST server and MCP server, all self-hostable, with local models and no LLM key since 1.6.0. No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AI Memory\n\n1. Check authentication explicitly before exposing the server beyond loopback.\n2. Exclude secrets and sensitive repositories from memory capture.\n3. Back up memory and follow the version 3 migration guide.\n\n### Cognee\n\n1. Use remember, recall and forget. The older cognify, search and delete MCP tools are gone\n2. Always include /api/v1 in REST paths\n3. Check cognify_status before querying data you added with background=true\n4. Never pass everything=true to forget unless you mean to wipe all of the user's memory\n5. Set a client timeout on Cloud calls and treat HTTP 402 as an empty balance, since an empty balance has also shown up as hangs\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AI Memory or Cognee?\n\nAI Memory scores 55.7 (C) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on schema \u0026 documentation, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Can an agent call AI Memory and Cognee without installing anything?\n\nAI Memory runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Cognee has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1.\n\n### Are AI Memory and Cognee open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for AI Memory. Cognee is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-cognee.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-cognee.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"ai-memory\", \"b\": \"cognee\"}`. 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