Head to head · Memory search · October 2026 research run

AI Memory vs Hy Memory

Hy Memory scores 57.7 (C) on agent readiness against AI Memory's 55.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. AI Memory leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do memory search.

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Which one, for what

AI Memory C

Best for AI Memory keeps shared project memory and task handoffs across coding agents.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 65 against 55
  • Agent ergonomics, 65 against 60
  • Security & auth, 55 against 37

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5

Watch for

Existing deployments may still lack authentication

Hy Memory C

Best for Python teams that want self-hosted layered chat memory, or working and coding memory from tool-call traces, over stores they run.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 65 against 50
  • Maintenance & community, 76 against 50
  • Transparency & trust, 62 against 35

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

delete() leaves the source conversation, the deleted text in history.db and extraction prompts in cache.db, and can reactivate a superseded fact

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAI MemoryHy MemoryEdge
Reliability16%205065Hy Memory +15
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26555AI Memory +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.26560AI Memory +5
Security & auth14%17.55537AI Memory +18
Payments & pricing10%12.56060even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85076Hy Memory +26
Transparency & trust7%8.83562Hy Memory +27
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 55.7/100C 57.7/100

Facts side by side

FactAI MemoryHy Memory
KindMCP serverSDK + MCP
VendorFabio AkitaTencent Hunyuan
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transportsstdio
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceMITApache-2.0 (PyPI metadata for the 1.x releases and 2.0.1 says MIT; 2.0.2 carries Apache-2.0)
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-172026-10-16
Terms last updatedno date givenno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity11k stars27 stars, 147 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3.5/5 (4)2.5/5 (4)

Verdicts

AI Memory

Cross-agent task handoffs and shared search. Existing deployments may still lack authentication.

Hy Memory

An Apache-2.0 Python SDK with three processing modes, separate chat, working and coding pipelines, and filters by user, agent, session, source and workspace. Deletion does not stick everywhere. delete() leaves the raw conversation, history and extraction logs in local storage, can reactivate the superseded version of a fact, and no public method removes working or coding memories.

Before you call either

AI Memory

  1. Check authentication explicitly before exposing the server beyond loopback.
  2. Exclude secrets and sensitive repositories from memory capture.
  3. Back up memory and follow the version 3 migration guide.

Hy Memory

  1. Pass user_id on every add() and user_ids on every search(). Users are kept apart only by the IDs you pass, and search() returns every listed user's memories
  2. Choose the mode before writing. lite makes no LLM calls and stores raw text. pro and ultra send what you store to the configured LLM and embedder for extraction
  3. Don't rely on delete() to erase a fact. The raw conversation, history.db and cache.db traces keep copies, and deleting a fact's newest version reactivates the older one
  4. Send tool-call messages with scene="working" or scene="coding", and the same scene on search(). Without tool messages a write falls back to chat memory
  5. Keep python -m hy_memory.server on 127.0.0.1. It has no authentication and allows any web origin

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AI Memory or Hy Memory?

Hy Memory scores 57.7 (C) on agent readiness against AI Memory's 55.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. AI Memory leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth.

Can an agent call AI Memory and Hy Memory without installing anything?

AI Memory runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for Hy Memory.

Are AI Memory and Hy Memory open source?

No open-source release is listed for AI Memory. Hy Memory is open source (Apache-2.0 (PyPI metadata for the 1.x releases and 2.0.1 says MIT; 2.0.2 carries Apache-2.0)).

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