# claude-mem vs Cognee (slim)

> claude-mem scores 58.6 (C) to Cognee's 54.6 (C) for agent memory. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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claude-mem scores 58.6 (C) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do agent memory.

- claude-mem: C 58.6, rank #677 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-mem.min.md
- Cognee: C 54.6, rank #810 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cognee.min.md
- claude-mem, good for Session memory for one developer's coding agents, recalled by staged MCP search, with optional hosted sync across machines. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 50; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 59; Security & auth, 50 against 39.
- Cognee, good for Agents whose memory has to include documents, wikis and chat tools as well as conversation, and for teams happy to self-host. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 35 against 20; Maintenance & community, 82 against 76; Transparency & trust, 67 against 46. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | claude-mem | Cognee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 85 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 59 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 39 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 46 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | claude-mem | Cognee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | Platform |
| Vendor | Alex Newman | Cognee |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://<tenant>.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1` |
| Transports | stdio, HTTP | HTTP, stdio, SSE (legacy) |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 for the engine, CLI, worker, MCP tools, adapters and docs. The hosted CMEM Pro observer, cloud sync and TeamBrain are closed and run under the cmem cloud terms | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 19 | 7 |
| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-03-27 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 106k stars, 30k npm/wk | 31k stars, 21k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |