# claude-mem vs Hindsight (slim)

> claude-mem scores 58.6 (C) to Hindsight's 50.2 (D) 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 Hindsight's 50.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Hindsight leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do agent memory.

- claude-mem: C 58.6, rank #677 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-mem.min.md
- Hindsight: D 50.2, rank #941 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hindsight.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 25; Schema & documentation, 84 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 57. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Hindsight, good for Agents that should form opinions and summaries from what they stored, such as long-running assistants or copilots that reflect on past sessions. Ahead on Security & auth, 58 against 50; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where claude-mem loses 6 points for them.

| Category | claude-mem | Hindsight |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 85 | 25 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 46 | 46 |

| Fact (where they differ) | claude-mem | Hindsight |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Alex Newman | Vectorize |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.hindsight.vectorize.io` |
| Transports | stdio, HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| 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 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 19 | 27 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-09-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 106k stars, 30k npm/wk | 43k stars, 44k npm/wk, 227k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |