# claude-mem vs Honcho (slim)

> Honcho scores 64.2 (B) to claude-mem's 58.6 (C) for agent memory. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Honcho scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against claude-mem's 58.6 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. claude-mem leads on reliability, schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do agent memory. Honcho accepts x402. claude-mem doesn't.

- claude-mem: C 58.6, rank #677 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-mem.min.md
- Honcho: B 64.2, rank #422 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.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; Schema & documentation, 84 against 79; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Honcho, good for Products that model the people in a conversation and want to ask questions about them, and for agents that must pay their own way. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 80 against 20; Transparency & trust, 69 against 46. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where claude-mem loses 6 points for them.

| Category | claude-mem | Honcho |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 85 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 80 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 46 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | claude-mem | Honcho |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Alex Newman | Plastic Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.honcho.dev/v3` |
| Transports | stdio, HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | yes, from $0.001/call |
| 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 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Tools exposed | 19 | none |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.plastic-labs/honcho` |
| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-09-24 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-04-24 |
| 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 | yes |
| 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 | yes |
| Popularity | 106k stars, 30k npm/wk | 7.4k stars, 18k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |