# claude-mem vs MemPalace (slim)

> MemPalace scores 65.7 (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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MemPalace scores 65.7 (B) on agent readiness against claude-mem's 58.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. claude-mem leads on reliability. Both do agent memory.

- claude-mem: C 58.6, rank #677 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-mem.min.md
- MemPalace: B 65.7, rank #359 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mempalace.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 77.
- MemPalace, good for Verbatim, local, searchable memory of coding-agent sessions Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Transparency & trust, 58 against 46. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card.

| Category | claude-mem | MemPalace |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 85 | 77 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 46 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | claude-mem | MemPalace |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Alex Newman | MemPalace (open-source project) |
| Transports | stdio, HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| 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 | 47 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-10-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Popularity | 106k stars, 30k npm/wk | 60k stars |