{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cognee", "name": "Cognee", "vendor": "Cognee", "vendorUrl": "https://www.cognee.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "agent-memory", "summary": "Open-source memory engine that turns documents, conversations and synced sources into a knowledge graph plus a vector index and answers queries over both.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cognee", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cognee.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cognee.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cognee.json", "repo": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http", "stdio", "sse" ], "remoteUrl": "https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cognee" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "cognee/cognee-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Cognee Cloud takes an `X-Api-Key` header on a per-tenant host, and keys can be rotated. A local Docker server runs without auth unless you turn it on, then takes a Bearer token. Since 1.6.0 (18 September 2026) the library builds and searches text memory with local models and no LLM key, and LLM-dependent stages skip when none is set. Set `LLM_API_KEY` for the full pipeline with a hosted model. Cognee MCP and Cognee Cloud are separate systems with different auth.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Cognee Cloud Free is $0 with 1 million tokens included, 1 workspace, unlimited users and API calls, and no card. Standard is $1 per million tokens processed plus $5 a month for each extra workspace, and adds Slack, Notion, Linear and Google Drive sources. Enterprise is quoted, with bring-your-own-cloud (https://www.cognee.ai/pricing). The billing docs still show older plans (Hobby with 10 million tokens, Growth at $5 a tenant, Enterprise at $2,916 a month), which disagree with the pricing page. Credit is prepaid from $0.50, with optional auto-recharge (https://docs.cognee.ai/cognee-cloud/functionality/account-and-billing). The open-source library is free to run yourself.", "priceSummary": "$5 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 7, "popularity": { "githubStars": 31200, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 20830, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cognee.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cognee.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.cognee.ai/cognee_openapi_spec.json", "capabilities": [ "memory.store", "memory.search", "memory.graph", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "python", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.6, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 730, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 35, "reliability": 50, "schema": 85, "security": 39, "transparency": 66 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-05-01: a commit titled as a fix removed 11 MCP tools, including cognify, search, delete and prune, with cognee-mcp at 0.5.4 before and after, and the README the day before listed them as \"still available\" with no deprecation note. The replacements remember, recall and forget had shipped on 10 April and the tools reference now lists what went, so we deduct at the low end (https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/b52fcc335f6bfc090d1c892afa9c4e81909336fe)" ], "verdict": "Apache-2.0 library, REST server and MCP server, all self-hostable, with local models and no LLM key since 1.6.0. No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region.", "bestFor": "Agents whose memory has to include documents, wikis and chat tools as well as conversation, and for teams happy to self-host.", "strengths": [ "Apache-2.0 library, REST server and MCP server, all self-hostable, with local models and no LLM key since 1.6.0", "7-tool MCP server with search_tools and call_tool for reaching the rest on demand", "Public OpenAPI 3.1 file with 46 paths and error models", "Metered Cloud at $1 per million tokens, 1 million free with no card", "Eight stable PyPI releases from 15 August to 29 September 2026, with CI passing on main" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region", "Cloud calls hung rather than failing when a tenant ran out of credit (August 2026), and the issue is still open", "Billing docs and pricing page disagree on plans and the free allowance", "Library telemetry is on by default and sends a persistent machine ID and an ID derived from the LLM key", "11 MCP tools were removed in May 2026 without a version bump or notice" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use remember, recall and forget. The older cognify, search and delete MCP tools are gone", "Always include /api/v1 in REST paths", "Check cognify_status before querying data you added with background=true", "Never pass everything=true to forget unless you mean to wipe all of the user's memory", "Set a client timeout on Cloud calls and treat HTTP 402 as an empty balance, since an empty balance has also shown up as hangs" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 35, "reliability": 50, "schema": 85, "security": 39, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 63 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install cognee", "http": "# COGNEE_URL is your tenant host, e.g. https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai\ncurl -X POST \"$COGNEE_URL/api/v1/search\" -H \"X-Api-Key: $COGNEE_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"query\":\"What does the user prefer?\"}'", "claudeCode": "docker run -d -e TRANSPORT_MODE=http -e LLM_API_KEY=$LLM_API_KEY -p 8000:8000 cognee/cognee-mcp:main\nclaude mcp add --transport http cognee http://localhost:8000/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "cognee": { "args": [ "run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "LLM_API_KEY", "cognee/cognee-mcp:main" ], "command": "docker", "env": { "LLM_API_KEY": "${LLM_API_KEY}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cognee" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard token processing", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 1, "note": "1 million tokens free" }, { "item": "Extra workspace", "unit": "month", "usd": 5 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Topoteretes UG (haftungsbeschränkt)", "domain": "cognee.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.cognee.ai/gtc-eu", "privacy": "https://www.cognee.ai/privacy-notice", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-02", "notes": [ "The general terms, updated 27 March 2026, name Topoteretes UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 252065 B, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 39-40, 10999 Berlin, under German law.", "www.cognee.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and we found no status page.", "The privacy notice, current version 20 September 2026, says Cognee Cloud is operated by Cognee Inc. and hosted in AWS us-east-1, while the general terms name Topoteretes UG in Berlin. SECURITY.md in the repository sends reports to security@cognee.ai." ], "score": 63 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cognee.json", "live": { "slug": "cognee", "probe": { "target": "https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T11:29:50.225132221Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "DNS lookup failed", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 254, "samples30d": 3595, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 123, "ok": 0 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "topoteretes/cognee", "version": "v1.6.4", "released": "2026-10-13", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:45:27.353725717Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cognee", "version": "1.6.4", "released": "2026-10-13", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:45:27.160197577Z" } ], "githubStars": 32295, "pypiWeekly": 25711, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cognee.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:47:11.062573384Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.cognee.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T14:13:46.547846363Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cognee.ai", "registered": "2023-12-21", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/cognee.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:13:41.790207127Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.cognee.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:11:32.747393623Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T21:11:32.747393623Z", "fingerprint": "5b78ac0aa0f3" }, { "url": "https://www.cognee.ai/privacy-notice", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:11:34.768941992Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T21:11:34.768941992Z", "fingerprint": "ecf7dd121554" }, { "url": "https://www.cognee.ai/gtc-eu", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:11:30.671001036Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9bd64eccc606" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T11:29:50.225132221Z" } }, "answer": "Graphicle scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "graphicle", "name": "Graphicle", "vendor": "KarLex AI, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.karlex.ai/graphicle", "kind": "mcp", "category": "agent-memory", "summary": "Graphicle is an open-source Rust program that builds a code graph of a repository and keeps its documents, reviewed decisions and past coding-agent sessions, served to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients as cited excerpts.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphicle", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphicle.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphicle.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graphicle.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Graphicle-AI/graphicle", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "stdio", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No account. The stdio server (`graphicle mcp`) runs with the owner key saved in the local data folder, which reads every project in the store. Over HTTP (`graphicle serve`, 127.0.0.1:8854 by default) each agent or person gets its own access key with a role, optional expiry and optional project list, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or `X-Workspace-Capability`, never in the URL. Keys are stored as hashes and can be revoked.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under Apache-2.0 for individuals and teams, with nothing to buy. A commercial edition for teams is in private preview with no published prices. Optional model calls (answers, memory extraction, full document extraction) are paid to the provider the owner configures, or run locally through Ollama.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source, README, docs or karlex.ai (checked 2026-10-15). The software has no paid tier.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 25, "popularity": { "githubStars": 144, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-15" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/Graphicle-AI/graphicle/blob/main/docs/quickstart.md", "capabilities": [ "memory.search", "memory.graph", "memory.store", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "self-hosted", "free", "no-card", "apache-2.0", "rust", "mcp", "macos", "linux" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 178, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 86, "maintenance": 48, "payments": 60, "reliability": 63, "schema": 83, "security": 69, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-15" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One local program gives a coding agent a code graph and project memory through 25 typed, annotated MCP tools that return cited excerpts within a token budget, with agent-written memories held for human approval. It is one day old at version 0.1.0, its SDKs are not on any registry, and the licence and advisory check fails on main.", "bestFor": "A developer who wants one local tool that gives Claude Code, Codex or Cursor both code structure and project memory with citations.", "strengths": [ "25 MCP tools with closed JSON Schema inputs, enums and limits, readOnlyHint on every read tool, and an idempotency key on `propose_memory`", "Recall returns excerpts with file, line range and hash, within a `max_tokens` budget, and `skip_shown` avoids resending excerpts", "Agent-proposed memories need verbatim quotes and a person's approval, and the MCP server has no tool that deletes or runs commands", "No telemetry or account. The source calls out only to models, connectors and GitHub that the owner configures", "Apache-2.0 with detailed NOTICE files, a SECURITY.md with private GitHub reporting and a valid security.txt at karlex.ai" ], "weaknesses": [ "One release, v0.1.0 on 14 October 2026, from a repository created that day", "The cargo-deny licence and advisory job failed on both pushes to main, though the test jobs passed on macOS and Linux", "The stdio server runs with the owner key, so its graph tools can read any project in the store unless an HTTP key is scoped", "SDKs are source-only, no llms.txt, not in the official MCP registry, and no native Windows build", "The team audit trail is in the commercial edition. Core shows usage counters and deletion receipts only" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `recall_project` with a `max_tokens` budget, then `read_project_source` with the cited id and byte offset to continue a cut excerpt", "Use `query_graph`, `get_neighbors` and `shortest_path` for structure questions, and pass `repo` to reach another synced project", "Treat proposed memories as drafts. They are not served until a person approves them in `graphicle open` under Memory", "Ask the user before running `graphicle setup`, which edits agent settings, AGENTS.md and Git hooks, and use `graphicle disconnect` to undo it", "Over HTTP send the key as `Authorization: Bearer`, never in the URL, and on 429 wait for the Retry-After reset" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 86, "maintenance": 48, "payments": 60, "reliability": 63, "schema": 83, "security": 69, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "connect": { "install": "brew install graphicle-ai/tap/graphicle \u0026\u0026 cd your-repo \u0026\u0026 graphicle setup", "claudeCode": "graphicle sync . \u0026\u0026 graphicle connect claude-code", "config": { "mcpServers": { "graphicle": { "args": [ "mcp", "--project", "PROJECT_ID" ], "command": "/full/path/to/graphicle" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/graphicle" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "KarLex AI, Inc.", "domain": "karlex.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.karlex.ai/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.karlex.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/Graphicle-AI/graphicle/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-15", "notes": [ "The README and LICENSE read Copyright 2026 KarLex AI, Inc. karlex.ai names KarLex AI as the company behind Graphicle and links the graphicle-ai GitHub organisation, created on 29 September 2026.", "The terms of use and privacy policy at karlex.ai are dated 14 March 2025 and cover the website and its accounts, not the Graphicle software, which runs on the user's machine.", "karlex.ai/.well-known/security.txt names security@karlexai.com and expires on 7 April 2027 (read 15 October 2026). karlexai.com redirects to karlex.ai; RDAP at Verisign gives karlexai.com a registration date of 20 December 2023. The .ai registration date was not read.", "karlex.ai's robots.txt allows all crawlers.", "The software runs on the owner's machine, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphicle.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cognee", "b": "KarLex AI, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, stdio, SSE (legacy)", "b": "stdio, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "7", "b": "25", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "2026-10-14", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-03-27", "b": "2025-03-14", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2025-03-14", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes, with an opt-out", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "31k stars, 21k PyPI/wk", "b": "144 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Graphicle scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cognee or Graphicle?" }, { "answer": "Cognee has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1. Graphicle runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call Cognee and Graphicle without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Cognee is open source (Apache-2.0). Graphicle is open source (Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are Cognee and Graphicle open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 48" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Agents whose memory has to include documents, wikis and chat tools as well as conversation, and for teams happy to self-host.", "slug": "cognee", "watchFor": "No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 63 against 50", "Agent ergonomics, 86 against 59", "Security \u0026 auth, 69 against 39", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Cognee loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A developer who wants one local tool that gives Claude Code, Codex or Cursor both code structure and project memory with citations.", "slug": "graphicle", "watchFor": "One release, v0.1.0 on 14 October 2026, from a repository created that day" } ], "job": { "capability": "memory.store", "name": "Agent memory" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-cognee.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs Cognee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-cognee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-graphicle.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs Graphicle", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-graphicle" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-graphiti.json", "title": "Cognee vs Graphiti", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-graphiti" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-hindsight.json", "title": "Cognee vs Hindsight", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-hindsight" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-honcho.json", "title": "Cognee vs Honcho", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-honcho" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-langmem.json", "title": "Cognee vs LangMem", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-langmem" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-localghost.json", "title": "Cognee vs LocalGhost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-localghost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-mem0.json", "title": "Cognee vs Mem0 Platform + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-mem0" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-memory-reference-server.json", "title": "Cognee vs Memory (MCP reference server)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-memory-reference-server" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-supermemory.json", "title": "Cognee vs Supermemory API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-supermemory" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-zep.json", "title": "Cognee vs Zep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-zep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphicle-vs-graphiti.json", "title": "Graphicle vs Graphiti", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphicle-vs-graphiti" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphicle-vs-hindsight.json", "title": "Graphicle vs Hindsight", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphicle-vs-hindsight" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphicle-vs-honcho.json", "title": "Graphicle vs Honcho", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphicle-vs-honcho" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphicle-vs-khoj.json", "title": "Graphicle vs Khoj", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphicle-vs-khoj" }, { "json": 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"graphicle": 83, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 27, "cognee": 59, "edge": "graphicle", "graphicle": 86, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 30, "cognee": 39, "edge": "graphicle", "graphicle": 69, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 25, "cognee": 35, "edge": "graphicle", "graphicle": 60, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 34, "cognee": 82, "edge": "cognee", "graphicle": 48, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 2, "cognee": 66, "edge": "graphicle", "graphicle": 68, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Graphicle scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do agent memory.", "verdicts": { "cognee": "Apache-2.0 library, REST server and MCP server, all self-hostable, with local models and no LLM key since 1.6.0. No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region.", "graphicle": "One local program gives a coding agent a code graph and project memory through 25 typed, annotated MCP tools that return cited excerpts within a token budget, with agent-written memories held for human approval. It is one day old at version 0.1.0, its SDKs are not on any registry, and the licence and advisory check fails on main." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-graphicle", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-graphicle.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-graphicle.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-graphicle.min.md" }, "markdown": "Graphicle scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do agent memory.\n\n- Cognee: grade C, 54.6/100, rank #730 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cognee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cognee.json\n- Graphicle: grade B, 69.8/100, rank #178 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphicle.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graphicle.json\n- Best memory layers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-memory/index.md\n- All 65 memory comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-memory/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cognee (C)\n\nGood for: Agents whose memory has to include documents, wikis and chat tools as well as conversation, and for teams happy to self-host.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 48\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region\n\n### Graphicle (B)\n\nGood for: A developer who wants one local tool that gives Claude Code, Codex or Cursor both code structure and project memory with citations.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 63 against 50\n- Agent ergonomics, 86 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 69 against 39\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Cognee loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: One release, v0.1.0 on 14 October 2026, from a repository created that day\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cognee | Graphicle | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 63 | Graphicle +13 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 83 | Cognee +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 86 | Graphicle +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 39 | 69 | Graphicle +30 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 60 | Graphicle +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 48 | Cognee +34 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 68 | Graphicle +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.6 · C** | **69.8 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cognee | Graphicle |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Cognee | KarLex AI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio, SSE (legacy) | stdio, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 7 | 25 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-14 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-03-27 | 2025-03-14 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-03-14 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 31k stars, 21k PyPI/wk | 144 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cognee.** Apache-2.0 library, REST server and MCP server, all self-hostable, with local models and no LLM key since 1.6.0. No status page, rate limits, SLA or SOC 2 for Cloud, and Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1 with no EU region.\n\n**Graphicle.** One local program gives a coding agent a code graph and project memory through 25 typed, annotated MCP tools that return cited excerpts within a token budget, with agent-written memories held for human approval. It is one day old at version 0.1.0, its SDKs are not on any registry, and the licence and advisory check fails on main.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cognee\n\n1. Use remember, recall and forget. The older cognify, search and delete MCP tools are gone\n2. Always include /api/v1 in REST paths\n3. Check cognify_status before querying data you added with background=true\n4. Never pass everything=true to forget unless you mean to wipe all of the user's memory\n5. Set a client timeout on Cloud calls and treat HTTP 402 as an empty balance, since an empty balance has also shown up as hangs\n\n### Graphicle\n\n1. Call `recall_project` with a `max_tokens` budget, then `read_project_source` with the cited id and byte offset to continue a cut excerpt\n2. Use `query_graph`, `get_neighbors` and `shortest_path` for structure questions, and pass `repo` to reach another synced project\n3. Treat proposed memories as drafts. They are not served until a person approves them in `graphicle open` under Memory\n4. Ask the user before running `graphicle setup`, which edits agent settings, AGENTS.md and Git hooks, and use `graphicle disconnect` to undo it\n5. Over HTTP send the key as `Authorization: Bearer`, never in the URL, and on 429 wait for the Retry-After reset\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cognee or Graphicle?\n\nGraphicle scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Can an agent call Cognee and Graphicle without installing anything?\n\nCognee has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003ctenant\u003e.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1. Graphicle runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n### Are Cognee and Graphicle open source?\n\nYes. Cognee is open source (Apache-2.0). Graphicle is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-graphicle.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-graphicle.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cognee\", \"b\": \"graphicle\"}`. 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