# Cognee vs past.dev (slim)

> past.dev scores 63.8 (B) to Cognee's 54.6 (C) for agent memory. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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past.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on reliability and maintenance & community. Both do agent memory.

- Cognee: C 54.6, rank #772 of 1175 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cognee.min.md
- past.dev: B 63.8, rank #416 of 1175 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/past-dev.min.md
- 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 Reliability, 50 against 43; Maintenance & community, 82 against 70. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- past.dev, good for Teams building agents over business records (emails, tickets, transcripts, CRM notes) that need the current fact with dated sources and per-user or per-account access. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 80 against 59; Security & auth, 64 against 39; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35. Also No incidents deducted, where Cognee loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Cognee | past.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 39 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 66 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cognee | past.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Cognee | Revo Inc. (doing business as Past Corp.) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://<tenant>.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1` | `https://api.past.dev` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary hosted service under past.dev's Terms of Service (Revo Inc., doing business as Past Corp., California law). The benchmark harness and the Claude Code and Codex plugins are MIT-licensed on GitHub under pastdotdev |
| Tools exposed | 7 | 54 |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-27 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 31k stars, 21k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |