# Cognee vs Tokenrip (slim)

> Tokenrip scores 59.6 (C) to Cognee's 54.6 (C) for agent memory. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Tokenrip scores 59.6 (C) on agent readiness against Cognee's 54.6 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cognee leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do agent memory.

- Cognee: C 54.6, rank #779 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cognee.min.md
- Tokenrip: C 59.6, rank #608 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tokenrip.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 27; Maintenance & community, 82 against 70; Transparency & trust, 66 against 56. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Tokenrip, good for Small teams, or one person with several agents in different tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Grok), who want one place for shared files, tasks, decisions and handoffs with a person approving outside actions. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 70 against 59; Security & auth, 69 against 39; Payments & pricing, 50 against 35. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 3.0 out of 5; No incidents deducted, where Cognee loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Cognee | Tokenrip |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 27 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 39 | 69 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 66 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cognee | Tokenrip |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | MCP server |
| Vendor | Cognee | Quintel, LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://<tenant>.aws.cognee.ai/api/v1` | `https://api.tokenrip.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio, SSE (legacy) | Streamable HTTP, HTTP |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary hosted service under Tokenrip's terms of service (Quintel, LLC, Texas law). The `rip` CLI and library `@tokenrip/cli` is MIT-licensed on GitHub |
| Tools exposed | 7 | 99 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.silostack/tokenrip` |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-21 |
| 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 | 5 stars, 401 npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.8/5 (4) |