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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphiti.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graphiti.json\n- Best memory layers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-memory/index.md\n- All 103 memory comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-memory/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Context Mode Engine (E)\n\nGood for: Context Mode Engine indexes tool output and session events locally for coding agents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 51\n- Security \u0026 auth, 35 against 23\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Hosted-service restrictions under Elastic License 2.0\n\n### Graphiti (D)\n\nGood for: Teams that want Zep's temporal graph model on their own infrastructure and can run a graph database.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 50 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 71 against 65\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 10\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 42\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Every add runs LLM extraction, so ingestion costs tokens and time\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Context Mode Engine | Graphiti | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 50 | Graphiti +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 71 | Graphiti +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 51 | Context Mode Engine +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 35 | 23 | Context Mode Engine +12 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 60 | Graphiti +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 10 | 65 | Graphiti +55 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 71 | Graphiti +29 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.8 · E** | **53.3 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Context Mode Engine | Graphiti |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | MKSF LTD | Zep |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | stdio | Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Elastic License 2.0, source available with restrictions on hosted or managed services. | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 11 | 13 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-06-29 | 2026-09-08 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |\n| Popularity | 31k stars | 29k stars, 151k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Context Mode Engine.** Local indexing and selective retrieval. Hosted-service restrictions under Elastic License 2.0.\n\n**Graphiti.** Apache-2.0, with FalkorDB, Neo4j or Amazon Neptune as the store. Every add runs LLM extraction, so ingestion costs tokens and time.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Context Mode Engine\n\n1. Choose the installation guide for the exact coding client.\n2. Check host permissions before enabling code execution.\n3. Review the Elastic licence before hosting Engine for others.\n\n### Graphiti\n\n1. Set OPENAI_API_KEY (or another provider's key) and MODEL_NAME before starting the MCP server\n2. Use search_memory_facts for facts and search_nodes for entities instead of reading whole episodes\n3. Never call clear_graph to fix one fact. Use delete_episode or delete_entity_edge\n4. Pass group_ids on every search and add so one user's graph doesn't leak into another's\n5. 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