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It extracts facts from conversations with an LLM, stores and searches them in a LangGraph store the owner runs, and includes two memory tools, message summarisation and prompt optimisation.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langmem", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langmem.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langmem.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/langmem.json", "dns": "langmem.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/langchain-ai/langmem", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "langmem" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The library has no account or key of its own. It runs in the owner's process and needs a key for the chosen LLM provider (the README uses `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`) and, for semantic search, an embedding provider. Access to memories is whatever the owner's LangGraph store and namespace settings allow.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence, with nothing to buy and no signup. The owner pays for the LLM calls that extract memories, the embedding calls behind search, and the database behind the store (https://github.com/langchain-ai/langmem).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1698, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://langchain-ai.github.io/langmem/", "capabilities": [ "memory.store", "memory.search", "memory.user", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "sdk", "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "python", "free", "langgraph", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2025-10-27", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 47.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1132, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 23, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 60, "reliability": 32, "schema": 55, "security": 42, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Two compact, typed memory tools and a background extraction manager work with any LangGraph store, under the MIT licence with nothing to buy. The newest version, 0.0.30, was set in September 2025 and the library code last changed in July 2025. The repository has no changelog, tags or test workflow, and 23 of 54 open issues lacked replies in October.", "bestFor": "Teams already on LangGraph that want memory tools and background extraction over a store they run.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence, installed with `pip install -U langmem`, with no account, key or fee of its own", "Two agent tools, `manage_memory` and `search_memory`, with typed inputs, an action enum and `limit`, `offset` and `filter` on search", "`actions_permitted` limits the manage tool to any subset of create, update and delete, and `create_memory_store_manager` leaves deletes off by default", "Namespace templates such as `(\"memories\", \"{langgraph_user_id}\")` keep each user's memories apart at run time", "Works with any LangGraph `BaseStore`, including `InMemoryStore` for tests and `AsyncPostgresStore` for durable storage" ], "weaknesses": [ "No release found in over a year. The newest version, 0.0.30, was set on 9 September 2025, and no commit has changed `src` since 28 July 2025", "No changelog, GitHub releases or tags, and versions are still 0.0.x", "The repository's two workflows deploy docs and publish to PyPI by manual dispatch. Neither runs the tests", "54 open issues, 23 with no comment, and 19 open pull requests, the oldest from June 2025 (8 October count)", "No guidance on memory poisoning or prompt injection found, and two open issues asking for it (May 2026) had no reply" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass a store with an embedding index (`index={\"dims\": 1536, \"embed\": \"openai:text-embedding-3-small\"}`), or `search_memory` cannot rank by meaning", "Use a database-backed store such as `AsyncPostgresStore` for anything that must survive a restart. `InMemoryStore` loses everything", "Put a per-user placeholder in the namespace and set it in `config[\"configurable\"]` on every call, or users share one memory space", "Send the memory `id` with `update` and `delete`, and never with `create`. A retried `create` writes a duplicate under a new UUID", "Run on Python 3.11 or later. `src/langmem/knowledge/extraction.py` uses `typing.NotRequired`, which Python 3.10 lacks" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 47.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 60, "reliability": 32, "schema": 55, "security": 42, "transparency": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 62, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install -U langmem" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/langmem" }, "sameCompany": [ "langgraph", "langsmith" ], "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "LangChain (the licence file gives no legal form)", "domain": "langchain.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-12-03", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-04", "notes": [ "A library the owner runs, with no hosted endpoint. The code is on github.com under the langchain-ai organisation and the docs are on langchain-ai.github.io/langmem.", "The LICENSE file reads Copyright (c) 2025 LangChain.", "No terms or privacy document governs the library, so both fields are left out. The MIT licence is the only agreement. LangChain's Terms of Service (last updated 2 June 2026) govern the LangSmith Platform, not this library.", "No changelog file, GitHub releases or tags exist in the repository.", "The organisation's SECURITY.md points to two Intigriti disclosure programmes. No security.txt was found on www.langchain.com (per the 1 November LangGraph re-check)." ], "score": 62 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langmem.json", "live": { "slug": "langmem", "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "langmem", "version": "0.0.30", "released": "2025-10-27", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:38:37.634686509Z" } ], "githubStars": 1750, "pypiWeekly": 190323, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://langchain.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:25.158914764Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "langchain.com", "registered": "2019-12-03", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/langchain.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:16:16.486101867Z" }, "github": { "repo": "langchain-ai/langmem", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:59:39.174765749Z", "stars": 1743, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-30T19:35:59Z", "openIssues": 58, "openPRs": 23, "issuesOpened90d": 10, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 8, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 33, "success": 27, "failure": 4, "other": 2, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-30T19:36:27Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 23, "medianDays": 2 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:25.158914764Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 47, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "google-memory-bank", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "The newest Memory Bank release notes are of 20 August 2026 (IngestEvents GA, metadata, Gemini Embedding 2), 78 days before the check, and billing started on 1 September (20). Three Memory Bank entries in the 90 days, all on 20 August (10 of 20). Public release notes and Cloud Customer Care (12 of 15). `google-cloud-agentplatform` 2.7.0 on 28 October 2026, twelve releases in 90 days per its PyPI release feed, plus ADK (15). SDK test status not checked (5 of 10). Total 62.", "b": "No release found in the last 180 days. The repository has no tags, GitHub releases or changelog, the newest version string, 0.0.30, was set in `pyproject.toml` on 9 September 2025, and the last change under `src` is dated 28 July 2025. PyPI's release dates could not be read on 4 November (0). No release in the last 90 days (0). Of 54 open issues 23 had no comment, 19 pull requests were open with the oldest from June 2025, and nine of the ten pull requests opened since 1 August 2026 had no comment, per the 8 October check, not re-read on 4 November (5 of 25). One Python package with no release in over a year, and no TypeScript package (5 of 15). Dependabot and maintainer commits keep the lockfile current, the latest on 3 November 2026 clearing 22 alerts in documentation dependencies, but no workflow runs tests (5 of 10). 0+0+5+5+5 = 15." }, "scores": { "a": 62, "b": 15 } }, { "by": 40, "category": "payments", "leads": "langmem", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Storage, read and write prices are published without a login (20). No Memory Bank free tier found (0). A person creates the project, enables billing and sets up IAM in the console (0). Total 20.", "b": "MIT-licensed package the owner runs, with nothing to buy for LangMem itself, read with the self-hosted rule. 20 for pricing, 20 for a free start and 20 for use without an account. No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or source (0). LLM, embedding and database costs are the owner's." }, "scores": { "a": 20, "b": 60 } }, { "by": 36, "category": "reliability", "leads": "google-memory-bank", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Hosted lines. Google Cloud status dashboard with per-product history (20). Its incident feed, read on 6 November 2026, holds four incidents since 8 August (20 August, 27 products; 1 September, us-central1-b; 8 October, Cloud Storage; 20 October, europe-west2, 38 products), and none names Agent Platform, Vertex or Memory Bank (30). No Memory Bank quotas or rate limits were found; the platform quotas path guessed returned 404 (0, unchecked). Generation is a long-running operation with wait and cancel methods, and Google's retry guidance wasn't re-read for this API (8 of 15). No SLA for Memory Bank was found in the pages read (0, unchecked). Memory profiles, IngestEvents and multi-regional endpoints are GA (10). Total 68.", "b": "Local-software reading. Installs from PyPI as `langmem` with Python 3.10 or later declared, but `extraction.py` on main uses `typing.NotRequired`, which arrived in Python 3.11, and issues 81 and 83 about failed imports on 3.10 are open (per the 8 October check). We read the source and did not run it on 3.10 (14 of 20). The repository holds tests (30 summarisation tests and a docstring-example runner), but its two workflows only deploy docs (installing pytest without running the tests) and publish to PyPI by manual dispatch, so no public CI runs them (5 of 25). 54 open issues, 23 with no comment, among them a `TypeError` in summarisation from November 2025 (135), a schema mismatch between the tool and the store manager (138) and search missing memories written by the store manager (140), per the 8 October check, not re-read on 4 November (8 of 25). Versions are 0.0.x with no changelog, GitHub releases or tags, and open issue 130 shows 0.0.30 was cut to restore compatibility with LangGraph 1.0 (5 of 15). Below 1.0 and not declared stable (0). 14+5+8+5+0 = 32." }, "scores": { "a": 68, "b": 32 } }, { "by": 30, "category": "security", "leads": "google-memory-bank", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "OAuth 2.0 with IAM and service accounts (30), less 10, as for the other Google API listings, because the v1 discovery document lists `access_token`, `oauth_token` and `key` as query parameters (20 of 30). IAM Conditions can restrict access by memory scope; purge and delete have no confirmation (15 of 20). Memories are written by an LLM from conversation content and returned to agents, with no injection guidance found (5 of 15). Access Transparency and Access Approval are listed; Cloud Audit Logs coverage for Memory Bank wasn't read (12 of 15). Google's valid security.txt, vulnerability reward programme and certifications, with HIPAA listed for Memory Bank (20). Total 72.", "b": "Local-software reading. The library holds no credential of its own and opens no port. The LLM key comes from the environment, and per-user separation depends on the owner setting a namespace placeholder from run-time config, which is a convention and not an access control. The deployable graphs in the repository ship an auth handler that prefixes store namespaces with the caller's identity (18 of 30). `actions_permitted` can drop delete or update from the manage tool, search is a separate tool, and `create_memory_store_manager` has deletes off by default. Nothing asks for confirmation before a delete (14 of 20). Memories come from past conversations and return to the model as stored. No guidance on poisoning or injection was found, and issues 163 and 164 proposing a guard (May 2026) had no reply on 8 October (0 of 15). No audit log in the library. Store items carry created and updated timestamps (3 of 15). LangChain's organisation SECURITY.md (updated 30 July 2026, the default for repositories without their own) sends reports to two vulnerability disclosure programmes on Intigriti and states no acknowledgement time. No `SECURITY.md` in this repository, no bounty named, no security.txt on langchain.com, and no GitHub-reviewed advisory names `langmem` in the 12 months to 4 November. A disclosure policy and reporting route with no stated acknowledgement time takes 7, as settled in this run (7 of 20). 18+14+0+3+7 = 42." }, "scores": { "a": 72, "b": 42 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "schema", "leads": "google-memory-bank", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Google's discovery document is a machine-readable contract for every memory method (25). No llms.txt or Markdown docs found (0). Method descriptions are 13 to 39 characters, one-line summaries, while the guides explain when to generate from sessions or from direct facts (12 of 20). Typed schemas with required fields in the discovery document (12 of 15). Python examples, a troubleshooting page and a documented 404 for deleted memories (11 of 15). v1 and v1beta1 and dated release notes (15). Total 75.", "b": "Library reading, with the tool lines applied to the two agent tools. No OpenAPI applies. Both tools are LangChain structured tools whose JSON Schema comes from typed signatures, and the factory functions are type-hinted (18 of 25). langchain-ai.github.io/langmem/llms.txt returns 404 (0). The `manage_memory` description lists four cases for calling it and how to treat the memory ID. `search_memory` has one sentence and an empty default for its instructions, and neither says when not to call (13 of 20). `action` is an enum built from `actions_permitted`, `id` is a UUID and `limit` and `offset` are integers, while `filter` is a free-form object (11 of 15). Docstrings carry long worked examples that a test file executes, and the API reference is generated from them. Error behaviour is not documented (10 of 15). Version numbers exist only on PyPI, with no changelog (3 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 55 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "transparency", "leads": "google-memory-bank", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service under the Google Cloud terms (15). Data residency at rest, CMEK and the Cloud Data Processing Addendum apply; no Memory Bank retention period or time-to-live was read (20 of 30). The rename was announced in the release notes with old and new names listed, and Google's deprecation policy covers GA services (14 of 20). Google Cloud's subprocessor list and regional endpoints are published (16 of 20). Total 65.", "b": "MIT licence in the repository and on PyPI (30). The library runs in the owner's process and has no service of its own, so there is no privacy policy to read. The docs show which model and embedding provider each example calls and that memories live in the owner's store, without a statement on what leaves the process (18 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices were found (0 of 20). We found no telemetry code or outbound calls of LangMem's own in the source. Prompt optimisation wraps its steps in `langsmith` trace blocks, and the docs do not say when those send data (15 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 81, "b": 63 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "SDK + MCP", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Google Cloud", "b": "LangChain", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-20", "b": "2025-10-27", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-02", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "1.7k stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Agent Platform Memory Bank scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against LangMem's 47.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LangMem leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Agent Platform Memory Bank or LangMem?" }, { "answer": "Agent Platform Memory Bank has a hosted endpoint at https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1. No hosted endpoint is listed for LangMem.", "question": "Can an agent call Agent Platform Memory Bank and LangMem without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Agent Platform Memory Bank. LangMem is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Agent Platform Memory Bank and LangMem open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 68 against 32", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 75 against 66", "Security \u0026 auth, 72 against 42", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 62 against 15", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 63" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Managed long-term memory for agents already on Google Cloud, especially with ADK and Agent Platform Sessions.", "slug": "google-memory-bank", "watchFor": "Needs a Google Cloud project with billing, set up by a person in the console" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Teams already on LangGraph that want memory tools and background extraction over a store they run.", "slug": "langmem", "watchFor": "No release found in over a year. The newest version, 0.0.30, was set on 9 September 2025, and no commit has changed `src` since 28 July 2025" } ], "history": { "google-memory-bank": null, "langmem": [ { "causes": [ "correction" ], "date": "2026-11-04", "delta": -0.6, "from": 48.3, "fromGrade": "D", "to": 47.7, "toGrade": "D" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.4, "from": 47.9, "fromGrade": "D", "to": 48.3, "toGrade": "D" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "memory.store", "name": "Agent memory" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-google-memory-bank.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs Agent Platform Memory Bank", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-google-memory-bank" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-langmem.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs LangMem", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-langmem" }, { "json": 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"url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-graphiti" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-hindsight.json", "title": "Agent Platform Memory Bank vs Hindsight", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-hindsight" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-honcho.json", "title": "Agent Platform Memory Bank vs Honcho", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-honcho" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-hy-memory.json", "title": "Agent Platform Memory Bank vs Hy Memory", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-hy-memory" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-localghost.json", "title": "Agent Platform Memory Bank vs LocalGhost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-localghost" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-tokenrip.json", "title": "Agent Platform Memory Bank vs Tokenrip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-tokenrip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-zep.json", "title": "Agent Platform Memory Bank vs Zep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-zep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-langmem.json", "title": "Graphiti vs LangMem", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-langmem" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-langmem.json", "title": "Hindsight vs LangMem", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-langmem" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-langmem.json", "title": "Honcho vs LangMem", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-langmem" }, { "json": 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"title": "LangMem vs Memory (MCP reference server)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-memory-reference-server" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-mempalace.json", "title": "LangMem vs MemPalace", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-mempalace" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-past-dev.json", "title": "LangMem vs past.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-past-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-supermemory.json", "title": "LangMem vs Supermemory API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-supermemory" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.json", "title": "LangMem vs TencentDB Agent Memory", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-tokenrip.json", "title": "LangMem vs Tokenrip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-tokenrip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-zep.json", "title": "LangMem vs Zep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-zep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-google-memory-bank.json", "title": "AI Memory vs Agent Platform Memory Bank", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-google-memory-bank" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-langmem.json", "title": "AI Memory vs LangMem", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-langmem" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-google-memory-bank.json", "title": "Context Mode Engine vs Agent Platform Memory Bank", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-google-memory-bank" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-langmem.json", "title": "Context Mode Engine vs LangMem", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-langmem" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphicle-vs-langmem.json", "title": "Graphicle vs LangMem", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphicle-vs-langmem" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 36, "edge": "google-memory-bank", "google-memory-bank": 68, "key": "reliability", "langmem": 32, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "google-memory-bank", "google-memory-bank": 75, "key": "schema", "langmem": 55, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "google-memory-bank", "google-memory-bank": 75, "key": "ergonomics", "langmem": 66, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "google-memory-bank", "google-memory-bank": 72, "key": "security", "langmem": 42, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "langmem", "google-memory-bank": 20, "key": "payments", "langmem": 60, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 47, "edge": "google-memory-bank", "google-memory-bank": 62, "key": "maintenance", "langmem": 15, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "google-memory-bank", "google-memory-bank": 81, "key": "transparency", "langmem": 63, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Agent Platform Memory Bank scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against LangMem's 47.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LangMem leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do agent memory.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "google-memory-bank": "Memory Bank generates long-term memories from Agent Platform sessions or direct facts, scopes them per user and keeps revisions with rollback, under IAM, CMEK, VPC Service Controls and data residency, with storage at $0.30 per GiB-month. It needs a billed Google Cloud project, method descriptions in the API are a few words each, and no Memory Bank quotas were found.", "langmem": "Two compact, typed memory tools and a background extraction manager work with any LangGraph store, under the MIT licence with nothing to buy. The newest version, 0.0.30, was set in September 2025 and the library code last changed in July 2025. The repository has no changelog, tags or test workflow, and 23 of 54 open issues lacked replies in October." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-langmem", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-langmem.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-langmem.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-langmem.min.md" }, "markdown": "Agent Platform Memory Bank scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against LangMem's 47.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LangMem leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do agent memory.\n\n- Agent Platform Memory Bank: grade B, 65.6/100, rank #412 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-memory-bank.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-memory-bank.json\n- LangMem: grade D, 47.7/100, rank #1132 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langmem.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/langmem.json\n- Best memory layers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-memory/index.md\n- All 353 memory comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-memory/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Agent Platform Memory Bank (B)\n\nGood for: Managed long-term memory for agents already on Google Cloud, especially with ADK and Agent Platform Sessions.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 68 against 32\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 66\n- Security \u0026 auth, 72 against 42\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 62 against 15\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 63\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Needs a Google Cloud project with billing, set up by a person in the console\n\n### LangMem (D)\n\nGood for: Teams already on LangGraph that want memory tools and background extraction over a store they run.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No release found in over a year. The newest version, 0.0.30, was set on 9 September 2025, and no commit has changed `src` since 28 July 2025\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Agent Platform Memory Bank +47\n\n- Agent Platform Memory Bank (62): The newest Memory Bank release notes are of 20 August 2026 (IngestEvents GA, metadata, Gemini Embedding 2), 78 days before the check, and billing started on 1 September (20). Three Memory Bank entries in the 90 days, all on 20 August (10 of 20). Public release notes and Cloud Customer Care (12 of 15). `google-cloud-agentplatform` 2.7.0 on 28 October 2026, twelve releases in 90 days per its PyPI release feed, plus ADK (15). SDK test status not checked (5 of 10). Total 62.\n- LangMem (15): No release found in the last 180 days. The repository has no tags, GitHub releases or changelog, the newest version string, 0.0.30, was set in `pyproject.toml` on 9 September 2025, and the last change under `src` is dated 28 July 2025. PyPI's release dates could not be read on 4 November (0). No release in the last 90 days (0). Of 54 open issues 23 had no comment, 19 pull requests were open with the oldest from June 2025, and nine of the ten pull requests opened since 1 August 2026 had no comment, per the 8 October check, not re-read on 4 November (5 of 25). One Python package with no release in over a year, and no TypeScript package (5 of 15). Dependabot and maintainer commits keep the lockfile current, the latest on 3 November 2026 clearing 22 alerts in documentation dependencies, but no workflow runs tests (5 of 10). 0+0+5+5+5 = 15.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: LangMem +40\n\n- Agent Platform Memory Bank (20): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Storage, read and write prices are published without a login (20). No Memory Bank free tier found (0). A person creates the project, enables billing and sets up IAM in the console (0). Total 20.\n- LangMem (60): MIT-licensed package the owner runs, with nothing to buy for LangMem itself, read with the self-hosted rule. 20 for pricing, 20 for a free start and 20 for use without an account. No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or source (0). LLM, embedding and database costs are the owner's.\n\n### Reliability: Agent Platform Memory Bank +36\n\n- Agent Platform Memory Bank (68): Hosted lines. Google Cloud status dashboard with per-product history (20). Its incident feed, read on 6 November 2026, holds four incidents since 8 August (20 August, 27 products; 1 September, us-central1-b; 8 October, Cloud Storage; 20 October, europe-west2, 38 products), and none names Agent Platform, Vertex or Memory Bank (30). No Memory Bank quotas or rate limits were found; the platform quotas path guessed returned 404 (0, unchecked). Generation is a long-running operation with wait and cancel methods, and Google's retry guidance wasn't re-read for this API (8 of 15). No SLA for Memory Bank was found in the pages read (0, unchecked). Memory profiles, IngestEvents and multi-regional endpoints are GA (10). Total 68.\n- LangMem (32): Local-software reading. Installs from PyPI as `langmem` with Python 3.10 or later declared, but `extraction.py` on main uses `typing.NotRequired`, which arrived in Python 3.11, and issues 81 and 83 about failed imports on 3.10 are open (per the 8 October check). We read the source and did not run it on 3.10 (14 of 20). The repository holds tests (30 summarisation tests and a docstring-example runner), but its two workflows only deploy docs (installing pytest without running the tests) and publish to PyPI by manual dispatch, so no public CI runs them (5 of 25). 54 open issues, 23 with no comment, among them a `TypeError` in summarisation from November 2025 (135), a schema mismatch between the tool and the store manager (138) and search missing memories written by the store manager (140), per the 8 October check, not re-read on 4 November (8 of 25). Versions are 0.0.x with no changelog, GitHub releases or tags, and open issue 130 shows 0.0.30 was cut to restore compatibility with LangGraph 1.0 (5 of 15). Below 1.0 and not declared stable (0). 14+5+8+5+0 = 32.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Agent Platform Memory Bank +30\n\n- Agent Platform Memory Bank (72): OAuth 2.0 with IAM and service accounts (30), less 10, as for the other Google API listings, because the v1 discovery document lists `access_token`, `oauth_token` and `key` as query parameters (20 of 30). IAM Conditions can restrict access by memory scope; purge and delete have no confirmation (15 of 20). Memories are written by an LLM from conversation content and returned to agents, with no injection guidance found (5 of 15). Access Transparency and Access Approval are listed; Cloud Audit Logs coverage for Memory Bank wasn't read (12 of 15). Google's valid security.txt, vulnerability reward programme and certifications, with HIPAA listed for Memory Bank (20). Total 72.\n- LangMem (42): Local-software reading. The library holds no credential of its own and opens no port. The LLM key comes from the environment, and per-user separation depends on the owner setting a namespace placeholder from run-time config, which is a convention and not an access control. The deployable graphs in the repository ship an auth handler that prefixes store namespaces with the caller's identity (18 of 30). `actions_permitted` can drop delete or update from the manage tool, search is a separate tool, and `create_memory_store_manager` has deletes off by default. Nothing asks for confirmation before a delete (14 of 20). Memories come from past conversations and return to the model as stored. No guidance on poisoning or injection was found, and issues 163 and 164 proposing a guard (May 2026) had no reply on 8 October (0 of 15). No audit log in the library. Store items carry created and updated timestamps (3 of 15). LangChain's organisation SECURITY.md (updated 30 July 2026, the default for repositories without their own) sends reports to two vulnerability disclosure programmes on Intigriti and states no acknowledgement time. No `SECURITY.md` in this repository, no bounty named, no security.txt on langchain.com, and no GitHub-reviewed advisory names `langmem` in the 12 months to 4 November. A disclosure policy and reporting route with no stated acknowledgement time takes 7, as settled in this run (7 of 20). 18+14+0+3+7 = 42.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Agent Platform Memory Bank +20\n\n- Agent Platform Memory Bank (75): Google's discovery document is a machine-readable contract for every memory method (25). No llms.txt or Markdown docs found (0). Method descriptions are 13 to 39 characters, one-line summaries, while the guides explain when to generate from sessions or from direct facts (12 of 20). Typed schemas with required fields in the discovery document (12 of 15). Python examples, a troubleshooting page and a documented 404 for deleted memories (11 of 15). v1 and v1beta1 and dated release notes (15). Total 75.\n- LangMem (55): Library reading, with the tool lines applied to the two agent tools. No OpenAPI applies. Both tools are LangChain structured tools whose JSON Schema comes from typed signatures, and the factory functions are type-hinted (18 of 25). langchain-ai.github.io/langmem/llms.txt returns 404 (0). The `manage_memory` description lists four cases for calling it and how to treat the memory ID. `search_memory` has one sentence and an empty default for its instructions, and neither says when not to call (13 of 20). `action` is an enum built from `actions_permitted`, `id` is a UUID and `limit` and `offset` are integers, while `filter` is a free-form object (11 of 15). Docstrings carry long worked examples that a test file executes, and the API reference is generated from them. Error behaviour is not documented (10 of 15). Version numbers exist only on PyPI, with no changelog (3 of 15).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Agent Platform Memory Bank +18\n\n- Agent Platform Memory Bank (81): Closed service under the Google Cloud terms (15). Data residency at rest, CMEK and the Cloud Data Processing Addendum apply; no Memory Bank retention period or time-to-live was read (20 of 30). The rename was announced in the release notes with old and new names listed, and Google's deprecation policy covers GA services (14 of 20). Google Cloud's subprocessor list and regional endpoints are published (16 of 20). Total 65.\n- LangMem (63): MIT licence in the repository and on PyPI (30). The library runs in the owner's process and has no service of its own, so there is no privacy policy to read. The docs show which model and embedding provider each example calls and that memories live in the owner's store, without a statement on what leaves the process (18 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices were found (0 of 20). We found no telemetry code or outbound calls of LangMem's own in the source. Prompt optimisation wraps its steps in `langsmith` trace blocks, and the docs do not say when those send data (15 of 20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Agent Platform Memory Bank | LangMem | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 32 | Agent Platform Memory Bank +36 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 55 | Agent Platform Memory Bank +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 66 | Agent Platform Memory Bank +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 72 | 42 | Agent Platform Memory Bank +30 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | LangMem +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 15 | Agent Platform Memory Bank +47 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 63 | Agent Platform Memory Bank +18 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **65.6 · B** | **47.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Agent Platform Memory Bank | LangMem |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | Google Cloud | LangChain |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth | None |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-08-20 | 2025-10-27 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Popularity | none | 1.7k stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Agent Platform Memory Bank\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### LangMem\n\n- -0.6 on 4 November 2026: correction\n- +0.4 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Agent Platform Memory Bank.** Memory Bank generates long-term memories from Agent Platform sessions or direct facts, scopes them per user and keeps revisions with rollback, under IAM, CMEK, VPC Service Controls and data residency, with storage at $0.30 per GiB-month. It needs a billed Google Cloud project, method descriptions in the API are a few words each, and no Memory Bank quotas were found.\n\n**LangMem.** Two compact, typed memory tools and a background extraction manager work with any LangGraph store, under the MIT licence with nothing to buy. The newest version, 0.0.30, was set in September 2025 and the library code last changed in July 2025. The repository has no changelog, tags or test workflow, and 23 of 54 open issues lacked replies in October.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Agent Platform Memory Bank\n\n1. Run `memories.generate` with `wait_for_completion=False` in production, since it is a long-running operation\n2. Always pass a `scope` such as {\"user_id\": ...} so one user's memories never reach another\n3. Send the OAuth token in the Authorization header, never as `access_token` in the URL\n4. Expect a 404 when fetching a deleted memory and treat it as gone\n5. Treat retrieved memories as untrusted text extracted from earlier conversations\n\n### LangMem\n\n1. Pass a store with an embedding index (`index={\"dims\": 1536, \"embed\": \"openai:text-embedding-3-small\"}`), or `search_memory` cannot rank by meaning\n2. Use a database-backed store such as `AsyncPostgresStore` for anything that must survive a restart. `InMemoryStore` loses everything\n3. Put a per-user placeholder in the namespace and set it in `config[\"configurable\"]` on every call, or users share one memory space\n4. Send the memory `id` with `update` and `delete`, and never with `create`. A retried `create` writes a duplicate under a new UUID\n5. Run on Python 3.11 or later. `src/langmem/knowledge/extraction.py` uses `typing.NotRequired`, which Python 3.10 lacks\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Agent Platform Memory Bank or LangMem?\n\nAgent Platform Memory Bank scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against LangMem's 47.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LangMem leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call Agent Platform Memory Bank and LangMem without installing anything?\n\nAgent Platform Memory Bank has a hosted endpoint at https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1. No hosted endpoint is listed for LangMem.\n\n### Are Agent Platform Memory Bank and LangMem open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Agent Platform Memory Bank. LangMem is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-langmem.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-langmem.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"google-memory-bank\", \"b\": \"langmem\"}`. 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