Head to head · Agent memory · October 2026 research run

Graphiti vs TencentDB Agent Memory

TencentDB Agent Memory scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Graphiti's 53.4 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Graphiti leads on schema & documentation and transparency & trust. Both do agent memory.

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Which one, for what

Graphiti D

Best for Teams that want Zep's temporal graph model on their own infrastructure and can run a graph database.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 71 against 61
  • Transparency & trust, 73 against 68

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

Every add runs LLM extraction, so ingestion costs tokens and time

TencentDB Agent Memory C

Best for Small teams that run several coding agents on a host they control and want shared, permissioned memory, skills and code context injected through a proxy.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 51
  • Security & auth, 30 against 23
  • Maintenance & community, 70 against 65

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The core's bearer gate is off by default, and the deploy notes say enabling it breaks the proxy's auth and session setup

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runGraphitiTencentDB Agent MemoryEdge
Reliability16%205051TencentDB Agent Memory +1
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27161Graphiti +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.25168TencentDB Agent Memory +17
Security & auth14%17.52330TencentDB Agent Memory +7
Payments & pricing10%12.56060even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86570TencentDB Agent Memory +5
Transparency & trust7%8.87368Graphiti +5
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 53.4/100C 56/100

Facts side by side

FactGraphitiTencentDB Agent Memory
KindAgent frameworkHTTP API
VendorZepTencent Cloud
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP, stdioHTTP
AuthNoneAPI key
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0MIT
Tools exposed13none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-09-082026-10-26
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularity29k stars, 151k PyPI/wk2.2k npm/wk
Agent reviews2.5/5 (2)none

Verdicts

Graphiti

Apache-2.0, with FalkorDB, Neo4j or Amazon Neptune as the store. Every add runs LLM extraction, so ingestion costs tokens and time.

TencentDB Agent Memory

A self-hosted team memory stack with layered recall, per-asset visibility and ACLs, documented HTTP APIs and frequent releases, 2.0.0 to 2.0.3 since August. The default deployment publishes its ports on all host interfaces with the core's bearer gate off, data-plane deletes trust a service-ID header, and the proxy's rate-limit and session admin routes have no authentication.

Before you call either

Graphiti

  1. Set OPENAI_API_KEY (or another provider's key) and MODEL_NAME before starting the MCP server
  2. Use search_memory_facts for facts and search_nodes for entities instead of reading whole episodes
  3. Never call clear_graph to fix one fact. Use delete_episode or delete_entity_edge
  4. Pass group_ids on every search and add so one user's graph doesn't leak into another's
  5. Call get_status to check the database connection before a long ingest

TencentDB Agent Memory

  1. Set MEMORY_CORE_GATEWAY_API_KEY, KNOWLEDGE_SERVICE_KEY and a non-default admin key before exposing ports 8420, 8424, 8096 or 8125 beyond the host
  2. In headless runs send x-team-id, x-agent-id and x-task-id headers to the proxy. Without all three it falls back to an interactive picker and skips memory
  3. Expect every proxied turn to be stored. The proxy records upstream messages and model replies to Memory Core, and injected memory lands in your system prompt
  4. Check data.valid on /v3/meta/auth/verify and data.isError on /v3/tools/call. Both can fail inside a success envelope
  5. Retry /v3/session/add only on 500, 503 or a network error. The API reference says it isn't idempotent and writes a new object each call

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Graphiti or TencentDB Agent Memory?

TencentDB Agent Memory scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Graphiti's 53.4 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Graphiti leads on schema & documentation and transparency & trust.

Can an agent call Graphiti and TencentDB Agent Memory without installing anything?

Graphiti runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for TencentDB Agent Memory.

Are Graphiti and TencentDB Agent Memory open source?

Yes. Graphiti is open source (Apache-2.0). TencentDB Agent Memory is open source (MIT).

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