# Hindsight vs past.dev (slim)

> past.dev scores 63.8 (B) to Hindsight's 50.2 (D) 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 Hindsight's 50.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hindsight leads on maintenance & community. Both do agent memory.

- Hindsight: D 50.2, rank #895 of 1175 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hindsight.min.md
- past.dev: B 63.8, rank #416 of 1175 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/past-dev.min.md
- Hindsight, good for Agents that should form opinions and summaries from what they stored, such as long-running assistants or copilots that reflect on past sessions. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 80 against 70. Also 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 Reliability, 43 against 25; Schema & documentation, 86 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 57; Security & auth, 64 against 58; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Transparency & trust, 67 against 45. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Hindsight | past.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 25 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 45 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hindsight | past.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Vectorize | Revo Inc. (doing business as Past Corp.) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hindsight.vectorize.io` | `https://api.past.dev` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | 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 | 27 | 54 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read |  |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read |  |
| Popularity | 43k stars, 44k npm/wk, 227k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |