# Honcho vs Hy Memory (slim)

> Honcho scores 64.1 (B) to Hy Memory's 57.7 (C) for agent memory. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Honcho scores 64.1 (B) on agent readiness against Hy Memory's 57.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hy Memory leads on reliability. Both do agent memory. Honcho accepts x402. Hy Memory doesn't.

- Honcho: B 64.1, rank #393 of 1099 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.min.md
- Hy Memory: C 57.7, rank #639 of 1099 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy-memory.min.md
- Honcho, good for Products that model the people in a conversation and want to ask questions about them, and for agents that must pay their own way. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 79 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 65 against 60; Security & auth, 48 against 37; Payments & pricing, 80 against 60; Transparency & trust, 67 against 62. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5.
- Hy Memory, good for Python teams that want self-hosted layered chat memory, or working and coding memory from tool-call traces, over stores they run. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 50. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Honcho | Hy Memory |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 55 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 60 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 80 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 62 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Honcho | Hy Memory |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |
| Vendor | Plastic Labs | Tencent Hunyuan |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.honcho.dev/v3` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| x402 | yes, from $0.001/call | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 (PyPI metadata for the 1.x releases and 2.0.1 says MIT; 2.0.2 carries Apache-2.0) |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `io.github.plastic-labs/honcho` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-04-24 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 7.4k stars, 18k npm/wk | 27 stars, 147 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (4) |