# Honcho vs MemPalace (slim)

> MemPalace scores 65.7 (B) to Honcho's 64.2 (B) for agent memory. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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MemPalace scores 65.7 (B) on agent readiness against Honcho's 64.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Honcho leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do agent memory. Honcho accepts x402. MemPalace doesn't.

- Honcho: B 64.2, rank #422 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.min.md
- MemPalace: B 65.7, rank #359 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mempalace.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 Payments & pricing, 80 against 60; Transparency & trust, 69 against 58. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where MemPalace loses 4 points for them.
- MemPalace, good for Verbatim, local, searchable memory of coding-agent sessions Ahead on Reliability, 77 against 50; Schema & documentation, 85 against 79; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 65; Security & auth, 53 against 48. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Honcho | MemPalace |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 77 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 80 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Honcho | MemPalace |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Plastic Labs | MemPalace (open-source project) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.honcho.dev/v3` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| x402 | yes, from $0.001/call | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 47 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `io.github.plastic-labs/honcho` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-04-24 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 7.4k stars, 18k npm/wk | 60k stars |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |