# Honcho vs past.dev (slim)

> Honcho and past.dev score within a point of each other for agent memory, 64.1 and 63.8 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Honcho and past.dev score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.1 (B) and 63.8 (B). past.dev leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do agent memory. Honcho accepts x402. past.dev doesn't.

- Honcho: B 64.1, rank #410 of 1175 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.min.md
- past.dev: B 63.8, rank #416 of 1175 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/past-dev.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 Reliability, 50 against 43; Payments & pricing, 80 against 40. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; 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 Schema & documentation, 86 against 79; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 65; Security & auth, 64 against 48. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Honcho | past.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 80 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Honcho | past.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Plastic Labs | Revo Inc. (doing business as Past Corp.) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.honcho.dev/v3` | `https://api.past.dev` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | yes, from $0.001/call | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | 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 | none | 54 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.plastic-labs/honcho` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | no date given |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-04-24 |  |
| 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 | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |