# Honcho vs Zep (slim)

> Zep has a score of 69.6 (B) against Honcho's 64.2 (B). Both do memory store. The largest gap is payments & pricing, 50 points. Honcho accepts x402. Zep doesn't. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Zep has a score of 69.6 (B) against Honcho's 64.2 (B). Both do memory store. The largest gap is payments & pricing, 50 points. Honcho accepts x402. Zep doesn't.

- Honcho: B 64.2, rank #188 of 452 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.min.md
- Zep: B 69.6, rank #112 of 452 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zep.min.md
- Pick Honcho for payments & pricing (+50), transparency & trust (+8). Pick Zep for reliability (+15), schema & documentation (+10), agent ergonomics (+5), security & auth (+36), maintenance & community (+7).

| Category | Honcho | Zep |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 84 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 80 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 61 |