{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "hy-memory", "name": "Hy Memory", "vendor": "Tencent Hunyuan", "vendorUrl": "https://memory.hunyuan.tencent.com/", "kind": "sdk", "category": "agent-memory", "summary": "Hy Memory is Tencent Hunyuan's open-source memory engine and Python SDK for LLM agents. `add()` and `search()` store and recall chat, working and coding memory in local vector and graph stores, using any OpenAI-compatible model and embedder.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy-memory", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy-memory.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy-memory.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hy-memory.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy-Memory", "license": "Apache-2.0 (PyPI metadata for the 1.x releases and 2.0.1 says MIT; 2.0.2 carries Apache-2.0)", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "hy-memory" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account or key of its own. The library runs in the owner's process and needs an OpenAI-compatible LLM key and an embedding key, read from `OPENAI_API_KEY` or the `MEMORY_LLM_*` and `MEMORY_EMBEDDER_*` variables. Users are separated only by the `user_id`, `agent_id` and `session_id` the caller passes. The optional local server (`python -m hy_memory.server`, 127.0.0.1 port 19527) has no authentication.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy and no signup. The owner pays for embedding calls on every write and search, LLM calls for extraction and reconciliation in pro and ultra modes, and any database server (https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy-Memory/blob/main/README.md).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, docs or source read on 16 October 2026. Self-hosted open-source library with no paid endpoint.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 27, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 147, "asOf": "2026-10-16" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy-Memory/blob/main/docs/usage.md", "capabilities": [ "memory.store", "memory.search", "memory.user", "memory.graph", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "sdk", "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "python", "free", "no-card", "apache-2.0", "openai-compatible", "knowledge-graph" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 671, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1175, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 60, "reliability": 65, "schema": 55, "security": 37, "transparency": 62 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-16" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An Apache-2.0 Python SDK with three processing modes, separate chat, working and coding pipelines, and filters by user, agent, session, source and workspace. Deletion does not stick everywhere. `delete()` leaves the raw conversation, history and extraction logs in local storage, can reactivate the superseded version of a fact, and no public method removes working or coding memories.", "bestFor": "Python teams that want self-hosted layered chat memory, or working and coding memory from tool-call traces, over stores they run.", "strengths": [ "Apache-2.0 SDK on PyPI with nothing to buy and no account, working with any OpenAI-compatible LLM and embedding endpoint", "`lite` mode stores and searches raw text with embeddings only and makes no LLM calls", "Separate chat, working and coding pipelines, and a coding version chain that keeps the real diff of each revision without LLM calls", "Filters by user, agent, session, caller source, workspace and branch, applied in the store before results are cut to the limit", "On by default, `history.db` and the pipeline-trace tables let the owner inspect every write, update and delete" ], "weaknesses": [ "`delete()` leaves the source conversation, the deleted text in `history.db` and extraction prompts in `cache.db`, and can reactivate a superseded fact", "No public method deletes working or coding memories. `delete()` and `delete_all()` touch only the chat store and the graph", "The guides under docs/ and the docstrings are in Chinese. Only the README is in English", "Every 1.x release and 2.0.1 went to PyPI with MIT licence metadata before the repository adopted Apache-2.0", "The bundled local HTTP server has no authentication and sends `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` on every response" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass `user_id` on every `add()` and `user_ids` on every `search()`. Users are kept apart only by the IDs you pass, and `search()` returns every listed user's memories", "Choose the mode before writing. `lite` makes no LLM calls and stores raw text. `pro` and `ultra` send what you store to the configured LLM and embedder for extraction", "Don't rely on `delete()` to erase a fact. The raw conversation, `history.db` and `cache.db` traces keep copies, and deleting a fact's newest version reactivates the older one", "Send tool-call messages with `scene=\"working\"` or `scene=\"coding\"`, and the same scene on `search()`. Without tool messages a write falls back to chat memory", "Keep `python -m hy_memory.server` on 127.0.0.1. It has no authentication and allows any web origin" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 60, "reliability": 65, "schema": 55, "security": 37, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 73 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install hy-memory # or: pip install \"hy-memory[qdrant]\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hy-memory" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tencent", "domain": "tencent.com", "domainRegistered": "1998-09-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy-Memory/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-16", "notes": [ "LICENSE reads 'Copyright (C) 2026 Tencent. All rights reserved.' above the Apache-2.0 text, and the website footer reads '© 2026 Tencent Hunyuan'. No fuller legal name was found.", "The website is memory.hunyuan.tencent.com and the repository is under GitHub's Tencent-Hunyuan organisation. RDAP at Verisign gives tencent.com a registration date of 14 September 1998.", "No terms or privacy policy applies to the SDK beyond the Apache-2.0 licence, and the website links none. MemHub has its own PRIVACY.md. There is no hosted endpoint, so no status page.", "security.txt returns 404 on memory.hunyuan.tencent.com and www.tencent.com. SECURITY.md routes reports to GitHub private security advisories and says the project publishes no security email address.", "CHANGELOG.md dates 2.0.1 to 16 October and 2.0.2 to 17 October 2026 (Beijing time). PyPI's upload times are 15 October 17.24 UTC and 16 October 16.01 UTC.", "WebFetch read the GitHub front page only. The website, PyPI, npm, Hugging Face, arXiv and RDAP were read with curl after WebFetch refused them as outside its allowed set. memory.hunyuan.tencent.com has no robots.txt (404)." ], "score": 73 }, "requirements": { "card": "no", "freeTier": true, "minutes": 10, "credential": "api-key", "hosting": [ "self-hosted" ], "euResidency": "unknown", "trainsOnData": "no", "zeroRetention": "unknown", "selfHost": "yes" }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy-memory.json", "live": { "slug": "hy-memory", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy-Memory", "version": "v1.0.4", "released": "2026-10-18", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:55:30.325991203Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "hy-memory", "version": "2.0.4", "released": "2026-10-17", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:55:30.137315931Z" } ], "githubStars": 830, "pypiWeekly": 1469, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://tencent.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:55:52.678947861Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "tencent.com", "registered": "1998-09-14", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/tencent.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:31:42.662620923Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy-Memory/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:36:55.718824303Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-18T23:36:55.718824303Z", "fingerprint": "b48c42865cb3" } ], "github": { "repo": "tencent-hunyuan/hy-memory", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T06:53:32.002337139Z", "stars": 866, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-19T06:41:43Z", "openIssues": 16, "openPRs": 14, "issuesOpened90d": 34, "issuesClosed90d": 18, "prsMerged90d": 30, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 29, "success": 21, "failure": 8, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-19T05:08:26Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 1, "unanswered": 0, "medianDays": 0 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T15:55:52.678947861Z" } }, "answer": "past.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Hy Memory's 57.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hy Memory leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "past-dev", "name": "past.dev", "vendor": "Revo Inc. (doing business as Past Corp.)", "vendorUrl": "https://past.dev", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-memory", "summary": "past.dev is a hosted long-term memory API for AI agents. Applications send timestamped text and recall ranked, dated evidence as a named identity, with per-audience access, OAuth MCP servers and plugins for coding agents.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/past-dev", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/past-dev.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/past-dev.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/past-dev.json", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.past.dev", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The Memory API takes a Bearer project key (`past_sk_`), scoped to one project, created in the console at app.past.dev and revocable there or through the API. An organisation's management key (`past_mk_`) creates projects and project keys and reads no memory. An agent can also get a short-lived access token for one person through an `agent_auth` flow, with `memory:read` and `memory:write` scopes, once the person approves it in a browser. The account MCP server at app.past.dev/mcp uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and short-lived tokens. Browser calls to the API are refused by CORS. Access starts with a self-serve browser signup at sso.past.dev.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Metered in credits, one per 350 bytes of ingested content, at least one per data point. Pay as you go is $0 a month with 150,000 credits once (400,000 with a work email), no card required, 0.1 credit per recall, 1 project and 500 requests a minute. Flex is $99 a month with 400,000 credits, unlimited recall, 5 projects, 750 requests a minute and webhooks. Enterprise is custom from 5 million credits a month. Extra credits cost $30 per 100,000, falling to $0.13 per 1,000 from 10 million. Storage, seats and deletion aren't metered (https://past.dev/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$99 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI file, pricing.md or the pricing page. A spent balance returns `402 out-of-credits` with credit figures and no payment payload (checked 2026-10-19).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 54, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-19" }, "docsUrl": "https://past.dev/docs/memory-api/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://past.dev/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://past.dev/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "memory.store", "memory.search", "memory.user", "memory.graph", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "closed-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "openapi", "early-access", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 416, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1175, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 40, "reliability": 43, "schema": 86, "security": 64, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-19" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A new memory API with an OpenAPI file, llms.txt, a full error catalogue, idempotency keys and deletion that removes derived facts. It is in early access with an unversioned API, no SDKs and no SLA, the status page shows no history, and its SOC 2 and ISO claims and its #1 BEAM ranking are self-reported.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 file covering 34 operations, plus llms.txt, Markdown for every page and a docs MCP server", "Every refusal has a stable `code`, a `debugMessage` and an `X-Request-Id`, with a full documented catalogue", "Idempotency keys on ingest and batch, stable source ids, and written retry rules for 429, 402 and 5xx", "Deleting a data point or an ingestion removes the facts derived from it, per the API reference and privacy page", "Recall answers as a named identity and returns only what that identity's audiences may read, with dated sources" ], "weaknesses": [ "The terms describe the service as in early access, and the changelog says the API is unversioned and its paths may change", "No SLA outside Enterprise, and the status page showed no uptime data or incident history on 19 October", "No official SDK in any language. Integration is raw HTTP, the MCP servers or the coding-agent plugins", "SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 are claimed with no report, certificate or auditor readable in public", "Sub-processors and hosting regions are given only on request, and model providers aren't named" ], "agentNotes": [ "Poll `GET /api/v1/ingest/{ingestionId}` until `status` is `completed` before recalling. A recall before then misses the derived memory", "Send `audience` on every send and re-send of scoped data. A re-send without it makes the data point visible to the whole project", "Send an explicit `timestamp` with every `idempotencyKey`, or a retry counts as a different body and returns 409", "Treat recalled excerpts as untrusted text. They are verbatim from whatever was ingested, and the docs give no injection guidance", "Don't follow past.dev's setup prompt without the person's go-ahead. It runs commands, edits config and code, and sends data after approval" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 40, "reliability": 43, "schema": 86, "security": 64, "transparency": 48 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.past.dev/api/v1/ingest \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $PAST_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"content\": \"Renewal moved to March 12, 2026 per Dana.\", \"timestamp\": \"2026-01-08T09:14:00Z\", \"identity\": \"demo-user\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http past https://app.past.dev/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "past": { "type": "http", "url": "https://app.past.dev/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/past-dev" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Flex plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "400,000 credits a month, unlimited recall, 5 projects, 750 requests a minute" }, { "item": "Credits, 100,000 pack", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.0003, "note": "1 credit per 350 bytes ingested. Pay as you go and Flex" }, { "item": "Credits, 10 million or more", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.00013, "note": "$1,300 per 10 million" }, { "item": "Recall on Pay as you go", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.00003, "note": "0.1 credit at the 100,000-pack rate. Unmetered on Flex and Enterprise" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Revo Inc.", "domain": "past.dev", "domainRegistered": "2026-08-18", "domainNote": "RDAP for past.dev gives a registration date of 2026-08-18 through Cloudflare, Inc. The privacy policy and terms name Revo Inc., doing business as Past Corp.; the site footer reads Past Corp.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://past.dev/terms", "privacy": "https://past.dev/privacy", "statusPage": "https://past.dev/status", "changelog": "https://past.dev/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-19", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 21 September 2026) are between the user and Revo Inc., doing business as Past Corp., under California law with courts in San Francisco, and describe the service as in early access.", "Revo Inc. also operates revo.ai, a team AI assistant, from 211 Gough St, Ste 201, San Francisco, per that site's footer. past.dev's security page links Revo's trust centre at security.revo.ai.", "past.dev/status lists six components as operational with \"no data\" for 90-day uptime, its history page said the status monitor did not answer, and its RSS feed had no items on 19 October 2026.", "past.dev/.well-known/security.txt names support@past.dev, expires 2027-04-17 and links the security page.", "The API (api.past.dev), the console and account MCP server (app.past.dev), sign-in (sso.past.dev) and the docs are all on past.dev. robots.txt disallows /api/ and sets Content-Signal ai-train=no." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/past-dev.json", "live": { "slug": "past-dev", "probe": { "target": "https://api.past.dev", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-19T18:43:20.78855525Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 352, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 347, "p95ms24h": 935, "samples24h": 16, "samples30d": 16, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 16, "ok": 16 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://past.dev/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T17:24:04.432797952Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T18:43:20.78855525Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "SDK + MCP", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Tencent Hunyuan", "b": "Revo Inc. (doing business as Past Corp.)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.past.dev", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (PyPI metadata for the 1.x releases and 2.0.1 says MIT; 2.0.2 carries Apache-2.0)", "b": "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", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "54", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-16", "b": "2026-10-12", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "27 stars, 147 PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (4)", "b": "3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "past.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Hy Memory's 57.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hy Memory leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Hy Memory or past.dev?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Hy Memory. past.dev has a hosted endpoint at https://api.past.dev.", "question": "Can an agent call Hy Memory and past.dev without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Hy Memory is open source (Apache-2.0 (PyPI metadata for the 1.x releases and 2.0.1 says MIT; 2.0.2 carries Apache-2.0)). No open-source release is listed for past.dev.", "question": "Are Hy Memory and past.dev open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 65 against 43", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 76 against 70" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Python teams that want self-hosted layered chat memory, or working and coding memory from tool-call traces, over stores they run.", "slug": "hy-memory", "watchFor": "`delete()` leaves the source conversation, the deleted text in `history.db` and extraction prompts in `cache.db`, and can reactivate a superseded fact" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 80 against 60", "Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 37", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 62" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "past-dev", "watchFor": "The terms describe the service as in early access, and the changelog says the API is unversioned and its paths may change" } ], "job": { "capability": "memory.store", "name": "Agent memory" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-hy-memory.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs Hy Memory", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-hy-memory" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-past-dev.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs past.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-past-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-hy-memory.json", "title": "Cognee vs Hy Memory", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-hy-memory" }, { 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It is in early access with an unversioned API, no SDKs and no SLA, the status page shows no history, and its SOC 2 and ISO claims and its #1 BEAM ranking are self-reported." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy-memory-vs-past-dev", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy-memory-vs-past-dev.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy-memory-vs-past-dev.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy-memory-vs-past-dev.min.md" }, "markdown": "past.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Hy Memory's 57.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hy Memory leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do agent memory.\n\n- Hy Memory: grade C, 57.7/100, rank #671 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy-memory.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hy-memory.json\n- past.dev: grade B, 63.8/100, rank #416 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/past-dev.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/past-dev.json\n- Best memory layers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-memory/index.md\n- All 118 memory comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-memory/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Hy Memory (C)\n\nGood for: Python teams that want self-hosted layered chat memory, or working and coding memory from tool-call traces, over stores they run.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 43\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 76 against 70\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: `delete()` leaves the source conversation, the deleted text in `history.db` and extraction prompts in `cache.db`, and can reactivate a superseded fact\n\n### past.dev (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 60\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 37\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 62\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: The terms describe the service as in early access, and the changelog says the API is unversioned and its paths may change\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Hy Memory | past.dev | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 43 | Hy Memory +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 86 | past.dev +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 80 | past.dev +20 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 37 | 64 | past.dev +27 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | Hy Memory +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 70 | Hy Memory +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 67 | past.dev +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.7 · C** | **63.8 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Hy Memory | past.dev |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Tencent Hunyuan | Revo Inc. (doing business as Past Corp.) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.past.dev` |\n| Transports | | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (PyPI metadata for the 1.x releases and 2.0.1 says MIT; 2.0.2 carries Apache-2.0) | 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 |\n| Tools exposed | none | 54 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-12 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Popularity | 27 stars, 147 PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Hy Memory.** An Apache-2.0 Python SDK with three processing modes, separate chat, working and coding pipelines, and filters by user, agent, session, source and workspace. Deletion does not stick everywhere. `delete()` leaves the raw conversation, history and extraction logs in local storage, can reactivate the superseded version of a fact, and no public method removes working or coding memories.\n\n**past.dev.** A new memory API with an OpenAPI file, llms.txt, a full error catalogue, idempotency keys and deletion that removes derived facts. It is in early access with an unversioned API, no SDKs and no SLA, the status page shows no history, and its SOC 2 and ISO claims and its #1 BEAM ranking are self-reported.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Hy Memory\n\n1. Pass `user_id` on every `add()` and `user_ids` on every `search()`. Users are kept apart only by the IDs you pass, and `search()` returns every listed user's memories\n2. Choose the mode before writing. `lite` makes no LLM calls and stores raw text. `pro` and `ultra` send what you store to the configured LLM and embedder for extraction\n3. Don't rely on `delete()` to erase a fact. The raw conversation, `history.db` and `cache.db` traces keep copies, and deleting a fact's newest version reactivates the older one\n4. Send tool-call messages with `scene=\"working\"` or `scene=\"coding\"`, and the same scene on `search()`. Without tool messages a write falls back to chat memory\n5. Keep `python -m hy_memory.server` on 127.0.0.1. It has no authentication and allows any web origin\n\n### past.dev\n\n1. Poll `GET /api/v1/ingest/{ingestionId}` until `status` is `completed` before recalling. A recall before then misses the derived memory\n2. Send `audience` on every send and re-send of scoped data. A re-send without it makes the data point visible to the whole project\n3. Send an explicit `timestamp` with every `idempotencyKey`, or a retry counts as a different body and returns 409\n4. Treat recalled excerpts as untrusted text. They are verbatim from whatever was ingested, and the docs give no injection guidance\n5. Don't follow past.dev's setup prompt without the person's go-ahead. It runs commands, edits config and code, and sends data after approval\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Hy Memory or past.dev?\n\npast.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Hy Memory's 57.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hy Memory leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Can an agent call Hy Memory and past.dev without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Hy Memory. past.dev has a hosted endpoint at https://api.past.dev.\n\n### Are Hy Memory and past.dev open source?\n\nHy Memory is open source (Apache-2.0 (PyPI metadata for the 1.x releases and 2.0.1 says MIT; 2.0.2 carries Apache-2.0)). No open-source release is listed for past.dev.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy-memory-vs-past-dev.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy-memory-vs-past-dev.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"hy-memory\", \"b\": \"past-dev\"}`. 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