Head to head · Agent memory · October 2026 research run
Hy Memory vs TencentDB Agent Memory
Hy Memory scores 57.8 (C) on agent readiness against TencentDB Agent Memory's 56 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. TencentDB Agent Memory leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do agent memory.
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Which one, for what
Best 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 51
- Security & auth, 37 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 76 against 70
Also in its favour
- No key needed to call it
Watch for
delete() leaves the source conversation, the deleted text in history.db and extraction prompts in cache.db, and can reactivate a superseded fact
Best for Small teams that run several coding agents on a host they control and want shared, permissioned memory, skills and code context injected through a proxy.
Ahead on
- Schema & documentation, 61 against 55
- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 60
- Transparency & trust, 68 against 63
Watch for
The core's bearer gate is off by default, and the deploy notes say enabling it breaks the proxy's auth and session setup
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Hy Memory | TencentDB Agent Memory | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 65 | 51 | Hy Memory +14 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 55 | 61 | TencentDB Agent Memory +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 60 | 68 | TencentDB Agent Memory +8 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 37 | 30 | Hy Memory +7 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 76 | 70 | Hy Memory +6 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 63 | 68 | TencentDB Agent Memory +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | C 57.8/100 | C 56/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Hy Memory | TencentDB Agent Memory |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Tencent Hunyuan | Tencent Cloud |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (PyPI metadata for the 1.x releases and 2.0.1 says MIT; 2.0.2 carries Apache-2.0) | MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-26 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | ||
| Terms restrict automated access | ||
| Terms restrict benchmarking | ||
| Terms or service can change without notice | ||
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | ||
| Popularity | 27 stars, 147 PyPI/wk | 2.2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | none |
Verdicts
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.
TencentDB Agent Memory
A self-hosted team memory stack with layered recall, per-asset visibility and ACLs, documented HTTP APIs and frequent releases, 2.0.0 to 2.0.3 since August. The default deployment publishes its ports on all host interfaces with the core's bearer gate off, data-plane deletes trust a service-ID header, and the proxy's rate-limit and session admin routes have no authentication.
Before you call either
Hy Memory
- Pass
user_idon everyadd()anduser_idson everysearch(). Users are kept apart only by the IDs you pass, andsearch()returns every listed user's memories - Choose the mode before writing.
litemakes no LLM calls and stores raw text.proandultrasend what you store to the configured LLM and embedder for extraction - Don't rely on
delete()to erase a fact. The raw conversation,history.dbandcache.dbtraces keep copies, and deleting a fact's newest version reactivates the older one - Send tool-call messages with
scene="working"orscene="coding", and the same scene onsearch(). Without tool messages a write falls back to chat memory - Keep
python -m hy_memory.serveron 127.0.0.1. It has no authentication and allows any web origin
TencentDB Agent Memory
- Set
MEMORY_CORE_GATEWAY_API_KEY,KNOWLEDGE_SERVICE_KEYand a non-default admin key before exposing ports 8420, 8424, 8096 or 8125 beyond the host - In headless runs send
x-team-id,x-agent-idandx-task-idheaders to the proxy. Without all three it falls back to an interactive picker and skips memory - Expect every proxied turn to be stored. The proxy records upstream messages and model replies to Memory Core, and injected memory lands in your system prompt
- Check
data.validon/v3/meta/auth/verifyanddata.isErroron/v3/tools/call. Both can fail inside a success envelope - Retry
/v3/session/addonly on 500, 503 or a network error. The API reference says it isn't idempotent and writes a new object each call
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Hy Memory or TencentDB Agent Memory?
Hy Memory scores 57.8 (C) on agent readiness against TencentDB Agent Memory's 56 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. TencentDB Agent Memory leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency & trust.
Can an agent call Hy Memory and TencentDB Agent Memory without installing anything?
No hosted endpoint is listed for Hy Memory. No hosted endpoint is listed for TencentDB Agent Memory.
Are Hy Memory and TencentDB Agent Memory open source?
Yes. 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)). TencentDB Agent Memory is open source (MIT).
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anchor compare hy-memory tencentdb-agent-memory(the CLI) - Over MCP
compare_tools {"a": "hy-memory", "b": "tencentdb-agent-memory"}at/mcp, no key