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It runs in the owner's process and needs a key for the chosen LLM provider (the README uses `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`) and, for semantic search, an embedding provider. Access to memories is whatever the owner's LangGraph store and namespace settings allow.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence, with nothing to buy and no signup. The owner pays for the LLM calls that extract memories, the embedding calls behind search, and the database behind the store (https://github.com/langchain-ai/langmem).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1698, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 214379, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://langchain-ai.github.io/langmem/", "capabilities": [ "memory.store", "memory.search", "memory.user", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "sdk", "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "python", "free", "langgraph", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2025-10-27", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 47.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 954, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1175, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 60, "reliability": 32, "schema": 55, "security": 45, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Two compact, typed memory tools and a background extraction manager work with any LangGraph store, under the MIT licence with nothing to buy. 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Neither runs the tests", "54 open issues, 23 with no comment, and 19 open pull requests, the oldest from June 2025", "No guidance on memory poisoning or prompt injection found, and two open issues asking for it (May 2026) have no reply" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass a store with an embedding index (`index={\"dims\": 1536, \"embed\": \"openai:text-embedding-3-small\"}`), or `search_memory` cannot rank by meaning", "Use a database-backed store such as `AsyncPostgresStore` for anything that must survive a restart. `InMemoryStore` loses everything", "Put a per-user placeholder in the namespace and set it in `config[\"configurable\"]` on every call, or users share one memory space", "Send the memory `id` with `update` and `delete`, and never with `create`. 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The code is on github.com under the langchain-ai organisation and the docs are on langchain-ai.github.io/langmem.", "The LICENSE file reads Copyright (c) 2025 LangChain. PyPI metadata names no author.", "No terms or privacy document governs the library, so both fields are left out. The MIT licence is the only agreement.", "No changelog file, GitHub releases or tags exist in the repository. PyPI's release history is the only record of versions.", "www.langchain.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The organisation's SECURITY.md points to two Intigriti disclosure programmes.", "RDAP for langchain.com gives a registration date of 2019-12-03." ], "score": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langmem.json", "live": { "slug": "langmem", "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "langmem", "version": "0.0.30", "released": "2025-10-27", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:59:07.691560057Z" } ], "githubStars": 1710, "pypiWeekly": 205734, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://langchain.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:54:45.333063661Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "langchain.com", "registered": "2019-12-03", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/langchain.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:32:34.846157759Z" }, "github": { "repo": "langchain-ai/langmem", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T06:21:45.781550659Z", "stars": 1711, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-02T19:35:27Z", "openIssues": 56, "openPRs": 20, "issuesOpened90d": 9, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 7, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 31, "success": 25, "failure": 4, "other": 2, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-02T19:35:58Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 23, "medianDays": 2 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T15:54:45.333063661Z" } }, "answer": "past.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against LangMem's 47.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LangMem leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "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": "LangChain", "b": "Revo Inc. 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LangMem leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, LangMem or past.dev?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for LangMem. past.dev has a hosted endpoint at https://api.past.dev.", "question": "Can an agent call LangMem and past.dev without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "LangMem is open source (MIT). 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"title": "LangMem vs Memory (MCP reference server)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-memory-reference-server" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-supermemory.json", "title": "LangMem vs Supermemory API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-supermemory" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-zep.json", "title": "LangMem vs Zep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-zep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-past-dev.json", "title": "LocalGhost vs past.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-past-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mem0-vs-past-dev.json", "title": "Mem0 Platform + MCP vs past.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mem0-vs-past-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/memory-reference-server-vs-past-dev.json", "title": "Memory (MCP 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14, "edge": "past-dev", "key": "ergonomics", "langmem": 66, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "past-dev": 80, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 19, "edge": "past-dev", "key": "security", "langmem": 45, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "past-dev": 64, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "langmem", "key": "payments", "langmem": 60, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "past-dev": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 55, "edge": "past-dev", "key": "maintenance", "langmem": 15, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "past-dev": 70, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "past-dev", "key": "transparency", "langmem": 59, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "past-dev": 67, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "past.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against LangMem's 47.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LangMem leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do agent memory.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "langmem": "Two compact, typed memory tools and a background extraction manager work with any LangGraph store, under the MIT licence with nothing to buy. The newest PyPI release, 0.0.30, dates from 27 October 2025. The repository has no changelog, tags or test workflow, and 23 of 54 open issues have no reply.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-past-dev", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-past-dev.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-past-dev.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-past-dev.min.md" }, "markdown": "past.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against LangMem's 47.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LangMem leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do agent memory.\n\n- LangMem: grade D, 47.9/100, rank #954 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langmem.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/langmem.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### LangMem (D)\n\nGood for: Teams already on LangGraph that want memory tools and background extraction over a store they run.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The newest PyPI release, 0.0.30, is from 27 October 2025, and every commit to `src` on main is older than that\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- Reliability, 43 against 32\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 66\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 45\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 15\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 59\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\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 | LangMem | past.dev | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 32 | 43 | past.dev +11 |\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) | 66 | 80 | past.dev +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 64 | past.dev +19 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | LangMem +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 15 | 70 | past.dev +55 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 67 | past.dev +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **47.9 · D** | **63.8 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | LangMem | past.dev |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | LangChain | 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 | MIT | 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 | 2025-10-27 | 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 | 1.7k stars, 214k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**LangMem.** Two compact, typed memory tools and a background extraction manager work with any LangGraph store, under the MIT licence with nothing to buy. The newest PyPI release, 0.0.30, dates from 27 October 2025. The repository has no changelog, tags or test workflow, and 23 of 54 open issues have no reply.\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### LangMem\n\n1. Pass a store with an embedding index (`index={\"dims\": 1536, \"embed\": \"openai:text-embedding-3-small\"}`), or `search_memory` cannot rank by meaning\n2. Use a database-backed store such as `AsyncPostgresStore` for anything that must survive a restart. `InMemoryStore` loses everything\n3. Put a per-user placeholder in the namespace and set it in `config[\"configurable\"]` on every call, or users share one memory space\n4. Send the memory `id` with `update` and `delete`, and never with `create`. A retried `create` writes a duplicate under a new UUID\n5. Run on Python 3.11 or later. `src/langmem/knowledge/extraction.py` uses `typing.NotRequired`, which Python 3.10 lacks\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, LangMem or past.dev?\n\npast.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against LangMem's 47.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LangMem leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call LangMem and past.dev without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for LangMem. past.dev has a hosted endpoint at https://api.past.dev.\n\n### Are LangMem and past.dev open source?\n\nLangMem is open source (MIT). 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/langmem-vs-past-dev.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-past-dev.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"langmem\", \"b\": \"past-dev\"}`. 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