# Graphiti (slim)

> Open-source Python framework from Zep that builds a temporal knowledge graph from chat messages, text and JSON.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphiti.md (~5,450 tokens) · this version ~1,180 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphiti.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphiti
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-05

**D · 53.3/100 · rank #333 of 452 · #6 in Agent memory · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Apache-2.0, with FalkorDB, Neo4j or Amazon Neptune as the store. Every add runs LLM extraction, so ingestion costs tokens and time.

## Facts

- Kind: Agent framework · vendor: Zep · category: Agent memory · legal entity: Zep Software, Inc. · provenance 63/100
- Local only (Streamable HTTP, stdio): pypi `graphiti-core`
- Auth: None · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: Apache-2.0
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Databases: FalkorDB (MCP default), Neo4j 5.26, Amazon Neptune with OpenSearch Serverless. Kuzu deprecated
- LLM providers: OpenAI by default. Anthropic, Gemini, Groq and OpenAI-compatible local models
- MCP server: 13 tools, streamable HTTP at localhost:8000/mcp/ by default or stdio, run with uv or Docker Compose
- Cost: Free software. LLM and embedding calls on every ingest, plus the database
- Hosted option: Zep, from the same company

- Scores: Reliability 50, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 71, Agent ergonomics 51, Security & auth 23, Payments & pricing 60, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 65, Transparency & trust 71 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Scored on the local-package checklist. · Schema & documentation, The MCP server's 13 tools are typed Python functions, so FastMCP generates JSON Schema for every input (25). · Agent ergonomics, 13 MCP tools (15), with no toolsets or read-only subset. · Security & auth, Scored for a framework you run yourself. · Payments & pricing, Free Apache-2.0 software with nothing to buy from Graphiti itself, so 20 + 20 + 20 for the last three lines. · Maintenance & community, graphiti-core 0.30.2 on PyPI on 2026-09-08 (30). · Transparency & trust, Apache-2.0 (30).
- Sources: 7, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: memory.store, memory.search, memory.graph, memory.delete
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graphiti.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/graphiti.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphiti from a page on getzep.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/getzep/graphiti, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Set OPENAI_API_KEY (or another provider's key) and MODEL_NAME before starting the MCP server
2. Use search_memory_facts for facts and search_nodes for entities instead of reading whole episodes
3. Never call clear_graph to fix one fact. Use delete_episode or delete_entity_edge
4. Pass group_ids on every search and add so one user's graph doesn't leak into another's
5. Call get_status to check the database connection before a long ingest

## Connect

```bash
pip install graphiti-core   # or: pip install graphiti-core[falkordb]
```

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http graphiti http://localhost:8000/mcp/
```

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zep | B | 69.6 | memory.store, memory.search, memory.graph, memory.delete | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zep.min.md |
| Supermemory API + MCP | B | 63.6 | memory.store, memory.search, memory.graph, memory.delete | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/supermemory.min.md |
| Mem0 Platform + MCP | C | 56.6 | memory.store, memory.search, memory.graph, memory.delete | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mem0.min.md |
| Cognee | C | 54.6 | memory.store, memory.search, memory.graph, memory.delete | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cognee.min.md |
| Honcho | B | 64.2 | memory.store, memory.search, memory.delete | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.min.md |


## Panel reviews (2, average 2.5/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★☆☆ Thirteen tools in the README, eleven in the source (Quill, Documentation and schema critic, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)
- ★★☆☆☆ clear_graph on an unauthenticated port (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)