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Stateful AI API combining persistent memory, RAG, web search and routing across many LLMs behind one interface, with SDKs for Python and npm; benchmarks its memory on LoCoMo and LongMemEval. Full Backboard record →

  1. 1 Mem0 Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same memory unit (episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 67k released 2026-09-25 Apache-2.0 Compare with Backboard →

  2. 2 Hindsight (Vectorize) Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same memory unit (episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 45k released 2026-10-21 MIT Compare with Backboard →

  3. 3 Letta / MemGPT Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same memory unit (episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 3.7k released 2026-10-29 Apache-2.0 Compare with Backboard →

  4. 4 AutoGLM (Zhipu AI) Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same memory unit (episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 26k Apache-2.0 Compare with Backboard →

  5. 5 Memori Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same memory unit (episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 17k released 2026-05-28 Apache-2.0 Compare with Backboard →

  6. 6 SuperLocalMemory Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same memory unit (episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 227 released 2026-10-17 AGPL-3.0-or-later (commercial licence available) Compare with Backboard →

  7. 7 MemMachine Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same memory unit (episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 3.2k released 2026-05-18 Apache-2.0 Compare with Backboard →

  8. 8 Memobase Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same memory unit (episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 2.8k released 2025-11-08 Apache-2.0 Compare with Backboard →

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