claude-mem alternatives

Hooks into Claude Code's session lifecycle; compresses tool outputs into ~500-token observations via Claude's agent SDK. SQLite + FTS5 with optional Chroma vector. "Endless Mode" compresses in-flight to extend session length. Full claude-mem record →

  1. 1 OpenAI Codex (cloud agent) Coding-agent memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (summary, episode) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 128k released 2026-10-27 Apache-2.0 (Codex CLI; cloud agent proprietary) Compare with claude-mem →

  2. 2 smolagents Memory Framework-embedded memory

    same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 29k released 2026-05-29 Apache-2.0 Compare with claude-mem →

  3. 3 Aider Coding-agent memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (episode) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed — MCP — ★ 41k released 2026-02-12 Apache-2.0 Compare with claude-mem →

  4. 4 AutoGLM (Zhipu AI) Dedicated memory layers

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (episode) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed

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

  5. 5 OpenClaw memory File-backed / editor paradigms

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (episode) · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 393k released 2026-10-22 MIT Compare with claude-mem →

  6. 6 Microsoft Edge Copilot Mode + Journeys (now Copilot in Edge) Browser-agent memory ⚠ renamed — now Copilot in Edge

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (summary, episode) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? Compare with claude-mem →

  7. 7 Mistral Vibe (Remote Agents) + Mistral Medium 3.5 Coding-agent memory

    same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (episode) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 4.9k released 2026-10-20 Apache-2.0 (Vibe CLI); Modified MIT (Medium 3.5… Compare with claude-mem →

  8. 8 Letta / MemGPT Dedicated memory layers

    same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (summary, episode) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed · also has MCP

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

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