gbrain (Garry Tan) alternatives

Open-source agent 'brain' storing explicit sourced facts with corrections and withdrawals, shared across agents; built as the memory for OpenClaw/Hermes agents. author is YC CEO; listed #6 in TeleAI Awesome-Agent-Memory Full gbrain (Garry Tan) record →

  1. 1 MemoryBear Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (relational, vector) · same retrieval (hybrid-rerank, graph-traversal) · same conflict handling (human-arbitrate) · same memory unit (fact) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ? ★ 8.3k released 2026-10-14 Apache-2.0 Compare with gbrain (Garry Tan) →

  2. 2 Memanto (Moorcheh) Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (human-arbitrate) · same memory unit (fact) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ? ★ 2.3k released 2026-10-21 MIT Compare with gbrain (Garry Tan) →

  3. 3 Supermemory Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same memory unit (document, fact) · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 31k released 2026-10-12 MIT Compare with gbrain (Garry Tan) →

  4. 4 AGENTS.md File-backed / editor paradigms

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

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ? ★ 25k MIT Compare with gbrain (Garry Tan) →

  5. 5 AutoGLM (Zhipu AI) Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (file, vector) · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (fact) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 26k Apache-2.0 Compare with gbrain (Garry Tan) →

  6. 6 Cognee Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same memory unit (document, fact) · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 31k released 2026-10-16 Apache-2.0 Compare with gbrain (Garry Tan) →

  7. 7 Honcho (Plastic Labs) Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (relational, vector) · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (fact) · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 7.7k released 2026-10-21 AGPL-3.0 Compare with gbrain (Garry Tan) →

  8. 8 SuperLocalMemory Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same memory unit (fact) · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

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

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