Letta / MemGPT alternatives
Originated as MemGPT (UC Berkeley), where the model pages its own memory between context, recall and archival tiers. The product now centres on Letta Code, a stateful agent harness whose agents rewrite their own memory, skills and prompts over time. Full Letta / MemGPT record →
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also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (kv, vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · same memory unit (episode, fact) · also open source · also self-hostable
OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 67k released 2026-09-25 Apache-2.0 Compare with Letta / MemGPT →
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also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same memory unit (episode, summary) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed
OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 45k released 2026-10-21 MIT Compare with Letta / MemGPT →
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same storage (kv, vector) · same retrieval (similarity, injection) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · same memory unit (episode, fact) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed
OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 51k released 2026-10-14 MIT Compare with Letta / MemGPT →
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also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · same memory unit (episode, fact) · also self-hostable · also offered managed
OSS — Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 5 released 2026-07-16 proprietary (commercial licence) Compare with Letta / MemGPT →
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same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · same memory unit (episode, fact) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed
OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 3.2k released 2026-04-08 MIT Compare with Letta / MemGPT →
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same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity, injection) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · same memory unit (episode) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed
OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 15k MIT (SDK/integration packages in… Compare with Letta / MemGPT →
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also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (vector) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · same memory unit (episode, fact) · also open source · also self-hostable
OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 79 Apache-2.0 Compare with Letta / MemGPT →
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same storage (kv, vector) · same retrieval (similarity, injection) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · same memory unit (episode, fact) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed
OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 1.6k released 2025-10-27 MIT Compare with Letta / MemGPT →
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