MemoryBear alternatives

Open-source memory system modelled on human cognition, with perception, extraction, association and forgetting stages; also offered as a hosted product. #18 in TeleAI Awesome-Agent-Memory Full MemoryBear record →

  1. 1 gbrain (Garry Tan) 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 ✓ ★ 31k released 2026-10-22 MIT Compare with MemoryBear →

  2. 2 TencentDB Agent Memory Dedicated memory layers

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

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ? ★ 30k released 2026-10-21 MIT Compare with MemoryBear →

  3. 3 Zep & Graphiti Dedicated memory layers

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

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 32k released 2026-09-01 Apache-2.0 Compare with MemoryBear →

  4. 4 Supermemory Dedicated memory layers

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

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 31k released 2026-10-12 MIT Compare with MemoryBear →

  5. 5 Cognee Dedicated memory layers

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

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 31k released 2026-10-16 Apache-2.0 Compare with MemoryBear →

  6. 6 SuperLocalMemory Dedicated memory layers

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

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

  7. 7 OpenMemory (now LongMemory) Dedicated memory layers ⚠ renamed — now LongMemory

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

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 4.5k released 2025-12-12 Apache-2.0 Compare with MemoryBear →

  8. 8 MemMachine Dedicated memory layers

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

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

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