Trace alternatives

YC S25 + $3M seed (Feb 2026). Workflow orchestration mapping corporate environments as a structured context graph so agents always have institutional knowledge for tasks. CTO frames differentiator as "context engineering." Full Trace record →

  1. 1 Mem0 Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same memory unit (fact, episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

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

  2. 2 Zep & Graphiti Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same memory unit (fact, episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

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

  3. 3 SuperLocalMemory Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same memory unit (fact, 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 Trace →

  4. 4 OpenMemory (now LongMemory) Dedicated memory layers ⚠ renamed — now LongMemory

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

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

  5. 5 MemMachine Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same memory unit (fact, episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

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

  6. 6 M3-Agent (ByteDance) Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same memory unit (fact, episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 1.4k Apache-2.0 Compare with Trace →

  7. 7 O-Mem Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same memory unit (fact, episode) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 79 Apache-2.0 Compare with Trace →

  8. 8 Supermemory Dedicated memory layers

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

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

Ranked by shared memory design (storage, retrieval, conflict handling, memory unit), same section and shared must-haves (open source, self-hosting, MCP), with adoption as a tie-breaker. ✓ confirmed · — no · ? not in the catalog yet. Want picks for your own requirements? Use the chooser. Checking a whole project? Check your stack.