Zep & Graphiti alternatives

Bi-temporal knowledge graph (event time + ingestion time). Strong on chronological reasoning and contradiction tracking. Graphiti is the open-source core. Full Zep & Graphiti record →

  1. 1 Mem0 Dedicated memory layers

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

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

  2. 2 SuperLocalMemory Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same storage (graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal, similarity) · same memory unit (episode, fact) · also open source · 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 Zep & Graphiti →

  3. 3 OpenMemory (now LongMemory) Dedicated memory layers ⚠ renamed — now LongMemory

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

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

  4. 4 MemMachine Dedicated memory layers

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

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

  5. 5 M3-Agent (ByteDance) Dedicated memory layers

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

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

  6. 6 Supermemory Dedicated memory layers

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

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

  7. 7 Cognee Dedicated memory layers

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

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

  8. 8 O-Mem Dedicated memory layers

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

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 79 Apache-2.0 Compare with Zep & Graphiti →

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