Basic Memory vs Mem0 Platform

Side by side, as alternatives to Mem0 Platform. Rows that differ are highlighted; the strongest value in a row is marked. Unknown means no source yet.

Also replaces Mem0 Platform: + Opencode + Claude-Mem + Mem0 (open source)+ Hindsight + Ai-memory

Basic Memorybasicmachines-co/basic-memory

Mem0 Platformpaid product

Cost and coverage

Price

$0 software; you run it

Free Hobby tier (10,000 add and 1,000 retrieval requests a month); Starter $19/month, Pro $249/month, Enterprise custom source ↗

Long-term memory for chat assistants

Yes

Memory for coding agents

Partly

Yes

Knowledge graph memory

Partly

Yes

Jobs covered

2 of 3 jobs

All 3

Popularity and activity (from GitHub)

Stars

4,295

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Gain this week

Unknown

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Signal

Building history

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Commits / 4 wk

216

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Latest release

v0.23.2 · 2026-08-25

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Commits / 12 wk

714

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People committing / 12 mo

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Issues opened / closed, 30 days

74 / 70

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Facts, with sources on each project page

Runs on my machine?

Yes, local files plus a SQLite index; air-gapped use supported

Hosted by the vendor

Code licence

AGPL-3.0 (copyleft)

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Model weights licence

No separate model weights (optional FastEmbed models download on first use)

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Commercial use

Yes, under AGPL-3.0 copyleft terms (share source of modified versions offered over a network)

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Paid services needed?

None required by Basic Memory; you need an MCP-capable AI client, which may itself be paid

Subscription

Hardware

Not documented

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Operating systems

Windows x86_64, Linux x86_64/ARM64 and macOS are listed in the semantic-search compatibility table; Intel Macs need an ONNX Runtime pin or OpenAI embeddings for local semantic search

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Setup effort

Easy, uv tool install plus adding the MCP server to your AI client

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Stars over time

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Basic Memory (as alternatives to Mem0 Platform)
Figures from RepoQuarry, 21 Oct 2026. Sources: https://repoquarry.dev/compare?ids=basic-memory&product=mem0-platform

Mem0 Platform: Free Hobby tier (10,000 add and 1,000 retrieval requests a month); Starter $19/month, Pro $249/month, Enterprise custom
Basic Memory: free software; does 2 of 3 Mem0 Platform jobs

- Basic Memory: 4,295 GitHub stars, 714 commits in 12 weeks, licence AGPL-3.0 (copyleft)

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