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ZepvsCognee
Long-term memory and session management for AI assistants versus OSS graph-based memory layer for AI agents
Compare interactively in Explore →Choose Zep when…
- •You're building a conversational AI assistant that needs session continuity
- •You need structured fact and entity extraction from conversation history
- •You want temporal memory — your AI knowing when it learned something
Choose Cognee when…
- •You want graph-shaped agent memory over flat key-value stores
- •You ingest unstructured corpora and need typed entity extraction
- •You want OSS with a managed cloud option
Side-by-side comparison
Field
Zep
Cognee
Category
Memory & Persistence
Memory & Persistence
Type
Open Source
Open Source
Free Tier
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
Pricing Plans
Cloud: $99/mo
OSS: FreeCloud: From $20/mo
GitHub Stars
⭐ 4,000
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Health
●60 — Slowing
●85 — Active
Zep
Memory and session management platform for AI assistants. Automatically extracts facts, preferences, and entities from conversations and surfaces them as structured memory. Supports temporal reasoning — knowing what was discussed last week versus now.
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