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Zep

Long-term memory and session management for AI assistants

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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.

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

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How does your AI remember?Optional for most stacks

Persistent memory layers that give AI agents long-term recall of users, sessions, and context across conversations

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LangGraphAgent Frameworks

Zep ships a first-party LangGraph integration that loads temporal-graph memory into each node's state and writes new facts back.

Add temporal, graph-structured memory to LangGraph agents with a few lines of config.

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LangChainPipelines & RAG

Zep provides a LangChain memory class so chat chains and agents read and write through Zep's temporal knowledge graph instead of a flat buffer.

Replace LangChain's default conversation memory with Zep when temporal accuracy and graph reasoning matter.

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OpenAI APILLM Infrastructure

Zep uses OpenAI embeddings and chat completions to extract facts, summarise sessions, and build its temporal knowledge graph.

Power Zep memory with OpenAI models without changing your application's existing OpenAI client setup.

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GraphitiMemory & Persistence

Graphiti is the temporal knowledge graph engine that powers Zep — Zep is the productised platform built on top of Graphiti.

Use Graphiti directly when you want the engine without Zep's product surface; use Zep when you want the managed platform built on it.

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✦ Free tier available
Cloud$99/mo

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Memory-Augmented Agent Stack
Strong alternative when temporal accuracy and graph reasoning dominate (LongMemEval favours Zep over Mem0)

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