Supermemory vs Zep

Detailed side-by-side comparison to help you choose the right tool

Supermemory

🔴Developer

AI Knowledge Tools

Supermemory is the memory and context layer for AI agents — a graph-based memory API with extractors, connectors, and retrieval for personal apps and enterprise stacks.

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Starting Price

Custom

Zep

🔴Developer

Agent memory

Zep provides agent memory capabilities for teams building and operating AI applications. It supports the MCP ecosystem.

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Starting Price

Free

Feature Comparison

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FeatureSupermemoryZep
CategoryAI Knowledge ToolsAgent memory
Pricing Plans478 tiers408 tiers
Starting PriceFree
Key Features
  • • Memory, RAG, and extraction through one API
  • • Supermemory MCP for exposing memory to compatible tools
  • • Connectors for Google Drive, Notion, and OneDrive on Pro
  • • Temporal Knowledge Graph
  • • Context Engineering
  • • Graph RAG

💡 Our Take

Choose Supermemory if you need a complete memory graph (not just partial), consumer plugins, document extractors, and an open eval platform — capabilities Zep does not offer per Supermemory's own comparison. Choose Zep if you are already committed to its temporal knowledge graph approach and your use case is narrowly focused on conversational memory for chatbots.

Supermemory - Pros & Cons

Pros

  • ✓Graph + extractor approach catches facts that vector RAG misses
  • ✓Connector library means real productivity in days, not weeks
  • ✓Free tier is generous enough to ship a hobby project end to end
  • ✓Pro at $19/month is one of the cheapest production memory APIs
  • ✓MemoryBench research signals the team is investing in evaluation rigor

Cons

  • ✗Scale jumps from $19 to $399 — mid-volume teams have a steep step
  • ✗Graph queries add latency vs raw vector lookups
  • ✗Newer than Mem0/Zep, so ecosystem and community examples are smaller
  • ✗Closed source on the platform side; self-host limited to enterprise
  • ✗Connector reliability depends on third-party APIs (Slack, Notion, etc.)

Zep - Pros & Cons

Pros

  • ✓tracks when facts change
  • ✓ingestion-centered pricing suits read-heavy agents
  • ✓several SDK and deployment options

Cons

  • ✗credit consumption needs real payload testing
  • ✗free allowance is small
  • ✗webhooks and analytics require a higher tier

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🔒 Security & Compliance Comparison

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Security FeatureSupermemoryZep
SOC2——
GDPR——
HIPAA——
SSO——
Self-Hosted——
On-Prem—✅ Yes
RBAC——
Audit Log——
Open Source——
API Key Auth—✅ Yes
Encryption at Rest—✅ Yes
Encryption in Transit—✅ Yes
Data Residency—configurable
Data Retention—configurable
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