What we looked at
Saudad wrote this page, and Saudad is one of the options, so here is how we judged them, before the list: what each one is, who it suits, where your memory lives, and what it costs, each from the product’s own pages on the date beside its source. We don’t rank them; the right one depends on what you want to do.
The options
| Feature | What it is | Suits | Where your memory lives | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built-in memory (Claude, ChatGPT and others)[1][2] | Each app’s own memory | People who use one app | Inside each app | Included |
| Hjarni[3][4] | A hosted Markdown knowledge base with an official server | People who want to write and organise notes themselves | Hosted | Free up to 25 notes; Pro €11 a month |
| MemoryPlugin[5][6] | One memory across “21+ AI tools”, in its own words, through a browser extension and a hosted server | People who want memory inside chat apps that don’t connect to servers | Hosted, with a local option | Currently Core $89 a year and Pro $180 a year, billed annually |
| Saudad | One private memory your agents connect to, organised into spaces | People who use several agents and don’t want to run anything | Hosted | The Personal plan, after a free trial with no card |
| Mem0[7][8] | A memory layer for agents, managed or self-hosted | Developers adding memory to their own app | Hosted, or self-hosted from its open-source core | Free and custom plans |
| Supermemory[9][10][11] | A memory engine for agents, through an API, plugins and a hosted server | Developers building memory into their own agents or apps | Hosted, or on your machine from its open-source release | Free with $5 of credits a month; paid plans from $19 a month |
| Basic Memory[12][13] | A knowledge graph in plain Markdown files | People who want their memory as files they own and edit | Your computer, with optional cloud sync | Free on your machine; cloud sync from $15 per seat a month |
| The MCP reference memory server[14] | A basic local knowledge graph in one file | Developers learning how memory servers work | Your computer | Free |
Which kind fits
Built-in memory, if…
- You use one app, most of the time.
- You want nothing to set up or pay for.
A hosted memory, if…
- You use several agents, on more than one computer.
- You want to connect them and get on with your work.
A developer engine, if…
- You’re building memory into your own agent or app.
- You want an API and SDKs, or to self-host the engine.
A local server, if…
- You want everything on your own computer, as files you own.
- Your agents run on that computer and can reach a local server.
Where Saudad fits
Saudad is a hosted memory for people, not a developer engine: you sign in with a code, paste one address into each agent, and your agents fill it as you work. It’s organised into spaces, such as one per client or project, and every memory shows its space and the app that saved it. It works with Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw and other apps, and ChatGPT on its Business, Enterprise and Edu plans (read-only on Pro).
It isn’t open source, it doesn’t run on your own computer, and it has no browser extension: if you need any of those, one of the others suits you better.
Questions
Why trust a list written by Saudad?
Don’t take it on trust: every fact about another product links that product’s own page, with the date we read it. We’ve put Saudad where it fits, with what it doesn’t do, and we don’t rank the options.
Is ChatGPT’s or Claude’s built-in memory enough?
If you use one of them most of the time, often yes. Each keeps its memory inside its own app, so it stops being enough once you use a second agent.
What does Saudad cost?
€9 a month billed yearly, or €12 monthly, VAT included, after a 14-day free trial with no card.
Sources
- 1.Claude’s memory and searching past chats · Anthropic Help Center · checked 28 October 2026
- 2.Memory in ChatGPT · OpenAI Help Center · checked 19 September 2026
- 3.Hjarni (llms.txt) · Hjarni · checked 28 October 2026
- 4.Pricing · Hjarni · checked 28 October 2026
- 5.MemoryPlugin · MemoryPlugin · checked 28 October 2026
- 6.Remote MCP server · MemoryPlugin Help · checked 28 October 2026
- 7.Mem0 documentation index · Mem0 · checked 28 October 2026
- 8.Pricing · Mem0 · checked 28 October 2026
- 9.Supermemory · Supermemory · checked 28 October 2026
- 10.Pricing · Supermemory · checked 28 October 2026
- 11.supermemoryai/supermemory · GitHub · checked 28 October 2026
- 12.Basic Memory · Basic Machines · checked 28 October 2026
- 13.Pricing · Basic Machines · checked 28 October 2026
- 14.Knowledge graph memory server · Model Context Protocol, reference servers · checked 28 October 2026
Changes to this page
- : First published.
Saudad wrote this page and has tried to be fair to every product in it. Each fact about another product links its source, read on the date beside it.