Both keep knowledge as Markdown on your disk and expose it over MCP. Basic Memory is a released product with 20+ tools, a wide client list and a cloud tier; its provenance unit is a note or chunk permalink. Okto Neuron's is a byte range and a content hash inside a derived graph.
Three neighbours. Where each one is ahead.
This page exists because "agent memory" now covers projects that do quite different jobs, and a prerelease with five MCP tools should not pretend otherwise. Each comparison below is built from the other project's own README, docs and pricing page as read on 2026-09-19, names the places where that project is ahead of Okto Neuron, and ends with who should pick which. Our own LoCoMo results live on the benchmarks page, not here: they come from our harness and judge, so they do not compare with the figures these projects publish about themselves.
Graphiti builds temporal knowledge graphs on Neo4j, FalkorDB or Neptune, with bi-temporal edges and point-in-time queries that Okto Neuron does not have. Okto Neuron keeps the Markdown vault as the trust root, embeds the graph, and traces each claim to bytes rather than to an episode.
mem0 is a memory layer that learns a user's preferences from conversations, shipped as a library, a self-hosted server and a hosted platform with SDKs and benchmarks. Okto Neuron answers from notes you wrote and returns the bytes it read. The overlap is smaller than the category name suggests.
Spotted a claim about one of these projects that is out of date or wrong? Each page lists the exact source it was read from. Tell us and we will fix the page, not defend it.
Point it at your notes. Check the bytes yourself.
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