Compare Recall
Last updated: 13 October 2026
How Recall compares with other memory systems for agents: what each costs, the benchmark results each has published, how each is hosted and licensed, how their APIs relate, and when another one is the better choice.
Recall and HonchoThe same v3 API. Lower list prices on Recall; an AGPL licence and BEAM results up to 10M tokens on Honcho.Recall and Mem0Monthly plans by request count and an Apache-2.0 library, against pay-per-use and written answers.Recall and ZepA temporal knowledge graph with enterprise options, against answers with sources and a self-hostable server.Recall and LettaA platform that runs stateful agents, against a memory service for the agent you already have.
Side by side
| Hosted service | Self-hosting and licence | Pricing | Free to start | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recall | Yes. Data is stored in Frankfurt (EU). | Yes. The server is source-available under the FSL-1.1-ALv2 (each version becomes Apache 2.0 after two years); the SDKs and integrations are MIT. Self-hosting, source. | Pay as you go from prepaid credit: learning $1.75 per 1M message tokens, questions $0.0008 to $0.25 by level. Context, search, storage and the night shift are included. Pricing. | $5 of credit once, no card needed. |
| Honcho | Yes, at app.honcho.dev.1 | Yes. Open source under the AGPL-3.0. Needs Postgres with pgvector and at least one LLM provider key; the Docker setup also runs Redis for caching.23 | Pay as you go: ingestion $2.00 per 1M tokens, questions $0.001 to $0.50 by level. context() and dreaming are included.1 | $5 of credit for a new account, and $5 more every month once a card is added. Startups that raised less than $5M can apply for $1,000 of credit.1 |
| Mem0 | Yes, the Mem0 Platform at app.mem0.ai.4 | Yes. The library (pip install mem0ai, npm install mem0ai) and a self-hosted server (Docker Compose) are Apache 2.0.4 On-prem deployment of the platform is an Enterprise option.5 | Monthly plans by request count: Hobby free, Starter $19, Pro $249, Enterprise custom.5 | Hobby: 10,000 add requests and 1,000 retrieval requests a month, no card needed.5 |
| Zep | Yes, Zep Cloud. Enterprise adds your own encryption keys (BYOK) or Zep running in your own cloud (BYOC).6 | Zep Community Edition is no longer maintained (since April 2025; the repository stays Apache 2.0). Graphiti, the graph framework Zep is built on, is Apache 2.0.7 | Credits per episode sent: free, Flex $125 a month, Flex Plus $375 a month, Enterprise custom. Retrieval and storage use no credits.6 | 10,000 credits a month, with lower limits and lower processing priority.6 |
| Letta | Yes, Letta Cloud and the Letta API.89 | Yes. The local runtime or a self-hosted App Server. Apache 2.0.101112 | Free; Pro $20 a month; API Plan $20 a month plus $0.10 per active agent a month, $0.00015 per second of tool execution, and model usage at its token cost; Teams Pro $20 per seat a month; Enterprise custom.9 | Free plan with up to 3 stateful agents and limited usage.9 |
How we compare
- Only what we could check. Every fact about another product is from its own public pages, linked on each comparison, as we read them on 13 October 2026. Prices and plans change; the linked page is what counts.
- Benchmarks as published. We show each maker's own figures with the answer model, judge and harness they report. None is a rerun. Different judges and question sets move scores by several points, so each table says whether two figures compare directly. Recall's runs and method are on Evals, with the charts of every published figure.
- When to choose them. Each page says when the other product fits better. Recall is not the right tool for every job.
Moving from Honcho? Its clients work with Recall after changing the base URL and key: Switch from Honcho.
Sources
Read on 13 October 2026.