AI Agent Memory, Explained

Sourced technical guides on how AI agents and LLMs remember: memory types, context windows, retrieval, and the tools that implement them (Mem0, Zep, Letta, Cognee, Hindsight and more).

Which agent memory system should I use?

Short answer: for agents with long histories, or if you want every feature open source and self-hosted, start with Hindsight. If the lowest token cost per lookup or a compliance certificate matters most, look at Mem0. For one project’s notes, plain files or a simple vector store are often enough.

All benchmark numbers on this site are vendor-reported, and each page says who ran them. For the full numbers see the agent memory leaderboard, Mem0 vs Hindsight and open-source memory systems compared.