Zep is an enterprise context layer built on a temporal knowledge graph. OwlMem is a lightweight shared memory and knowledge base for your team's AI agents.
Facts checked against each vendor's public docs and pricing pages on October 25, 2026. Features and prices change; if we got something wrong, email [email protected] and we'll fix it.
| Feature | OwlMem | Zep |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Hosted service for teams: knowledge base, memory and vault | Hosted context layer; Graphiti is open source |
| MCP | Yes: Hosted MCP server with OAuth sign-in | Yes: Hosted Context MCP server |
| Shared across AI apps | Yes: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, any MCP client | Yes: Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor |
| Team sharing | Yes: Organizations, members, one identity per AI | Yes: Shared graphs, RBAC and ABAC |
| How data is stored | Markdown in git, plus facts recalled by meaning | Temporal knowledge graph |
| Audit and rollback | Yes: Every write is a git commit: diff, revert, export | Partly: Old facts are invalidated, not deleted; console audit log |
| Self-host / open source | No: No, managed only (servers in Canada); CLI is MIT | Partly: Graphiti (Apache-2.0); full Zep via Enterprise BYOC |
| Secrets vault for agents | Yes: End-to-end encrypted vault, approval per use | Not published: Not described in their docs |
| Extracts memories automatically | No: No, agents save lessons and facts on purpose | Yes: Yes, an LLM builds the graph from messages |
| Starting price | Free for 1 AI agent; from $19/month | Free tier; from $125/month |
Choose Zep if you need an enterprise context layer that merges business data and conversations into a temporal knowledge graph, with RBAC and ABAC governance and SOC 2 and HIPAA options.
Choose OwlMem if you want a lightweight shared memory and knowledge base for your team's AI agents, priced per AI agent and set up in a minute over MCP.
Use Zep where your own agents need a governed graph of company data, and OwlMem for the day-to-day knowledge your team's coding and chat agents share. Both run MCP servers, so one AI client can connect to both.
Graphiti is the open-source temporal knowledge graph framework from the Zep team (Apache-2.0) that you can run yourself. Zep is their hosted context platform, with governance, connectors and support.
No. OwlMem keeps knowledge as Markdown pages and memories as short facts recalled by meaning. If reasoning over entities and relationships over time is central to your product, Zep or Graphiti is the better fit.
Graphiti can be self-hosted, and the full Zep platform can run in your own cloud through its Enterprise BYOC option. OwlMem can't be self-hosted, but you can export its git repository or sync it to your own GitHub at any time.
Official pages we checked on October 25, 2026:
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