The deciding difference is operational: Cognee can run on infrastructure you control, Supermemory cannot. If that constraint is real for you, it settles the choice before anything else is considered.
Memory graph plus automatic user profiles, with connectors that sync from Drive, Gmail, Notion and GitHub.
Closest thing here to memory and RAG in one product: the graph tracks contradictions and recency, and the connectors mean you are not writing an ingestion pipeline first.
Builds a graph + vector memory layer over your agent's history and documents.
| Supermemory | Cognee | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Proprietary | Open source |
| Pricing | freemium | open source |
| Self-hostable | No | Yes |
| Languages | TypeScript, Python | Python |
| Install | — | pip install cognee |
| Keys required | SUPERMEMORY_API_KEY | None |
The deciding difference is operational: Cognee can run on infrastructure you control, Supermemory cannot. If that constraint is real for you, it settles the choice before anything else is considered. Supermemory: Memory graph plus automatic user profiles, with connectors that sync from Drive, Gmail, Notion and GitHub. Cognee: Builds a graph + vector memory layer over your agent's history and documents.
Supermemory is a hosted service only. Cognee can run on your own infrastructure.
Supermemory is proprietary (freemium). Cognee is open source (open source).
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