Graphiti vs Zep (2026)
Updated March 10, 2026
Overview
Graphiti is an open-source temporal knowledge graph engine built by the Zep team. It creates dynamic, time-aware knowledge graphs from conversational and unstructured data, enabling agents to maintain evolving memory with temporal reasoning. Graphiti powers many agent memory implementations and is often used alongside Zep for graph-based recall.
Zep is a long-term memory service for AI assistants and agents. It stores conversation history, extracts facts and entities, builds temporal knowledge graphs, and enables semantic search across past interactions. Zep helps AI applications recall relevant context from previous conversations, making chatbots and agents feel more natural and personalized. Available as open-source and cloud-hosted.
Key features
Core capabilities each platform advertises.
- Memory infrastructure for AI assistants
- Dialog classification and extraction
- Integration with LangChain and LlamaIndex
- Structured and unstructured memory storage
- Memory search with temporal awareness
Strengths and tradeoffs
What each tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.
Pros
- Production-ready platform
- Good performance
- Active development
- Strong features
Cons
- Enterprise pricing varies
- Setup complexity
- Learning curve required
Pros
- AI memory purpose-built
- 100k free messages
- Self-hosted option
Cons
- Message limits
- Scaling costs
Graphiti or Zep — which should you choose?
Choose Graphiti if you wantChoose if you want
Choose Zep if you wantChoose if you want
- Enterprise AI assistants with memory
- Customer service bots that remember past issues
- Personalized recommendation agents
- Multi-turn conversation management
- Context-aware AI applications
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