myAI vs Zep

TL;DR: Zep is a temporal knowledge-graph memory service for agent applications — it extracts facts from conversations and business data and, uniquely, tracks when each fact was true. myAI is a self-hosted continuity OS for your own development work: memory is one organ, alongside state/handoff, a task queue with an off-hours runner, budget guarding, and fleet management. Different layer, different buyer — and if you're building an agent app over changing data, Zep may genuinely be the better memory engine for it.

What Zep does well

• Temporal reasoning. Zep's core engine (Graphiti, open source) builds a knowledge graph where facts carry validity intervals. Ask "what plan was this customer on in March?" and it can answer — most memory systems only know the current state. For domains where facts change (subscriptions, roles, inventory, relationships), this is a real capability, not a gimmick.
• Structured fact extraction. Instead of raw chunk retrieval, Zep distills conversations and documents into entities, relationships, and facts — the context an agent receives is dense and clean.
• Production posture. Zep Cloud is a managed service with proper SDKs; the Graphiti engine is genuinely open source and self-runnable. The team publishes benchmarks and is candid about methodology.

When you should choose Zep

• You're building an agent application whose value depends on reasoning over facts that change over time — CRM copilots, support agents, ops assistants over business data.
• You want knowledge-graph recall (entities and relationships), not just vector similarity.
• You want a managed memory backend so your team doesn't operate graph infrastructure.

myAI doesn't compete for that workload. Its memory layer is deliberately simpler: RAG (vector search) over your state files, handoffs, commits, and session summaries, plus a git-versioned "brain" of distilled context. It has no temporal fact graph, and won't answer "when was this true" queries the way Zep can.

What myAI adds that Zep doesn't attempt

Zep answers "what does the agent know?" myAI answers "where were we, and what happens next?" — which needs more than a memory engine:

• Session-to-session continuity. Every myAI session closes by writing state, a handoff note for the next agent, and a distilled session summary. Every new session — any MCP-capable agent, any machine — boots with that context automatically. Zep persists knowledge; it doesn't carry a working session forward, because that's an operator problem, not an app-memory problem.
• An execution loop. Task queue → headless runner working your queue overnight on your existing Claude subscription → finished work lands in a review lane. Memory in service of work actually getting done, not just recalled.
• Budget as a first-class citizen. myAI meters the subscription rolling window that actually constrains Claude Code power users, checkpointing sessions before they strand work. No memory vendor touches this.
• Fleet management. One dashboard across all your repos: directory, morning console, health checks. Zep is scoped to the app you point it at.
• Total data locality. myAI runs only on your machine — gateway, dashboard, and database on localhost Docker, your own API key. Zep's flagship is a cloud service holding your extracted knowledge graph (self-hosting Graphiti is possible but is the DIY path, not the product). For memory about your own work and decisions, "never leaves the machine" is myAI's default, not an enterprise tier.
• Versioned, auditable memory. Sessions are branches, wrap-up is a merge; you can diff and revert what your agents remember. Zep's graph evolves in place.

Where Zep is genuinely ahead

• Fact-level sophistication. Zep's temporal graph is a more advanced retrieval engine than myAI's vector + brain combination. If your bottleneck is recall quality over complex, changing facts, Zep wins that comparison.
• App-embedding SDKs and multi-user scoping — building memory into a product is Zep's job, not myAI's.
• Benchmarked at scale for long-horizon conversational memory.

Using both

Same split as with Mem0: Zep inside the product you're building, myAI around the work of building it. Your agent app's memory rides on Zep; your own repos, sessions, and overnight task queue ride on myAI. They never occupy the same layer.

Side by side

Bottom line: choose Zep to make your application remember its users' world. Choose myAI to make your own agents remember you, your repos, and your queue — self-hosted, versioned, and wired into a loop that keeps working while you sleep.

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