MemOS

Memory operating system for LLM agents with hybrid retrieval and persistent memory

What MemOS does

  • Memory operating system for LLM agents with hybrid retrieval and persistent memory
  • Open source and self-hostable, with a cloud option
  • Built for multi-agent and personal assistants
  • Backed by MemTensor, a Shanghai team

MemOS — straight answers

What is MemOS?

MemOS is listed under Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service, in the AI Agents & Automation category on Flocci AI Tools. Memory operating system for LLM agents with hybrid retrieval and persistent memory. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at memos.openmem.net.

Is MemOS free?

MemOS is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 397 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

Can I use MemOS in a browser, or is there an app?

MemOS works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web, an API and self-hosting.

What can MemOS do?

MemOS does 4 things the catalog singles out: Memory operating system for llm agents with hybrid retrieval and persistent memory; open source and self-hostable, with a cloud option; built for multi-agent and personal assistants; backed by memtensor, a shanghai team.

What is the best free alternative to MemOS?

RAGFlow is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service sub-category and is free. Basic Memory, Cognee and Graphiti also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Mem0

Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service
freemium
  • Free Hobby tier: unlimited end users, 10K add / 1K retrieval requests/month
  • Graph memory and entity linking for agent context
  • Open-source core plus managed cloud API

Zep

Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service
freemium
  • Free plan: 10,000 monthly credits, 2 projects, 200ms retrieval
  • Graph RAG with automated context assembly from chat + business data
  • Temporal knowledge graph for tracking how facts change over time

Supermemory

Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service
freemium
  • Free monthly usage allowance plus a Supermemory MCP server
  • Native connectors for Google Drive, Notion, OneDrive as memory sources
  • Deduplication so repeated content isn't rebilled

Letta

Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service
freemium
  • Free BYOK plan supporting up to 3 stateful agents
  • Stateful-agent runtime with persistent memory, desktop app, CLI and API
  • Open-source framework (formerly MemGPT) plus a managed cloud

RAGFlow

Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service
free
  • Open-source RAG engine with deep document parsing and agent workflows
  • Grounded citations and template-based chunking
  • Self-host with Docker; bring your own LLM

LightRAG

Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service
free
  • Simple, fast graph-based RAG from HKU Data Science lab (EMNLP 2025)
  • Combines knowledge-graph and vector retrieval
  • Works with local or hosted LLMs

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