Temporal / graph agent memory

Scores as of 2026-09-14 (43 days old; Depot marks scores stale after 30 days). The pick is still Depot's current editorial pick; it has not been re-reviewed since. Prices below carry their own dates.

Depot Pick

Zep · 7.43/10 for this job (curated estimate, high confidence)

Capability of temporal graph memory over raw vector recall.

Runner-up

Mem0 · 7.58/10

Scores higher than the pick on: Price / performance, Developer & agent DX, Lock-in risk (higher = worse), Maturity / track record.

When not to use the pick

Simple preference/memory snippets — Mem0; pure vector RAG — Qdrant/pgvector.

Lock-in / migration

Runner-up Mem0 has lower stored lock-in risk (5 vs 5.2, 0–10, higher = more lock-in). Pick exit signals: open source (provider tag `oss`).

Sourced price (no comparable unit)

Pick: no sourced price in this job's unit (no_sourced_price).

No cheapest SKU (no_comparable_unit_for_job). No price was invented.

Free option

No free resource lists this job. A cheap paid SKU is not a free option.

Failure modes to watch

• Context overflow: If the input exceeds the window, say so and retrieve a narrower slice. Do not answer from a truncated head as if it were the whole source.
• Stale retrieval: Store the source URL and the time it was fetched. If a newer canonical page exists, or two stored sources disagree, do not answer from the older one.

Reported outcomes (submitted reports only)

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Depot Pick (Zep) on this job: loading… JSON · reports never change scores · seed/test records excluded

Cite: Agent Provider Depot, Depot Pick for temporal-graph-memory: zep, scores as of 2026-09-14. Agents: GET /api/decide?jtbd=temporal-graph-memory