Cerebro vs Mem0
Cerebro or Mem0?
Mem0 is excellent at what it is: a developer memory layer you wire into one agent or app, with SDKs, published benchmarks, and a Claude Code plugin that auto-captures as you work. Cerebro solves a different job — one shared brain for a whole team and all of its agents, fed automatically from Slack and GitHub, with a review queue, temporal recall, SSO, and compliance-grade erasure. If you're giving a single agent a memory, reach for Mem0. If a team keeps re-deciding what it already decided, that's Cerebro.
Mem0: an open-source memory layer you add to an agent through a Python/JS SDK or hosted API.
| Cerebro | Mem0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Shape | ▸Shared company brain (humans + agents) across org → workspace → project | Per-agent / per-user memory layer |
| Multi-tenant + row-level security | ▸Postgres RLS; every read scoped by membership | API-key / project scoping |
| Auto-feed from your tools | ▸Slack, GitHub, webhook live; more in dev | You write memories via SDK/API |
| Auto-capture in Claude Code | MCP-native; agents write proactively (lifecycle-hook plugin on the roadmap) | ▸Claude Code plugin with lifecycle auto-capture |
| SDKs | MCP-native (works in any MCP host); no standalone SDK yet | ▸Python + JavaScript SDKs |
| Published benchmarks / latency | Eval infra built; numbers not yet published | ▸Publishes memory benchmarks |
| "What was true when" | ▸Temporal validity + supersede chains, first-class | Add / update / delete memories |
| Review before it's kept | ▸Keeper proposes; you approve/reject (suggest-changes queue) | Programmatic writes |
| Compliance | ▸SSO, immutable audit log, DPDP/GDPR erasure cascade | Platform-level controls |
| Own your data | MIT core; exports to plain markdown (Obsidian-friendly); BYO LLM key | Open-source core available |
| Free tier | 3 seats, memory-capped — shareable | Generous free memory quota |
Comparison reflects each product's public positioning as of mid-2026. Mem0 keeps shipping — if something here is out of date, tell us.
Pick Mem0 if
- You're giving one agent or app a memory through a Python or JS SDK.
- You want the largest ecosystem and published benchmarks today.
- You want auto-capture that already ships as a Claude Code plugin.
- You're building a consumer or per-user memory feature, not a team brain.
Pick Cerebro if
- Your whole team — and its agents — need one shared brain, not per-user memory.
- You want Slack and GitHub to feed the brain automatically, with a review queue for what's kept.
- You need "what was true when" — temporal validity and supersede chains, not just overwrite.
- Compliance is a procurement checkbox: RLS multi-tenancy, SSO, audit log, DPDP/GDPR erasure.
- You want a local-first MIT core your data exports to as plain markdown.
Buyers say demos lie — so run it on your own data.
The MIT core is a one-command install. Point Claude Code or Cursor at Cerebro and watch it recall your first decision in under two minutes.