Does mem0 use paid AI services?

Can use OpenAI. Its settings have keys for this paid API. Its README says whether one is required.

Is mem0 still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change 3 days ago. Latest release v2.2.1, 2 months ago.

Widely used. 69k stars, 3 years old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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mem0ai/mem0

The Memory Layer for AI Agents - Drop-in memory infrastructure for AI agents and apps. Context that persists. Built for production.

Python#agentic-memory#agentic-memory-system#agents#ai

Difficulty: Involved
Time: 30 min or more
Stars: ★ 68,665
Activity: Updated this month

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (Apache-2.0).
Paid AI services?: Can use OpenAIIts settings have keys for this paid API. Its README says whether one is required.
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change 3 days ago. Latest release v2.2.1, 2 months ago.
Can I trust it?: Widely used69k stars, 3 years old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Saved setup from 11 h ago

Will it work on macOS?

Yes, it installs on your macOS

The README gives a pip install for macOS.

Your system

macOS Windows Linux

Start here

Website ↗mem0.aiThe project's own site.

Also: Docs ↗

Heads-upBuilding it yourself? It also needs PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis and 20 settings in .env (5 secret).

Install with a package manager

pip

pip install mem0ai

pip

pip install mem0ai[nlp]

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Use it in your own project

This is a library: you add it to your code rather than opening an app.

Add to your JS project

npm install mem0ai

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Did you get it running?

No reports for macOS yet.

Still stuck? Ask an AI

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Parts list

1×Python >=3.10,<4.0runtime
1×Docker tool
1×make tool
1×Node.js tool
1×poetry package manager
1×PostgreSQL service
1×MongoDB service
1×MySQL service
1×Redis service

20× settings in .env

NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL
API_INTERNAL_URL
NEXT_PUBLIC_INSTANCE_NAME
OPENAI_API_KEYsecret
POSTGRES_HOST
POSTGRES_PORT
POSTGRES_DB
POSTGRES_USER
POSTGRES_PASSWORDsecret
POSTGRES_COLLECTION_NAME
ADMIN_API_KEYsecret
JWT_SECRETsecret
AUTH_DISABLED
DASHBOARD_URL
APP_DB_NAME
MEM0_DEFAULT_LLM_MODEL
MEM0_DEFAULT_EMBEDDER_MODEL
MEM0_TELEMETRY
REQUEST_LOG_RETENTION_DAYS
MEM0_API_KEYsecret

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Good to know

Makefile has a make install target — it may automate most of these steps.
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: cli/node/package.json, cli/python/pyproject.toml, examples/mem0-demo/package.json, examples/multimodal-demo/package.json and 11 more

Details

License: Apache-2.0
Open issues: 929
Branch: main

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.github/workflows/cli-node-ci.yml

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CONTRIBUTING.md

Makefile

README.md

examples/mem0-demo/.env.example

pyproject.toml

server/.env.example

server/dashboard/.env.example

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