Harbor vs Mem0

Mem0 remembers your users. Harbor remembers what your team decided.

Mem0 is a memory layer for the agents and apps you build: it remembers what users and agents said and gives it back later. Harbor holds the decisions your team made and serves the ones that apply to the coding agents your engineers run. If your product has to remember its users, that is Mem0. If Claude Code, Cursor and Codex do not know what your team decided, that is Harbor.

Harbor is in early access, and we let teams in by hand. Every line about Mem0 is from its own pages, read on 1 October 2026.

Why teams pick Harbor

Decide what gets in. See what gets used.

Three things Harbor does for the team behind the agents, each beside what Mem0's own pages say about the same job.

You set the gate

Manual, Hybrid or Auto. Whatever you pick, a contradiction waits for a person.

In Mem0Memories are extracted and stored automatically, and everyone on a repo reads and writes one shared pool. The coding plugin documents no review step.

You see what got used

Every rule shows how often it was served and how often an answer cited it.

In Mem0You can see every memory that was added, edited or served.

You block a risky command

Block rules refuse it before it runs, in Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.

In Mem0Not part of the product.

Side by side

Harbor and Mem0, row by row.

HarborMem0
What it isA company brain for a team's coding agents. It learns the rules your team decides and serves the ones that apply to each session.A memory layer for AI agents and apps: an API and SDKs that extract memories from conversations and retrieve them, plus plugins for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
Where the knowledge comes fromSlack, GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Confluence, Jira, Linear, Google Drive and Granola, plus what agent sessions record.What users and agents say. The coding plugin captures prompts, answers, changed files and test results.
Who decides what gets inYou set the gate. Manual holds everything for a person, Hybrid adds routine rules and holds the important ones, Auto adds everything else. A contradiction always waits for a person.Memories are extracted and stored automatically, and everyone on a repo reads and writes one shared pool. The coding plugin documents no review step.
How it reaches the agentHooks add the rules that apply to the session before the agent writes a line. The same rules are on an MCP server, the CLI and /harbor in Slack.Your code calls the API. In a coding agent, the plugin adds up to five memories before the first reply, and the agent can search for more.
When a decision changesWhen a push deletes the file a rule is about, the rule is retired, or flagged if other repos still use it. A newer decision that contradicts a rule waits for a person.Newer facts supersede older ones and duplicates merge, on every plan. Pro adds pattern synthesis.
Seeing what was usedEvery rule shows how often it was served and how often an answer cited it.You can see every memory that was added, edited or served.
Stopping a risky commandBlock rules refuse a command before it runs, in Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, and hand the agent something to run instead.Not part of the product.
AgentsClaude Code, Cursor and Codex.31 integrations, from LangGraph and CrewAI to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode.
Open source and hostingThe CLI, harborloop, is MIT licensed on npm. The service is hosted.The memory library is open source under Apache 2.0 and self-hostable. The coding plugin runs on the hosted platform, with on-prem on Enterprise.
PriceIn early access: join the waitlist and we let teams in by hand. Free costs nothing for your whole team on one source, Pro is $24 per person a month billed yearly or $30 monthly, and Premium is $36, or $45 monthly.A free tier, then $19 and $249 a month by request volume. Enterprise is custom.
Best forEngineering teams who want every coding session to start with what the team decided.Products and agents that have to remember their own users.

Mem0's side comes from its own pages, read on 1 October 2026: mem0.ai · Mem0 pricing · Mem0 integrations · Mem0 docs · Mem0 for coding agents. Out of date? Tell us.

Which one

Pick the one built for your job.

Pick Harbor if

  • The knowledge is your team's: decisions made in Slack threads and PR reviews, not one user's preferences.
  • You want every coding agent to start with the rules that apply, without anyone keeping a CLAUDE.md.
  • You want to choose what waits for a person before it reaches every agent.
  • You want to see, rule by rule, which ones agents were served and which ones they used.
Get early access

Pick Mem0 if

  • You are building an app or agent that has to remember its own users.
  • You want an open-source memory layer you can run yourself.
  • You need SOC 2, HIPAA or an on-prem deployment today.
  • Your agents are built on a framework such as LangGraph or CrewAI rather than a coding agent.
Can I run Harbor and Mem0 together?

They do different jobs. A team can build its product's memory on Mem0 and still run Harbor for the agents that write the code.

Can I start with Harbor today?

Harbor is in early access, and we let teams in by hand: leave an address and the people who build it will write to you. Mem0 can be signed up for today.

Is Harbor open source?

The CLI, harborloop, is MIT licensed on npm. The service is hosted. Mem0: The memory library is open source under Apache 2.0 and self-hostable. The coding plugin runs on the hosted platform, with on-prem on Enterprise.

Where do the claims about Mem0 come from?

From Mem0's own public pages, read on 1 October 2026, which are listed under the table. Products move, so if a line is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

Decide once.
Every agent knows.

Nothing to migrate and nothing to write. Two weeks in, you see which rules your agents were given and which ones they cited. Leave an address and the people who build it will be in touch.

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