RelayMemory infrastructure vs a team product
Zep, Supermemory, and Cognee are powerful memory infrastructure — SDKs and APIs a developer wires into an agent. Relay is the turnkey layer on top: switch it on, and the decisions one teammate makes in Claude are shared with the whole team by default — role-scoped, across Claude.ai and Claude Code.
| Capability | Relay | Zep | Supermemory | Cognee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnkey team product | ✓Turn it on | ✕Developer SDK / API | ✕Developer memory API | ~Cloud, but SDK-centric |
| Shared by default across the team | ✓Every teammate, instantly | ~Per-user; group graphs optional | ~Spaces shareable, not default | ~Workspaces, tenant-isolated |
| Built for both Claude.ai + Claude Code | ✓Both surfaces | ~Claude Desktop via MCP | ~Via MCP in Desktop/Code | ✕Claude Code / IDEs only |
| Auto-captures team knowledge | ✓Proactive on decisions | ✓Builds graph from messages | ~Extracts facts, not decisions | ✓Plugin hooks capture |
| MCP-native | ✓ | ~Experimental Graphiti MCP | ✓Hosted OAuth server | ✓First-party server |
| Self-host option | ✓ | ~Graphiti only | ✓Scale + Enterprise | ✓Fully open-source |
| Flat, predictable pricing | ✓Flat per team | ✕Credit-based, byte-metered | ✕Plan fee + usage | ✕Per-workspace + per-token |
| Pricing | $99/moteam up to 20, flat | $104+/mo (credits) | $19+/mo + usage | $5/workspace + tokens |
✓ native · ~ partial / indirect · ✕ not offered. Competitor capabilities and pricing verified from public docs, June 2026 — check their sites for current terms.
How Relay compares, one by one
Relay vs Zep
www.getzep.com ↗Developer infrastructure (SDK/API plus open-source Graphiti) that gives AI agents a temporal-knowledge-graph memory, keyed per end-user.
Why Relay: Zep is per-user agent memory you build with. Relay is a team workspace — shared by default, role-scoped, and switched on without writing code.
Relay vs Supermemory
supermemory.ai ↗A developer-focused memory/context API for AI agents (plus a consumer “Nova” app), with memory organized via container-tag “spaces” and scoped API keys.
Why Relay: Supermemory hands developers spaces and API keys to wire up. Relay gives a team a role-scoped workspace, shared by default, at one flat price.
Relay vs Cognee
www.cognee.ai ↗An open-source agent-memory engine (graph + vector + relational) with a hosted Cloud and a first-party MCP server — a memory layer agents read and write.
Why Relay: Cognee is a self-hostable engine for agents in IDEs, with no Claude.ai surface. Relay is a turnkey team workspace across both Claude.ai and Claude Code.
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