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Cognee

Cognee

Agentic Memory cognee.ai

Where it ranks

How Cognee compares with every other measured tool.

Time to ready
22.4s
#6 of hosted providers
Agentic Memory Index score
97.1
#1 of hosted providers (tied)
Recall speed, median
9.8s
#9 of hosted providers
Store speed, median
1.4s
#6 of hosted providers
Answer latency, median
23.9s
#9 of hosted providers
Cost / 1,000 questions
$256.25
#5 of hosted providers

Best ranks

1st · Fastest Onboarding
7.5 min
Tied 1st · 2 tools · Agentic Memory Index
97.1
Tied 1st · 2 tools · Fewest Failures
2.7%

Worst ranks

1st worst · Answer speed
23.9s

Agentic Memory Indexi

Methodology
$200$225$250$275$300$450$475$500 708090100 Verging Labs Cost / 1,000 questions (USD) Agentic Memory Index Cognee
$200$225$250$275$300$450$475$500 708090100 Verging Labs Cost / 1,000 questions (USD) Agentic Memory Index

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Agentic Memory Index v0.2 · Sep 2026

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Accuracy

How often Cognee finds the right answer, and how long the facts it stores survive.

Agentic Memory Index

v0.2
97.1
CI 93.1–98.8
Rank 1 of 12
Direct Recall
100%
Synthesis
85%
Updated Facts
100%
Time Relationships
100%
False Memory Check
100%
Preferences
100%
Conflicting Facts
92%
Erasure
100%
Long Term
98%
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Correct answers by task typei

Pass rate per task type against the field average.

255075100 Direct Recall100%Synthesis85%Updated Facts100%Time Relationships100%False Memory Check100%Preferences100%Conflicting Facts92%Erasure100%Long Term98%
CogneeAverage of 12 measured tools

Long-term retentioni

How well early facts survive: probed at five checkpoints across 56 working sessions.

60%70%80%90%100% 1021334556working sessions elapsed
60%70%80%90%100% 1021334556working sessions elapsed

Failures

How Cognee fails when it does, and which task types trip it.

Failure Attributioni

4 failures among 150 graded cases, by class.

4 failures
Question Not Addressed 2 (50%)Incorrect Answer 1 (25%)Fabricated Memory 1 (25%)

Failures by task typei

Failures per task type and class.

Task type · casesQuestion Not AddressedIncorrect AnswerOutdated AnswerFabricated MemoryLeaked Deleted DataNot ErasedFailed
Direct Recall · 13
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Synthesis · 13
0
1
0
1
0
0
2
Updated Facts · 13
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Time Relationships · 13
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
False Memory Check · 10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Preferences · 10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Conflicting Facts · 12
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
Erasure · 16
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Long Term · 50
1
0
0
0
0
0
1

Speed

How long Cognee takes to set up, get ready, store, and answer.

Answer speedi

How long an answer takes end to end, across 29 sessions.

02.557.51012.5 110–151215–20320–251025–30130–35235–40median 23.9s Answer time per question (seconds) Sessions

Speed

Onboard
7.5 min
Time to ready
22.4s
Time to store
1.4s
Answer speed
23.9s

Cost and pricing

What Cognee costs to run per 1,000 questions, and what it charges.

Storage and answering costi

Cost / 1,000 questions, by session kind.

$256.25 per 1,000 questions
Storage $228.59Answering $27.66

Cost

Cost / 1,000 questions
$256.25
Storage
$228.59
Answering
$27.66

Pricing

Free tier
1M tokens
Starting at
Pay as you go
Open source
Yes
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