cachly vs Supermemory: memory for your coding agent
Both give an AI assistant a memory that lasts beyond one session. Supermemory is a general memory and context engine: it learns facts about people from conversations and documents, and products build on its API. cachly is made for coding agents: it keeps the lessons from fixes and decisions in your codebase.
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At a glance
| Aspect | cachly | Supermemory | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | cachlyExperience for coding agents. Your assistant stores a lesson after a fix and finds it again when the same problem returns. | SupermemoryA memory and context engine for AI. It extracts facts from conversations, keeps user profiles, and searches memories and documents in one query. | Sources |
| Built for | cachlyDevelopers who work with coding assistants. | SupermemoryTwo groups: people who use AI tools, and teams who build AI products on its API, with SDKs for TypeScript and Python. | Sources |
| What gets stored | cachlyA lesson: topic, what worked, what failed, context, files and commands. Your assistant writes it, the Stop hook records reported fixes, and git history adds more. | SupermemoryFacts from conversations, user profiles and documents: PDFs, images, video and code. Connectors sync Google Drive, Gmail, Notion, OneDrive and GitHub. | Sources |
| Coding tools | cachlyClaude Code as a plugin. Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code with GitHub Copilot, Cline, Continue.dev and Zed over MCP. A JetBrains plugin. | SupermemoryPlugins for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes and Muse Code. The MCP server works in Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Claude Code and others. | Sources |
| Claude Code hooks | cachlySessionStart, UserPromptSubmit and Stop. | SupermemorySessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, PreToolUse and Stop. | Sources |
| MCP server | cachlyAn MCP server on your machine. The editor lists 27 tools; 124 in total through one dispatcher tool. | SupermemoryA hosted server at mcp.supermemory.ai with OAuth sign-in. Tools to search, save and forget memories, read the profile, and browse documents and spaces. | Sources |
| Where data lives | cachlyHosted by cachly: one instance per brain at Hetzner in Nuremberg, Germany. By default, cachly computes embeddings in the EU. The API runs behind Cloudflare, a US company. | SupermemoryThe hosted platform is described as globally distributed. For data residency, Enterprise offers dedicated deployments. | Sources |
| Run it yourself | cachlyHosted service. The MCP server and the hooks run on your machine and talk to your instance. | SupermemorySupermemory local: one binary, free within its lite license limit, also offline with a local model. Self-hosted deployments come with the Scale and Enterprise plans. The MCP server is part of the platform. | Sources |
| License | cachlyMCP server and hooks: Apache-2.0. The hosted service is closed source. | SupermemoryPublic repository: MIT. The self-hosted server binary is built from a separate, non-public codebase. | Sources |
| Pricing | cachlyFree €0: one brain, 25 MB, 500 recalls a month. Dev €19, Pro €49, Business €199 a month. Team: €49 a month for 5 seats. | SupermemoryFree $0 with $5 of credits a month. Pro $19, Max $100, Scale $399 a month. Every call draws from the credit balance. | Sources |
| Community | cachlycachly-mcp: public repository since April 2026. | SupermemoryPublic repository since February 2024, with a large open-source community. | Sources |
As of . Every statement about Supermemory comes from the linked source, read on that day. Products change; if you spot something outdated, write to [email protected].
When to pick Supermemory
- You build an AI product and want memory, retrieval, user profiles and connectors behind one API.
- Your memory should draw on more than code: Google Drive, Gmail, Notion, OneDrive, PDFs, images and video.
- You want to run memory on your own machine with a model of your choice, offline with Ollama if you like.
- You want a project with a large community that has been public since February 2024.
- You want published benchmark results. Supermemory reports results on LongMemEval, LoCoMo and ConvoMem in its README.
When to pick cachly
- You want lessons from coding work: what fixed a bug, what failed on the way, which files and commands mattered.
- Your data should be stored in Germany, with embeddings computed in the EU.
- You prefer a fixed monthly price per tier to a credit balance.
- You want to try it before you create an account.
- Your team should share lessons in one place.
Try cachly
In Claude Code, cachly comes as a plugin with three hooks. Try it without an account: the first tool call creates a test brain on EU servers. The commands are in Hooks that carry experience.
For Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and other editors, MCP integration shows the one-command setup. What leaves your machine, and where it lands: EU hosting and your data.
Sources
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