basicmachines-co/basic-memory

Claude, Codex, or Cursor connected in 30 seconds. No Python, no JSON, no
terminal. **$15.00/mo locked in for life** (12.50/mo yearly pricing). 7-day free
trial — cancel any time before day 7 if it's not for you. Beta pricing —
sign up now and your rate never goes up. OSS users: code BMFOSS takes
another 20% off for 3 months.
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Basic Memory Teams is now available!
Give your team a single, shared cloud workspace. Knowledge isn't confined to one person — anything a teammate writes is immediately available to everyone else and to their AI assistants.
Edit a note together in real time, hand work off between humans and agents, and build one connected knowledge base instead of scattered copies. Same pricing - start with one user and add more as needed.
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Basic Memory
Your AI never forgets again.
Pick up right where you left off — in Claude, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT, or
anything that speaks MCP. Your knowledge
lives as Markdown files that both you and your AI can read, write, and
search.
- **Local-first.** Plain text on your disk. Forever.
- **Two-way.** AI and humans write to the same files; sync keeps them in step.
- **A real knowledge graph.** Observations and wikilinks compound into context.
- **Semantic search.** Find notes by meaning, not just keywords, with optional
cross-encoder reranking for higher-quality vector and hybrid results.
- **MCP-native.** Works with every major AI client and IDE.
- **Progressive tool discovery.** Every tool is tagged with behavior hints
(read-only, destructive, idempotent) so agents pick the right tool on
demand — no wasted context trying things to see what they do.
- **Cloud, optional.** Sync across devices when you want — never required.
Get started
Pick the path that fits you. Both run the same product on the same Markdown.
☁️   Cloud
💻   Local install
**30 seconds.** Sign up, connect your AI client, done.
- Works in any browser
- Mobile, web, desktop
- Cross-device sync built in
- We handle hosting, backups, snapshots
**$15.00/mo locked for life** · 7-day free trial · cancel any time
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**2 minutes.** Install, configure your AI client, run.
- Free forever (AGPL-3.0)
- All data on your disk
- Air-gapped friendly
- Requires Python via uv
--prerelease=allow is required: Basic Memory 0.23 depends on a FastMCP 4
pre-release, and uv only accepts pre-releases of transitive dependencies when
told to — without the flag it silently installs an older release. The same flag
goes on every uvx / uv tool upgrade command below.
For Postgres deployments that store semantic vectors in Milvus, install the
first-party optional extra instead:
**Configure your client ↓**
What people are saying
> Basic Memory changed my whole relationship with LLMs. I switched from GPT
> and Gemini to exclusively Claude and Claude Code because of this
> integration and am completely revamping all our company's processes around
> a Basic Memory workflow.
>
> — **Alex**, TrainerDay
> Basic Memory is the missing 'wow' factor in AI chatbots. Now I can't
> imagine Claude or Claude Code without it.
>
> — **Caleb**, Caleb Picker Consulting
> I don't code without Basic Memory anymore. It's such a time saver to be
> able to refer to projects I don't currently have active and keep a running
> log of all my learnings and ProTips.
>
> — **@groksrc**, Developer
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Basic Memory Cloud
The hosted version of Basic Memory. Same product, same Markdown files, same
MCP tools — we just host the database, run the sync, and put it on your
phone.
What you get
- **Every device, same brain.** Your knowledge graph on web, mobile, and
desktop. No copy-paste between machines.
- **Connect any MCP client.** Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor,
ChatGPT (Custom GPTs), VS Code — one-click connect from the web app.
- **Bidirectional sync to local.** Edit on your phone, see it in Obsidian on
your laptop. rclone-powered with conflict resolution.
- **Snapshots and backups.** Point-in-time restore. Browse history. Never
lose a note.
- **No lock-in.** Your notes are plain Markdown. Export to local Markdown any
time — same files, same format, same wikilinks. Cancel anytime, your data