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Verified integrations

Connections to other tracked products — hover a chip for the verbatim evidence quote behind it.

By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme

Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →

How well agents can access and operate the product

53.6/100

Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →

How much of the product can run unattended

22.5/100

Data lifecycle — stories about data lifecycle in this arenaData lifecycleevidence →

Stories about data lifecycle in this arena

10.0/100

Deployment self host — stories about deployment self host in this arenaDeployment self hostevidence →

Stories about deployment self host in this arena

36.0/100

Graph entity memory — stories about graph entity memory in this arenaGraph entity memoryevidence →

Stories about graph entity memory in this arena

0.0/100

Memory recall quality — stories about memory recall quality in this arenaMemory recall qualityevidence →

Stories about memory recall quality in this arena

44.9/100

Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →

Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories

46.2/100

Pricing plans — plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocksPricing plansevidence →

Plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocks

30.0/100

Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →

Data-handling and privacy stories

12.0/100

Retrieval performance — stories about retrieval performance in this arenaRetrieval performanceevidence →

Stories about retrieval performance in this arena

0.0/100

Sdk integrations — stories about sdk integrations in this arenaSdk integrationsevidence →

Stories about sdk integrations in this arena

8.6/100

Session context — stories about session context in this arenaSession contextevidence →

Stories about session context in this arena

37.5/100

Tenancy permissions — stories about tenancy permissions in this arenaTenancy permissionsevidence →

Stories about tenancy permissions in this arena

32.7/100

Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts

What’s free: 8 free · 0 paid · 0 enterprise · 27 not stated in evidence

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Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 57/57 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full8/10X

Drive the product through a documented public API G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full8/10T

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full8/10X

Connect an agent via an official MCP server G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/a0/10

Build against official SDKs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10C

Operate the product with natural-language commands G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10X

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10C

Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10X

Use an official CLI G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial6/10X

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial4/10C

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Subscribe to events via webhooks G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness1partial4/10C

Get summaries of past sessions or threads so an agent can pick up where the last conversation left off C

Context assembly

developerSession context — stories about session context in this arenaSession context3full8/10X

My agent can manage its own memory mid-conversation — adding, searching, updating, and deleting memories through tools or API calls it invokes itself C

Agent memory

ai-native userMemory recall quality — stories about memory recall quality in this arenaMemory recall quality3full8/10X

Self-host the core product G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3fullfree8/10C

Add memories from conversations and retrieve them later with semantic search, so context persists across sessions C

Core memory

developerMemory recall quality — stories about memory recall quality in this arenaMemory recall quality3partial6/10X

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth3partial6/10C

Self-host the memory layer from open-source code (e.g. via Docker) on infrastructure I control C

Self host

platform-engineerDeployment self host — stories about deployment self host in this arenaDeployment self host3partialfree6/10T

Export all of my data in open formats and leave G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3partialfree5/10X

Scope memories per user, agent, or application so one tenant's memories never leak into another's retrieval C

Isolation

developerTenancy permissions — stories about tenancy permissions in this arenaTenancy permissions3partial5/10C

Store memories as a knowledge graph of entities and relationships so multi-hop and entity-centric questions are answerable C

Knowledge graph

ml-engineerGraph entity memory — stories about graph entity memory in this arenaGraph entity memory3none0/10

Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture3nonefreeuntestednone yet

The memory layer decides for itself what is worth remembering — extracting salient facts from raw conversation and consolidating them in the background C

Agent memory

ai-native userMemory recall quality — stories about memory recall quality in this arenaMemory recall quality2full8/10X

Read the product's source under an open license G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2partialfree6/10T

Rely on the memory layer to update, supersede, or merge memories when new information contradicts what was stored C

Core memory

developerMemory recall quality — stories about memory recall quality in this arenaMemory recall quality2partial6/10X

Build against official SDKs in at least Python and TypeScript with equivalent memory APIs C

Sdks

developerSdk integrations — stories about sdk integrations in this arenaSdk integrations2partial5/10C

Control data retention and deletion G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2partialfree5/10C

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2partial5/10T

Export memories in a machine-readable format so the memory store is portable and not a lock-in trap C

Portability

platform-engineerData lifecycle — stories about data lifecycle in this arenaData lifecycle2partialfree5/10C

Ingest documents, JSON, and business data into memory — not just chat transcripts C

Ingestion

developerSession context — stories about session context in this arenaSession context2partial5/10C

See published pricing with a free tier and per-unit rates so I can project memory costs before committing G

Pricing

platform-engineerPricing plans — plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocksPricing plans2partial5/10C

Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2partialfree4/10C

Perform bulk operations across many items at once G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2partial4/10C

Steer retrieval with metadata filters, keyword/hybrid search modes, or reranking instead of accepting a single fixed similarity search C

Retrieval controls

developerMemory recall quality — stories about memory recall quality in this arenaMemory recall quality2partial4/10C

Govern who and what can read or write memory with roles, policies, or access-control lists, and audit that access C

Governance

platform-engineerTenancy permissions — stories about tenancy permissions in this arenaTenancy permissions2partial3/10C

Connect off-the-shelf assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to the same memory so every tool I use shares what it knows about me C

Agent memory

ai-native userSdk integrations — stories about sdk integrations in this arenaSdk integrations2none0/10

Delete a user's memories on demand — single memory, per-entity, or full erasure — to satisfy privacy requirements C

Forgetting

platform-engineerData lifecycle — stories about data lifecycle in this arenaData lifecycle2none0/10

Make memories expire or decay — via TTL, expiration dates, or recency weighting — so stale facts stop surfacing C

Forgetting

developerData lifecycle — stories about data lifecycle in this arenaData lifecycle2none0/10

Retrieve a token-budgeted, prompt-ready context block assembled from relevant memories in one call C

Context assembly

developerSession context — stories about session context in this arenaSession context2none0/10

See published memory-quality benchmark results (e.g. LongMemEval, LoCoMo) backing the product's recall-accuracy claims C

Benchmarks

ml-engineerMemory recall quality — stories about memory recall quality in this arenaMemory recall quality2none0/10

Drop the memory layer into agent frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or the Vercel AI SDK via documented first-party integrations C

Frameworks

developerSdk integrations — stories about sdk integrations in this arenaSdk integrations2noneuntestednone yet

Ingest at scale with async or batch processing and check the status of background memory operations C

Scale

platform-engineerRetrieval performance — stories about retrieval performance in this arenaRetrieval performance2noneuntestednone yet

Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2noneuntestednone yet

See documented retrieval-latency targets or measured numbers (e.g. p50/p95) backing the product's speed claims C

Latency

platform-engineerRetrieval performance — stories about retrieval performance in this arenaRetrieval performance2noneuntestednone yet

Track when facts became valid or invalid (temporal reasoning) so the memory distinguishes current from outdated information C

Knowledge graph

ml-engineerGraph entity memory — stories about graph entity memory in this arenaGraph entity memory2noneuntestednone yet

Share selected memory across multiple agents or users (team or group memory) while keeping private memory private C

Sharing

developerTenancy permissions — stories about tenancy permissions in this arenaTenancy permissions1full7/10C

Run the memory layer fully locally — embedded in-process or against local models — without any cloud dependency C

Self host

developerDeployment self host — stories about deployment self host in this arenaDeployment self host1partial6/10C

Version, review, and roll back my automations G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth1partial4/10C

Customize the memory schema — entity types, edge types, or ontology — to match my domain C

Schema customization

ml-engineerGraph entity memory — stories about graph entity memory in this arenaGraph entity memory1none0/10

Store images, PDFs, or other files as memory inputs and recall information from them later C

Ingestion

developerSession context — stories about session context in this arenaSession context1none0/10

Wire memory into real-time voice pipelines (e.g. LiveKit, Pipecat, ElevenLabs) with documented integrations fast enough for live conversation C

Frameworks

developerSdk integrations — stories about sdk integrations in this arenaSdk integrations1none0/10

Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 42 stories with headroom

What would move Letta’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.

  1. Graph entity memory — stories about graph entity memory in this arenaStore memories as a knowledge graph of entities and relationships so multi-hop and entity-centric questions are answerable

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Letta's documented memory system is file/text-based (MemFS, memory blocks) with optional keyword/semantic/hybrid search (letta-docs-28, letta-docs-41), not a graph of entities and relationships; a Letta employee explicitly frames its approach as 'primarily text/files based' as an alternative to structured memory graphs (letta-comm-10).

  2. Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrevent my data from being used to train AI models

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    No evidence pack item addresses data-training opt-out, a training-data policy, or any privacy controls preventing use of user data for model training; self-hosting is mentioned but not tied to a training-data guarantee.

  3. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productSubscribe to events via webhooks

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    The evidence pack covers agent SDK streaming, subagents, mods, scheduled tasks, and Slack/GitHub integrations, but there is no mention of a webhook subscription mechanism for events (e.g., agent state changes, task completion) that external systems could subscribe to.

  4. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productExplore an interactive API reference with runnable examples

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    The evidence pack shows extensive SDK documentation (agent-sdk pages) but no interactive API reference or runnable-example explorer; a direct probe for OpenAPI/Swagger endpoints returned 404 on all candidate paths, indicating no such interactive reference exists.

  5. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDownload a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    Direct probes for OpenAPI/Swagger specs at all standard paths (docs.letta.com/openapi.json, swagger.json, api/openapi.json, .well-known/openapi.json) returned 404, and no documentation elsewhere in the evidence pack references a downloadable machine-readable API spec.

  6. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productRely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    No evidence anywhere in the pack of API versioning schemes or a documented deprecation policy; the openapi.json probe even 404s, indicating no discoverable API spec that would carry version/deprecation info.

  7. Sdk integrations — stories about sdk integrations in this arenaConnect off-the-shelf assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to the same memory so every tool I use shares what it knows about me

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 20

    Evidence shows Letta integrating with Codex, Claude Code, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw for skills (docs-57), and offering an OpenAI-compatible API for tools like Open WebUI plus an ACP adapter for Zed (docs-23), but nothing shows Letta connecting to or sharing memory with off-the-shelf Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor specifically.

  8. Retrieval performance — stories about retrieval performance in this arenaIngest at scale with async or batch processing and check the status of background memory operations

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 20

    Letta's docs describe per-agent memory consolidation ('dreaming' background subagents, triggers on steps/compaction) but there is no evidence of a bulk/batch ingestion pipeline for scale data loading nor any API/CLI to check the status of background memory jobs, which is what this platform-engineer story requires.

Showing the top 8 of 42 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.

Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.

Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map11 surfaces · 36 covered stories

Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.

Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs

Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.

$npx -y @letta-ai/letta-code --versionreproduced
$ npx -y @letta-ai/letta-code --version
\|/-0.31.12 (Letta Code)
\
proves: Use an official CLIrecorded 2026-09-05
$npx -y @letta-ai/letta-code server --backend local --listen ws://127.0.0.1:4500 # keyless boot, then killreproduced
$ npx -y @letta-ai/letta-code server --backend local --listen ws://127.0.0.1:4500  # [redacted]less boot, then kill
Listening on ws://127.0.0.1:4500
WebSocket: ws://127.0.0.1:4500/ws

Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence

4 of 13 testable claims verified · 0 contradictedintegrity 31/100

24 distinct capability claims found in Letta’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.

4

Verified

9

Unverified

0

Contradicted

23

Undersold

Verified (5)
Unverified (10)
Undersold (23)
Claims outside our story set (9)

Real capability claims found in Letta’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.

  • /fork command branches the current conversation, including its in-context history, without altering the original

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  • Users can explicitly teach the agent persistent instructions via a /remember command

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  • Signing in backs up agents to the cloud, making them available via chat.letta.com, desktop app, remote machines, and messaging integrations

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  • /doctor command audits the memory hierarchy for drift, duplication, and system-prompt token usage

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  • --ephemeral flag runs a one-shot task without creating or persisting any agent, memory, or filesystem state

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  • /agents command lets you browse and switch between agents, with pinning/favoriting support

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  • /btw command forks the conversation in the background to answer a side question without interrupting the main task

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  • Connecting your own machine via an environment picker gives the agent access to local files and tools

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  • GitHub organizations can be synced into Letta via an Integrations page

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Business model

open-sourcefree-tierusage-basedenterprise-custom

Apache-2.0 open-source framework and self-hostable App Server; Letta Cloud adds a free tier then usage/credit-based paid plans and custom enterprise contracts.

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Score trend

How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.

PA Score38 (Sep 5 '26)43 (Sep 16 '26)
Agent-ready51 (Sep 5 '26)65 (Sep 16 '26)

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Agent surface uptime llms.txt 100% (30d, checked every 6h since Sep 8 '26)