What is the best alternative to Smara?

The top-rated alternatives to Smara in the Knowledge & Memory category include Moxie Docs MCP, Scrivener MCP, Agentram MCP. These servers offer complementary or alternative capabilities depending on your deployment stack and authentication requirements.

How do Smara alternatives differ in installation and runtime?

Smara and its alternatives vary by runtime requirement (Node.js/npx, Python/uvx, Docker, or remote HTTP/SSE endpoints). Check the specification comparison table above to verify command requirements before installing.

Are alternatives to Smara free and open source?

Most MCP servers listed on AllMCPs are open source tools under MIT or Apache licenses that you can self-host or run locally with Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, or Windsurf.

How do I side-by-side compare Smara with a specific alternative?

Click the "Compare side-by-side →" button on any alternative card to see an in-depth comparison matrix covering feature lists, stars, npm downloads, install configurations, and schema specifications.

Knowledge & Memory• MCP Alternatives Guide

Best Alternatives to Smara

Looking for an alternative to Smara? Whether you need a different runtime environment, custom authentication support, or alternative API integrations in the Knowledge & Memory ecosystem, we have cataloged and compared the top alternative MCP servers below.

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Target Reference Server

Smara Overview

Persistent cross-platform memory for AI agents with Ebbinghaus decay scoring.

Specification Matrix: Smara vs Alternatives

Server Name	Runtime	Auth	Pricing	GitHub Stars	Downloads	Action
S Smara (Target)	npx	Free/None	Free	—	—	Current
Moxie Docs MCP	npx	API key	Freemium	2	25	Compare →
Scrivener MCP	npx	No auth required	Free	49	12	Compare →
Agentram MCP	npx	Free/None	Free	—	—	Compare →
Copilot Memory MCP	Remote (SSE)	Free/None	Free	3	—	Compare →
MCP Memory Graph	uvx	Free/None	Free	—	—	Compare →
Cogmemai MCP	npx	API key	Freemium	7	—	Compare →
Mem0 MCP Selfhosted	uvx	Other	Free	107	—	Compare →
Mirror Memory MCP Server	Remote (SSE)	Free/None	Free	—	—	Compare →
MarsNMe	npx	Free/None	Free	7	—	Compare →
Hindsight	npx	API key	Free	22,770	—	Compare →
Codebase Memory MCP	npx	No auth required	Free	42,594	1	Compare →
Basic Memory	npx	No auth required	Freemium	3,857	—	Compare →

Detailed Evaluation of Smara Alternatives

Moxie Docs MCP

Runtime: npx

★ Featured

Provides repository-aware documentation context, convention checks, API context, and proposed documentation updates through MCP.

Key Features:

Repository-aware AI context

Convention discovery with citations

Documentation impact analysis

21 25 2

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Scrivener MCP

Runtime: npx

Connects Scrivener 3 projects to AI clients for editing, analysis, search, and writing support.

Key Features:

Scrivener 3 document access and editing

Deterministic writing analysis

Keyword and offline semantic search

16 12 49

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Agentram MCP

Runtime: npx

Provides persistent key-value memory storage with shared namespaces and TTL via HTTP API for AI agents without embeddings.

Key Features:

Personal memory storage with agent ID and key

Shared namespaces for multi-agent memory collaboration

Text-based search across keys and values without embeddings

1 0

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Copilot Memory MCP

Runtime: Remote (SSE)

Persistent semantic memory for AI agents using local ChromaDB vector search. No cloud required.

0 0 3

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MCP Memory Graph

Runtime: uvx

Authority-weighted memory graph for AI agents with conflict detection and semantic search.

0 0

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Cogmemai MCP

Runtime: npx

Persistent AI memory system with semantic search, autonomous extraction, project scoping, and quantum-safe encryption.

Key Features:

Semantic natural language memory search and recall

Autonomous memory capture without AI prompt dependency

Quantum-safe encryption of all stored memories

1 0 7

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Mem0 MCP Selfhosted

Runtime: uvx

Self-hosted memory MCP server using Qdrant, Neo4j, Ollama, and optional Anthropic models for persistent agent context.

Key Features:

Qdrant-backed semantic memory search

Optional Neo4j entity relationships

Ollama bge-m3 embeddings

3 0 107

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Mirror Memory MCP Server

Runtime: Remote (SSE)

Personal knowledge base MCP server with semantic search, auto-categorization, metadata extraction

2 0

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MarsNMe

Runtime: npx

Agent-agnostic memory backend that preserves continuity between humans and AI over time.

1 0 7

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Hindsight

Runtime: npx

Stores, searches, and synthesizes long-term agent memory through retain, recall, and reflect operations.

Key Features:

Long-term agent memory

Retain, recall, and reflect operations

Named memory banks

3 0 22,770

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Codebase Memory MCP

Runtime: npx

Indexes repositories into a local code graph for structural search, call tracing, impact analysis, and architecture exploration.

Key Features:

Persistent local code knowledge graph

Tree-sitter parsing for 162 languages

Hybrid LSP semantic resolution

7 1 42,594

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Basic Memory

Runtime: npx

Local-first AI memory server storing knowledge as Markdown files with semantic search and optional cloud sync.

Key Features:

Local-first plain text Markdown storage

Two-way human and AI file editing

Semantic knowledge graph with wikilinks

2 0 3,857

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Best Alternatives to Smara

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