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//01Compare · how Mneme stacks up
Matrix Verdicts Why

Mneme vs
everything else.

Honest comparison against the five tools developers actually reach for when their AI agent asks "where is this used?" — grep/ripgrep, Cody, Sourcegraph, IDE Find References, and Cursor's built-in memory.

5Tools compared
12Capability axes
0Bytes Mneme sends out
100%Local-first by default
//02The feature matrix · 12 axes

Side
by side.

12 features that matter for AI-assisted development. Mneme prioritizes local-first + structural certainty + persistent memory.

FeatureMnemegrep / rgCodySourcegraphCursor
Real symbol resolvercanonicalizes names
✓ 3 langs
text only
partial
✓
basic
Cross-file call graphcallers + deps + tests
✓
no
✓
✓
single file
Persistent memorysurvives sessions
✓
n/a
chat history
no
basic notes
100% local-onlyno outbound on default
✓ 0 bytes
✓
cloud
cloud
cloud
MCP-nativeworks with any MCP host
✓ 49 tools
no
closed
closed
closed
Hot rebuild on editsub-second
✓ <1s
re-scan
cloud sync
cloud sync
✓
Embeddingssemantic search
✓ local BGE
no
cloud
cloud
cloud
Graph visualizationforce, treemap, etc.
✓ 14 views
no
basic
✓
no
Apply-with-rollbackno one-way doors
✓
n/a
cloud-pushed
cloud-pushed
auto-update
Audit + observabilityinternal health
✓ doctor
no
cloud logs
✓
no
Self-hostableon your machine
✓ default
✓
enterprise
enterprise
no
Costat developer scale
free
free
subscription
subscription
subscription
//03Honest verdicts

When to
use what.

No tool wins everything. Here's where each one fits. As of May 2026 — these products update fast; check their docs.

grep / ripgrep

text matcher

The classic. Fastest text-pattern search there is. Doesn't model symbols, references, or call graphs — by design.

When you already know the exact string and pattern matching is the right answer.

Cody

cloud AI

Sourcegraph's AI assistant. Cloud-backed by default with embeddings + LLM. Strong fit for teams already on Sourcegraph and comfortable with cloud-resident code.

When you want a full AI assistant and your security posture allows cloud indexing.

Sourcegraph

enterprise

Full code search platform with org-wide indexing. Strongest for huge monorepos shared across hundreds of devs. Enterprise pricing.

When you're a team of 100+ on a 10-million-line monorepo with org-wide search needs.

IDE Find References

LSP-based

VS Code, JetBrains. Solid within the currently-open workspace. Doesn't survive the session — restart and it forgets everything.

When you're navigating one file at a time inside the IDE.

Cursor memory

embedded

Cursor's built-in memory + rules. Tightly integrated when Cursor is your primary editor. Tied to that editor's runtime rather than exposed as an MCP server.

When Cursor is your editor of choice and in-editor memory is enough.

Mneme

MCP · local

A real code-graph memory layer for AI agents. Local-first, MCP-native, works with any host. Persistent across sessions, structurally aware, never sends your code anywhere.

When you want AI memory that doesn't leak code, doesn't expire, and gives structural answers — not regex luck.
//04Why Mneme

One MCP server.
Every host.

Code Review Graph is a review-focused graph with a VS Code extension. Graphify is a knowledge-graph builder for code plus multimodal content. Tree-sitter is the parser library Mneme uses under the hood. Mneme is the heaviest of the bunch — a Rust supervisor that runs between your AI sessions, survives Claude's context wipes at the architecture level (not the prompt level), enforces your CLAUDE.md rules live, and gives every AI tool you use the same memory. Bigger install. More capabilities.