Memctl pricing guide details
Pricing Overview
Memctl offers a six-tier pricing structure designed to scale from solo developers to large enterprises. The product follows a freemium model with a permanently free tier and paid plans starting at $5/month. All plans include GitHub integration, MCP protocol support, and encryption at rest. The primary scaling dimensions are the number of projects, team seats, and memories per project.
Memctl is currently in public beta (v0.1.0), and all API calls are unlimited across every tier. The paid plans add additional seats at a flat rate of $8/month per extra seat beyond the included allotment.
Plan Comparison
| Plan | Monthly Price | Projects | Seats Included | Memories/Project | Extra Seat Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 3 | 1 | 400 | N/A |
| Lite | $5 | 10 | 3 | 1,200 | $8/mo per seat |
| Pro | $18 | 25 | 10 | 5,000 | $8/mo per seat |
| Business | $59 | 100 | 30 | 10,000 | $8/mo per seat |
| Scale | $149 | 150 | 100 | 25,000 | $8/mo per seat |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Custom |
Free is limited to a single seat and three projects with 400 memories per project. This works well for individual developers experimenting with AI agent memory on personal or side projects.
Lite at $5/month unlocks 10 projects and 3 seats, tripling the memory capacity to 1,200 per project. The jump from Free to Lite is the most cost-effective upgrade for developers who work across multiple repositories.
Pro at $18/month is positioned as the sweet spot for growing teams. It includes 10 seats, 25 projects, and 5,000 memories per project. At $1.80 per included seat, Pro delivers strong per-seat value before additional seats are needed.
Business at $59/month targets scaling organizations with 30 included seats, 100 projects, and 10,000 memories per project. It also adds org-level policies and SSO, which are critical for teams with compliance requirements.
Scale at $149/month provides 100 included seats, 150 projects, 25,000 memories per project, plus audit logs and priority support on top of all Business features.
Enterprise uses custom pricing with unlimited projects, seats, memories, SSO/SAML, audit logs, a 99.9% SLA, and dedicated support.
Hidden Costs and Considerations
Extra seat charges add up quickly. Every paid plan charges $8/month per additional seat beyond the included count. A Pro team of 20 developers would pay $18 base plus $80 for 10 extra seats, totaling $98/month. This makes seat count the single largest variable in Memctl's pricing.
Memory limits can force tier upgrades. The 400-memory cap on Free and 1,200-memory cap on Lite can be reached quickly on sizable codebases. Memctl extracts architectural patterns, conventions, and dependencies automatically, so a repository with hundreds of files can consume the memory budget faster than expected.
Self-hosting is available but not priced separately. Memctl's core is open source under Apache-2.0, meaning teams can self-host the MCP server and CLI. The cloud platform adds team management, hosted indexing, and enterprise features. Teams choosing self-hosting trade operational overhead for zero licensing costs, though they lose the managed indexing pipeline and dashboard.
No per-API-call charges. All plans include unlimited API calls, removing a common unpredictability factor in developer tooling pricing. This means costs are entirely determined by plan tier and seat count.
No annual discount is publicly listed. The pricing page only shows monthly billing, so there is no documented savings for annual commitments at this time.
Cost Estimates by Team Size
| Team Size | Recommended Plan | Base Cost | Extra Seats | Total Monthly Cost | Per-User Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 developer | Free | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| 3 developers | Lite | $5 | $0 | $5 | $1.67 |
| 5 developers | Lite | $5 | $16 (2 extra) | $21 | $4.20 |
| 10 developers | Pro | $18 | $0 | $18 | $1.80 |
| 15 developers | Pro | $18 | $40 (5 extra) | $58 | $3.87 |
| 30 developers | Business | $59 | $0 | $59 | $1.97 |
| 50 developers | Business | $59 | $160 (20 extra) | $219 | $4.38 |
| 100 developers | Scale | $149 | $0 | $149 | $1.49 |
| 150 developers | Scale | $149 | $400 (50 extra) | $549 | $3.66 |
The per-user cost is lowest when team size exactly matches the included seat count. For a 10-person team, Pro delivers the best value at $1.80 per user. For 100 developers, Scale at $1.49 per user is the most economical option.
How Memctl Pricing Compares
Memctl occupies a unique niche as an AI coding agent memory server, making direct comparisons difficult. However, several developer tools in the same category provide useful reference points.
| Tool | Free Tier | Starting Paid Price | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memctl | $0 (1 seat, 3 projects) | $5/mo (Lite) | Per-tier with seat add-ons |
| Retool | $0 (limited) | ~$75/mo | Per-user |
| Appsmith | $0 (limited) | $15/mo | Per-user, tiered |
| Claude Usage Tracker | $0 (unlimited repos) | $4/user/mo | Per-user |
Memctl's $0 free tier is genuinely usable for solo developers, unlike many freemium tools that gate core features. The $5/month Lite plan undercuts most developer platform tools, though the $8/month per-extra-seat charge means costs scale linearly with team size just as per-user models do.
Compared to Retool at approximately $75/month for paid tiers, Memctl's Pro plan at $18/month is significantly cheaper, though the two tools serve different purposes. Against Appsmith starting at $15/month, Memctl's Pro tier at $18/month is in a similar range while including more seats (10 vs. Appsmith's per-user pricing).
The key differentiator is that Memctl's open-source core allows self-hosting at zero cost. Teams comfortable managing their own infrastructure can run the MCP server, CLI, and SDKs without any licensing fees. The paid cloud plans add convenience, team management, hosted indexing, and enterprise compliance features that justify the cost for organizations that prefer managed services.