Choose Palace when
You want memory for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or MCP-capable tools, and you want that memory to stay local or self-hosted.
Alternatives
Palace alternatives and when Palace is the right fit
factual
Palace is not a general AI memory cloud. It is a self-hosted memory layer for coding agents and engineering teams that care about provenance and control.
Works with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and other MCP-capable clients.
Combines semantic retrieval, BM25-style search, diaries, and knowledge graph recall.
Open-source MIT core for solo developers; paid server for shared team memory.
Choose another tool when
You primarily need a hosted generic agent memory API, a customer-support memory platform, or a broad app-development framework rather than a coding-agent memory layer.
How to evaluate fairly
Compare deployment model, data ownership, provenance, coding-agent fit, team sharing, and whether memory can run without cloud dependencies.