Topoteretes Cognee by topoteretes

Memory control plane for AI Agents in 6 lines of code

aicognitive-architecturevector-databaseopenairagai-agentsgraph-databaseai-memorycognitive-memoryneo4jknowledgeknowledge-graph
Verdict 75/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 1/5 setup difficulty Last release 2 months ago

Self-host Topoteretes Cognee on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
75 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
1 /5
One-click deploy
GitHub stars
17k
1.8k forks

About Topoteretes Cognee

From the project's README at github.com/topoteretes/cognee. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

Demo . Docs . Learn More · Join Discord · Join r/AIMemory . Community Plugins & Add-ons

[](https://GitHub.com/topoteretes/cognee/network/) [](https://GitHub.com/topoteretes/cognee/stargazers/) [](https://GitHub.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/) [](https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/tags/) [](https://pepy.tech/project/cognee) [](https://github.com/topotere

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
80
maturity
91
community
89
security
85
sustainability
65
adoption
39

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 17k github.com/topoteretes/cognee
GitHub forks 1.8k github.com/topoteretes/cognee

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age2.9 yearssince Aug 2023
Last commit2 months agoMay 4, 2026
Releases shipped105last: 2 months ago
Security policySECURITY.mddeclared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.

Data last refreshed Jun 21, 2026.

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