iCe(@icegamingdev):claude-mem has 116,434 GitHub stars. palace-rs has 10. I compared what each one actually ships, using only their own READMEs and source: claude-mem: Node + Bun + uv/Python + Chroma + an HTTP worker. An LLM (Claude Haiku by default) writes your memories. Telemetry on by default. No published retrieval benchmark. palace-rs: one Rust binary, one SQLite file. Stores what happened verbatim, no LLM, zero tokens to write. No telemetry. LongMemEval R@5 0.987, reproducible. Stars tell you what people clicked. Not what you have to run. Full fact-by-fact breakdown below 👇

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claude-mem has 116,434 GitHub stars. palace-rs has 10. I compared what each one actually ships, using only their own READMEs and source: claude-mem: Node + Bun + uv/Python + Chroma + an HTTP worker. An LLM (Claude Haiku by default) writes your memories. Telemetry on by default. No published retrieval benchmark. palace-rs: one Rust binary, one SQLite file. Stores what happened verbatim, no LLM, zero tokens to write. No telemetry. LongMemEval R@5 0.987, reproducible. Stars tell you what people clicked. Not what you have to run. Full fact-by-fact breakdown below 👇