Mem pricing

About

Mem (mem.ai), built by Mem Technologies, is an AI-powered personal memory and notes workspace that brands itself as a “self-organizing workspace” — you dump everything on your mind into it and AI surfaces, links, and retrieves it without manual tagging or folders. The product was relaunched as Mem 2.0 in early 2026, a significant rewrite over the original Mem 1.0 / Mem X generation.

The company was founded by Kevin Moody (a former Google product manager) and Dennis Xu (ex-Yelp), both Stanford grads, and is based in Los Altos Hills, California. It has raised roughly $28.6M: a $5.6M seed led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in April 2021, followed by a ~$23.5M Series A led by the OpenAI Startup Fund in November 2022. It is privately held; ARR and headcount are not disclosed.

For the most current information on Mem’s pricing, visit get.mem.ai/pricing.

Pricing summary : How Mem’s pricing model works

Mem replaced its flat-rate lineup with a single scaling ladder: seven tiers from Free through Mem Pro 20× at $199/month, each bundling a fixed set of monthly quotas rather than the unlimited paid plan Mem sold as recently as mid-2026. Every tier meters the same six dimensions — Messages to Mem, New Notes, Task & Project Tracking capacity, Open Tasks & Projects, Custom Routines, Connections, and Voice Mode hours — and the quotas scale together as you move up the ladder:

• Free — $0/month. 25 Messages to Mem, 25 New Notes, Task & Project Tracking across those 25 notes, 15 Open Tasks & Projects, and 3 hours of Voice Mode per month. No Custom Routines or Connections.
• Mem Plus — $9/month. Doubles the Free quotas (50 messages, 50 notes, 25 open tasks/projects, 10 hours Voice Mode). Still no Custom Routines or Connections.
• Mem Pro — $29/month, marked Recommended on the pricing page. 100 messages, 100 notes, 50 open tasks/projects, 25 hours of Voice Mode, and the first Custom Routine and Connection.
• Mem Pro 2× / 5× / 10× / 20× — $49 to $199/month. Each step multiplies every quota in lockstep — messages, notes, open tasks, Custom Routines, Connections, and Voice Mode hours all scale together, up to 2,000 messages/notes and 500 hours of Voice Mode on Mem Pro 20×.
• Extra Usage — $50/month per block, Mem Pro 20× subscribers only. Adds another 500 messages, 500 notes, 250 open tasks/projects, 5 Custom Routines, 250 routine executions, 5 Connections, and 125 Voice Mode hours without changing plans — Mem’s only genuinely metered add-on.

The key thing to understand: every paid tier now caps AI usage, including the cheapest $9 Plus plan — a reversal from the flat, unmetered Pro plan Mem sold before this relaunch (see Pricing evolution for the prior pricing). “Mem Agent” behavior (the proactive task/project tracking) is now bundled starting at the Free tier rather than gated behind a separate top-tier plan, but its capacity — how many notes it reviews, how many open tasks it tracks — scales with what you pay.

What makes this different: instead of one flat price for unlimited AI use, Mem now runs a linear capacity ladder (1×, 2×, 5×, 10×, 20× the Pro allotment) plus a true pay-as-you-go overage — $50 per 500-message/500-note block — but only for customers already on the $199/month top tier, keeping self-serve simplicity everywhere else.

Pricing by product

Mem (Individual plans)

Extra Usage add-on (Mem Pro 20× only)

Sales motions across products: self-serve and product-led across all seven tiers and the Extra Usage add-on — every plan and add-on signs up or upgrades in-app, with no sales contact anywhere in the lineup.

Hidden costs : What Mem users actually pay

Mem is still simple to budget for — every price is public and self-serve — but the relaunch replaced the old flat, unmetered Pro plan with quotas on every tier, so the realistic “hidden” cost is now an unplanned upgrade rather than a surprise bill. The realistic costs are:

The “hidden” cost is the inverse: the Free tier’s 25-message/25-note/3-hour monthly caps are low enough that any genuine daily user hits them quickly and is pushed onto a paid tier, and a Mem Pro subscriber who outgrows the $29 plan’s 100-message/100-note quota has to step up the ladder — to Mem Pro 2× ($49/mo), 5× ($99/mo), 10× ($149/mo), or 20× ($199/mo) — since there is no metered overage below the top tier. Only Mem Pro 20× subscribers can avoid a full plan upgrade by instead buying $50/month Extra Usage blocks.

Want to estimate your own Mem bill? Use the Mem pricing calculator to model your costs based on usage patterns.

Pricing evolution : Mem pricing history and changes

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Tracked range: 2021–present.

Notable changes

• 2021–2022 — Mem launched its premium “Mem X” tier, the original self-organizing-workspace upsell, reportedly priced around 8.33 USD/user/month billed annually (roughly 10 USD/month on monthly billing).
• Early 2026 — Mem 2.0 relaunch. The “Mem X” branding was retired and the consumer premium tier became Mem Pro at a flat $12/month, with the Free tier’s hard 25/25/25 monthly caps formalized.
• 2026-06-15 — Pricing verified: Free ($0), Mem Pro ($12/mo), Mem Teams (custom).
• 2026-07-14 — Mem launched Mem Proactive at $99/month (7-day free trial), bundling the new autonomous Mem Agent on top of Pro. The earlier custom-quoted Mem Teams tier was removed from the pricing page; Free ($0) and Mem Pro ($12/mo) are unchanged.
• 2026-07-29 — Mem Pro’s listed features dropped “AI model selection” (previously shown as “Meeting Briefings and AI model selection”, now just “Meeting Briefings”); no price changes on any tier.

Note: some third-party review sites still cite an older “$15/month” figure; the official pricing page shows $12/month as of June 2026.

What’s unique : Mem’s distinctive pricing mechanics

1. Flat AI pricing with no meter. Despite being LLM-heavy on every note and chat, Mem Pro charges one flat $12/month — no tokens, no credits, no overages. Mem takes the inference-margin risk so the buyer gets a predictable bill.

2. Hard, countable free-tier caps. Instead of a vague “fair use” free tier, Mem publishes exact monthly limits — 25 notes, 25 chat messages, 25 PDF pages understood. The precision makes the upgrade trigger obvious and honest.

3. No sales-gated tier left. The July 2026 relaunch retired the custom-quoted Mem Teams tier entirely — Free, Mem Pro, and Mem Proactive are now Mem’s only tiers, and all three carry a public, self-serve price. The tradeoff: Mem no longer offers a purpose-built team/collaboration SKU (group billing, seats, SLA) at any price.

Strengths & weaknesses

Billing UX : Mem billing controls and transparency

• Proactive limit warnings — Per Mem’s own FAQ, “Mem will show you when you’re approaching a limit so you can choose a larger plan before work is interrupted,” rather than silently blocking usage mid-task.
• Featured vs. full plan toggle — A “See all plans” / “Show featured plans” control switches the pricing page between the default 4-card view (Free, Plus, Pro, Pro 2×) and the full 7-tier ladder up to Mem Pro 20×.
• Full comparison panel — A “Compare every plan and limit” expandable (“FULL COMPARISON — See every plan and allowance”) lays out every quota side by side; the page notes “Monthly activity resets each billing period. Open work, routines, and connections measure what is active at the same time.”
• Per-quota tooltips — Every line item on every plan card carries a ”?” tooltip with a precise definition (e.g., exactly what counts as a “Message to Mem” or how “Task and Project Tracking” reviews notes), so quota definitions are explicit rather than left to interpretation.
• Self-serve Extra Usage add-on — Mem Pro 20× subscribers can add $50/month Extra Usage blocks in-app “without changing plans,” each adding another fixed bundle of messages, notes, tasks, routines, connections, and Voice Mode hours.
• Billing controls — Self-serve sign-up and upgrade from inside the app (Google, Apple, or email); every one of the seven tiers checks out with a “Sign up” button and no sales contact.

Strategic wins : Why Mem’s pricing decisions worked

1. Predictability as the wedge

By refusing to meter AI, Mem turns “no bill shock” into a selling point against credit-based competitors. For a personal-productivity tool people use daily, a fixed $12 removes the anxiety that kills habitual use. See bill shock and cost unpredictability.

2. A free tier tuned to convert

The 25/25/25 caps are low enough that any real user hits them within days, making the upgrade decision fast and obvious rather than letting power users live indefinitely on free. Related: how AI companies structure pricing.

3. Simplifying at relaunch

Retiring the “Mem X” name and folding it into a single $12 “Mem Pro” at the 2.0 relaunch cut decision friction to one yes/no upgrade — a deliberate simplification. See choosing the right usage metric.

Areas to improve : Gaps in Mem’s pricing approach

1. The free tier may be too tight

At 25 notes a month, many evaluators churn before the “self-organizing” magic compounds — the value of Mem grows with the size of your corpus, which the free caps actively prevent. A higher one-time or first-month allowance could improve conversion.

2. No dedicated team plan anymore

Retiring Mem Teams in July 2026 fixed the opacity problem — every tier is now publicly priced — but it also removed the only SKU built for group billing, seats, and SLAs. Buyers who need genuine multi-seat collaboration have no purpose-built plan today, public or custom. See outcome-based pricing trends for how transparency affects adoption.

3. Flat-rate margin exposure

A flat $12 with unmetered LLM usage is generous, but it concentrates margin risk on heavy users. If inference costs rise or power users grow, Mem may eventually need a usage ceiling or a higher “power” tier — a tension worth watching.

Key takeaways

1. Mem prices for predictability, not metering. Mem Pro is a flat $12/month with no token or credit meter, even though every note and chat is LLM-backed.
2. The free tier is a conversion tool, not a destination. Exact 25/25/25 monthly caps make the upgrade trigger fast and honest.
3. Relaunch simplified the lineup. Mem 2.0 retired “Mem X” and consolidated to one consumer paid plan (Mem Pro).
4. The custom-quote tier is gone — and so is the team SKU. July 2026 retired Mem Teams, so every tier (Free, Pro, Proactive) now has a public price, but there’s no dedicated multi-seat/collaboration plan to take its place.
5. Flat AI pricing is a margin bet. It works only if median Pro usage stays below the implied inference budget — a category-wide tension for consumer AI tools.

UBP implications

1. Flat pricing can beat metering for habitual consumer AI. When daily use is the goal, removing the meter removes friction — usage-based billing isn’t always the answer for personal tools.
2. Free-tier caps are a legitimate usage metric. Even a “flat” company uses counted limits (notes/chats/pages) on its free tier to drive conversion — the meter moves to acquisition rather than billing.
3. Unmetered AI shifts risk to the vendor. Companies offering flat AI plans are implicitly forecasting per-user inference; if that forecast slips, expect a later move toward usage-based pricing strategy or tiered ceilings.

Sources

• Mem pricing page (accessed 2026-08-26) — independently re-verified: Free $0, Mem Plus $9/mo, Mem Pro $29/mo, Mem Pro 2×/5×/10×/20× $49-$199/mo, Extra Usage +$50/mo (Mem Pro 20× only)
• Mem official website (accessed 2026-06-15)
• fahimai.com — Mem AI review (2026) (accessed 2026-06-15) — corroborates $12 Pro and a16z/OpenAI funding
• TechCrunch — Mem raises $5.6M from a16z (2021) (accessed 2026-06-15)
• PitchBook / Tracxn — Mem Technologies funding profile (accessed 2026-06-15)

Bottom line

Mem (mem.ai) keeps AI-notes pricing refreshingly simple: a tight but genuinely free tier (25 notes / 25 chats / 25 PDF pages a month), a flat $12/month Mem Pro that unlocks everything with no usage meter, and a $99/month Mem Proactive tier that layers an autonomous Mem Agent on top of Pro. Backed by a16z and the OpenAI Startup Fund and relaunched as Mem 2.0, it’s a bet that predictable flat pricing beats credit-metering for a tool you’re meant to use every day.

Want to compare Mem against other productivity and AI-platform companies? Browse the pricing blueprint.

Pricing timeline : Major events on a vertical axis

Each milestone below corresponds to a public pricing change, product launch, or material adjustment. Major events use a filled marker; minor adjustments use a faded one.

Mem Pro drops 'AI model selection' from listed features

Jul 2026

Mem's pricing page no longer lists AI model selection as an included Mem Pro feature — the plan now shows Meeting Briefings and Dark mode without it. Free ($0), Mem Pro ($12/mo), and Mem Proactive ($99/mo) prices are unchanged.

Mem Proactive ($99/mo) launches with the Mem Agent; Teams retired

Jul 2026

Mem added a third tier — Mem Proactive at $99/month (7-day free trial) — bundling the new autonomous Mem Agent on top of everything in Pro. The earlier custom-quoted Mem Teams tier no longer appears on the pricing page. Free ($0) and Mem Pro ($12/mo) are unchanged.

Mem 2.0 pricing documented: Free / $12 Pro / custom Teams

Jun 2026

Researched current Mem 2.0 pricing. Free tier capped at 25 notes/chats/PDF-pages per month; Mem Pro flat at $12/mo for unlimited use; Mem Teams custom-quoted. The legacy Mem X consumer tier (~$8-10/mo) was folded into Mem Pro at the 2.0 relaunch.

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May 2026

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