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Total Recall at What Cost? Benchmarking the Serving Cost of Agentic Memory Systems

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TL;DR - This study benchmarks the cost and accuracy of three agentic memory systems over conversations up to 400 turns. Memory can reduce transcript-serving costs, but savings vary greatly by implementation and model, with no system maximizing both cost efficiency and accuracy.

  • Conversation length and message size underestimate memory-system costs by 18–69% because internal memory behavior is a major cost driver.
  • Break-even points range from the first tens of turns to never within 400 turns, depending on the memory system and backbone.
  • Accuracy ranges from 21–54% across 665 LoCoMo questions.
  • Backbone selection affects serving cost as much as memory-system choice.

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Total Recall at What Cost? Benchmarking the Serving Cost of Agentic Memory Systems

arXiv cs.CL Natchanon Pollertlam, Witchayut Kornsuwannawit 2026-08-12 arXiv:2608.11879
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TL;DR - This study benchmarks the cost and accuracy of three agentic memory systems over conversations up to 400 turns. Memory can reduce transcript-serving costs, but savings vary greatly by implementation and model, with no system maximizing both cost efficiency and accuracy.

  • Conversation length and message size underestimate memory-system costs by 18–69% because internal memory behavior is a major cost driver.
  • Break-even points range from the first tens of turns to never within 400 turns, depending on the memory system and backbone.
  • Accuracy ranges from 21–54% across 665 LoCoMo questions.
  • Backbone selection affects serving cost as much as memory-system choice.
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