Benchmarks
Curated summary of MemPalace benchmark results. For the full 725-line progression with every experiment, see benchmarks/BENCHMARKS.md in the repository.
The Core Finding
MemPalace's benchmarked raw baseline stores the source text and searches it with ChromaDB's default embeddings. No extraction layer or summarization step is required for that baseline.
And it scores 96.6% on LongMemEval.
LongMemEval Results
| Mode | R@5 | LLM Required | Cost/query |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw ChromaDB | 96.6% | None | $0 |
| Hybrid v3 + rerank | 99.4% | Haiku | ~$0.001 |
| Palace + rerank | 99.4% | Haiku | ~$0.001 |
| Hybrid v4 + rerank | 100% | Haiku | ~$0.001 |
The 96.6% raw score requires no API key, no cloud, and no LLM at any stage. The 100% result uses optional Haiku reranking.
Per-Category Breakdown (Raw, 96.6%)
| Question Type | R@5 | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge update | 99.0% | 78 |
| Multi-session | 98.5% | 133 |
| Temporal reasoning | 96.2% | 133 |
| Single-session user | 95.7% | 70 |
| Single-session preference | 93.3% | 30 |
| Single-session assistant | 92.9% | 56 |
Held-Out Validation
98.4% R@5 on 450 questions that hybrid_v4 was never tuned on — confirming the improvements generalize.
Comparison vs Published Systems
| System | LongMemEval R@5 | API Required | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| MemPalace (hybrid) | 100% | Optional | Free |
| Supermemory ASMR | ~99% | Yes | — |
| MemPalace (raw) | 96.6% | None | Free |
| Mastra | 94.87% | Yes | API costs |
| Hindsight | 91.4% | Yes | API costs |
| Mem0 | ~85% | Yes | $19–249/mo |
Other Benchmarks
ConvoMem (Salesforce, 75K+ QA pairs)
| System | Score |
|---|---|
| MemPalace | 92.9% |
| Gemini (long context) | 70–82% |
| Block extraction | 57–71% |
| Mem0 (RAG) | 30–45% |
On this benchmark, MemPalace materially outperforms the Mem0 result cited in the comparison table.
LoCoMo (1,986 multi-hop QA pairs)
| Mode | R@10 | LLM |
|---|---|---|
| Hybrid v5 + Sonnet rerank (top-50) | 100% | Sonnet |
| bge-large + Haiku rerank (top-15) | 96.3% | Haiku |
| Hybrid v5 (top-10, no rerank) | 88.9% | None |
| Session, no rerank (top-10) | 60.3% | None |
MemBench (ACL 2025, 8,500 items)
80.3% R@5 overall. Strongest categories: aggregative (99.3%), comparative (98.4%), lowlevel_rec (99.8%).
Reproducing Results
All benchmarks are reproducible with public datasets:
git clone https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace.git
cd mempalace
pip install chromadb pyyaml
# Download LongMemEval data
curl -fsSL -o /tmp/longmemeval_s_cleaned.json \
https://huggingface.co/datasets/xiaowu0162/longmemeval-cleaned/resolve/main/longmemeval_s_cleaned.json
# Run raw baseline (96.6%, no API key needed)
python benchmarks/longmemeval_bench.py /tmp/longmemeval_s_cleaned.jsonTIP
Results are deterministic. Same data + same script = same result every time. Every result JSONL file contains every question, every retrieved document, every score.
For complete reproduction instructions, benchmark integrity notes, and the full score progression, see the full benchmark documentation.