What are the main differences between the self-host version and the official cloud version?

[homejim]

I tried deploying mem0 to a production-like environment for internal service use, but I noticed that it lacks several key features compared to the official cloud version. For example, there is no authentication system, user login functionality, and it uses SQLite for storing history records. This makes me think that the self-host version may not yet meet production-ready standards.

So I’d like to ask:

What are the main differences between the self-host version and the official cloud version?
Is it recommended to use the self-host version in a production environment?

[jujiale]

I have the same question

[jujiale]

could see the difference from this link:
https://docs.mem0.ai/platform/platform-vs-oss#development-and-integration

[TRON4R]

I found out the hard way, that the self-hosted version has some issues that you only find out when you're in the middle of setting it up.
Qdrant for example is already at version 1.17.0, but mem0 insists on version 1.13.0, so if you install anything higher than 1.14.0, you're in trouble.
Also the language models you choose to faciliate storage and retrieval of memories are important. Take a slower (but better) model such as ChatGPT-4.1-mini instead of ChatGPT-4.1-nano and your response times for your OpenClaw-Agent will easily double.