# Ambience vs Zep

> Ambience is the stronger fit for governed internal team context with scopes, redaction, audit, and source-linked memory.

Zep focuses on temporal user graphs for agents that track evolving facts. Ambience focuses on organisational context that must be shared safely across teammates and agent runtimes.

## Choose Ambience when

- The memory layer serves an internal team, not only a customer-facing chat agent.
- Context needs access scopes, source links, conflict review, and audit.
- Future Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Copilot sessions should inherit team decisions.

## Where Zep mainly fits

- Customer-facing agents need temporal correctness over changing user facts.
- A product team wants graph memory behind an application agent.

## Related

- [Full comparison](https://ambience.sh/vs/zep)
- [What is governed agent memory?](https://ambience.sh/answers/what-is-governed-agent-memory)