Is Mem worth it in 2026?

The free plan gives you 25 messages to Mem, 25 new notes, 25 tracked notes, 15 open tasks and projects, and 3 hours of Voice Mode each month. The help center adds one Free-only cap the table leaves out: 25 PDF pages a month across all uploads, and an upload that would exceed the month’s remaining pages is blocked whole. It has no custom routines, no routine executions and no connections. Without a connection, Mem cannot pull context from outside sources such as Gmail or Slack, which the page names as examples. For someone who wants a place to drop thoughts and find them later, that is enough. For someone who wants Mem to follow up on work across other apps, it is not.

Deep Search and templates are on every plan, according to the pricing FAQ, so the free tier is a fair test of Mem’s search. It is a poor test of automation, because the routines and connections that run in the background start at Pro.

Academy data: Of the 137 prompts across our six Notion, OneNote and Evernote packs, none is for Mem, since the library has no Mem pack. If you want a prompt set for a notes app you already use, start with the Notion AI prompts.

Messages to Mem and new notes are separate allowances, and Mem gives both the same number on every tier. An email that creates a note uses one message and one new note, so for email capture the note count is the number to watch. Plus stops at 50 of each, and Pro stops at 100. A person who saves about five notes a working day reaches 100 near the end of the month, which is when the Pro allowance stops being enough.

Take a heavy month of about 200 new notes. Pro 2× is the first tier whose 200-note allowance covers it, with no spare room. On monthly billing that is $588 a year, which is our arithmetic on the printed price, since the page shows no annual rate. Pro costs $348 a year on monthly billing and runs out at note 100, so it is the cheaper plan only while your busiest month stays at or under 100 new notes.

Voice Mode is the other limit people reach. Pro gives 25 hours of captured time a month and Pro 2× gives 50. The page says that allowance counts total captured time, so one long meeting uses more of it than a handful of short voice notes.

Pro is the first tier with one custom routine, one connection and 50 routine executions. A custom routine runs on a schedule to prepare a briefing, do research, create or organize notes or send reminders. The page’s example is a meal plan note every Sunday. Each scheduled run counts as one execution, so a daily routine uses about 30 of Pro’s 50 in a month.

A connection links Mem to an outside source, lets it detect tasks and projects there, and helps it recognize when work is already done. Pro includes one. Pro 2× doubles that to two, which matters if you want Mem to read both your Gmail and your Slack.

Extra Usage is a $50 monthly unit, and the pricing page describes it only for Pro 20× customers, so treat it as a top-tier option. Each unit adds 500 messages, 500 new notes, 500 notes tracked, 250 open tasks, 5 routines, 250 routine executions, 5 connections and 125 Voice Mode hours. You can add several units without changing plans.

The top of the ladder works out to $249/mo for Pro 20× plus one unit, which is 2,500 new notes a month. That is our sum of two printed prices. Below Pro 20×, the page offers no add-on, so growth below that tier means a plan change.

The pricing page shows only monthly prices, with no annual rate, no free trial and no student pricing. Budget at the monthly price until a checkout screen shows something else. The page says monthly activity resets each billing period, and that open work, routines and connections count what is active at the same time. It does not say whether unused allowance carries over, so do not plan on a rollover. Mem also offers a Teams plan that unifies billing and access for a team instead of separate Mem Pro subscriptions. It is not on the pricing page and Mem quotes it on request, so this review does not cover its price or limits.

Privacy is the real limit for some buyers. Mem encrypts data at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS, but it is not end-to-end encrypted, because it has to process your notes to build its intelligence on top of them. Mem says it does not sell data or mine it to serve ads. If you keep client or legal material in Mem, that model matters more than the allowance table.