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Letta vs Fireworks AI

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For most teams: Letta edges ahead on our scoring

Letta

starter
AI Infrastructure

Stateful agent framework (formerly MemGPT) — agents with long-term memory, sleep cycles, and self-editing context.

Open source: free. Letta Cloud: free tier; Pro $20/mo; Enterprise custom.

Fireworks AI

professional
AI Infrastructure

Fast, cheap inference for open-source LLMs — Llama, Mixtral, Qwen, DeepSeek served at sub-second latencies.

Pay-per-token. Llama 3.1 70B ~$0.90/M tokens; smaller models cheaper. Fine-tuning hosted from $0.50/M tokens. Dedicated deployments custom.

StackMatch Editorial verdicts

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LettaEVALUATE
The MemGPT pattern as a real product

Letta (formerly MemGPT) implements the self-editing-context pattern for stateful AI agents in a usable framework. More research-flavored than Mem0; the right pick for teams that want full agent state, not just memory.

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Fireworks AIBUY
The fast inference layer for production OSS models

Fireworks AI serves Llama, Mixtral, Qwen, and DeepSeek at low latency through an OpenAI-compatible API. The right pick when you've decided to run open-source models in production and want one less thing to operate.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Objective metrics, no spin.

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Rating
N/A
starter✓ Better
Pricing tier
professional
hard✓ Better
Learning curve
easy
1-2 weeks
Setup time
hours
4 listed
Integrations
4 listed
small, medium, large
Best company size
small, medium, large, enterprise
Top Features
Stateful agents with long-term memory
Self-editing context window (MemGPT pattern)
Agent Development Environment (ADE) for visual debugging
Multi-agent orchestration
Features
Top Features
OpenAI-compatible API (drop-in)
FireAttention engine for fast inference
Llama, Mixtral, Qwen, DeepSeek, Stable Diffusion
Hosted fine-tuning (LoRA)
Choose Letta if...

Research teams, advanced AI engineers building genuinely long-running agents, anyone implementing the MemGPT pattern in production.

Avoid Letta if...

Teams that need a quick agent SDK (use LangChain or CrewAI); applications that don't need persistent agent state.

Choose Fireworks AI if...

Production apps using open-source models that need OpenAI-class latency at lower cost; teams fine-tuning Llama or Mixtral.

Avoid Fireworks AI if...

Frontier-only workflows (use OpenAI/Anthropic directly), or workloads where Groq's LPU latency advantage is critical.

Both suited for: small, medium, large companies

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RunPod

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