On every plan
Memory from chat history reached free users in March 2026; across web, Claude Desktop, and Claude Mobile it's no longer a paid-only feature.
Claude's memory is good inside claude.ai, but claude.ai and Claude Code are two separate systems and neither reaches the other: Atlaso is the one memory that spans both, and every other tool you use.
Built-in memory is a real feature, and it works. An honest comparison starts by saying what a product does well before it says where that stops.
Memory from chat history reached free users in March 2026; across web, Claude Desktop, and Claude Mobile it's no longer a paid-only feature.
Claude summarizes your conversations into a memory of your role, projects, and coding preferences, refreshed every 24 hours for new chats.
Each claude.ai Project keeps its own memory space, which Anthropic frames as a guardrail that keeps sensitive work contained.
These are not criticisms so much as the shape of a built-in feature: claude.ai's memory is designed to make claude.ai better. Each point below is from Anthropic's own documentation.
…may not always successfully incorporate imported memories.
claude.ai memory covers the web, Desktop, and Mobile apps. Claude Code has its own memory, the CLAUDE.md files you write plus notes it keeps, which Anthropic's docs describe as machine-local and not shared across machines or cloud environments. Nothing bridges the two.
The memory that follows you across claude.ai doesn't follow you into Claude Code, Cursor, or the API. What you teach one, the other never learns.
There's no structured export, file download, or API, so you copy the summary text out by hand. Import exists but is experimental: Anthropic says Claude “may not always successfully incorporate imported memories.”
The experimental import weighs work-related content over personal details, so what carries over is partial by design, another reason it is not a portable, faithful copy of your memory.
On training: Free, Pro and Max users, including their Claude Code sessions, must make an explicit model-training choice. Opting in extends data retention to five years.
Five dimensions that decide what a memory feature is worth once you use more than one AI tool.
| Dimension | Claude memory | Atlaso |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | claude.ai on web, Desktop and Mobile. Claude Code keeps a separate, machine-local memory system that doesn't sync to it. | Every connected tool shares one memory: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and more. |
| Visibility | View and edit a memory summary across the claude.ai surfaces. | See and search every memory Atlaso holds, in one dashboard. |
| Control | Edit the summary, pause memory, or reset it (which can't be undone). | Delete any memory on its own, and export everything as JSON. |
| Portability | Experimental copy-paste import and export of the summary text; no structured format or API. | One memory across six AI tools, captured and recalled automatically, with personal and per-project scopes. |
| Training | Free, Pro and Max users must make an explicit training choice; opting in extends data retention to five years. | Never used to train models. Secrets are scrubbed on your device before anything is stored. |
Atlaso doesn't ask you to turn Claude's memory off. They do different jobs and run side by side: claude.ai's memory keeps making your claude.ai conversations better, and Atlaso gives Claude Code, Claude Desktop and your other tools one shared memory that claude.ai's memory doesn't reach.
Competitor details as of July 2026, from official Anthropic documentation.
Install Atlaso with one terminal command and connect Claude Code. From then on Atlaso recalls relevant context before each turn and captures durable facts after: decisions, preferences, where you left off, persisting across sessions and machines, and shared with Cursor, Codex, and every other tool you connect.
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