Beads
Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
Our verdict
A usable project with some maintenance caveats. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-10-02, not from hands-on testing.
Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent. The project is written primarily in Go, released under MIT, and has 27,583 stars and 1,874 forks on GitHub. 511 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-10-02. The latest tagged release is v1.3.1 (2026-09-30). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-10-02 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.
Reviewed by AI Review Rating from GitHub API data How we score
Repository
- Licence
- MIT
- Language
- Go
- Last push
- 2026-10-02
Releases
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v1.3.1v1.3.1 -
v1.3.1-rc.2v1.3.1-rc.2 -
v1.3.1-rc.1v1.3.1-rc.1 -
v1.3.0v1.3.0 -
v1.3.0-rc.2v1.3.0-rc.2 -
v1.3.0-rc.1v1.3.0-rc.1
Pros and cons
Pros
Cons
Pricing
- Free tierYes
- LicenceMIT
- Self-hostYes, source is public
- Public price listNot published
Beads does not publish a web price list. For consumer apps that usually means pricing appears inside the product; for enterprise tools it means talking to sales. Why we do this
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Price points are recorded when a price moves, not on a schedule, so a flat run means the price held. Release cadence comes from GitHub releases. A series appears only once we have watched it for long enough to have more than one observation.
User reviews
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beads this page | 6.9 | - | Yes | ||
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Questions
Is beads free?
Yes. beads advertises a free tier on its own site.
How much does beads cost?
beads does not publish a web price list. For consumer apps that usually means pricing appears inside the product; for enterprise tools it means talking to sales.
Is beads open source?
Yes. beads is a public repository released under MIT. You can self-host or inspect the source directly.
How is beads scored here?
beads scores 6.9 out of 10. That comes from a desk review of public evidence, which is capped at 8.5 out of 10: public pricing, documentation, maintenance signals and how much we could actually verify. Affiliate relationships are excluded from scoring entirely. The full rubric is published on our methodology page.