Graphicle vs Graphify: Graphify's code graph in Rust, with memory.
Graphicle's code-graph engine is a Rust port of Graphify, credited in its NOTICE, with Graphify's MCP tool names. It adds project memory, session capture and an app, in one local program.
Checked against Graphify's own pages on 27 October 2026
Graphify and Graphicle.
Graphify, by Safi Shamsi and the Graphify contributors, is an open-source Python tool that turns code, documents, papers and media into a knowledge graph for AI coding assistants. Graphify Cloud, from Graphify Labs, is its hosted service.
| Graphify | Graphicle | |
|---|---|---|
| Install | A Python package | One native program |
| Code graph | Graphify's engine | A Rust port of Graphify's engine, with its MCP tool names |
| Connect your agents | One command per agent | graphicle setup connects every agent it finds |
| Project memory | Shared memory in Graphify Cloud | Built in, local: docs, decisions, sessions |
| Hosted service | Graphify Cloud | A teams edition, in private preview |
| Telemetry | None | None |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
What we measured.
- 3.0–22.7×less time to build the graph, in all 39 runs on 13 codebasesGraphicle ahead
- 0.29–0.97×Graphify's peak memory, in all 39 runsGraphicle ahead
- 99.2% vs 87.8%facts found on Graphify's showcase corpus, with Claude CodeGraphicle ahead
- 95 vs 94SWE-bench Verified tasks with every changed file found, out of 100Tie
Against Graphify 0.9.91. Speed and memory: Graphicle's 0.1.1 memory engine and a later build, both pre-release, on the same machine with 3 CPUs and 8 workers each; the graphs differ slightly (node counts within 4.7%, edge counts within 2.0%). Agent tests: Claude Code with Opus 5.5 and Graphicle's 0.1.1 agent defaults (pre-release; 0.1.0 on SWE-bench), one run per task.
Which one fits.
Choose Graphify if
- You want a hosted service with verification, shared graphs and shared memory.
- You want the original Python project and its larger community.
Choose Graphicle if
- You want the graph and your project's memory in one local program.
- You work on large repositories.
- You want memories to wait for your approval.
Graphicle's code-graph engine is a Rust port of Graphify (Apache-2.0), credited in NOTICE. graphicle setup can switch a repository from Graphify and never deletes graphify-out/.
Checked on 27 October 2026. Product names are trademarks of their owners; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.