Mem Free Plan: What You Actually Get Before Paying

Mem's free plan costs $0 and gives you 25 notes, 25 messages to Mem Agent and 3 hours of Voice Mode a month. Here is every limit, and when paying makes sense.

By Galactic News Editorial · Published 2026-11-13T10:21:37+00:00 · Updated 2026-11-13T10:21:37+00:00

Mem Free Plan: What You Actually Get Before Paying

Mem's free plan costs $0. It gives you 25 notes a month, 25 messages to Mem Agent, and 3 hours of Voice Mode. That is enough to test the product properly. It is not enough for daily, heavy use. This guide lists every allowance on the free plan, the limits that catch people out, and the point where a paid tier makes sense. All figures come from Mem's official pricing page, read on 13 November 2026.

What the Mem free plan includes

Mem is a notes app built around an assistant called Mem Agent. You capture notes, voice memos, and meeting audio. Mem Agent then retrieves, connects, and summarises that material when you ask. The free plan gives you a working slice of that system. It is a permanent free tier, not a trial. There is no card required to start, and no end date on the plan.

Here is everything the free plan includes, as listed on Mem's pricing page:

• 25 messages to Mem per month. Any push-to-talk request, message in the floating chat, message through an external channel such as WhatsApp, or email sent to Mem counts as one message.
• 25 new notes per month. Any note created during the month counts toward this allowance.
• Task and project tracking for up to 25 notes. Mem reviews the notes you create or edit during the month and detects tasks and projects automatically.
• 15 open tasks and projects. This is the number of open tasks and active projects Mem tracks at once across the notes it reviews.
• 3 hours of Voice Mode. Turn on Voice Mode inside any note to capture a meeting or think out loud. Mem creates a structured transcript and organises it into notes. The allowance is the total captured time.
• Deep Search and templates. Mem's FAQ states both are available on every plan, including Free.
• One-click export. Mem supports exporting notes and collections as Markdown files.

That is a genuine starter kit. You can capture a meeting, ask Mem Agent what was decided, and track a small project without paying anything.

The Mem free plan limits that matter most

The headline numbers look small, and they are. But the real limits are the features the free plan does not have at all.

First, 25 notes a month is about one note per working day. If you capture several ideas a day, you will hit the ceiling in the first week. Second, 25 messages to Mem Agent is tight. Each follow-up question counts. A single working session with several questions can burn a fifth of the monthly allowance.

Third, the free plan has no custom routines. A routine lets Mem prepare a briefing, do research, create or organise notes, and send reminders on a schedule. Without routines, Mem cannot run work in the background. Fourth, the free plan has no connections. A connection links Mem to an external source such as Gmail, Slack, or Todoist. Without one, Mem only knows what you type or record directly into it.

Fifth, there is a PDF cap the pricing page does not list. Mem's help centre caps free accounts at 25 PDF pages a month across all uploads. An upload that would push past the month's remaining pages is blocked in full. Sixth, allowances reset each billing period. Unused messages and notes do not roll over.

Finally, Mem publishes no annual price. Every tier is billed monthly, and the pricing page shows no annual rate, no free trial, and no student price.

Mem free plan vs paid plans

The paid tiers are a metered ladder. Each step doubles or multiplies the same allowances. Here is the full lineup from the official pricing page:

Pro is the first tier with routines and a connection. That is the real dividing line. Plus only buys more headroom. Pro buys automation. Pro 20x customers can also add Extra Usage at $50 a month for 500 more messages and notes, 5 more routines, 5 more connections, and 125 more Voice Mode hours.

Who the Mem free plan suits

The free plan suits three kinds of user. First, anyone evaluating Mem. A month of light use shows whether the capture-and-retrieve workflow fits how you work. Second, light note-takers who capture one or two notes a day and ask a handful of questions a week. Third, people who want a searchable voice-memo archive with a small monthly footprint.

It does not suit daily note-takers. If you create 100 notes a month, the first tier that covers you is Pro at $29 a month. It does not suit anyone who wants Mem to work in the background, because that needs routines and connections. And it does not suit heavy PDF users, because 25 pages a month is very little.

How to start on the Mem free plan

1. Sign up at Mem's website. The free plan needs no card.
2. Capture notes for a week. Type, dictate, or record voice memos and let Mem organise them.
3. Ask Mem Agent questions. Test retrieval with questions about decisions, dates, and people from your own notes.
4. Track a small project. Let Mem detect tasks from your notes and check whether the tracking is accurate.
5. Check your usage. Mem shows you when you are approaching a limit, so you can decide on an upgrade before work is interrupted.

Bottom line

The Mem free plan is a real free tier with real limits. You get 25 notes, 25 messages, 15 tracked tasks, and 3 hours of Voice Mode a month, plus Deep Search and templates. You get no routines and no connections, so Mem cannot work in the background. For a light user or an evaluator, that is enough. For a daily note-taker, Pro at $29 a month is the first tier that fits, because it is the first one with routines and a connection.