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Beacon
Open-source session history and shared memory for coding agents
Price: Free (open source and Beacon Cloud); Beacon Cloud Pro $20/mo ($15/mo billed annually) Official price source ↗Status: Not reviewedLast checked: Oct 22, 2026
At a glance
- Free plan
- Yes: Free (open source and Beacon Cloud)
Scores: Not scored yet. We only score where we have tested or sourced evidence.
Verdict
Not yet reviewedProduct details from official sources.
Why choose it
- Biggest strength
- Not enough evidence yet
When not to choose it
- Biggest drawback
- Not enough evidence yet
Top alternatives
Not enough evidence yet.
Verdict: We haven't reviewed Beacon yet, and we don't have enough cited builder feedback to say who should choose it. What we can confirm from the official docs: Beacon records your coding-agent sessions (prompts, commands, diffs, token usage) across 20+ agents including Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. The open-source agent is free and keeps everything on your machine. Free Beacon Cloud puts every agent and machine in one timeline and includes 50 findings over the account's lifetime. Beacon Cloud Pro ($20/mo, or $15/mo billed annually) adds unlimited findings and memory your agents can save and recall over MCP. Launched Oct 20, 2026, so treat it as early.
Based on official product information only. Not a hands-on test.
Recent changes and why they matter
- 2026-10-22 Published Beacon (draft since Oct 21) now that official pricing and docs exist: open source and Beacon Cloud free (50 lifetime findings), Beacon Cloud Pro $20/mo or $15/mo billed annually (announced in the Beacon Cloud changelog, Oct 19, 2026). Status: Not reviewed.
Why it matters: Free covers session history (on your machine or in Beacon Cloud); agent memory over MCP, the headline feature, needs Pro. source ↗ source ↗ source ↗ - 2026-10-22 Price changed from “Open source and Beacon Cloud free; Beacon Cloud Pro $20/mo ($15/mo billed annually)” to “Free (open source and Beacon Cloud); Beacon Cloud Pro $20/mo ($15/mo billed annually)”. source ↗
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Sources
- Beacon docs: Plans and pricing (official) ↗
- Beacon pricing (official) ↗
- Beacon Cloud changelog, Oct 19, 2026 (official) ↗
- Beacon on GitHub (MIT, official) ↗
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