Announcing Bastio Memory: Build Smarter AI Products for Less

Building great AI products often means grappling with a difficult trade-off: providing enough context for the model to be useful versus the skyrocketing cost of large context windows.

Today, we're changing that equation. We are thrilled to announce the Bastio Memory System, a native feature that gives your AI agents long-term memory while helping you keep your token usage—and your bills—under control.

The Context Dilemma

To make an AI assistant truly helpful, it needs to know about the user: their preferences, past interactions, and specific details. Traditionally, developers have solved this by:

1. Stuffing the Context Window: Sending the entire conversation history with every request. This is easy but incredibly expensive as the conversation grows.
2. Building Custom RAG: Setting up a separate vector database, embedding pipelines, and retrieval logic. This is efficient but complex to build and maintain.

Bastio Memory gives you the best of both worlds: the efficiency of RAG with the simplicity of a toggle.

How It Works

When you enable Memory for a proxy, Bastio automatically:

1. Stores every interaction in a secure, high-performance vector database.
2. Retrieves only the most relevant past interactions based on the user's current prompt.
3. Injects this focused context into the system prompt.

This means your AI "remembers" that the user prefers Python over JavaScript, or that they asked about a specific project last week, without you having to send thousands of tokens of history.

Saved Tokens = Saved Money

The most immediate benefit of the Memory System is cost reduction.

Imagine a user has a long conversation history of 50,000 tokens.

• Without Memory: You send 50k tokens every single turn. At GPT-4 prices, this adds up fast.
• With Bastio Memory: You send only the current prompt plus a few hundred tokens of relevant context.

You can reduce your per-request cost by over 90% while actually improving the user experience because the model isn't distracted by irrelevant history.

Better Products through Personalization

Beyond cost, memory unlocks a new tier of product experiences.

• Personalized Assistants: An AI that remembers a user's coding style, writing tone, or dietary restrictions.
• Long-Running Tasks: Agents that can recall decisions made weeks ago without needing to re-read entire project logs.
• Seamless Handoffs: Users can switch devices or sessions and pick up right where they left off.

Zero-Config Implementation

We've designed Bastio Memory to be drop-in ready. You don't need to spin up a Pinecone instance or write embedding logic.

1. Go to your Proxy settings.
2. Toggle Enable Memory.
3. (Optional) Enable Auto-Generate User ID to track users without authentication changes.

That's it. Your API requests remain exactly the same, but your AI gets smarter.

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Memory is included in every Bastio plan with generous limits:

For Starter and Professional plans, if you exceed your limit, you simply pay $0.20 per 1,000 additional memories. No surprises, no hidden fees.

Free tier users have a hard limit to keep things simple—upgrade anytime to unlock soft limits with overage billing.

See our full Pricing Page for details on all features and limits.

Start Building Today

The Memory System is available now for all Bastio users. Check out our Memory Documentation to get started, and see how much you can save on your next LLM bill.