What Linkurious is

Linkurious is a French web-based graph visualization platform headquartered in Paris, founded in 2013. It sells primarily into the financial fraud, anti-money-laundering (AML), enterprise intelligence, and cybersecurity markets. Customers include major European banks (HSBC, BNP Paribas), French government anti-fraud agencies, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (which used the platform for Panama Papers and Paradise Papers analysis). Linkurious does not store its own data — it is a visualization layer over an existing graph database, typically Neo4j or a compatible store. Its pricing now comes in two tiers. Linkurious Enterprise Cloud is a fully managed, EU-hosted offering at €490/month per user (an 8% discount on annual plans, plus a 30-day free trial); it deliberately excludes entity-resolution AI, alerts, case management, and the REST API. The full Linkurious Decision Intelligence Platform — self-managed on-premise or in your own cloud, and the tier that adds those excluded capabilities — is quote-based ('get a tailored quote') and deploys on top of a graph database you run.

Where Linkurious and MemoryJar actually differ

Linkurious's managed Cloud tier is now individually purchasable per user with a free trial, so the old 'enterprise-procurement-only' framing no longer fully holds — but three real differences remain. First, price: €490/user/month is roughly €5,900/user/year, about ten times MemoryJar's $600/year for a comparable single analyst, and it is a recurring monthly per-seat bill rather than a flat annual license. Second, data residency: Linkurious Cloud is hosted in EU data centers, so your investigation data lives on someone else's servers in another jurisdiction — a non-starter for many US law-enforcement and court-evidence workflows, and not air-gappable. Third, feature-gating: the affordable Cloud tier omits case management, alerts, entity resolution, and the API; getting the full platform means the quote-based self-managed tier, which still requires standing up and operating a graph database. MemoryJar's model is the inverse — one flat low price, all features in the base license, data that never leaves your machine or LAN, and no database to provision.

When Linkurious is the right answer

If your organization already runs Neo4j at scale, has dedicated graph engineers, and has a regulatory or operational need to query graphs of millions of entities — Linkurious is purpose-built for that scenario and MemoryJar is not. MemoryJar's data layer (an embedded local database in both solo and team mode) handles tens of thousands of nodes per workspace comfortably. For workflows involving millions of entities — large-scale AML across an entire bank's transaction history, for example — a graph-database-backed visualization tool is the right architectural choice, and Linkurious is one of the strongest options in that category.

When MemoryJar is the right answer

If your work involves analyst-built investigations rather than database-backed graph queries — a case file, a threat-intel report, a fraud investigation, an executive-protection workup, a workflow analysis, an architecture review — MemoryJar's per-workspace model is the right fit. The analyst builds the graph by adding entities and relationships, attaches notes and evidence, runs analytics on it (Louvain communities, PageRank, shortest path, indirect correlations), and exports a court-ready evidence package with SHA-256 chain of custody. There is no graph database to provision, no per-user monthly bill, and no EU data-residency question — the data stays on your machine (solo) or your LAN (team). And there is nothing to clear before you evaluate: MemoryJar installs and runs in 60 seconds.

Supply chain consideration

Linkurious SAS is a French company, and its managed Cloud offering is hosted in EU data centers — so for US customers the country-of-origin question is joined by an explicit data-residency one: investigation data physically resides in the EU unless you buy and self-host the quote-based platform. For US federal customers under Section 889, EU vendors face additional review; for US Department of Defense customers, country-of-origin is a documented procurement consideration; and for law-enforcement or court-evidence workflows, foreign data residency is frequently disqualifying on its own. MemoryJar is American-made, and in both solo and team modes the data never leaves your own hardware — which removes the residency question entirely for US buyers.