Augment Code vs Supermaven

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12

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Augment Code and Supermaven land in a dead heat overall, each scoring 4 out of 100 and each named in roughly 1 in 20 answers (6 of 89 for Augment Code, 5 of 89 for Supermaven). Head-to-head, they're tied on 17 questions, with each one pulling ahead on 4 others. Augment Code shows up most for Windsurf and Cursor alternative questions, while Supermaven gets picked for Cursor alternatives and general "best AI code editor" questions. Supermaven's scores lean heavily on Gemini, which rates it at 21, far above its 0s from ChatGPT and Perplexity. Neither assistant is named for Python-specific or mobile app coding questions.

Head to head

metric	Augment Code	Supermaven
score	4	4
questions won	5	5

By assistant

Augment Code

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	4	0% of answers
Claude	4	10% of answers	#10.0
Gemini	5	0% of answers
Perplexity	4	0% of answers

Supermaven

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	0	0% of answers
Claude	1	0% of answers
Gemini	21	36% of answers	#8.5
Perplexity	0	0% of answers

Where they differ

Only Augment Code gets named for

What are the best alternatives to Windsurf?
Which AI coding assistant is best for large codebases?
What are the best AI coding agents that can work across a whole codebase?
What are the best alternatives to Aider?

Only Supermaven gets named for

What's the best AI code editor right now?
What's the best AI coding assistant for a solo developer building a SaaS?
What's the best AI coding assistant for VS Code?
What are the best AI coding assistants?

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