OpenHands vs Supermaven

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

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OpenHands and Supermaven land in the same spot overall, each scoring 4 out of 100 and each named in 6 of 70 answers. OpenHands does best on open-source questions, showing up in all 3 answers to "What's the best open-source AI coding assistant?", while Supermaven's mentions are spread thinly across topics like testing, value for money, and free tools, with just 1 of 3 or 1 of 4 answers each. Gemini rates Supermaven highest at 25, far above its other scores. Head-to-head, Supermaven was named more often on 6 questions versus 3 for OpenHands, with 11 ties.

Head to head

metric	OpenHands	Supermaven
score	4	4
questions won	6	5

By assistant

OpenHands

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	3	5% of answers	#4.0
Claude	7	10% of answers	#4.0
Gemini	2	0% of answers
Perplexity	4	5% of answers	#4.0

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 OpenHands gets named for

What are the best alternatives to Aider?
What's the best open-source AI coding assistant?
What are the best alternatives to Claude Code?
What are the best AI coding agents that can work across a whole codebase?
What are the best alternatives to GitHub Copilot?

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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