OpenHands vs Supermaven

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14

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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	3	6

By assistant

OpenHands

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	3	5% of answers	#5.0
Claude	7	15% of answers	#8.0
Gemini	4	10% of answers	#11.0
Perplexity	3	5% of answers	#6.0

Supermaven

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	0	0% of answers
Claude	2	5% of answers	#9.0
Gemini	25	50% of answers	#7.8
Perplexity	0	0% of answers

Where they differ

Only OpenHands gets named for

What's the best open-source AI coding assistant?
What are the best AI coding agents that can work across a whole codebase?
What's the best AI coding assistant that works in the terminal?

Only Supermaven gets named for

Which AI coding tool is best for writing tests?
What are the best free AI coding assistants?
Which AI coding assistant gives the best value for the money?
What are the best AI coding assistants?
What are the top AI coding assistants in 2026?
What's the best AI code editor right now?

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