OpenHands vs Zed
as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14
OpenHands and Zed land at the same overall score, 4 out of 100, but they get there differently. OpenHands is named in 6 of 70 answers, with its strongest showing on "What's the best open-source AI coding assistant?" (3 of 3 answers) and a decent showing on codebase-wide agent questions (2 of 4). Zed is named in 5 of 70 answers, doing best on "What's the best AI code editor right now?" (2 of 4). Head to head, Zed is named more often in 4 questions, OpenHands in 3, and they tie in 13. Claude gives Zed its highest score, 10; Gemini and Perplexity give it 0.
Head to head
| metric | OpenHands | Zed |
|---|---|---|
| score | 4 | 4 |
| questions won | 3 | 4 |
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 |
Zed
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 3 | 5% of answers | #7.0 |
| Claude | 10 | 20% of answers | #7.3 |
| Gemini | 0 | 0% of answers | |
| 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 Zed gets named for
- What's the best AI code editor right now?
- What's the best AI tool for writing and fixing React and Next.js code?
- Which AI coding tool writes the most reliable code?
- What are the top AI coding assistants in 2026?
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