# Supermaven

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Supermaven and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Fast, smart tab autocomplete that works well in editors like Neovim and PyCharm; critics say Cursor's purchase effectively killed it.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast, smart tab autocomplete (4 comments): "Supermaven or Cursor's tab autocomplete models from a year ago were already a huge boost over the pre-AI days." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846954)) "Supermaven filled a niche of a drop-in high speed autocomplete that was nice" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46028663)) "Supermaven still is the smartest & best tab autocomplete I've ever used." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029192))
- Strong Neovim support (2 comments): "Supermaven had great support for neovim for tab completion, will definitely miss that." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029409)) "In my testing Supermaven was the best in nvim" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029231))
- Drop-in, feels like superpowers (2 comments): "Supermaven filled a niche of a drop-in high speed autocomplete that was nice" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46028663)) "pycharm+supermaven was feeling like having superpowers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357777))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Sweep 1.5B](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sweep.md): 28 recommend
- [Zeta 2 by Zed Industries](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zeta-2.md): 6 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://supermaven.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Supermaven", https://hackerapproved.com/p/supermaven/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).