Supermaven was an AI coding autocomplete tool created by Jacob Jackson, the original co-founder of Tabnine. Launched in 2023, it stood out for two things: extremely low-latency completions that often felt faster than Copilot, and a custom model with a one-million-token codebase context window, which let it consider entire repositories rather than just nearby files. Supermaven offered a free tier and a Pro plan at around $10 per month, available as a VS Code, JetBrains, and Neovim extension.
In November 2024, Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor AI code editor, acquired Supermaven. Anysphere CEO Michael Truell announced the deal on the Cursor blog and described it as a way to accelerate Cursor's next Tab AI model. Under the terms shared publicly, Supermaven's team and core technology folded into Cursor, with Supermaven's existing plugins continuing to be maintained while the team's primary focus shifted to building the next generation of Cursor's editor and models.
In 2025 and 2026, Cursor publicly credited Supermaven's Babble model and team with improvements to its Tab autocomplete, including better long-range context handling and faster suggestion latency. Standalone Supermaven adoption has gradually wound down as new investment moved to Cursor, though existing users continued to receive support during the transition.
As a forward-looking product, Supermaven now exists primarily as a piece of Cursor's technology stack rather than a standalone purchase. For developers evaluating tooling today, the practical recommendation is to look at Cursor, where Supermaven's speed and long-context completion philosophy live on, while remembering the historical positioning of Supermaven as a fast, lightweight, low-cost autocomplete inside existing IDEs.