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# November 2025 Power Ranking
- URL: https://blog.brokk.ai/november-2025-power-ranking/
- Published: 2025-11-20T18:50:30.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-21T15:41:36.000Z
- Author: Jonathan Ellis

The November Power Ranking is here, with new models from all the big labs!

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![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f5/e4/f5e49182-2f16-4855-8727-fde7524e784f/content/images/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-21-at-9.40.43---AM.png)

August (left) and November (right) Power Rankings

Brokk's Power Ranking consists of [real-world coding tasks in large Java codebases](https://blog.brokk.ai/introducing-the-brokk-power-ranking/), containing only tasks recent enough that they have not yet been trained against. Compared to SWE-Bench or LiveCodeBench, this gives a much more accurate picture of models' coding ability when faced with a problem they haven't seen before.

## Commentary

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f5/e4/f5e49182-2f16-4855-8727-fde7524e784f/content/images/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-20-at-09-38-48-Brokk-Power-Rankings-AI-Model-Performance-Benchmarks.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f5/e4/f5e49182-2f16-4855-8727-fde7524e784f/content/images/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-20-at-09-39-18-Brokk-Power-Rankings-AI-Model-Performance-Benchmarks.png)

Speed and Cost. Gemini 3 Pro and Opus 4.1 are omitted from the Cost side; they are 3x and 6x more expensive than GPT 5.1, respectively.

Haiku stands alone in the S Tier. This is the most subjective call in the Power Ranking, but we think Haiku deserves to be recognized for [its blisteringly fast responses](https://blog.brokk.ai/claude-4-5-haiku-codes-like-its-late-for-a-meeting-with-god/) while being smart *enough* to solve most problems correctly. (And when it can't solve your problem, you get the feedback quickly enough that you can switch to a smarter model without first losing your entire morning.) I wrote in October that I was making it my primary coding model, and it still holds that place.

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5-Mini take places in the A Tier for the straightforward reason that these are the only models on the [Pareto front](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto%5Ffront?ref=blog.brokk.ai) for both speed and cost. GPT 5.1 (with [priority processing](https://openai.com/api-priority-processing/?ref=blog.brokk.ai)) is my preferred planning model. Even with priority processing, it's slower than Sonnet, but it's enough smarter that it's worth it; with Sonnet I have to redo enough work that it doesn't save me time overall.

Sonnet 4.5 and Grok 4.1 Fast make the B tier as the other models on the Pareto front, for speed and cost respectively. GLM 4.6 also gets a spot in B as the strongest open-weights model.

Both of the Gemini models are relatively expensive and slow for their level of intelligence, so they both hit the C Tier with Opus 4.1\. We expect the full Gemini 3 Pro release to do better after resolving the preview's [teething pains](https://blog.brokk.ai/gemini-3-pro-preview-not-quite-baked/). 

Finally, K2-Thinking and M2 land in the D Tier with thoroughly lackluster results.

Check out the [full Power Ranking results here](https://brokk.ai/power-ranking?ref=blog.brokk.ai).