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title: "Qwen3 Max now live on DATS-4 SQL Agent Suite for Advanced Analysis. Better than DeepSeek R1, closer to Claude Sonnet 4 - at a lower cost."
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date_published: 2025-09-10T06:59:08.865Z
original_url: https://www.tigzig.com/post/qwen3-max-now-live-on-dats-4-sql-agent-suite-for-advanced-analysis-better-than-deepseek-r1-closer-t
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# Qwen3 Max now live on DATS-4 SQL Agent Suite for Advanced Analysis. Better than DeepSeek R1, closer to Claude Sonnet 4 - at a lower cost.

## Quality (my test scores)

* Claude Sonnet 4: 100
* GPT-5: 95
* Qwen3 Max: 90
* DeepSeek R1: 85
* Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75

## Cost per 100 advanced analysis questions (USD)

* Gemini 2.5 Flash: $14.25
* Qwen3 Max: $14.5
* DeepSeek R1: $15.75
* Claude Sonnet 4: $19
* GPT-5: $27.5

## Cost drivers

Each advanced question = 7–10 SQL queries / tool calls. All executions run on GPT-4.1 (approx. $12.5 per 100), which is the major cost chunk. For simple one-shot queries, costs are negligible ($0.25 - $3.5 per 100)

## Working rules (current)

* Stick to OpenAI for execution
* 4o-mini / 4.1-mini for simple & mid queries
* 4.1 for complex executions
* Sonnet 4 for top-end reasoning
* Qwen3 Max, DeepSeek R1, GPT-4.1 for best value
* Gemini 2.5 Flash if speed matters
* Avoid GPT-5 & Gemini Pro - very high cost + token bloat.

## Task example tested

* Credit card data mart build (1M customer, 10M transaction tables). Multi-step derivations, innovative derived variables creation, summarizations, merges. Table on AWS RDS MySQL.
* Weighted Score-Based Ranking of Indian credit card issuers - RBI Monthly File. Table on Supabase

## DATS-4

Full-stack Database SQL Multi-Agent App: text-to-SQL, Python charts, statistical analysis, instant Postgres DB creation, PDF outputs, 9 reasoning models.

## Live app, source code, field guide

[www.tigzig.com](http://www.tigzig.com/) → Database AI & SQL Apps → DATS-4

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More posts: [Sonnet 4.5. Released yesterday. Now live on DATS-4 SQL Agent Suite. Solid upgrade, but more 4.2 than 4.5.](https://www.tigzig.com/post/sonnet-4-5-released-yesterday-now-live-on-dats-4-sql-agent-suite-solid-upgrade-but-more-4-2-than), [LLM Costing for Database AI Apps. Live Experience. Live App. Open Source](https://www.tigzig.com/post/llm-costing-for-database-ai-apps-live-experience-live-app-open-source), [Database AI & SQL - Now choose you LLM: GPT-5, Deepseek, Qwen 3 Thinking. Live. Open Source.](https://www.tigzig.com/post/database-ai-sql-now-choose-you-llm-gpt-5-deepseek-qwen-3-thinking-live-open-source)

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Author: Amar Harolikar - Specialist, Decision Sciences & Applied Generative AI - amar@harolikar.com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarharolikar
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