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.

Published: September 10, 2025

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

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