Sonnet 4.5. Released yesterday. Now live on DATS-4 SQL Agent Suite. Solid upgrade, but more 4.2 than 4.5.
- Amar Harolikar
- Oct 12
- 2 min read
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๐ค๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐: Sonnet 4 was already the best. 4.5 is clearly better, but not by a big margin.
๐๐ผ๐๐: Same as Sonnet 4.
๐๐๐๐ฒ๐๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐: Initial assessment based on quick tests (see below/ docs). More to follow as I use it live.
๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ: Reasoning based advanced analysis in multi-step multi-agent setup.
๐ค๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐
Claude Sonnet 4.5 - 115
Claude Sonnet 4 - 100
GPT-5 - 95
Qwen3 Max - 90
DeepSeek R1 - 85
Gemini 2.5 Flash - 75
๐๐ผ๐๐
Reasoning & planning cost for advanced analysis task in USD per 100 questions. Execution cost extra. See next paragraph / doc for details.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 - $6.5
Claude Sonnet 4 - $6.5
GPT-5 - $15.0
Qwen3 Max - $2.0
DeepSeek R1 - $2.25
Gemini 2.5 Flash - $1.75
๐๐ป ๐บ๐๐น๐๐ถ-๐๐๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐, ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐๐ป๐ธ. In DATS-4 I use GPT-4.1 for execution at about $10 per 100 questions. A single-step SQL agent is much cheaper (GPT-4.1 = $2 per 100, 4.1-mini = $0.50, 4o-mini = $0.25).
๐ ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐น๐ฒ-๐๐๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ
In my own live usage, ~80% of work runs through single-step agents. Multi-step - reserve for the tough analysis cases.
๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ธ ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐ (๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ)
โธ Credit card data mart build (1M customers, 10M transactions, AWS RDS MySQL).
โธ Weighted score ranking of Indian issuers (RBI monthly file, Supabase).
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