diff --git a/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/VeloxRoughCostModelSuite.scala b/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/VeloxRoughCostModelSuite.scala
index ca3bbb0b1e72..180a8febb649 100644
--- a/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/VeloxRoughCostModelSuite.scala
+++ b/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/VeloxRoughCostModelSuite.scala
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class VeloxRoughCostModelSuite extends VeloxWholeStageTransformerSuite {
     super.beforeAll()
     spark
       .range(100)
-      .selectExpr("cast(id % 3 as int) as c1", "id as c2")
+      .selectExpr("cast(id % 3 as int) as c1", "id as c2", "array(id, id + 1) as c3")
       .write
       .format("parquet")
       .saveAsTable("tmp1")
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ class VeloxRoughCostModelSuite extends VeloxWholeStageTransformerSuite {
   override protected def sparkConf: SparkConf = super.sparkConf
     .set(GlutenConfig.RAS_ENABLED.key, "true")
     .set(GlutenConfig.RAS_COST_MODEL.key, "rough")
+    .set(GlutenConfig.VANILLA_VECTORIZED_READERS_ENABLED.key, "false")
 
   test("fallback trivial project if its neighbor nodes fell back") {
     withSQLConf(GlutenConfig.COLUMNAR_FILESCAN_ENABLED.key -> "false") {
@@ -51,4 +52,12 @@ class VeloxRoughCostModelSuite extends VeloxWholeStageTransformerSuite {
       }
     }
   }
+
+  test("avoid adding r2c whose schema contains complex data types") {
+    withSQLConf(GlutenConfig.COLUMNAR_FILESCAN_ENABLED.key -> "false") {
+      runQueryAndCompare("select array_contains(c3, 0) as list from tmp1") {
+        checkSparkOperatorMatch[ProjectExec]
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/planner/cost/LegacyCostModel.scala b/gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/planner/cost/LegacyCostModel.scala
index 3b631872caa6..86f3f6e0b5e2 100644
--- a/gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/planner/cost/LegacyCostModel.scala
+++ b/gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/planner/cost/LegacyCostModel.scala
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ import org.apache.gluten.utils.PlanUtil
 
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.{ColumnarToRowExec, RowToColumnarExec, SparkPlan}
 
+/**
+ * A cost model that is supposed to drive RAS planner create the same query plan with legacy
+ * planner.
+ */
 class LegacyCostModel extends LongCostModel {
 
   // A very rough estimation as of now. The cost model basically considers any
diff --git a/gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/planner/cost/RoughCostModel.scala b/gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/planner/cost/RoughCostModel.scala
index d621c3010c16..086bc4c0ce13 100644
--- a/gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/planner/cost/RoughCostModel.scala
+++ b/gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/planner/cost/RoughCostModel.scala
@@ -16,13 +16,16 @@
  */
 package org.apache.gluten.planner.cost
 
+import org.apache.gluten.execution.RowToColumnarExecBase
 import org.apache.gluten.extension.columnar.enumerated.RemoveFilter
 import org.apache.gluten.extension.columnar.transition.{ColumnarToRowLike, RowToColumnarLike}
 import org.apache.gluten.utils.PlanUtil
 
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.{Alias, Attribute, NamedExpression}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.{ColumnarToRowExec, ProjectExec, RowToColumnarExec, SparkPlan}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{ArrayType, MapType, StructType}
 
+/** A rough cost model with some empirical heuristics. */
 class RoughCostModel extends LongCostModel {
 
   override def selfLongCostOf(node: SparkPlan): Long = {
@@ -34,6 +37,10 @@ class RoughCostModel extends LongCostModel {
         // Make trivial ProjectExec has the same cost as ProjectExecTransform to reduce unnecessary
         // c2r and r2c.
         10L
+      case r2c: RowToColumnarExecBase if hasComplexTypes(r2c.schema) =>
+        // Avoid moving computation back to native when transition has complex types in schema.
+        // Such transitions are observed to be extremely expensive as of now.
+        Long.MaxValue
       case ColumnarToRowExec(_) => 10L
       case RowToColumnarExec(_) => 10L
       case ColumnarToRowLike(_) => 10L
@@ -50,4 +57,13 @@ class RoughCostModel extends LongCostModel {
     case _: Attribute => true
     case _ => false
   }
+
+  private def hasComplexTypes(schema: StructType): Boolean = {
+    schema.exists(_.dataType match {
+      case _: StructType => true
+      case _: ArrayType => true
+      case _: MapType => true
+      case _ => false
+    })
+  }
 }