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A September 4, 2026 post on the official Neon blog titled "Comparing token economics across 42 AI models" describes an experiment in which the Neon team ran a synthetic 100-support-ticket workload through models listed in the Neon AI Gateway and compared total cost, output usability, and time to completion, publishing The blog highlights specific results for developer decision-making: GPT-5 Nano was reported as the cheapest model for the task, cheaper than open-weight alternatives, with the lowest cost per usable response and completion in roughly three minutes; Llama 3.1 8B Instruct was the fastest at 1 minute 18 seconds but only p
