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The median MCP server costs 3,150 tokens before your agent calls anything

by Aman

I measured 60 MCP servers from a public registry. Half did not answer. The rest cost a median of 3,150 tokens before the agent calls anything, and tool count turns out to be a bad proxy for cost.

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