🤖 I measured the real token cost of MCP servers vs CLI for AI coding agents — and the numbers are wild.In a 20-prompt de...

🤖 I measured the real token cost of MCP servers vs CLI for AI coding agents — and the numbers are wild.In a 20-prompt dev session with just 2 GitHub calls, Native MCP costs 61,654 tokens vs 448 for raw CLI. That's a 137× overhead, 99% of which is pure schema waste.The answer isn't "MCP or CLI" — it's about your G/N ratio (service calls ÷ total prompts): 🟢 >40% → Native MCP 🟡 5–40% → Gateway MCP🔴

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