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A hundred realistic MCP tools cost 11,132 tokens on every model call
A dev.to measurement harness counts cl100k tokens over serialized MCP tool definitions and finds the standing cost grows by roughly 111 tokens for each tool described realistically, and every model call pays it again.
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Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives30
- Confidence58