· 4 days ago· Dev.to
MCP Token Usage Surges: Implications for Cloud Search Efficiency
I ran the same Google search through SerpApi's official serpapi-mcp server and through serp, the small open-source (MIT) CLI I built for the same job. Before I had searched anything, the MCP had already put 771 tokens into the model's context. The CLI put zero. When I did search, the MCP returned 6,
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