
The MCP token tax no one quoted: 44,000 tokens to check one repo language
A controlled benchmark found MCP costing 4 to 32× more tokens than CLI for identical operations. NVIDIA's Vera CPU launched with 88 custom cores and 22,500 concurrent agent environments per rack. Mistral's Leanstral beat Claude Sonnet 4.6 on formal proof benchmarks at one-fifteenth the price.

















