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Vishal Gupta
Full-Stack & AI Engineer · MCP, Python, Node.js, AWS
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Every MCP server you connect costs tokens before it does anything.
We measured five browser MCP servers reading the same page (one URL, 18 Sep):
• chrome-devtools-mcp: 12,321 tokens
• Playwright MCP: 11,119
• read-website-fast: 4,938
• server-puppeteer: 2,871
• mcp-server-fetch:...
Every MCP server you connect costs tokens before it does anything.
We measured five browser MCP servers reading the same page (one URL, 18 Sep):
chrome-devtools-mcp: 12,321 tokens
Playwright MCP: 11,119
read-website-fast: 4,938
server-puppeteer: 2,871
mcp-server-fetch: 1,298
The...
Everyone is shipping MCP servers right now. Almost nobody demos the boring part.
The demo is always the same: connect the agent, watch it read your data, applause.
The part that decides whether it ever reaches production is credentials.
One set of tokens shared across every...