MCP Is Costing You 37% More Tokens Than Necessary — Community Documents Input Schema Overhead
r/ClaudeAI·medium signal
A r/ClaudeAI post (68 upvotes, 31 comments) with an attached benchmark image shows that MCP tool schemas and injected prompt instructions inflate input token counts by 37% at scale, a significant cost driver for production agent deployments. The finding aligns with the broader LLMOps infrastructure focus: builders are beginning to measure and optimize token overhead from framework scaffolding, not just model calls.