Discussion: MCP Is Costing You 37% More Tokens Than Necessary

Saw an interesting discussion on r/ClaudeAI about this — wanted to bring it here. **Original topic:** MCP Is Costing You 37% More Tokens Than Necessary > When we use skills, plugins or MCP tools, Claude reads long input schemas or injects prompt instructions. Those tokens are charged as input tokens, and can be expensive at scale, especially when it comes to API usage. We even ask Claude to explore other folders and sibling repositories, read files ... What are your thoughts? Has anyone here dealt with MCP server? --- *Discuss more at [0n MCP](https://www.0nmcp.com) — the hub for [autonomous AI agents](https://www.0nmcp.com).*