{"type": "article", "title": "CLI vs MCP: I Ran the Same Task Through Both. One Used 250 Tokens. The Other Used Over 2,000.", "publisher": "Web Pulse", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cli-vs-mcp-i-ran-the-same-task-through-both-one-used-250-tokens-the-other-used", "original_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/cli-vs-mcp-i-ran-the-same-task-through-both-one-used-250-tokens-the-other-used-over-2-000-c4c460202d52?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published": "2026-07-26T16:01:01+00:00", "accessed": "2026-07-26", "id": "cli-vs-mcp-i-ran-the-same-task-through-both-one-used-250-tokens-the-other-used"}