16:01
2026-07-26
pub.towardsai.net
artificial-intelligence
CLI vs MCP: I Ran the Same Task Through Both. One Used 250 Tokens. The Other Used Over 2,000.
A comparison of CLI and MCP approaches for AI agents shows CLI using 250 tokens versus MCP consuming over 2,000 tokens for the same file operation task, according to an experiment run by the author. Tโฆ