MCP Server Sprawl: The Quiet Token Bill That's Eating Your AI Margin
Six MCP servers inject 90,000 tokens into every request before the model reasons. That is roughly $8,100 per month in pure schema overhead o...
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The xhigh Effort Trap: Why Opus 4.7's Recommended Default Is Quietly Inflating Your Agentic Bill 40%
Opus 4.7 introduced xhigh as the new default effort level for coding and agentic workloads. It produces 1.5-1.7x more output tokens than med...
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OCR Is Dead, the Bill Doesn't Know Yet: Why Opus 4.7's 98.5% Visual Acuity Just Collapsed the Document AI Stack
Claude Opus 4.7 jumped from 54.5% to 98.5% visual acuity overnight, with 3.75MP image support. For teams running Textract plus parser plus L...
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The Opus 4.7 Tokenizer Tax: Why Anthropic's 'Unchanged Pricing' Just Quietly Raised Your AI Bill 35%
Anthropic kept Opus 4.7 at the same $5/$25 sticker price as Opus 4.6. But the new tokenizer inflates input tokens up to 1.35x and the xhigh...
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