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How many tokens does Blender MCP really use? 72 Claude Code runs, and a racing scene for $0.47

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People say hooking Blender up to Claude through MCP eats tokens. I couldn't find a single measurement, so I took the most popular server, MCP for Blender, and ran it 72 times in Claude Code: describing scenes, building furniture, recolouring and checking with screenshots, two worst cases, and one s…

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  1. 2026-10-22 12:17 · DEV Community — AI
    How many tokens does Blender MCP really use? 72 Claude Code runs, and a racing scene for $0.47

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