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MCP tool cost: 20 job Actors on Apify, 2.1K to 32.7K tokens each

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Here is what an agent pays before it asks a job-search tool anything. I pinned 20 job-search Actors from the Apify Store, one at a time, on the hosted Apify MCP server and read what tools/list sends back. The smallest tool definition was 2,139 tokens. The median was 3,829. One was 32,737, and 32,13…

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  1. 2026-10-28 11:00 · DEV Community — AI
    MCP tool cost: 20 job Actors on Apify, 2.1K to 32.7K tokens each

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