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MCP vs API: When You Need Which, With Real Benchmarks

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I built the same small service as a REST API and as a stateless MCP server and measured latency, throughput, bytes and the tokens a model has to read. The original, with any updates, lives on fabwaseem.com . MCP vs API is not really a choice between two rival technologies. An API (usually REST) is…

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  1. 2026-10-18 04:53 · DEV Community — AI
    MCP vs API: When You Need Which, With Real Benchmarks

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