Claude Code Is Burning Your Token Budget. Here's the Receipt.

I found $2,500/year of hidden token waste in my Claude Code setup. It was the MCP servers.

The Discovery

Last week I noticed my Claude Code conversations were dying at around message 15. Context window full. The model starts forgetting earlier instructions. Tool calls fail. The conversation degrades into hallucination.

I assumed it was my fault — too many messages, too much context. So I started measuring.

Claude Code Is Burning Your Token Budget. Here's the Receipt.

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