Benchmark — May 2026

Token cost: inline vs. Botverse MCP

Processing a 2MB research PDF inline vs. offloading to Botverse via MCP. Measured with claude-sonnet-4-6.

Inline (text extraction)
97,354
input tokens
$0.298
per document
  • ✕Extract PDF text via pdftotext
  • ✕Pass raw text to Claude context
  • ✕Agent reads every word, header, footnote
  • ✕Context window dominated by file content
12× fewer tokens
Botverse MCP
~8,000
input tokens
$0.029
per document
  • ✓Agent calls convert_from_url MCP tool
  • ✓Conversion runs server-side in ~3 seconds
  • ✓Agent receives a download URL, not content
  • ✓File size has no effect on token count
Relative token usage
Inline97,354 tokens
Botverse MCP~8,000 tokens
At scale — 500 documents/month
$149/mo
Inline cost
$15/mo
Botverse cost
$134/mo
Monthly saving
Methodology: A 2MB research PDF was processed in two modes using claude-sonnet-4-6. Inline mode: text extracted via pdftotext and passed directly to the model context. Botverse mode: agent calls convert_from_url, get_job_status, and get_download_url — total MCP tool exchange only. Token counts measured via the Anthropic API usage object. Pricing at $3.00/MTok input. Botverse convert fee: $0.05/job.

Every token your agent spends on file I/O is wasted reasoning capacity.

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