A token budget makes MCP catalog growth visible before latency and model cost become a production surprise.
Practical workflow
- Estimate eager schema tokens for all selected servers.
- Estimate routed schema tokens for the chosen tools.
- Track saved tokens, denied calls, and approval requests.
- Export the result for platform and finance reviews.
How ToolBudget Router helps
ToolBudget Router reports eager tokens, selected schema tokens, saved tokens, and context-window share for each task.