mcp-context-cost

sqlite — context cost

268 tokens across 6 tools — lean (< 1K). Measured 2026-08-18 under methodology v1.0.

   
server (self-reported) sqlite v0.1.0
status measured
tokenizer tiktoken / o200k_base
launch command uvx --with "mcp\<2" mcp-server-sqlite --db-path /tmp/test.db
isolation docker · ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:python3.12-bookworm-slim · network bridge · network enabled for package fetch; clean FS, no host credentials
env vars supplied none
canonical SHA-256 d432983abc546eac2725c9db1a07f5f8dad0e6cbfb12f925c1d4fb61743d1c6b
category official-reference
source https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived

Where the tokens are

tool tokens share description schema
write_query 50 18.7% 13 26
describe_table 49 18.3% 8 30
append_insight 49 18.3% 7 30
read_query 46 17.2% 8 27
create_table 45 16.8% 8 26
list_tables 28 10.4% 7 9

Each tool is tokenized on its own, so the parts do not sum exactly to the whole: the array adds its own brackets and commas, and the tokenizer merges tokens across object boundaries. The badge number is always the count of the whole array, never a sum of parts.

Re-derive it

npx -y mcp-context-cost verify results/sqlite/measurement.json

That re-tokenizes the published capture and checks the count and the hash. If it disagrees with the badge, the badge is wrong — open an issue and it gets corrected.

Badge JSON · All servers · Leaderboard · Methodology