Does using MCP hit the rate limit faster?

Hey everyone,

Is it just me, or does using MCP to manage tasks make you hit the rate limit much quicker?

Before I started using the task-master, I could work for around 5 hours before hitting the rate limit. Now, ever since I began using it, I’m reaching the limit in about 50 minutes.

Has anyone else noticed this? Could it be that MCP is making significantly more requests under the hood?

Just trying to understand if this is expected behavior or if I might be using it incorrectly.

Thanks!

Hi @feliep360 and welcome to Cursor Forum.

This depends a lot on the amount of tokens required to be sent or received by the MCP. Heavy context MCPs can lead to faster reaching limits, same as any other context increase (files,…).

You could have a look at the MCP output and see if it does send unnecessary amount of content to be processed.

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I think the author can provide clarification, as something might have changed in the latest version.

cc @eyaltoledano

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