Following the removal of sessions in July 2026, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) now operates statelessly, similar to REST APIs. Experiments comparing stateless MCP with REST for a backend service revealed that for small tool surfaces, performance is comparable. However, on more realistic surfaces, differences emerge due to MCP's on-turn presentation of tool surfaces versus REST's one-time contract provision.
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