Transports compared: stdio vs SSE vs HTTP

Francisc Toth · NOV 12, 2025 · 8 minutes
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Not every transport fits every deployment. stdio is perfect for local tools, SSE suits long-lived streaming connections, and streamable HTTP scales cleanly behind a load balancer.

This piece lays out the trade-offs side by side — latency, persistence, and operational cost — so you can pick the right one before you write a line of server code.

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