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MCP vs. APIs: Why You Need Both for AI Applications

calendar_today April 21, 2026 person Dan Vega domain vmware-tanzu

I’m a huge fan of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and have been fortunate to talk about it at several conferences and to customers lately. In those talks, a few questions often come up: What’s the difference between MCP and APIs? Is an MCP server just a wrapper around my API?

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