← Back to PeopleMAResearcherMarc AlierResearcher at UPC. Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaLinkedInMarc Alier is a researcher at UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.1Mentions1Articles1OutletsArticlesMost recent firstMentioned InReferenced in coverageStudy finds CLI agents 5–28x cheaper than MCP across 7 agent scaffoldsarXivpositiveAug 24, 2026“Co-author of study comparing CLI agents versus MCP agents across agent scaffoldings.”