What does cheapest mean here?

The lowest all-in price a month at the maintenance dose — the dose you stay on, not the starting dose an introductory rate covers. Where a seller publishes a membership fee and a medication price separately, halfrx adds them; where a seller publishes no maintenance figure at all, it appears with no price rather than with a guess, and cannot be ranked.

Why is a cheaper option not always ranked higher?

Because price is one component of a published formula, not the whole of it. An open FTC action, a state action, a failing BBB grade or an FDA warning letter caps the score at 4.5 out of 10 whatever the price, and anything with no verified price scores zero on cost. The ranking by price and the ranking by score are shown separately here so you can see where they disagree.

Is anything on this list paid placement?

No. No provider can buy a position, a score, or a flag removed. Some outbound links earn a commission and every one of them says so beside itself; commission status is not an input to any component of the score, and a company under an open FTC action gets no commission link at all.

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The cheapest GLP-1, ranked

19 of the 43 providers and medications on this site publish an all-in maintenance price that could be verified. They are ranked here by that figure — then segmented, because the cheapest option for someone paying cash is not the cheapest option for someone with a plan that covers it.

Last updated 2026-09-22 — the most recent price verification in this ranking. Read and dated by Alex Seot.

What is the cheapest GLP-1 you can actually get?

Noom Med at $249 a month once titrated, read from its own published page on 2026-09-22 — a compounded copy, not the FDA-approved product. A lower figure comes from Strut Health at $129 (compounded, FDA warning letter), left out of this answer for the same reason the cash list below leaves it out. The cheapest verified figure in the whole catalog is lower — Qsymia (phentermine/topiramate) at $75 — but that is not a GLP-1 at all: it is phentermine and topiramate, which works by a different mechanism and reports a smaller trial figure. Which of these are actually GLP-1s is the confusion worth clearing before comparing anything. The most expensive verified figure is Calibrate at $548, a spread of $473 a month — $5,676 across a year. The figure that matters is the maintenance price rather than the advertised one, because the starting dose is not the dose anyone stays on and an introductory rate covers a month or two of a course measured in years. 5 of the ranked options are compounded rather than FDA approved, which is a legal status and not a quality claim, and they sit at the cheap end for that reason. Of the 43 providers and medications here, 24 carry no verified maintenance price and are not ranked on price at all.

Cheapest if you are paying cash

The rule: Verified maintenance price, no insurance billed, and no FTC action, state action, BBB F grade or FDA warning letter on its record.

1Noom Med$249/moverified 2026-09-22compounded
2Found$289/moverified 2026-09-22compounded
3LillyDirect$299/moverified 2026-09-13
4Hone Health$315/moverified 2026-09-13compounded
5NovoCare Pharmacy$349/moverified 2026-09-22

Cheapest medication, bought direct

The rule: Medications with a verified maintenance price, ranked. These are the drug itself rather than a program wrapped around it.

1Qsymia$75/moverified 2026-09-22
2Contrave$99/moverified 2026-09-22Boxed warning
3Foundayo$299/moverified 2026-09-12Boxed warning
4Wegovy pill$299/moverified 2026-09-10Boxed warning
5Ozempic$349/moverified 2026-09-22Boxed warning

Cheapest FDA-approved option

The rule: Excludes compounded copies, which are made under the pharmacy-compounding exemption and are not FDA-approved products.

1Qsymia$75/moverified 2026-09-22
2Contrave$99/moverified 2026-09-22Boxed warning
3LillyDirect$299/moverified 2026-09-13
4Foundayo$299/moverified 2026-09-12Boxed warning
5Wegovy pill$299/moverified 2026-09-10Boxed warning

Highest scored, whatever the price

The rule: The published formula in full: cost, transparency, terms, evidence and record. Arithmetic over the published facts, not an editor's ordering. A seller whose own site has stopped operating is left out: there is nothing left to buy, so there is nothing to rank.

1LillyDirect8.5/10$149–$449/moverified 2026-09-13
2LifeMD8.0/10$498/moverified 2026-09-13
3NovoCare Pharmacy8.0/10$149–$399/moverified 2026-09-22
4Calibrate7.5/10$548/moverified 2026-09-22
5GoodRx for Weight Loss7.4/10$188/mochecked 2026-09-13 — no maintenance-dose price

Everything with a verified price

Cheapest first. The score column is the published formula; where it disagrees with the price order, the reason is on its price page.

#	Provider or medication	At maintenance	Score	Verified
1	Qsymia	$75/mo	7.1	2026-09-22
2	Contrave	$99/mo	6.3	2026-09-22
3	Strut Healthcompounded	$129/mo	4.5	2026-09-22
4	Noom Medcompounded	$249/mo	5.7	2026-09-22
5	Foundcompounded	$289/mo	5.8	2026-09-22
6	Henry Medscompounded	$297/mo	4.5	2026-09-20
7	LillyDirect	$299/mo	8.5	2026-09-13
8	Foundayo	$299/mo	6.3	2026-09-12
9	Wegovy pill	$299/mo	6.5	2026-09-10
10	Medvi	$299/mo	4.5	2026-09-14
11	Hone Healthcompounded	$315/mo	5.0	2026-09-13
12	Ozempic	$349/mo	5.1	2026-09-22
13	Wegovy	$349/mo	6.9	2026-09-22
14	NovoCare Pharmacy	$349/mo	8.0	2026-09-22
15	Trulicity	$389/mo	3.7	2026-09-22
16	Zepbound	$449/mo	7.3	2026-08-19
17	LifeMD	$498/mo	8.0	2026-09-13
18	Mounjaro	$499/mo	5.1	2026-09-21
19	Calibrate	$548/mo	7.5	2026-09-22

24 that cannot be ranked

None of these has an all-in maintenance price that could be verified — a starting price, a range or an estimate is not one. That is a fact about the seller rather than a gap in this table, and it is why they are listed here rather than ranked.

How the score is built →What a year actually costs →Coupons and savings cards →What a pharmacy pays →What it costs at the counter →When a generic can arrive →The same data as JSON →

How this ranking works

What does cheapest mean here?: The lowest all-in price a month at the maintenance dose — the dose you stay on, not the starting dose an introductory rate covers. Where a seller publishes a membership fee and a medication price separately, halfrx adds them; where a seller publishes no maintenance figure at all, it appears with no price rather than with a guess, and cannot be ranked.
Why is a cheaper option not always ranked higher?: Because price is one component of a published formula, not the whole of it. An open FTC action, a state action, a failing BBB grade or an FDA warning letter caps the score at 4.5 out of 10 whatever the price, and anything with no verified price scores zero on cost. The ranking by price and the ranking by score are shown separately here so you can see where they disagree.
Is anything on this list paid placement?: No. No provider can buy a position, a score, or a flag removed. Some outbound links earn a commission and every one of them says so beside itself; commission status is not an input to any component of the score, and a company under an open FTC action gets no commission link at all.

Bands used for the cost component of the score run $129–$699 for providers and $75–$499 for medications. They are recomputed from the live data rather than fixed, so a new cheapest option moves the scale rather than sitting off the end of it. Recompute any score yourself: the formula is published in full and the inputs are in catalogue.json.

The registers every seller here was checked against

Named so the search can be repeated rather than taken on trust.

Warning letters, U.S. Food and Drug Administration — The register searched for every seller on this site. A letter found here is linked from the seller's page to the original.
Cases and proceedings, Federal Trade Commission — The register searched for advertising and billing actions against a seller.