What the spread actually is

Cheapest
$119

Embody

Middle of the field
$199

Sprout Health

Dearest we track
$399

Willow

Manufacturer self-pay
$299

$299 at the starting dose, rising to $699 at the maintenance doses

The cheapest prices here are compounded tirzepatide, which is not FDA-approved and which the FDA has moved to restrict. Zepbound costs more and carries the approval.

Manufacturer price quoted verbatim from its own published terms, checked Aug 22: “Available through Zepbound self-pay, Zepbound is offered as a 4-count single-dose vial (0.5mL) and a single-patient-use KwikPen (2.4mL, 0.6mL/dose) in doses of 2.5mg, 5mg, 7.5mg, 10mg, 12.5mg and 15mg, with direct-to-patient pricing of $299, $399, $499, $699, $699 and $699 respectively.

How this list is ranked

  • All-in, not advertised. A $149 program with a $74 monthly membership is a $223 program, and it ranks as one. Where a seller has not published a fee we could verify, the row says so rather than assuming zero.
  • Checked weekly.Every price is read from the seller’s own page and dated. The trail on each row shows the shape; the solid section is our own record.
  • Order is price, nothing else. We earn a commission when you buy through these links, and it never changes the order. No seller can pay for position.
  • Only sellers we can verify. Programs we cannot check, or that have stopped taking patients, drop off the list rather than sitting on it stale.

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Before you pick a tirzepatide program

What it costsGLP-1 without insuranceWithout insurance you have three real routes and they are far apart. Buying direct from the manufacturer is the branded one: Novo publishes $349 a month for the Wegovy pen and from $149 for the tablet, Lilly $299 to $699 for Zepbound by dose. Compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide from a telehealth program is a fraction of that but is not FDA-approved. And the savings cards you will be pointed at mostly require commercial insurance, so if you have none they are not available to you at all.7 min · checked Aug 28Doses and injectingMicrodosing GLP-1Microdosing is not a medical term, no dose below the label's starting dose has been studied, and the evidence is an open question rather than a finding. The money claim is checkable though, and it does not survive contact with our own data. Not one of the 39 programs we track charges less for a smaller dose. The two sellers who market microdosing as its own product charge $149 and $169 a month for it, both on long prepay commitments, against $119 for full-dose tirzepatide billed monthly at the cheapest sellers on our board.9 min · checked Aug 28The drugsMounjaro for weight lossMounjaro is tirzepatide approved for type 2 diabetes. Zepbound is the same molecule from the same maker, approved for weight management, and it goes to the same 15 mg. So unlike Ozempic and Wegovy, there is no dose ceiling pushing you from one to the other: the reason people move is coverage and cash price, not strength. Using Mounjaro for weight is off-label and a prescriber's decision. In the one head-to-head trial, tirzepatide beat semaglutide, 20.2% mean body-weight loss at 72 weeks against 13.7%.6 min · checked Aug 27

If you want the whole picture

This page answers one question: who is cheapest today. These answer the others.

$119/mo is today’s floor. It moves.

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