Citizen Meds review

Take a low dose here and you pay a low price for it. Citizen Meds prints a price against every milligram rung of both molecules, in public, on the cheapest product's own page — so the entry dose, the maintenance dose and every step between are costed before you buy anything. Better still, each month is a standalone purchase with no subscription required, which means someone intending to hold at a quarter dose can rebuy that rung indefinitely and never climb. That is close to the ideal shape for this reader. Two things will cost you. The plan it sells as a discount bills every 23 days rather than monthly — closer to sixteen charges a year than twelve, so over a year the "discount" costs more than paying the full rate every month. And the strike-through beside the entry price is decorative: the store's own regular price for that item is the price you are already being shown.

Vs median

Not comparable — no per-month rate is published — the verified string carries no monthly figure

Market

$59–$1300/mo is the full published spread in our ranking

Structure

Quotes off the lowest dose

Consult

Included in the price

Dietitian

Not included

Labs

Not required

Pricing

Varies by dose, plan or tier

Price last updated

August 2026

Citizen Meds does not publicly identify the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. No bloodwork is required before you start. A clinician review is included in the price.

Citizen Meds sells compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide as one-month kits of four weekly injections, bought outright rather than subscribed to — "one-time purchase — one-month supply — no subscription necessary". Each dose band is its own product with its own price, and the full ladder is printed on the cheapest product's own page, so the cost of every step is visible from the entry rung. Its semaglutide is compounded with B12: "Our Semaglutide is combined with B12 for energy, sleep cycle regulation and a better patient experience." Every patient must start at the month-1 dose, and a BMI of 27 or greater is required to order.

The "discounted" subscription costs more per year than paying full price twelve times: $100 every 23 days is 15.87 charges, about $1,587 a year, against $125 × 12 = $1,500

• The homepage strikes through "$299" beside the $125 semaglutide price, but the store's own regular price for that item is $125 — the markdown is decorative, not a real reduction
• The maintenance product is titled "Semaglutide (Maintenance) 2.4mg" while the same $395 rung's ingredient list reads "Semaglutide 2.5mg X (4 Injections)" — the two disagree about what is in the kit
• "THIS PRODUCT FOLLOWS A TITRATION SCHEDULE. ALL PATIENTS MUST START WITH 'MONTH 1' DOSE" — you cannot buy a higher rung first
• "A MINIMUM BMI OF 27 OR GREATER IS REQUIRED TO ORDER THIS PRODUCT"
• No compounding pharmacy is named
• No list of states served is published anywhere
• Compounded GLP-1s are not FDA-approved, and intentional microdosing is off-label and unproven

Citizen Meds is one of 373 low-dose GLP-1 programs we track, and 242 of them publish a monthly rate you can read before signing up. The ranking lists every published price on one screen, ordered with the companies that pay us first — a mechanism we state there, on the page it applies to.

Intentional GLP-1 microdosing is off-label and unproven — no randomized trial has established that a sub-label dose does anything, and any dose belongs with a clinician who knows your history. If you are going to have that conversation, have it with real numbers.

• What the evidence actually shows
• What microdosing GLP-1 costs
• Low dose vs full dose
• What a flat price costs at a low dose
• The true annual cost of a plan