Provider review
GoodRx review
The price actually falls at the low doses — and it is brand-name drug, not compounded.
Stay at or below half a milligram on the pens and you pay well under the next rung up. The catch is that this is a coupon at a retail counter, not a plan, so you still need a prescriber. And the prices move with your ZIP code.
Reviewed by Lena OrtizMetabolic Health Editor
Price updated August 2026
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Price as published
GoodRx
$199/fill Wegovy pens at 0.25–0.5 mg, $349 at 1 mg and up
- Vs median
- Not comparable — no per-month rate is published — the verified string carries no monthly figure
- Market
- $59–$1300/mo across 242 of 373
- Structure
- Quotes off the lowest dose
- Dispensed
- Pharmacy not publicly identified
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In one paragraph
The verdict
Take a quarter dose here and it genuinely costs you less, which almost nothing else here can say. The pen ladder is a step, not a slope: the two lowest strengths share one price and the very next strength up costs 43% more, with the milligram printed against every figure, free, with no account and no quiz. The tablets do the same thing in two steps. Read the shape of this row carefully though, because it is not the same animal as the rest. There is no membership, no compounded product and no shipment — it is a discount coupon presented at a retail pharmacy counter against brand-name medication, so you need a prescriber of your own. Two things will cost you. Coupon prices vary by ZIP code and change, which is why the page timestamps them. And the cheapest tablet rung carries a stated expiry date, after which it rises.
Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.
Who it suits, and who it does not
A good fit if
- You already have a prescription and want to pay by the dose you are actually taking
- You want brand-name, FDA-approved medication rather than a compounded preparation
- You are holding at or below half a milligram on the pens, where the ladder is at its cheapest
- You want the milligram printed against the price before you commit to anything
Look elsewhere if
- You want a telehealth plan that prescribes and ships to you. This is a coupon at a counter, not a service
- You want a price you can rely on next month. These are dated, vary by ZIP code and move
- You are budgeting on the cheapest tablet rung. It carries a published expiry date
- You are shopping for compounded medication. There is none here
What it actually costs
Price as published
Not a subscription — per-fill coupon prices at retail pharmacies, quoted by dose · Wegovy pens $199 per carton of four at 0.25 mg and 0.5 mg, $349 at 1 mg, 1.7 mg and 2.4 mg, $399 at 7.2 mg · Wegovy tablets $149 per 30 at 1.5 mg and 4 mg, $299 at 9 mg and 25 mg (retail $1,638.98) · Zepbound KwikPen $299.00 a month, self-pay, described as a one-month prescription · "4 mg offer only available until 8/31/2026, then pay $199/month for 4 mg" · coupon prices are ZIP-dependent and dated — these are ZIP 75270 on 2026-08-10, and the page timestamps them "last updated on 08/10/26"
- 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
States plainly that its advertised figures are based on the lowest dosage and that higher doses may cost more. On a general ranking that is a warning; for someone staying small it is the one model that bills accordingly.
36 of the 373 programs we track price a small dose this way. The pen ladder steps rather than slopes: the two lowest strengths share one price and the next strength up costs 43% more, with the milligram printed against every figure. A reader holding at or below half a milligram pays materially less than one who steps up once, and can confirm it before paying anything.
Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.
What is included
- Consult
- Billed separately
- Dietitian
- Not included
- Labs
- Not required
- Pricing
- Varies by dose, plan or tier
- Price last updated
- August 2026
What it does well
- Prints the milligram, the quantity, the retail price and the discounted price in one table, per dose, for free, with no account and no quiz
- States the principle outright — "Self-pay pricing varies by dose" — and the ladder has a real step in it rather than a slope
- Dates its own prices and dates the expiry of the promotional rung instead of letting a limited offer read as permanent
- Labels the sponsored manufacturer blocks as sponsored, with the manufacturer's own material code visible
- Shows the same price across a dozen named pharmacy chains rather than an "up to X% off" claim
- Publishes a LegitScript seal ID, 338276
Pharmacy, labs and oversight
GoodRx does not publicly identify the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. No bloodwork is required before you start. A clinician review is billed separately.
Transparency check
2 of 4 published openly
What GoodRx publishes about itself, read from its own pages when we verified them — not estimated, and not a score.
- Pharmacy named and regulatedNo pharmacy is identified anywhere we could find on its own pages.
- Not published
- A price you can read before intakeA monthly rate is published on its own pages — the figure in the price row above, read there and verified against it.
- Published
- What a higher dose costsPriced by dose, plan or tier, and the higher rungs are not published — the advertised figure does not tell you what a larger dose costs.
- Not published
- No FDA warning letter on fileChecked against the FDA's own warning-letter database; nothing on file for this company.
- None on file
How the program works
GoodRx is a discount-coupon marketplace for FDA-approved brand-name GLP-1s, not a compounding telehealth subscription. There is no membership and no compounded product: you bring a prescription to a retail counter and present a coupon, with the same discounted price shown across a dozen named chains including CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Kroger, Costco and Sam's Club. Prices are quoted per fill against a ZIP code and dated on the page. GoodRx Care exists as a separate prescribing route, so a reader can in principle get the prescription and the coupon in one place.
The honest cons
THIS IS NOT A COMPOUNDED PRODUCT OR A TELEHEALTH PLAN. It is a coupon against brand-name drug at a retail counter, so you need a prescriber of your own and the medication is dispensed at a pharmacy rather than shipped to you
- COUPON PRICES ARE ZIP-DEPENDENT AND MOVE. Every figure recorded here is one ZIP code on one day, and the page timestamps them for that reason
- The cheapest tablet rung is dated: "4 mg offer only available until 8/31/2026, then pay $199/month for 4 mg"
- Zepbound is quoted as a single flat self-pay monthly figure rather than a per-dose ladder, so whether tirzepatide prices vary by dose here is not published
- The manufacturer blocks are sponsored placements, so the most prominent offers on the page are paid ones
- Whether you can bring an outside prescription or must go through GoodRx Care is not stated
- Compounded GLP-1s are not FDA-approved, and intentional microdosing is off-label and unproven
Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.
How it compares
GoodRx 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.
Where this sits
#121 of 373
Ordered with the companies that pay us first, and GoodRx is not one of them. A disclosed partition, not a score.
Compare all 373 providers →Read this before you buy
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
Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.
The closest alternative
Elara MD
$249/mo at 0.2 mg/wk semaglutide
- Vs median
- $80/mo above the $169 median
- Market
- $59–$1300/mo across 242 of 373
- Structure
- Quotes off the lowest dose
- Dispensed
- Compounded, 503A pharmacy
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Read the Elara MD review →Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.