Provider review
Heros Health review
Same price at every dose — and two different standing rates for one drug.
A quarter dose costs what a full dose costs, which Heros says outright. The harder problem is the rate itself: two of its pages quote different monthly figures for the same medication. The cheapest headline is a six-month prepay.
Reviewed by Lena OrtizMetabolic Health Editor
Price updated August 2026
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Price as published
Heros Health
$175/mo semaglutide standing — though another page says $199
- Vs median
- $6/mo above the $169 median
- Market
- $59–$1300/mo across 242 of 373
- Structure
- Same price at every dose
- Dispensed
- Pharmacy not publicly identified
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In one paragraph
The verdict
Take a quarter dose here and you pay the full-dose rate — "Same price, every dose" is Heros's own line, and it is consistent about that much. What it is not consistent about is the price. One page quotes semaglutide as a monthly rate; another quotes a first month and a higher recurring figure for the same medication, and nothing on the open site settles which you would actually be charged. Give it credit for naming the standard its pharmacy works to, and for leaving your card alone until a clinician has approved you, with a full refund if that approval never comes. Two more things will cost you if you misread them. The cheapest advertised figure is a six-month prepay charged in one payment. And the per-month figures on the prepay tiers do not divide their own totals, so the rate you compute is not the rate on the label.
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 expect to climb to a full dose and want the price to hold when you do
- You want your card left alone until a clinician has actually approved you
- You care that the pharmacy standard is named even when the pharmacy is not
Look elsewhere if
- You are taking less to spend less — the smaller dose is billed like the full one
- You need to know the recurring rate before committing. Two pages quote different figures for the same medication
- You are budgeting from the cheapest headline. That one is six months paid at once
- You want the dispensing pharmacy named, or a certification number you can check
What it actually costs
Price as published
Compounded semaglutide $175/month "Billed Monthly" and compounded tirzepatide $275/month, one price at every dose — "Same price, every dose. No hidden fees" · the site publishes two different standing rates for the same medication: one page says semaglutide is $175/mo, another says "$149 your first month, then $199/mo" · prepay rungs $149/mo billed "$435 every 3 months" and $119/mo billed "$720 every 6 months", plus a $165/mo three-month rung on the other page · neither per-month figure divides its own total — $435 over three months is $145/mo and $720 over six is $120/mo · the "Starting at $119/mo" headline is the six-month prepay rate, not a monthly one · the card is not charged until a clinician approves
- Vs median
- $6/mo above the $169 median across the 242 of 373 programs we track that publish a plain monthly rate
- Market
- $59–$1300/mo is the full published spread in our ranking
- Structure
- Same price at every dose
One figure regardless of how much drug you take. Reassuring if you expect to titrate upward, and the least economical structure on this page if you do not: a quarter dose costs what a full one does.
88 of the 373 programs we track price a small dose this way. One figure covers every dose, stated plainly. Taking less buys nothing back. The complication here is not the rule but the rate it attaches to — the site publishes two different standing figures for the same medication, so which number the rule fixes depends on which page you read.
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
- Included in the price
- Dietitian
- Not included
- Labs
- Not required
- Pricing
- Flat at every dose
- Price last updated
- August 2026
What it does well
- States the flat-dose rule plainly and repeats it consistently: "Same price, every dose"
- Names the standard its pharmacy holds to — 503A, USP <797> sterile preparation — rather than only saying "licensed"
- Puts the step-up from the intro rate on the same card as the intro rate, so the recurring figure is visible before you buy
- Does not charge the card until a clinician approves, and refunds in full if approval is refused
Pharmacy, labs and oversight
Heros Health 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.
Transparency check
3 of 4 published openly
What Heros Health 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 costsOne price at every dose, so the bill is knowable before you titrate.
- 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
Heros Health is a direct-to-consumer telehealth service selling compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide as weekly injections, with the medication and the clinical review bundled into a monthly membership rate and multi-month prepay rungs offered alongside it. It names the standard its pharmacy holds to — a 503A pharmacy meeting USP <797> sterile-preparation standards — without naming the pharmacy. It says the card is not charged until a clinician approves the treatment, and refunds in full if approval is refused. Two of its own pages disagree about the standing monthly rate and about how many states are covered.
The honest cons
ONE PRICE AT EVERY DOSE. A quarter dose is billed like a full one — Heros is candid about it, and candour does not change the arithmetic
- THE SITE QUOTES TWO DIFFERENT STANDING RATES for the same medication: semaglutide is "$175 /mo Billed Monthly" in one place and "then $199/mo" in another. Which one you would be agreeing to is not resolvable from the open site
- THE $119 HEADLINE IS A SIX-MONTH PREPAY, charged as $720 every six months rather than as a monthly rate
- The per-month figures on the prepay tiers do not divide their own totals — $435 over three months is $145, not the $149 shown, and $720 over six months is $120, not $119
- The state count contradicts itself between pages: one says the pharmacy network is active in 46 states, another says 50
- LegitScript certification is claimed with no seal number, so there is nothing to check it against
- A strip of media and medical-society logos runs under the heading "Backed by clinical research", with no linked coverage behind any of them
- No compounding pharmacy is named
- 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
Heros Health 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
#105 of 373
Ordered with the companies that pay us first, and Heros Health 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
MadeMed
$239/mo flat
- Vs median
- $70/mo above the $169 median
- Market
- $59–$1300/mo across 242 of 373
- Structure
- Same price at every dose
- Dispensed
- Pharmacy not publicly identified
Advertising disclosure · we may earn a commission if you start care through some of these links, at no extra cost to you.
Read the MadeMed 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.