Provider review
Open Water Rx review
One all-in price at every dose, and a named microdose line priced slightly above it.
Reviewed by Lena OrtizMetabolic Health Editor
Price updated September 2026
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$169/mo sema · $219/mo tirz, same at every dose
Visit Open Water RxEvery plan length is totaled on the pricing page, but no milligram sits behind any figure.
Price as published
Open Water Rx
$169/mo sema · $219/mo tirz, same at every dose
- Vs median
- $6/mo below the $175 median
- Market
- $59–$1,300/mo across 299 of 548
- Structure
- Same price at every dose
- Dispensed
- Compounded by Emerald · Stryker · Foothills · EPIQ Scripts
Advertising disclosure · we may earn a commission if you start care through some of these links, at no extra cost to you.
In one paragraph
The verdict
This is a flat-rate seller that publishes its whole price list, and the list is more complete than most. Every program carries a one-, three- and six-month total, the monthly figure covers the clinician review, the medication and shipping, and the site says plainly that the price does not rise as your dose does. If you expect to titrate upward, that is the reassuring structure: the bill in month four is the bill in month one. If you intend to stay small it is the least economical one, because a quarter dose is charged what a full dose is. The detail that matters most here is the named microdosing protocol, sold beside the standard semaglutide plan at a slightly higher monthly figure. The low-dose product is the premium one, so if you want a small amount and choose the product labeled for it, you pay more than you would asking for a low dose inside the standard plan. The rest of the presentation is better than average: the pharmacy network is named, oral tablets of both molecules are priced, and the footer links the primary trial publications and the FDA's own shortage database rather than paraphrasing them. What is still missing is the milligram. No figure says how much drug it buys, so the flat-rate promise is accurate but cannot be checked against a dose.
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 titrate upward and want the bill to stay the same as the dose rises
- You want every plan length totaled before you sign up
- You want to read the underlying trials rather than a seller's summary of them
Look elsewhere if
- You intend to hold a small dose. A flat rate charges it at the full-dose price
- You were planning to choose the named microdose line on cost. It is the dearer option
- You want a figure attached to a milligram. None is
What it actually costs
Price as published
$169/mo sema · $219/mo tirz, same at every dose
- Vs median
- $6/mo below the $175 median across the 299 of 548 programs here that publish a plain monthly rate
- Market
- $59–$1,300/mo is the full published spread on this site
- Structure
- Same price at every dose
One stated price across doses. A lower dose does not automatically reduce the bill. Compare the complete medication, membership, laboratory and shipping quotes before assuming another plan costs less.
113 of the 548 programs here price a small dose this way. The standard plan is one price at every dose, covering the clinician review, medication and shipping, and a named semaglutide microdosing protocol is sold beside it at a slightly higher monthly price, so the low-dose product is the premium one and choosing it costs you more for less drug. Every plan's one-, three- and six-month totals are published before intake, oral tablets of both molecules are priced, and the pharmacy network is named. No milligram sits behind any price.
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 confirmed
- Labs
- Not required
- Pricing
- Flat at every dose
What it does well
- Every plan's one-, three- and six-month totals are published before any intake.
- One price at every dose, covering the clinician review, medication and shipping.
- The pharmacy network is named, and the footer links primary trials and the FDA shortage database.
Pharmacy, labs and oversight
Open Water Rx names its pharmacy: Emerald · Stryker · Foothills · EPIQ Scripts. No bloodwork is required before you start. A clinician review is included in the price.
Transparency check
4 of 4 published openly
What Open Water Rx publishes about itself, read from its own pages when we verified them — not estimated, and not a score.
- Pharmacy named and regulatedNames its pharmacy: Emerald · Stryker · Foothills · EPIQ Scripts.
- 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
This is a flat-rate seller that publishes its whole price list, and the list is more complete than most. Every program carries a one-, three- and six-month total, the monthly figure is stated to cover the clinician review, the medication and shipping, and the site says plainly that the price does not rise as the dose does. For a reader expecting to titrate upward that is the reassuring structure: the bill in month four is the bill in month one. For a reader intending to stay small it is the least economical one, because a quarter dose is charged what a full dose is. The detail that matters most on this page is the named microdosing protocol, which is sold beside the standard semaglutide plan at a slightly higher monthly figure. The low-dose product is the premium one, so someone who wants a small amount and chooses the product labeled for it pays more than they would asking for a low dose inside the standard plan. That is worth knowing before picking by name. The rest of the presentation is better than average: the pharmacy network is named, oral tablets of both molecules are priced, and the footer links the primary trial publications and the FDA's own shortage database rather than paraphrasing them. What is still missing is the milligram. No figure on the site says how much drug it buys, which leaves the flat-rate promise accurate but impossible to check against a dose.
The honest cons
The named microdose line costs more a month than the standard semaglutide plan.
- No milligram sits behind any figure.
- Payment is taken at signup, before the provider review, and refunded if you are not prescribed.
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
Open Water Rx is one of 548 low-dose GLP-1 programs compared on this site, and 299 of them publish a monthly rate you can read before signing up. The full list puts every published price in one place, with the companies that pay us listed first — something we state there, on the page it applies to.
Also consider
Two more programs that price a small dose the way Open Water Rx does. Both are partners: we may earn a commission if you start care through these links.
Partner
Found
From $169/mo on 12-mo prepay · $289/mo month to month
Same price at every dose
Partner
Gala Health
$199/mo on 3-mo plan · from $129 sema, $179 tirz
Same price at every dose
Where this sits
#244 of 548
Ordered with the companies that pay us first, and Open Water Rx is not one of them. A disclosed partition, not a score.
Compare all 548 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 microdosing GLP-1 costs
- Microdosing tirzepatide
- What the evidence actually shows
- 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
bmiMD
$159/mo microdose — same as its full dose
- Vs median
- $16/mo below the $175 median
- Market
- $59–$1,300/mo across 299 of 548
- 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 bmiMD 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.