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Primary Clinic (Direct GLP) review

The only provider here that prices each milligram band — behind a membership you cannot skip.

Semaglutide and tirzepatide are each priced across four explicit dose bands, so a small dose genuinely bills as a small dose. Every one of those figures requires a monthly membership, which roughly doubles the real cost at the bottom of the ladder.

Reviewed by Lena OrtizMetabolic Health Editor

Price updated August 2026

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Price as published

Primary Clinic (Direct GLP)

$85/mo sema at 0.25–0.75 mg → $183/mo at 2.25–2.7 mg, plus $89/mo membership

Vs median
Not comparable — the published figure is not the whole bill — a membership, platform fee or separate medication charge sits on top of it
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

This site has now priced a great many providers and almost none of them will say what a dose costs. This one publishes the whole ladder. Semaglutide runs from eighty-five dollars a month at the smallest band up through four steps as the milligrams rise; tirzepatide does the same across its own four. Nobody has to guess, and nobody holding deliberately low is quietly funding the titration of somebody at the top of the range. That is the structure this site was built to find, and it is worth saying plainly because it is rare. The condition attached is equally plain, and to their credit it is stated rather than buried: those prices exist only for members, and membership is eighty-nine dollars a month. So the cheapest real figure is not eighty-five, it is one hundred and seventy-four, and any comparison against a flat-rate seller has to be made on that number rather than the headline. Whether that is good value depends entirely on whether you want what the membership includes — unlimited visits, direct provider messaging, routine labs and a long list of ordinary medications, all itemized. For someone who would otherwise pay for primary care anyway, this is likely the cheaper side of the trade. For someone who wants a vial and nothing else, it is eighty-nine dollars a month of things they did not come for.

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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 are holding a deliberately low dose and want to be billed for the dose you actually take.
  • You want primary care, labs and routine prescriptions bundled rather than paid for separately.
  • You want the condition on a price stated up front rather than discovered at checkout.

Look elsewhere if

  • You want the medication only. The membership is required and adds to every figure on the page.
  • You are comparing against flat-rate sellers on the headline number. Compare on the combined figure.
  • You want the compounding pharmacy named. Only the 503A class is given.

What it actually costs

Price as published

★★ Compounded semaglutide priced by DOSE BAND: 0.25–0.75 mg $85/month, 1–1.25 mg $108, 1.5–2 mg $145, 2.25–2.7 mg $183 · compounded tirzepatide the same way: 1.25–2.5 mg $133, 4–5.5 mg $183, 6–7.5 mg $233, 8–10 mg $258 · this is the only published milligram-to-price ladder on the site, and it means a low dose genuinely bills as a low dose · every one of those figures is available only to members: a direct-primary-care membership at $89/month is required, stated as "these prices are available only to active Primary Clinic DPC members" · so the real cost at the smallest semaglutide band is $174/month, not $85 · the membership buys unlimited virtual visits, direct provider messaging, routine labs and thousands of routine medications, itemized rather than hidden · medication is described as supplied at wholesale from licensed 503A pharmacies, named as a class

Vs median
Not comparable — the published figure is not the whole bill — a membership, platform fee or separate medication charge sits on top of it
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 only published milligram-to-price ladder found on this site. Both molecules are priced across four explicit dose bands, so the figure IS keyed to the dose and higher doses cost more — the definition of this tier, stated by the seller rather than inferred. Every figure requires a monthly membership on top, so the real cost at the lowest band is roughly double the medication price; that is carried in the row and in the price pin.

Visit Primary Clinic (Direct GLP)

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
Varies by dose, plan or tier
Price last updated
August 2026

What it does well

  • Publishes a price for each milligram band, so a low dose is billed as a low dose.
  • States plainly that the medication prices require an active membership rather than hiding the condition.
  • The membership itemizes what it includes — unlimited visits, direct messaging, routine labs and routine medications.

Pharmacy, labs and oversight

Primary Clinic (Direct GLP) dispenses through a Not named (described as licensed 503A pharmacies) facility. No bloodwork is required before you start. A clinician review is included in the price.

Transparency check

3 of 4 published openly

What Primary Clinic (Direct GLP) 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.
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

This is the structure this site has been looking for and has found almost nowhere else: a published price for each milligram band. Semaglutide starts at $85 a month for 0.25 to 0.75 mg and rises in four steps to $183 at 2.25 to 2.7 mg; tirzepatide runs the same way across four bands. Nobody has to guess what their dose costs, and someone holding deliberately low is billed for holding low rather than subsidizing the ladder above them. That is worth saying plainly because it is rare. The catch is equally plain, and to the clinic's credit it is stated rather than buried: none of those prices exist without the membership. Joining costs $89 a month, so the cheapest real monthly figure is $174 rather than $85, and any comparison against a flat-rate seller has to be made on that number. What the membership buys is itemized — unlimited visits, direct messaging, routine labs, and a long list of ordinary medications — so it is a bundle rather than a fee, and for someone who would otherwise pay separately for primary care it may be the cheaper side of the trade. For someone who only wants the drug, it is $89 a month of things they did not come for.

The honest cons

The medication prices are members-only, so the real low-dose cost is $174 a month rather than $85.
  • Anyone who wants only the medication is paying $89 a month for primary care they did not come for.
  • The compounding pharmacies are described as 503A but none is named.
Visit Primary Clinic (Direct GLP)

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

Primary Clinic (Direct GLP) 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

#175 of 373

Ordered with the companies that pay us first, and Primary Clinic (Direct GLP) is not one of them. A disclosed partition, not a score.

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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.

Visit Primary Clinic (Direct GLP)

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

Advertising disclosure · we may earn a commission if you start care through some of these links, at no extra cost to you.

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.