Flat-pricing math
GLP-1 flat-rate cost calculator
Compare a flat subscription price with the share of the published dose range you use. Separate medication cost from service fees and billing frequency.
Use the provider’s published price and dose range. This comparison does not recommend a dose or say whether your dose is effective or safe. Treatment decisions belong with your clinician. Intentional microdosing is off-label and unproven.
- You pay per year
- $2,388
- $199 × 12 charges
- Drug taken at this schedule
- 13.0mg/yr
- 0.25 mg × 1/wk × 52.18 weeks
- Cost per mg you take
- $183
- against $19.07 at the plan's top dose
- Modeled share difference
- 90%
- relative to a hypothetical dose-proportional price
- If the price tracked the dose
- $20.73/mo
- not a price anyone is offering — the zero point
- Modeled annual difference
- $2,139/yr
- $178 a month
You are taking 10% of the dose this one price covers, and paying 100% of it. That is 9.6× the cost per milligram someone at the plan’s top dose pays on the identical bill, and $2,139 a year more than a hypothetical price proportional to dose. This benchmark is not an available quote. That is the largest modeled difference: consultation, shipping and pharmacy work may not vary with dose. Enter your estimate of that share in the last field to see how it changes the comparison. A provider that quotes its price off the lowest dose, or sells a microdose as its own product may charge a different total. Compare actual quotes and inclusions; a different pricing structure does not guarantee savings.
Using these estimates safely
This is arithmetic on figures you supply, not medical advice and not a recommendation about any dose. We do not know what you take, we do not suggest a value for it, and nothing here says a dose is enough, right or safe. The “top dose the same price covers” field is a pricing fact published by a company — copy it off their page. Intentional microdosing is off-label and unproven.
What this comparison can tell you
At a fixed subscription price, using fewer milligrams increases the calculated cost per milligram. That is an arithmetic comparison, not proof of an excessive charge. Clinical care, dispensing and shipping may account for a substantial part of the bill.
The modeled difference assumes the medication portion could be priced in direct proportion to dose. Providers may not sell such a plan. Your service-cost estimate changes the result, and the estimate does not measure a pharmacy’s production costs.
Use the provider reviews to compare actual published plans, then confirm the total for your prescription. A dose-tiered plan is only cheaper when its complete bill is lower. Treatment decisions belong with your clinician.
Common questions
- What does 'the top dose the same price covers' mean, and where do I find it?
- It is the upper end of the dose range the provider says its single price applies across — the 2.4 in 'semaglutide 0.25–2.4 mg' or the 15 in 'tirzepatide 2.5–15 mg'. It is printed on the provider's own pricing or product page, usually right next to the figure, and it is the number that makes flat pricing mean something specific rather than being a slogan. If a provider says the price is flat but never publishes a range, you cannot compute this and neither can we — which is itself worth knowing before you pay.
- Isn't some of what I pay the consultation and shipping rather than the drug?
- Yes. Use the service-cost field to estimate the portion of the bill that does not vary with dose, such as consultations or shipping. Setting it to zero assigns the whole bill to medication and produces the largest modeled difference. This estimate does not establish a provider's actual costs or a price you could buy elsewhere.
- Are you saying flat pricing is a rip-off?
- No. This tool compares a subscription with a hypothetical dose-proportional price. A higher cost per milligram does not establish overcharging, and a lower-dose prescription does not necessarily cost a pharmacy proportionally less to prepare. Compare actual total quotes, clinical support and plan terms. Do not change your dose to improve a price calculation.
- What pricing structure would actually be cheaper for a low dose?
- A dose-tiered plan or separately priced low-dose product may cost less, but the actual quote decides. Dose tiers are not necessarily proportional, and some low-dose products cost more than standard plans. Compare medication, membership, visits, labs, shipping and minimum commitments for your prescribed treatment.
- Does this replace the vial waste calculator?
- No. This tool models a subscription's price relative to its published dose range. The vial calculator estimates how much dispensed medication may remain at the pharmacy's discard date. Do not add the two figures as if they were separate charges: their assumptions can overlap and double-count the same medication cost.
Informational only and not medical advice. This tool performs arithmetic on figures you supply and knows nothing about your prescription, your plan or your provider. It does not recommend a dose, evaluate a dose, or suggest that any dose is sufficient. It is not a reason to change what you take. Compounded GLP-1s are not FDA-approved and intentional microdosing is off-label and unproven. Talk to a licensed clinician.