How many of these companies sell an FDA-approved brand GLP-1?

96 of 412, and 265 sell compounded medication and no brand at all. Four of the 96 (Ro, LifeMD, PlushCare and Push Health) sell brand medication and nothing compounded, so a shopper comparing a compounded price against one of those is not comparing two versions of the same purchase.

What is the cheapest brand GLP-1 on this roster?

PreventiveMD's Wegovy at $198 a month cash pay, on a card whose own asterisk restricts it to new patients through the manufacturer, read August 31, 2026. The dearest is OrderlyMeds at $1,839 for month-to-month Ozempic. That is a spread of $1,641 a month for the same molecule.

Is compounded medication just a cheaper version of the brand?

They are different regulatory categories, not substitutes. On price, the cheapest single month of compounded semaglutide here is $69 and the cheapest single month of brand semaglutide is $198. Whether either is appropriate is a question for a prescriber, and there is no clinician on this masthead.

If I only care about price, which list should I read?

The one for the molecule you have been prescribed. 249 companies here sell a single month of compounded semaglutide, 236 sell compounded tirzepatide, 40 sell brand semaglutide and 42 sell brand tirzepatide. Those are four different shortlists, and 5 of the five cheapest compounded semaglutide sellers do not appear on the brand list at all.

Is the cheapest GLP-1 company cheapest for the drug you need?

No. Ask for the brand and the field drops from 249 companies to 40, the cheapest month goes from $69 to $198, and 5 of the five cheapest compounded sellers do not appear on that list at all.

What this piece found

Most of this market sells one thing265 of the 412 companies here sell compounded medication and no FDA-approved brand. 96 sell a brand, and four of those sell nothing compounded.
The brand costs a multiple, not a marginThe cheapest single month of brand semaglutide on this roster is 2.9× the cheapest single month of the compounded drug: $198 against $69, both as of August 31, 2026.
The brand spread is wider than the compounded oneBrand semaglutide runs $198 to $1,839 a month across 40 companies selling the identical product. Nothing about the drug explains a spread that size.
Three companies will not tell you the molecule27 of the single-month prices on this site attach to a product whose seller never names the drug in it. The cheapest figure on the whole roster, $79, is one of them.

Every company, counted

412 companies published on this site. The table below counts, for each molecule, how many carry a price ladder for it at all and how many of those have a rung you could buy for one month with no commitment. The second number is always smaller, and it is the only one a shopper can use. Every price is that company's cheapest commitment-free rung with a required membership added, as of August 31, 2026. A company selling two molecules appears in two rows, so the rows do not sum to 412.

Which molecule do these companies actually sell?

Overwhelmingly compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide, and almost nothing else with any depth behind it. 265 of the 412 companies published here sell no FDA-approved brand at all.

Companies with a rung you can buy for a single month of each molecule, against the whole roster of 412. A company selling three molecules appears in three bars, so the bars do not sum to 412.

Every molecule this roster prices, with the field size and the cheapest and dearest month
Molecule	Companies listing it	Will sell one month	Cheapest month	Dearest month
compounded semaglutide	347	249	$69/moEmbody	$497ReflexMD
compounded tirzepatide	340	236	$69/mo + $199/yr membershipCollective≈ $85.58/mo over a year, by our math	$599Rivas Medical Weight Loss
compounded liraglutide	9	6	$179/moHenry Meds	$471.50ElitePhysiqMD
brand semaglutide	84	40	$198/moPreventiveMD	$1,839OrderlyMeds
brand tirzepatide	85	42	$299/moZipHealth	$1,999Sprout Health
oral semaglutide	109	72	$129/moDoctorAdam	$599VirtualCare2Go
brand orforglipron	17	15	$149/moZipHealth	$299Lovely Meds
unspecified GLP-1	46	27	$79/moMeasured	$629VirtualCare2Go

How much does the field shrink if you need the brand?

By roughly two thirds, and the price roughly 2.9×. 249 companies here will sell you a single month of compounded semaglutide; 40 will sell you a single month of the brand. For brand tirzepatide it is 42.

That is the part a price comparison usually hides. A board of the cheapest GLP-1 prices is almost entirely a board of compounded prices, because compounded is what almost everybody here sells. If the prescription in your hand says Wegovy or Zepbound, most of the list is not available to you at any price.

Who is cheapest for each molecule?

Embody for compounded semaglutide, at $69 a month, and Collective for compounded tirzepatide, at $69 a month plus a $199 membership billed once a year (≈ $85.58/mo over a year, by our math). Embody pays us a commission. Collective pays us a commission. For the brand it is PreventiveMD on both counts, at $198 for Wegovy and $299 for Zepbound.

The brand rows deserve a closer look than a table gives them. Most of the lowest Wegovy figures are the manufacturer's opening price rather than one the company sets: WeightWatchers, which prints Novo's terms in full, charges $199 for a new patient's first two fills at the two lowest strengths and $349 a month after that. At the other end, Fridays lists Ozempic® ... $1498 / mo (1) Month-to-month plan. Both date from August 31, 2026, and the molecule is the same molecule.

Does cheapest on one molecule mean cheapest on another?

At the very top, yes; below it, no. The cheapest company for compounded semaglutide is also cheapest for compounded tirzepatide, but only 0 of the five cheapest compounded sellers sell a brand GLP-1 at all, and none of them is the cheapest brand seller.

The five cheapest single months of compounded semaglutide here are Embody, Collective, TeleClinic, Mondae, and Sunlight. Of those, 5 (Embody, Collective, TeleClinic, Mondae, and Sunlight) publish no brand ladder at all. A shortlist built from a cheapest-first board is a shortlist for one molecule, and it stops being useful the moment the prescription changes.

The same reshuffle happens between what a company advertises and what a month really costs, which is measured in the two league tables. Both effects stack: the advertised order is not the real order, and the real order is different again for each molecule.

What about the pills?

72 companies here sell a single month of an oral semaglutide, from $129 at DoctorAdam to $599 at VirtualCare2Go. That is a small enough field that a single company's pricing decision moves the whole range, and it is worth reading each of those four rungs' labels before treating them as one product.

What if the company will not name the molecule?

Then the price is not comparable to anything, and the cheapest figure on this entire roster is in that position. 27 companies sell a single month of a GLP-1 they never name (Measured, RxSaludable, LVNG RX, Ark Health, Believe Health, SexyMD, PCOS Sisters, Midi Health, Reset Solutions, Nolu, Näky, LunaRx, Metaboost Rx, New Wave Health, RX Bella, Joey Med, Wellspring Longevity Clinic, Harmony Wellness Clinic, Onyx Weight Loss, Remi Meds, Cabana, Clume Health, MyStart Health, Dollar Dad Club, Try Invigor, Weightstry, and VirtualCare2Go), and the cheapest of them is $79. What it contains is not something we will infer. Whether the company names the molecule counts that on its own.

What else do people ask about picking on price?

How many of these companies sell an FDA-approved brand GLP-1?96 of 412, and 265 sell compounded medication and no brand at all. Four of the 96 (Ro, LifeMD, PlushCare and Push Health) sell brand medication and nothing compounded, so a shopper comparing a compounded price against one of those is not comparing two versions of the same purchase.
What is the cheapest brand GLP-1 on this roster?PreventiveMD's Wegovy at $198 a month cash pay, on a card whose own asterisk restricts it to new patients through the manufacturer, read August 31, 2026. The dearest is OrderlyMeds at $1,839 for month-to-month Ozempic. That is a spread of $1,641 a month for the same molecule.
Is compounded medication just a cheaper version of the brand?They are different regulatory categories, not substitutes. On price, the cheapest single month of compounded semaglutide here is $69 and the cheapest single month of brand semaglutide is $198. Whether either is appropriate is a question for a prescriber, and there is no clinician on this masthead.
If I only care about price, which list should I read?The one for the molecule you have been prescribed. 249 companies here sell a single month of compounded semaglutide, 236 sell compounded tirzepatide, 40 sell brand semaglutide and 42 sell brand tirzepatide. Those are four different shortlists, and 5 of the five cheapest compounded semaglutide sellers do not appear on the brand list at all.

Sources

Every figure above is a rung in this site's roster, from the company's own domain on August 31, 2026. The two sentences below are the ends of the brand semaglutide range, quoted verbatim.

The cheapest and dearest brand semaglutide rows, quoted verbatim
Company	What they say, verbatim	Source
Zappy Health	Medical care: $99/mo. Medication cost: $499/mo collected directly by Novo Nordisk. Total: ~$598/mo.	Zappy Health's Wegovy pageRead September 2026
Fridays	Ozempic® ... $1498 / mo (1) Month-to-month plan	Fridays' pricing pageRead August 2026

Some companies named here pay us a commission when a reader starts care through a marked link. The one marked link on this page is one of them, picked by rule and disclosed beside it. Nothing above is ordered by who pays: the molecule table follows the roster's own molecule order and every price is its cheapest commitment-free rung. Who pays us · how we review · every review.