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The GLP-1s you swallow: every needle-free option we have priced
Almost every price in this market is for something you inject. These are the exceptions: the products a company states are taken by mouth — a lozenge, a sublingual, an orally dissolving tablet, one branded pill. The cheapest year on this board is under $1,200, which is less than a single month of the dearest row on our branded board.
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What gets on this board
Every priced row on a published review here that names a GLP-1 and states a route taken by mouth — oral, sublingual, lozenge, tablet, pill, troche or capsule. Compounded and branded both count, and a company selling two appears twice, because they are two different products at two different prices.
What decides the order
Ranked by true-year cost, cheapest first — the price of one cycle with no commitment, multiplied by the number of times a year it is actually billed. Nothing is pinned, sponsored, or lifted into position.
What the spread looks like
$1,188
Cheapest year
$3,588
Dearest year
$2,400
Between the two
Ranked by what a year actually costs
The advertised column is what the company leads with. The walk-away column is what one cycle costs if you stop after it. The year column is the second of those multiplied by the number of times a year it is genuinely billed — which is thirteen, not twelve, for anyone on a four-week cycle.
Every price was read off the company's own page on the date shown beside it. The capture procedure, and the five ways a price gets captured wrong, are on our methodology page.
What this board leaves off, and why
3 priced rows in our reviews look like they could belong on this board and are deliberately not on it. Each is named here with the reason, because a ranking you cannot see the edges of is one you have to take on trust — and every one of these prices is published in full on the review it came from.
Auren Rx — Oral minoxidil — tablet
An oral tablet, but minoxidil is a hair-loss medicine and not a GLP-1. It is caught here only because this board's net is the route rather than the molecule, which is what stops a swallowed GLP-1 from slipping past unnoticed.
Rehydra+ Wellness — Compounded NAD+ — injection, oral or nasal spray
Offered orally among other routes, but NAD+ is not a GLP-1. It is priced on this company's review and ranked on our NAD+ board instead.
Winona — Estrogen tablets — estradiol
A tablet taken by mouth, but the drug is estradiol — hormone therapy rather than a GLP-1. Caught for the same reason as the two rows above: the net here is the route, not the molecule. It is priced on the Winona review and ranked on our HRT board.
Key terms
Show definitions
- Walk-away price
- What one cycle costs at the standing, no-commitment rate — what you pay if you stop after it. Not a prepay tier and not a first-month promotion.
- True year
- The walk-away price multiplied by the number of times it is actually billed in a year: 12 on a calendar-month cycle, 13 on a four-week cycle.
- Advertised price
- The figure the company leads with on its own pricing page. It is shown here beside the price you pay rather than instead of it.
What this board does not tell you
Whether you qualify
Coverage varies by state, and several of these companies serve fewer states than they appear to. Each review names the exclusions its company actually discloses.
Whether the care is good
This is a cost ranking and nothing else. We have not assessed anyone's clinical care, and there is no quality score anywhere on this site.
What your insurer pays
Every figure here is a cash price. What a covered drug costs you depends on your own plan's formulary and deductible, and no public source publishes a per-drug copay.
Whether the price will hold
Plans restructure without notice. Every row carries the date it was read so you can see how old the number is before you rely on it.
Frequently asked questions
Is an oral GLP-1 as effective as an injection?
This site does not answer that, and a cost board is the wrong place to try. We rank what things cost and what companies publish; nothing here is a clinical comparison, and no page on this site carries an efficacy score. The absorption of a compounded sublingual preparation in particular is not something the sellers publish trial data for. Ask the prescriber, and read the medical disclaimer at the foot of this page.
Why is there no injectable board to compare this with?
Because the data will not carry one honestly. A company that sells an oral product almost always says so in the product name, since it is the thing that distinguishes it — so a row naming a mouth route is reliable. The reverse is not: most sellers here label a row simply "Compounded semaglutide" and mention the needle only on the product page, so an injectable board built the same way would silently omit sellers that plainly qualify. A board that leaves out real rows is worse than no board.
Medical disclaimer: This content is for general educational purposes only and is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a licensed healthcare professional before starting, stopping, or changing any treatment.