What is the cheapest way to get a GLP-1 for weight loss?

Foundayo at $299 a month all-in once titrated, read from its own published page on 2026-09-12. It is the cheapest route here to an FDA-approved GLP-1 (tied with LillyDirect, Medvi and Wegovy pill), leaving out diabetes drugs prescribed off-label for weight. Compounded copies go lower, down to Strut Health at $129, but no compounded copy is FDA approved, and Strut Health's record carries an FDA warning letter. All-in means membership plus medication, because a membership fee on its own is not a price for a drug. The full ranking is at /c, and every figure carries the date it was read.

Why is the price here different from the one on the seller's own site?

It is not — it is the same figure, read from that page on the date shown, and stated as the maintenance price rather than the introductory one. The difference between sites is usually which number they quote: an intro dose, a membership fee, or the price you pay once titrated. This site quotes the last of those, because it is the one you actually live with.

How much does a year cost?

More than the monthly figure times twelve, for two reasons that compound: the first months are a lower dose at a different price, and a box of weekly pens lasts 28 days, which makes a year of injections thirteen fills rather than twelve — the tablets come in 30-day bottles, twelve a year. The calculator at /cost-calculator walks each published step at its own price.

Is compounded semaglutide the same drug?

Same molecule, different legal product. Compounding is an exemption from FDA approval rather than a form of it, so a compounded copy has no trial and no approved label of its own, and its quality is a fact about the pharmacy that mixes it. No seller on this site publishes which pharmacy that is — checked across all eleven of them, with the pages read listed at /pharmacy.

Who writes this and how is it paid for?

One person, named at /who/alex-seot, who reads each price at its source — the seller's own page where one exists — and records the figure with the date. No link on the site earns a commission at present, and any that does will say so beside itself; a commission buys no ranking, and the score is arithmetic over the recorded facts on a formula published in full at /method.

What does it really cost a month?

The all-in price once you are titrated, not the intro rate. Every figure carries the day somebody checked it against its source.

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What does a GLP-1 actually cost, and which route is cheapest?

The cheapest verified GLP-1 route on this site is Strut Health at $129 a month all-in once titrated, a compounded copy that is not FDA approved; the cheapest FDA-approved ones are Foundayo, LillyDirect, Medvi and Wegovy pill at $299. The most expensive of the 14 verified GLP-1 routes is $548 — a spread of $419 a month for drugs that are in several cases the same molecule. All-in means membership plus medication together: a membership fee on its own is not a price for a drug, and the figure quoted here is the maintenance price rather than the introductory one, because the starting dose is not the dose anyone stays on. A year is not twelve times that figure either — the early months are a cheaper dose, and a box of weekly pens lasts 28 days, so a year of injections is thirteen fills. Copay cards are not prices: they cap what the manufacturer contributes, per fill and per calendar year, and on Lilly's cards those two ceilings meet to the dollar at exactly one year. Every price here carries the date it was read, and anything past 45 days without a re-check is marked stale rather than quietly aging.

The cheapest verified routes today

All-in monthly price once titrated, each with its source and the date it was read.

Route	A month	What it is	Checked
Qsymia	$75	not a GLP-1; direct from the maker	2026-09-22
Contrave	$99	not a GLP-1; direct from the maker	2026-09-22
Strut Health	$129	compounded, not FDA approved	2026-09-22
Noom Med	$249	compounded, not FDA approved	2026-09-22
Found	$289	compounded, not FDA approved	2026-09-22
Henry Meds	$297	compounded, not FDA approved	2026-09-20
Foundayo	$299	direct from the maker	2026-09-12
LillyDirect	$299	provider	2026-09-13

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What is the cheapest way to get a GLP-1 for weight loss?: Foundayo at $299 a month all-in once titrated, read from its own published page on 2026-09-12. It is the cheapest route here to an FDA-approved GLP-1 (tied with LillyDirect, Medvi and Wegovy pill), leaving out diabetes drugs prescribed off-label for weight. Compounded copies go lower, down to Strut Health at $129, but no compounded copy is FDA approved, and Strut Health's record carries an FDA warning letter. All-in means membership plus medication, because a membership fee on its own is not a price for a drug. The full ranking is at /c, and every figure carries the date it was read.
Why is the price here different from the one on the seller's own site?: It is not — it is the same figure, read from that page on the date shown, and stated as the maintenance price rather than the introductory one. The difference between sites is usually which number they quote: an intro dose, a membership fee, or the price you pay once titrated. This site quotes the last of those, because it is the one you actually live with.
How much does a year cost?: More than the monthly figure times twelve, for two reasons that compound: the first months are a lower dose at a different price, and a box of weekly pens lasts 28 days, which makes a year of injections thirteen fills rather than twelve — the tablets come in 30-day bottles, twelve a year. The calculator at /cost-calculator walks each published step at its own price.
Is compounded semaglutide the same drug?: Same molecule, different legal product. Compounding is an exemption from FDA approval rather than a form of it, so a compounded copy has no trial and no approved label of its own, and its quality is a fact about the pharmacy that mixes it. No seller on this site publishes which pharmacy that is — checked across all eleven of them, with the pages read listed at /pharmacy.
Who writes this and how is it paid for?: One person, named at /who/alex-seot, who reads each price at its source — the seller's own page where one exists — and records the figure with the date. No link on the site earns a commission at present, and any that does will say so beside itself; a commission buys no ranking, and the score is arithmetic over the recorded facts on a formula published in full at /method.

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