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GobyMeds vs PreventiveMD
Quick answer
PreventiveMD costs $139 a real month and GobyMeds costs $145 — a difference of $6 a month, or $67 a year. Both figures are computed from what each seller actually charges and how often, not from the price on its landing page.
Checked in . Both sellers are re-checked on the same schedule; a price either side changes after that date will not be reflected here until the next check.
GobyMeds or PreventiveMD?
PreventiveMD is the cheaper way to start, at $139 a month against $145 for GobyMeds; GobyMeds does not publish what its top dose costs, so ask before you commit past the first month. PreventiveMD names 36 states; GobyMeds does not say where it ships. Neither has an FDA warning letter on record.
What each one bills
| GobyMeds | PreventiveMD | |
|---|---|---|
| True monthly cost | $145 | $139 |
| Advertised as | $133 | $97 |
| Charged | every 12 weeks | every calendar month |
| Each charge | $399 | $139 |
| Price basis | a starting-dose price that climbs | the same at every dose |
| Mandatory recurring fee | none found | none found |
| States it names | not published | 36 states |
| FDA warning letter | none on record | none on record |
Where they actually differ
- They bill on different clocks. GobyMeds charges every 12 weeks and PreventiveMD charges every calendar month. That alone changes what a “month” costs, which is the whole reason this index recomputes every price.
- One price holds and the other climbs. GobyMeds’s price is a starting-dose price that climbs; PreventiveMD’s is the same at every dose. See what titration does to an advertised figure.
- What they advertise is not what they bill. GobyMeds advertises $133 and bills $145; PreventiveMD advertises $97 and bills $139.
How we know
Both figures were read on the seller’s own site and recomputed over a 30.4375-day calendar month from the charge and the billing period it covers. Neither is a seller’s own “/mo”. The full working for each — the charge, the period, the arithmetic and the date it was read — is on its own page: GobyMeds and PreventiveMD. The method is set out in how we verify.
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