Method
How we verify every price
This site makes one claim: that the monthly figure beside a seller’s name is what a month actually costs. Everything below is how that figure is produced, and what it is not.
A month is 30.4375 days
30.4375 days — 365.25 divided by twelve — is the average calendar month, the constant behind every true monthly figure here. Sellers often bill every four weeks, every eleven days, or per twelve-week course. A four-week charge lands thirteen times a year, not twelve: $299 every four weeks is $325 a month, not $299. We never copy a seller’s own “/mo” — we divide the billed amount by the days it covers, times 30.4375.
Advertised against what it actually costs
- Advertised as
- Actually costs
- the gap
Advertised is the seller's own per-month figure. True is that same charge divided by the days it covers, times 30.4375 — the average calendar month. A seller appears only where the two differ by more than 1%.
| Seller | Advertised | True monthly | Gap per month | Gap per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ReflexMD | $367.00 | $648.97 | $281.97 | $3,383.64 |
| Zealthy | $216.00 | $489.00 | $273.00 | $3,276.00 |
| Revive Meds | $199.00 | $459.00 | $260.00 | $3,120.00 |
| BetterMe Rx | $159.00 | $411.99 | $252.99 | $3,035.88 |
| Ivim Health | $133.00 | $374.99 | $241.99 | $2,903.88 |
| iThriveMD | $199.50 | $433.73 | $234.23 | $2,810.76 |
| Roen Rx | $216.00 | $449.00 | $233.00 | $2,796.00 |
| Intimate Rose | $169.00 | $399.00 | $230.00 | $2,760.00 |
Two more ways a monthly price lies, each the largest example in the index:
- The dose. VitaStir starts at $175 and climbs to $669 at the top of its ladder — a true starting price, not what maintenance costs.
- The fee beside the medication. Zealthy prices the medication honestly, then adds $135 a month in fees, so the real month is $489.
The four evidence tiers
383 sellers are tracked here: 364 with a computed true monthly price, 233 advertising less than they charge.
| Tier | What it means | Sellers |
|---|---|---|
| Verified | charge and cycle read on the seller’s own site | 331 |
| Listed | the seller states it; we have not confirmed the charge | 0 |
| Reported | read off the seller’s page, no charge screen reached | 52 |
| No public price | no price published; we show a blank | 0 |
- Verified: someone opened the seller’s checkout, read the charge, and logged the source and date. Ages out after 90 days, back to Listed.
- Listed: the seller states the price publicly; we have not read the charge ourselves. Moves to Verified once we do.
- Reported: sourced from research or a third party, not the seller’s page. If checking finds the seller does not actually publish a price, the figure drops — no arithmetic on an unsourced number. Only the source moves this tier, never time.
- No public price: the price sits behind an intake form; we show a blank rather than estimate — a finding about the seller, not our gap. Moves to Listed once a price appears.
Every count above is recomputed at each publish, never typed by hand. Prices move, so Verified is never permanent — it claims no more certainty than earned.
The whole index is downloadable
Every figure here — billing cycle, evidence tier, state list — publishes as JSON and CSV, quotable with attribution and a source link. Found an error? We would rather know than not.
What this is not
- Not a guess. A seller’s note sometimes gives two conflicting cycles — an annual total beside a four-week charge, say. We do not guess: the row keeps the seller’s own figure, nothing computed. A missing number costs a reader nothing; a confident wrong one costs the decision.
- Not a flattering comparison. Nor do we compare a prepaid bundle rate against month-to-month and call the difference a gap — different products, and the comparison would flatter us, not the reader.
- Not medical advice. No listing here is a recommendation to start any medication. Price is one input among several; cheapest is not automatically right.