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Semaglutide Cost Without Insurance: Cash Prices by Route

Without insurance, the lowest semaglutide self-pay price is $25 a month, for Walgreens: commercial insurance plus savings card. List prices run far higher.

Lowest self-pay
$25 a month
Medicines compared
3
Highest list price
$1,349.02 a month

Your semaglutide cost without insurance varies by the medicine, its strength, and the place of purchase. Self-pay programs offered by manufacturers usually cost far less than the list price.

Semaglutide cost without insurance: a pharmacy receipt and a calculator

A quick look at Wegovy

How long it remains inside you
100%50%25%0%07 d14 d21 d28 d35 d50%25%12.5%time after the dose

Its half-life is about 1 week: after 7 d, half is gone, and about 3% remains after five half-lives (35 d).

Main trial weight loss
Wegovy (STEP 1)14.9%Placebo2.4%

In STEP 1 over 68 weeks, people lost 14.9% of body weight, compared with 2.4% on placebo.

What the price is as time goes on
202520262027$1,349.02$0List priceSelf-pay

Monthly prices in US dollars come from the maker's price page, and include both list prices and self-pay offers.

Sources: FDA label (DailyMed), healthsystemtracker.org, prnewswire.com 1 2.

Semaglutide cost without insurance: the price table

For each medicine: Semaglutide cost without insurance
MedicineLowest self-payList pricePatient assistanceMedicare
Wegovy$25 a month$1,349.02 a month-$50 a month
Ozempic$149 a month$1,027.51 per penFree if approved-
Rybelsus-$1,027.51 per 30 tablets--

Prices checked November 2026. Each price links to the page where it came from.

Sources: Novo Nordisk pricing, NovoCare, TrumpRx, rx.costco.com.

Per month and per year

The lowest self-pay cost
MedicineLowest self-pay routePer monthPer year (12 fills)
WegovyWalgreens: commercial insurance plus savings card$25 a month$300
OzempicNovoCare Pharmacy: Ozempic pill (from 1.5 mg)$149 a month$1,788

Sources: Novo Nordisk pricing, NovoCare, TrumpRx, rx.costco.com.

Price pages for each medicine

Telehealth programs and their monthly charges

Program from Mochi Health

$60 a month

Compounded semaglutide

Found

$99 a month

Compounded GLP-1 plan

Ro

$149 a month

Wegovy pill, starting dose

Program from Hims & Hers

$149 a month

Wegovy pill

WeightWatchers Med+ program

$149 a month

Foundayo pill (self-pay)

LillyDirect

$149 a month

Foundayo pill, starting dose

LillyDirect review

Every listed price comes from its program's pricing page. We do not make any money from them.

Sources: ro.co, hims.com, henrymeds.com, noom.com.