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
ReflexMD$297 → $540+$243.27ReflexMD: advertised $297.00, actually $540.27Zealthy$151 → $379+$228.00Zealthy: advertised $151.00, actually $379.00Nu Image Medical$99 → $310+$211.16Nu Image Medical: advertised $99.00, actually $310.16BetterMe Rx$99 → $303+$204.29BetterMe Rx: advertised $99.00, actually $303.29AM Rx$106 → $297+$191.00AM Rx: advertised $106.00, actually $297.00Fella Health$149 → $325+$176.03Fella Health: advertised $149.00, actually $325.03Sprout Health$149 → $325+$176.03Sprout Health: advertised $149.00, actually $325.03Revive Meds$199 → $369+$170.00Revive Meds: advertised $199.00, actually $369.00$0$50$100$150$200$250$300$350$400$450$500$550$600cost per calendar month
231 sellers put a monthly price on their own page that their own billing does not produce. ReflexMD advertises $297.00 a month and bills $540.27 — $243.27 more every month, or $2,919.24 over a year. Across all 231, the understatement comes to $19,197.36 a year. Every gap runs the same way: the advertised figure is always the smaller one. The chart shows the 8 largest; the rest are in the index.

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%.

Advertised monthly price against true monthly cost. The 8 largest gaps of 231 sellers where the two differ.
SellerAdvertisedTrue monthlyGap per monthGap per year
ReflexMD$297.00$540.27$243.27$2,919.24
Zealthy$151.00$379.00$228.00$2,736.00
Nu Image Medical$99.00$310.16$211.16$2,533.92
BetterMe Rx$99.00$303.29$204.29$2,451.48
AM Rx$106.00$297.00$191.00$2,292.00
Fella Health$149.00$325.03$176.03$2,112.36
Sprout Health$149.00$325.03$176.03$2,112.36
Revive Meds$199.00$369.00$170.00$2,040.00

Two more ways a monthly price lies, each the largest example in the index:

  1. The dose. Arc-1 starts at $200 and climbs to $550 at the top of its ladder — a true starting price, not what maintenance costs.
  2. The fee beside the medication. Zealthy prices the medication honestly, then adds $135 a month in fees, so the real month is $379.

The four evidence tiers

409 sellers are tracked here: 379 with a computed true monthly price, 231 advertising less than they charge.

Where the 409 tracked sellers sit today
TierWhat it meansSellers
Verifiedcharge and cycle read on the seller’s own site322
Listedthe seller states it; we have not confirmed the charge0
Reportedread off the seller’s page, no charge screen reached86
No public priceno price published; we show a blank1
  1. Verified: someone opened the seller’s checkout, read the charge, and logged the source and date. Ages out after 90 days, back to Listed.
  2. Listed: the seller states the price publicly; we have not read the charge ourselves. Moves to Verified once we do.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.