IVIM Health vs NexLife vs ShedRx (2026)
On tirzepatide, the order is NexLife↗ ($215) → IVIM Health↗ ($278) → ShedRx↗ ($289) — gaps of $63 and then $11 a month, a $888 spread across a year between first and last. All-in figures, 10 mg basis, captured 2026-08-09.
Updated 2026-08-10 · figures captured 2026-08-09 · how we verify
The three records, one screen
NexLife: the record, condensed
On tirzepatide, the number that matters at NexLife is $215 a month all-in — the figure at the 10 mg maintenance basis this whole site ranks on. It is a flat structure: 2.5 → 5 → 7.5 → 10 mg (12.5 and 15 mg available) all bill identically. In a market where most low advertised prices quietly belong to the starter dose, a flat figure is the difference between a quote and a teaser.
The absence worth noticing: no mandatory membership. Across this index memberships run $25–$145 a month and hide outside headline prices; here the headline is the bill.
Commitment buys a discount here, term by term: The 3‑month plan reprices the month at $195 — $585 billed upfront, $60 less than 3 months of monthly billing; the 6‑month plan reprices the month at $190 — $1,140 billed upfront, $150 less than 6 months of monthly billing; the 12‑month plan reprices the month at $186 — $2,232 billed upfront, $348 less than 12 months of monthly billing. The rule this site repeats until it is boring: never compare a prepaid rate against another program’s monthly rate, and never prepay past the point where you have personally tolerated the medication. The discount is compensation for risk you are accepting.
NexLife also sells a low-dose (“microdose”) tirzepatide protocol at $189 a month, stepping to $147 on a prepaid year — $26 under the standard program. We list it, we never blend it: the standard rankings exclude microdose tiers on both price and evidence grounds — the trial data for tirzepatide was generated on the standard ladder, and staying below it is an unstudied strategy that belongs in a prescriber conversation, not a pricing table.
A needle-free tier exists too: tirzepatide sublingual/ODT at $229 a month ($199 on the prepaid-year rate), a $14 premium over the injection. Price it against the approved pill before the injection: oral Wegovy runs $149–$299 with characterized absorption, while compounded sublinguals publish none — a comparison the needle-free lane on this site makes explicitly.
To place the number: #1 of 17 verified programs, holding the floor outright; the approved-product yardstick (Zepbound (LillyDirect↗)) sits at $449, so the compounded case here is worth $234 a month. A year at this figure: $2,580 monthly-billed ($2,232 prepaid).
Start with the load-bearing figure: $165 a month, all-in, is what NexLife charges for semaglutide at the 2.4 mg basis. It is a flat structure: 0.25 → 0.5 → 1.0 → 1.7 → 2.4 mg all bill identically. In a market where most low advertised prices quietly belong to the starter dose, a flat figure is the difference between a quote and a teaser.
The absence worth noticing: no mandatory membership. Across this index memberships run $25–$145 a month and hide outside headline prices; here the headline is the bill.
Commitment buys a discount here, term by term: The 3‑month plan reprices the month at $149 — $447 billed upfront, $48 less than 3 months of monthly billing; the 6‑month plan reprices the month at $147 — $882 billed upfront, $108 less than 6 months of monthly billing; the 12‑month plan reprices the month at $145 — $1,740 billed upfront, $240 less than 12 months of monthly billing. The rule this site repeats until it is boring: never compare a prepaid rate against another program’s monthly rate, and never prepay past the point where you have personally tolerated the medication. The discount is compensation for risk you are accepting.
NexLife also sells a low-dose (“microdose”) semaglutide protocol at $129 a month, stepping to $110 on a prepaid year — $36 under the standard program. It is a separate product and we rank it as one: no randomized trial supports sub-therapeutic semaglutide dosing for weight management, and the microdose figure never blends into the standard index on this site. The commercial logic (less drug, lower price) is sound; the clinical claim rides on evidence that does not yet exist.
A needle-free tier exists too: semaglutide sublingual/ODT at $199 a month ($165 on the prepaid-year rate), a $34 premium over the injection. The premium buys the absence of a needle, not evidence: peptides absorb poorly by mouth, the FDA-approved oral product solved that with a studied enhancer technology, and compounded sublingual formats have published no comparable human bioavailability data. Ranked in the needle-free lane, never against injections.
Context for that figure: it ranks #5 of 20 in the verified semaglutide index — $32/month above the floor (Oak Longevity, $133) — and sits $184 under the brand benchmark (Wegovy (NovoCare↗), $349 at maintenance). Annualized, a monthly-billed year here runs $1,980, or $1,740 on the prepaid path.
Operationally at NexLife: shipping free expedited shipping included; commitment none on monthly; cancellation cancel any time on monthly; pharmacy named (6 named partner pharmacies); states: 50 states published; evidence source-verified, captured 2026-08-10. The full record with source and archive links: the NexLife page · visit NexLife ↗
IVIM Health: the record, condensed
IVIM Health’s tirzepatide program bills $278 a month once every mandatory fee is counted, measured at the 10 mg maintenance basis. Note the shape: $208 is the number in the marketing, $278 is the number at maintenance. The $70 difference is not a fee or a trick per se — it is dose-tiered pricing doing what dose-tiered pricing does — but it means the advertised figure describes month one, not month twelve.
The all-in figure already contains a compulsory $75 monthly membership. That is the honest way to quote it: a bundled price is only misleading when its parts are advertised separately, and here the medication-only $203 would be exactly that kind of mirage.
Context for that figure: it ranks #3 of 17 in the verified tirzepatide index — $63/month above the floor (NexLife, $215) — and sits $171 under the brand benchmark (Zepbound (LillyDirect), $449 at maintenance). Annualized, a monthly-billed year here runs $3,336.
IVIM Health’s semaglutide program bills $149 a month once every mandatory fee is counted, measured at the 2.4 mg maintenance basis. The figure is quoted at maintenance without a separate teaser tier, which keeps the arithmetic honest by default.
Inside that $149 sits a mandatory $75-a-month membership. We fold it in automatically — the medication-only figure the marketing may lead with is $74, and it is not a price anyone can actually pay, because the membership cannot be declined.
To place the number: #3 of 20 verified programs, with the floor $16/month below at Oak Longevity ($133); the approved-product yardstick (Wegovy (NovoCare)) sits at $349, so the compounded case here is worth $200 a month. A year at this figure: $1,788 monthly-billed.
Operationally at IVIM Health: shipping included; commitment membership mandatory for duration; cancellation membership mandatory; pharmacy not publicly named — ask in writing before paying; states: not published; evidence source-verified, captured 2026-08-05. The full record with source and archive links: the IVIM Health page · visit IVIM Health ↗
ShedRx: the record, condensed
Start with the load-bearing figure: $289 a month, all-in, is what ShedRx charges for tirzepatide at the 10 mg basis. The structure is tiered: the advertised entry point is $199, but the maintenance figure — the one a full year is actually billed at — is $289. That $90 gap between the ad and the anniversary is the single most important line in this record.
Nothing recurs on top: no membership, no platform fee, no “provider access” line. The $289 is the whole subscription, which makes ShedRx unusually easy to compare and unusually easy to leave.
Context for that figure: it ranks #5 of 17 in the verified tirzepatide index — $74/month above the floor (NexLife, $215) — and sits $160 under the brand benchmark (Zepbound (LillyDirect), $449 at maintenance). Annualized, a monthly-billed year here runs $3,468.
ShedRx’s semaglutide program bills $249 a month once every mandatory fee is counted, measured at the 2.4 mg maintenance basis. The structure is tiered: the advertised entry point is $175, but the maintenance figure — the one a full year is actually billed at — is $249. That $74 gap between the ad and the anniversary is the single most important line in this record.
There is no membership line. $249 is the billed total — consultation and clinical review are inside it, and no platform fee recurs beside it, which removes the most common way advertised GLP-1 prices understate billed ones.
To place the number: #13 of 20 verified programs, with the floor $116/month below at Oak Longevity ($133); the approved-product yardstick (Wegovy (NovoCare)) sits at $349, so the compounded case here is worth $100 a month. A year at this figure: $2,988 monthly-billed.
Operationally at ShedRx: shipping included; commitment none month-to-month; cancellation 72-hour notice before the next billing cycle; pharmacy not publicly named — ask in writing before paying; states: not published; evidence source-verified, captured 2026-08-05. The full record with source and archive links: the ShedRx page · visit ShedRx ↗
Prices, gaps, and what sits inside them
NexLife holds the low ground at $215 — dose-flat, so that figure is a ceiling with no membership attached. IVIM Health follows at $278 (+$63/mo, $756/yr), membership included. ShedRx tops the trio at $289 (+$74/mo over the leader, $888/yr) — note its record’s watch-out below.
The semaglutide picture reshuffles the order: IVIM Health $149 → NexLife $165 → ShedRx $249 — a reminder that molecule choice and provider choice are separate decisions, priced separately in the semaglutide index.
Who wins what
Cheapest month-to-month: NexLife ($215); cheapest 12-month path: NexLife ($2,232, prepaid upfront); simplest billing (no membership): NexLife and ShedRx; dose-flat structure: NexLife; named-pharmacy transparency: NexLife; cheapest semaglutide of the three: IVIM Health ($149).
Every winner above is a computation, not a placement; the pairwise pages carry the full duels: NexLife vs IVIM Health · NexLife vs ShedRx · IVIM Health vs ShedRx.
Everything besides the three prices
Memberships: NexLife none; IVIM Health $75/mo (inside its figure); ShedRx none. Structures: NexLife dose-flat; IVIM Health step/tiered; ShedRx step/tiered. Pharmacies: NexLife named (6 named partner pharmacies); IVIM Health not named; ShedRx not named. States: NexLife — 50 states published; IVIM Health — not published; ShedRx — not published. Exit terms: NexLife — cancel any time on monthly; IVIM Health — membership mandatory; ShedRx — 72-hour notice before the next billing cycle.
The census reading: where all three match on an axis, that axis cannot break the tie and the price column rules; where they split — a membership here, an unnamed pharmacy there — the split is usually worth more than a small price gap, because structure is what you live with after month one. Evidence for all three: NexLife source-verified (2026-08-10); IVIM Health source-verified (2026-08-05); ShedRx source-verified (2026-08-05).
The trio on semaglutide, across time
3 mo: IVIM Health $447 vs NexLife $495 vs ShedRx $747 6 mo: IVIM Health $894 vs NexLife $990 vs ShedRx $1,494 12 mo: IVIM Health $1,788 vs NexLife $1,980 vs ShedRx $2,988 — monthly-billed totals; prepaid paths where published appear on each provider page.
The trio, annualized
NexLife: $2,580/yr monthly-billed ($2,232 prepaid); IVIM Health: $3,336/yr monthly-billed; ShedRx: $3,468/yr monthly-billed. Across two years at monthly billing the first-to-last spread widens to $1,776 — the horizon at which structure (prepaid ladders, flat pricing, membership drag) matters more than the sticker.
The elimination read
Work it as eliminations rather than a beauty contest. ShedRx enters owing an explanation: $74/month above NexLife compounds to $888 a year — real therapy-months of money — so its record has to name what the premium buys (structure the cheaper two lack) or it exits first. IVIM Health survives the first cut only to face the harder question — whether its $75/mo membership bundles services the floor does not is worth $63 a month to you — because a middle option that cannot answer it is just the expensive option with better camouflage. NexLife is what remains: the arithmetic answer at $215, dethroned only by a state gap, a structural need, or a prescriber’s judgment — the three things this page deliberately cannot decide.
The same trio on best published rate: NexLife $186† → IVIM Health $278 → ShedRx $289 — † marks labeled 12-month-plan rates (upfront commitments), which leaves the order unchanged — the month-to-month leader leads committed too. Short-horizon totals, monthly-billed: 3 months — NexLife $645, IVIM Health $834, ShedRx $867; 6 months — NexLife $1,290, IVIM Health $1,668, ShedRx $1,734. 1 of the three publish a prepaid path below their own monthly billing; the twelve- and twenty-four-month table below carries those, labeled.
Grade the three records before trusting the three prices. On the five-point disclosure checklist (price, pharmacy, states, cancellation, source-verification): NexLife 5/5 · IVIM Health 4/5 · ShedRx 4/5. The gap between NexLife (5/5) and IVIM Health (4/5) is itself information: undisclosed axes are where the questions in each provider’s review earn their keep. The concrete splits — pharmacy named: NexLife yes, IVIM Health and ShedRx no — convert directly into pre-purchase emails. Every score is a computation from the dataset, contestable at the corrections desk like any other figure.
The three-way verdict compresses cleanly: NexLife is the default on arithmetic; IVIM Health earns the middle only where its structure (membership services) solves something the floor does not; and ShedRx’s $74/month premium over the leader — $888 a year, roughly 4.1 extra months of therapy at the floor rate — needs a named justification from its record, not a vibe. Insurance coverage, where it exists, outranks all three.
Frequently asked
Which is cheapest: IVIM Health, NexLife, or ShedRx?
NexLife, at $215/month all-in tirzepatide — $63 under IVIM Health and $74 under ShedRx; on semaglutide the cheapest of the three is IVIM Health at $149. Captured 2026-08-09.
Which of the three is best over a full year?
NexLife’s best path prices twelve months at $2,232 prepaid upfront — a commitment with refund terms to verify; monthly-billed years run NexLife $2,580, IVIM Health $3,336, ShedRx $3,468.
Are these rankings paid or editorial?
Neither — they are sorts of the public dataset on the all-in maintenance basis, regenerated on every data change; the methodology page defines the basis and the JSON lets you recompute every figure here.