# Promotional GLP-1 Pricing: First-Month Rates, Codes and Struck Prices | This GLP How much published GLP-1 pricing is an offer rather than a standing rate, counted from sellers' own words, and why a struck-through anchor distorts a comparison differently from an intro rate. Publisher: This GLP Editorial Team Canonical: https://thisglp.com/research/how-much-glp1-pricing-is-promotional Updated: 2026-10-26 Published: 2026-09-16 [← Research](https://thisglp.com/research) Formats # Promotional GLP-1 Pricing: First-Month Rates, Codes and Struck Prices A fifth of published GLP-1 pricing notes carry the seller's own promotional language: a first month, an introductory rate, a code, or a struck-through figure nobody is charged. [This GLP Editorial Team](https://thisglp.com/about)September 20265 min readUpdated September 2026 1200 recorded pricing notes · 165 · carry promotional wording · What kind (a note can be in more than one): · a first month · 81 · a struck-through anchor · 33 · an introductory rate · 28 · a discount code · 24 · a sale · 18 **Research, not medical advice.** This GLP is independent and educational. Nothing here is a substitute for individualized care from a licensed clinician, and reading it creates no doctor–patient relationship. Talk to your own provider before starting, stopping, or changing any medication, peptide, or therapy. See our [methodology](https://thisglp.com/methodology) and [terms](https://thisglp.com/terms). ## Key takeaways - 165 of 1200 recorded pricing notes — 14% — carry the seller's own promotional language. - The commonest form is a first month, appearing in 81 notes. - 33 notes describe a struck-through figure nobody is charged. - A note without promotional wording has not been shown to carry a standing rate. It has been shown not to advertise a promotion in the text recorded. - Corpus read most recently October 2026. A price is meant to be a fact. In this market a fifth of them are an offer, and the difference is entirely invisible when two figures sit side by side in a comparison. This page counts how much of the published pricing is a promotion rather than a rate, using the sellers’ own words rather than any inference about their intent — the same method as the disclosure counts in [who publishes a dose ladder](https://thisglp.com/research/who-publishes-a-glp1-dose-ladder). ## How much of it Of 1200 pricing notes this desk has recorded, 165 contain promotional language — 14% of them. The commonest is a first month, in 81 notes. A figure described that way is not necessarily wrong; it is describing a different thing from the figure beside it. What the other four-fifths are not ⛔ A note without promotional wording has not been shown to carry a standing rate. It has been shown not to advertise a promotion in the text recorded here. Some of those sellers run promotions this desk did not capture; others publish a plain rate and always have. The census counts what was written, not what is true. The phrase counts also overlap on purpose. A note reading “intro price with code SAVE50” lands in two buckets, so adding the categories together produces a number larger than the total, and it means nothing. ## The anchors are the worst of it 33 notes describe a struck-through figure sitting above the price. An anchor is not a price anyone has ever paid — it exists to make the number beneath it feel smaller — and in this market almost none of them is sourced to anything. That is worth separating from a genuine introductory rate, which at least corresponds to a real transaction for a real month. Both distort a comparison, but only one of them is a number a buyer could ever be charged. ## What it changes about comparing It means the two most useful questions about any figure are what it applies to and for how long. A first-month rate answers a different question from a standing rate, and a comparison that places them side by side is not a comparison. We follow that through seller by seller in [when the headline is not the bill](https://thisglp.com/research/glp1-advertised-vs-billed-corrections) and count the structural version of it in [what sellers will not tell you](https://thisglp.com/research/what-glp1-sellers-do-not-publish). It also means a figure read once may not survive a second reading — which is why every price on this site carries the month it was taken, and why [reading a price twice](https://thisglp.com/research/rereading-glp1-prices) found so much movement. [OrderlyMeds](https://thisglp.com/reviews/orderlymeds) illustrates why the payment period belongs beside a headline: its [homepage](https://orderlymeds.com/) presents introductory monthly equivalents alongside a two-month total. Compare the amount due for that initial order and the later terms separately. The opening equivalent is not evidence of a standing month-to-month rate. ## Frequently asked How much published pricing is promotional? About a fifth of the recorded pricing notes on this roster contain the seller's own promotional language, most commonly a discounted first month. Does that mean the rest are standing rates? No. It means the rest did not advertise a promotion in the text recorded here. Some run promotions this desk did not capture. Why single out struck-through figures? Because an anchor is not a price anyone has ever been charged. An introductory rate at least corresponds to a real transaction for a real month. ## Sources ## More in Formats - [ Label-approved sites and semaglutide exposure · Abdomen · 2 in. from navel · similar · Thigh · under the skin · similar · Upper arm · under the skin · similar · Blood levels, not weight loss. No trial randomized people to a site. ### Where Should You Inject Ozempic? Abdomen, Thigh or Arm Gave the Same Exposure ](https://thisglp.com/research/where-should-you-inject-ozempic) - [ The labeled ladder — four weeks on every rung · 0.25 · wk 1–4 · 0.5 · wk 5–8 · 1 · wk 9–12 · 1.7 · wk 13–16 · 2.4 · wk 17+ · Milligrams weekly. No compounded product carries this label. ### Semaglutide Starting Dose: 0.25 mg, and What Compounding Changes ](https://thisglp.com/research/semaglutide-starting-dose) - [ Approved: weight management, US, April 2026 · Phase 3 in progress, not approved: · sleep apnea · hypertension · urinary incontinence · osteoarthritis pain · artery disease · A daily tablet, not a peptide, not an injection. ### Is There a GLP-1 Pill That Works? Two Tablets, Two Different Answers ](https://thisglp.com/research/does-the-glp1-pill-work-as-well-as-the-injection)