NextMeds vs Alloy
Two services that charge for the relationship, one inside the price and one outside it.
NextMeds
Editorial
$49/mo
NextMeds sells its GLP-1 treatment as a membership, and the membership price is the whole price: $49 a month for compounded semaglutide and $119 for compounded tirzepatide. Telehealth visits, a care coach, a dietitian and shipping sit inside it. Neither rate is described as moving with the dose, and neither is an introductory price: the site says a first order and a tenth cost the same.
For
- Membership price is the whole price
- Visits, coaching and shipping bundled
- Rate flat at every dose
Against
- Both rates printed as starting figures
- Visit frequency not published
- Compounding pharmacy not named
Pick it for: Readers who want the bundled figure with nothing owed beside it
Alloy
Editorial
$169/mo
Three compounded molecules at $70, $100 and $115 a month for the medication, each with a mandatory $99 care fee on top: $169, $199 and $214 all-in. Wegovy is listed from $199, but that is NovoCare's offer for a new patient's first two fills. At NovoCare's standing $349 plus the fee, it runs $448 a month.
For
- Three compounded molecules at one seller
- Care fee amount published, not implied
- Branded and compounded routes both listed
Against
- Care fee is $99 every month
- Medication rate excludes that fee
- Fee dominates a low medication rate
- Wegovy's $199 covers two fills only
Pick it for: Readers comparing Alloy's medication rate specifically
Our verdict
NextMeds' figure is the membership and bundles the service into it. Alloy's figure is the medication with a required fee alongside. The difference shows up on the first statement, not on the pricing page.
What actually separates them
NextMeds and Alloy state different things about published price. Everything else they publish, they publish the same way.
Alloy costs $120 more than NextMeds — 245% more for the same molecule. Whether that buys anything is what the rest of this page is for.
Over twelve months that is about $588 at NextMeds against $2,028 at Alloy — a difference of $1,440.
| NextMeds | Alloy | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | $49/mo | $169/mo |
Before you choose either
Ask both sellers what dose the monthly price buys before you compare the two figures. A price is only a price once you know what quantity it is attached to, and a seller that will not answer has told you something. Set both against every published price we hold rather than against each other alone.
Our take is computed from a published rubric that does not read commercial status, and what is known about safety applies to both of them equally.