Novi review
A billing-cycle table on each product page, with the one-month rate listed first and no membership charged on top.
The verdict
Novi charges $149 a month for compounded semaglutide and $179 for compounded tirzepatide on its one-month billing cycle, and both product pages say the figure holds whatever the dose. Longer cycles bring the monthly number down, to $88 for semaglutide over twelve months, which is the figure each page title leads with rather than the rate most new patients will actually start on.
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- Category
- GLP-1 telehealth
- Molecule
- Semaglutide · Tirzepatide
- Form
- Injection
- From
- From $149/mo
- Dose published
- No
- Prescription
- Required
- Compounded
- Yes — not FDA-approved
- Pharmacy
- Not named
- Availability
- All 50 states and DC
Novi is an online weight-loss service built around compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide as weekly injections, with Mounjaro, Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound also shown on the home page without a price beside any of them. It serves all fifty states and the District of Columbia, takes no insurance, and offers pay-later financing through the usual installment services at checkout.
Who writes the prescription, and what do they see?
The product pages say a licensed US physician reviews the questionnaire and decides eligibility, and that the patient can then message that physician without limit through the online portal. No physician or medical group is named anywhere on the pages. In Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and West Virginia a brief video or audio visit comes first, and everywhere else treatment can begin on the written intake alone.
After approval the first shipment is described as arriving within two to three business days, and refills ship every twenty-eight days after a short check-in, tracked through the same portal where a patient messages support and logs weight. Novi also offers what it calls a Progress Promise, a full refund for a patient who completes four months of treatment without meaningful progress, with the conditions held in the terms of service.
What happens when the dose goes up?
Both pages state the same price no matter the dose, so the climb through the first sixteen weeks does not change the charge on the card. The pages describe a step-by-step escalation meant to support tolerance, though no milligram schedule is printed, and the FAQ lets a patient already on a GLP-1 ask to continue at the current dose. The side-effect answer also tells the patient not to step up to a higher dose while nausea or other symptoms are still present, advice a buyer can act on in the second month.
What the price includes
The semaglutide table reads $149 for one month, then $130, $129 and $88 a month on the three-, six- and twelve-month cycles, and tirzepatide reads $179, $149, $133 and $129. Every figure is stated to include the consultation, care, medication, supplies and shipping, and the home page repeats that no monthly membership is charged. A promotional amount off the first order runs on the home page, separately from either table.
What it claims, and what it cites
Both molecules are compounded and filled by pharmacies the site describes as FDA-regulated, none of which is named, and compounded preparations are not FDA-approved. The home page's safety answer refers to GLP-1s as FDA-approved for weight management, a description that fits the brand-name products and not the compounded versions sold from these two tables.
Where it holds up, and where it does not
- Strength: One price at every dose
- Strength: One-month rate listed first in each table
- Strength: No membership fee on any cycle
- Strength: Refund promise after four months
- Limitation: Page titles lead with the twelve-month rate
- Limitation: No physician or medical group is named
- Limitation: The filling pharmacies go unnamed
- Limitation: No milligram schedule is printed
What the evidence says about this kind of treatment
The assessment above is about Novi. These are about the drugs it sells, and they are traced to the primary literature.
- Right for
- A buyer who wants to start on a single month without a membership, and to keep paying the same figure as the dose rises.
- Wrong for
- A buyer who wants the pharmacy or the prescribing physician named before paying anything.
How Novi compares
| Seller | Who it suits | Go |
|---|---|---|
| Buyers who want the commitment behind a headline rate spelled out in the asterisk under it | See Cielo → | |
| Buyers who want the renewal rate printed beside the introductory one, on every plan | See EOS Health → | |
| Buyers comparing a compounded plan against the brand routes on the same catalog page | See Zappy Health → |
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- Why does the page title say $88?
- Because $88 is the monthly figure on the twelve-month cycle; on the one-month cycle, which carries no longer commitment, semaglutide is $149 and tirzepatide is $179.
- Is a video visit required?
- Only in Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and West Virginia, where a brief video or audio visit comes before treatment, although a patient anywhere can request one through the portal at any time.
- What is the Progress Promise?
- A full refund for a patient who completes the first four months of treatment without meaningful progress toward their goals, subject to conditions set out in the terms of service rather than on the product page.
- Is Novi legit?
- Novi is a GLP-1 telehealth sellers service. Its stated availability: All 50 states and DC. What our record does not establish: whether it bills insurance and how its intake works. Ask for those in writing before you pay.
- Is Novi expensive compared with other GLP-1 telehealth sellers?
- Novi publishes a starting figure of $149/mo. Across the 368 GLP-1 telehealth sellers we review that publish a single monthly figure, those run $49 to $449 with a median of $189, which puts Novi below the median, toward the cheaper end. The other 20 GLP-1 telehealth sellers we review quote only after an intake or price by dose, so they are not in that comparison. A starting figure is not a bill — labs, consultations and shipping are often charged separately, so confirm what your own quote includes.