Compare · Formulations, 2026 edition
The cheaper column is the one you cannot total.
Of 17 prescription testosterone records read in October 2026, 7 name an injectable, 2 name a topical, and 8 name no formulation at all. At published medication rates injectables start at $28 and topicals at $132 — but not one injectable can be totalled, and the single program here with a complete monthly figure is a $199 topical cream.
In one sentence
7 of 17 records price an injectable and 2 price a topical, but only 1 of the 9 can be reduced to a complete monthly figure — and it is the topical one, at $199 a month.
- 7 · 2 · 8
- Injectable · topical · no formulation named
- $28–$199.99
- Published injectable monthly rate
- $199–$231
- Published topical monthly figure
- 1 of 9
- Records carrying a complete monthly figure
out of 17 prescription records read
every one of those rates excludes something mandatory
one flat all-inclusive fee, one medication rate plus a membership
Fountain TRT, a topical cream — no injectable qualifies
$28 a month, and nothing to add it to
The lowest figure on this page is Hone Health’s $28/mo — and the same record adds three words to it: plus a membership. That membership is published at two tiers, and neither page states which tier the medication rate belongs to, so the medication charge and the membership stay in separate boxes. Read $28 as a medication rate, not a program price. The one program whose monthly figure is complete is Fountain TRT at $199, published as a flat all-inclusive fee with cancellation at any time — and it is a topical cream.
Every record that names a formulation
9 records · 7 publish a monthly figureA record is sorted by the formulation its own source names, never by inference. The known monthly column is the published medication charge plus any separately published membership — it is a real subtotal and it is not the bill. The complete figure column is the only one that answers what a month costs, and it stays empty wherever a mandatory charge has no published amount.
Injectable7 records
0 of 7 carry a complete monthly figureA vial or auto-injector the buyer injects
- Blokes (Joi + Blokes)Incomplete
Injectable testosterone cypionate
- Charge as billed
- $149/mo billed quarterly
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Supply
- Supply period not stated in the source
- Known monthly
- $149
labs unpriced
Checked Oct 26, 2026Source - Hims & HersIncomplete
Injectable vial; oral capsules also listed
- Charge as billed
- Compounded injectable from $79/mo, medication only
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Supply
- Supply period not stated in the source
- Known monthly
- $79
membership excluded
Checked Oct 26, 2026Source - Hone HealthIncomplete
Injectable testosterone cypionate; cream and troches also priced
- Charge as billed
- Injectable from $28/mo, medication rate, plus a required membership
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Supply
- Supply period not stated in the source
- Known monthly
- $28
membership excluded
Checked Oct 26, 2026Source - LifeMDIncomplete
XYOSTED auto-injector, subcutaneous
- Charge as billed
- No program charge published
- Billing
- No billing interval published
- Supply
- Supply period not stated in the source
- Known monthly
- Not derived
No program charge published at all
Checked Oct 23, 2026Source - Maximus (Maximus Tribe)Incomplete
Injectable testosterone; strength not stated in the source
- Charge as billed
- $199.99/mo on the one-month plan
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Supply
- Supply period not stated in the source
- Known monthly
- $199.99
labs unpriced
Checked Oct 26, 2026Source - Peter MD (Peter Uncaged)Incomplete
Injectable testosterone cypionate
- Charge as billed
- $139/mo on the one-month plan
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Supply
- Supply period not stated in the source
- Known monthly
- $139
labs unpriced
Checked Oct 26, 2026Source - Titan TRTIncomplete
Compounded injectable; oral and enclomiphene also listed
- Charge as billed
- $159 for a 30-day supply
- Billing
- No billing interval published
- Supply
- 30-day supply
- Known monthly
- Not derived
A charge is published with no billing interval, so no monthly figure is derived
Checked Oct 23, 2026Source
Topical2 records
1 of 2 carry a complete monthly figureA cream or gel applied to the skin
- Fountain TRTComplete $199
Topical testosterone cream
- Charge as billed
- From $199/mo, published as a flat all-inclusive monthly fee
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Supply
- Supply period not stated in the source
- Known monthly
- $199
Every published charge is priced
Checked Oct 26, 2026Source - Male ExcelIncomplete
Topical testosterone cream
- Charge as billed
- $132/mo cream, 60-day supply billed every other calendar month
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Supply
- 60-day supply, billed every other calendar month
- Known monthly
- $231
shipping unpriced
Checked Oct 26, 2026Source
The other 8 records name no formulation in any source read for this edition, so they sit in neither column. That is a gap in disclosure, not a missing product: a page that describes treatment without stating what is dispensed cannot be compared on formulation at all.
The supply period, and the charge schedule attached to it
2 of 9 state a supply periodThese are two different facts and they are kept in two different columns. A supply period is how long a shipment lasts. A billing interval is when money leaves the account. Only 2 of the 9 records state the first, and a record can publish a rate without publishing either.
- Maximus (Maximus Tribe)Injectable
- Supply period
- Not stated
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Known monthly
- $199.99
No up-front amount published
- Blokes (Joi + Blokes)Injectable
- Supply period
- Not stated
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Known monthly
- $149
No up-front amount published
- Peter MD (Peter Uncaged)Injectable
- Supply period
- Not stated
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Known monthly
- $139
No up-front amount published
- Hims & HersInjectable
- Supply period
- Not stated
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Known monthly
- $79
No up-front amount published
- Hone HealthInjectable
- Supply period
- Not stated
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Known monthly
- $28
No up-front amount published
- LifeMDInjectable
- Supply period
- Not stated
- Billing
- No billing interval published
- Known monthly
- Not derived
Amount due per supply period; no charge schedule stated
- Titan TRTInjectable
- Supply period
- 30-day supply
- Billing
- No billing interval published
- Known monthly
- Not derived
$159 collected before treatment
- Male ExcelTopical
- Supply period
- 60-day supply, billed every other calendar month
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Known monthly
- $231
One shipment covers 60 days; the record does not annualise it
- Fountain TRTTopical
- Supply period
- Not stated
- Billing
- Billed monthly
- Known monthly
- $199
$199 collected before treatment
60 days of medication is not a 60-day month
Male Excel quotes a monthly rate per product and states the products are billed every other calendar month on a 60-day supply. That is a schedule, and it is not an annualisation: the record does not establish a fixed-day cycle distinct from the billed-every-other-month arrangement, so no monthly equivalent is divided out of it here. The same caution applies to Titan, which publishes a price for a 30-day supply and no charge schedule at all — a supply period is never read as a billing period.
The only stated up-front amount
Of the 9 formulated records, 2 publishes the cash collected before treatment: Blokes, whose quarterly billing is taken as a single payment on a published monthly rate. Its own one-month-equivalent figure and its up-front amount are printed in separate columns because they are separate facts — and because a rate is the cost to keep a program running, while the up-front amount is what a card is charged.
The 8 records that name no formulation
excluded from both columns, and from both rangesA price with no formulation cannot be compared on formulation. These records are not cheap and they are not expensive — they are unplaceable, and pushing one into the injectable column because it is the larger column would be an invention. They are listed in full so the count of 9 can be checked rather than trusted.
| Program | What it publishes | Complete monthly figure | Why it is in neither column |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlynMD | No price published on the pages read | No | No program rate to place in a column even if one were named |
| Defy Medical | No price published on the pages read | No | No program rate to place in a column even if one were named |
| Keeps | $49 before treatment; no program rate | No | No program rate to place in a column even if one were named |
| Marek Health | $299 before treatment; no program rate | No | No program rate to place in a column even if one were named |
| ReformHRT | No price published on the pages read | No | No program rate to place in a column even if one were named |
| RegenX Health | No price published on the pages read | No | No program rate to place in a column even if one were named |
| RexMD | $250–$299/mo subscription including medication | Yes, but unplaceable | Formulation never stated, so the charge belongs to neither column |
| Taurus Meds | $149/mo, plus a $49 initial test and consultation | No | Formulation never stated, so the charge belongs to neither column |
The complete figure with no column to sit in
RexMD publishes a monthly subscription that covers medication, provider consultations and subsequent labs, and states separately that the initial lab work and consultation are charged outside the monthly fee at a published price. Every mandatory charge therefore has an amount, so its all-in monthly figure exists. It still cannot enter either column above, because no source read for this edition states which formulation the program dispenses. A complete price is not the same thing as a placeable record, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
Across these 8 records the published positions run from a full monthly subscription to a start fee with no treatment rate to nothing at all. An absence is recorded as an absence: none of these figures is counted as zero anywhere on this page, and none of them moves the ranges in the columns above. The source pages and read dates for all 17 records are listed separately, and the row dataset publishes every field, including the nulls.
8 unassigned records · 2 publish a program charge · 1 publish a complete monthly figure
Topical rates that sit outside the topical column
2 published cream and troche ratesOnly two records are filed as topical. That does not mean only two topical prices are published: a provider whose main program is an injectable can price a cream beside it, and those rates are real. They are printed here rather than folded into the column above, because the record they belong to dispenses something else and its own charge is the injectable one. For what a compounded cream is, and how it differs from an FDA-approved gel, see testosterone cream for men.
Testosterone cream, from $60/mo, plus a required membership
Testosterone troches, from $60/mo, plus a required membership
Both figures are the same provider’s and both carry the same qualifier: the rate is quoted plus a membership that is mandatory. The membership is published at two tiers, and the pages read do not state which tier applies to a given medication rate, so neither rate can be turned into a bill here — the same limit that applies to that provider’s injectable rate. Read them as rates, which is what they are.
The cheapest topical number in the edition is filed under injectable
A cream at $60/mo is the lowest topical rate published anywhere in this edition — and it appears in the priced variants of an injectable record, beside a mandatory membership, so it never reached the topical column’s range of $132+. A reader who only checks the column summary would conclude topical treatment starts at $132. It does not; it starts at a number that is incomplete in the same way the injectable numbers are.
Kept out of both columns on purpose
oral testosterone · testosterone stimulatorsOral testosterone
1 published rateA swallowed capsule is neither an injection nor a cream, and it bills like neither on its own terms. Oral testosterone is reported here in its own block and is added to no range, count or total above — grouping it into either column would make the comparison describe something it never measured.
- Hims & Hers$179 /mo
Kyzatrex oral testosterone, from $179/mo
The lowest published oral rate, $179/mo, is a different product on the same provider page as an injectable. It is not a cheaper version of that injectable and it is not placed beside the injectable rate: the two are separately priced products, and this page does not rank one form against another on price alone.
Testosterone stimulators
2 named in the recordsEnclomiphene and clomiphene do not replace testosterone; they are sold to stimulate its production. They are named here so a reader can see they were found and deliberately left out, and they are excluded from every count on this site — not only this page. A dollar figure beside a stimulator is not comparable to a testosterone price.
- Hims & Hers$49 /mo
Testosterone Rx+ (enclomiphene), a separate product, from $49/mo
- Hone Healthno rate published
Clomiphene and enclomiphene products are excluded from the TRT record
One further record, Male Excel, describes its own oral line as Triclozene and classifies it as a testosterone-stimulating treatment rather than testosterone replacement. It is therefore outside this comparison as well, on the same ground: a stimulator is not a formulation of testosterone, so it has no column here.
This is a buyer-cost comparison, not a medication recommendation. Nothing on this page states that one formulation costs less to use well, that a cheaper month is a better outcome, or that any product suits any person. The only claim made here is about what providers publish, and the only arithmetic is arithmetic on those published figures.
Method
Six rules, applied to all 17 records
Only 9 records name a formulation at all, and only 1 of those carries a complete monthly figure. The rules below are what keep the other 16 from being described as cheaper than they can be shown to be.
The three numbers
rate = published monthly figure for one program
known monthly = medication + published membership
complete = known monthly, only once every fee is priced
The lowest complete figure in this edition is $199.
- 01
A record is filed by the formulation its own source names
Formulation is recorded per provider from the wording of the page read. Where no source states what is dispensed, the record is left unassigned and enters neither column — it is never defaulted into the larger one. That is why the two columns add to fewer than the full record count.
- 02
A medication rate is not a bill
A published monthly figure is reported as the known monthly subtotal: the medication charge plus any separately published membership. The complete figure exists only where every mandatory charge has a published amount. Where a membership tier, a lab panel or shipping has no figure, the complete column stays empty rather than absorbing a guess.
- 03
A supply period is never read as a billing interval
A price attached to a 30-day supply with no charge schedule yields no monthly equivalent, because a supply period says how long a shipment lasts and a billing interval says when money moves. Where a provider publishes both, they are printed in separate columns.
- 04
A topical rate inside another record stays out of the topical column
A provider whose main program is an injectable can price a cream beside it. Those rates are published and are listed in their own block, but they do not enter the topical column, its counts or its range, because the record they belong to dispenses something else.
- 05
Oral testosterone and stimulators are never grouped with either column
Oral testosterone is reported in a separate block with no range merging. Clomiphene and enclomiphene are testosterone-stimulating treatments rather than replacement, and are excluded from every count on this site, not only from this page.
- 06
Every count is recomputed from the record sheet
Nothing on this page is typed in from a summary. The column sizes, the two ranges and the completeness counts are all read out of the 17 records dated October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026, so correcting a figure there changes this page with it.
Cite this page
Attribution that travels with the caveat
Two conventions travel with the citation: a published rate must be called a rate, and a rate must never be reported as the price of treatment.
TRT Buyer Guide, "Injectable or topical: what each published program actually costs," Open Water RX LLC. Sample: 17 prescription testosterone replacement records read October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026. 7 name an injectable, 2 name a topical, 8 name no formulation. 0 of 7 injectable records and 1 of 2 topical records publish a complete monthly figure. https://trtbuyerguide.com/compare/injectable-vs-topical-trt-cost
Published by Open Water RX LLC. Every figure is a published provider charge as read from the page dated on its row, and is not a quote from any provider.
The records behind this page
This page adds no dataset. Formulation, charge, interval and fee fields are all read from the published record sheet, so correcting a record changes this page with it.
What this page does not claim
- 01
This is not a medication recommendation, a dosing guide or a clinical comparison. No strength, dose, blood level or outcome is compared anywhere on this page, and a lower monthly figure is not a claim that a treatment works better or worse.
- 02
A missing charge is never zero. Every absent amount on this page is reported as not established, and none of them is counted into a total or a range.
- 03
The two ranges describe published rates, not market prices. A provider that publishes nothing has no rate and does not lower a range; a provider that publishes a low rate has not thereby been shown to be cheaper to use.
- 04
The one sponsored placement and the record held for approval sit outside every count here, so an advertiser-provided or unapproved figure cannot move a number on this page.
- 05
Provider pricing changes. Every row is dated to the day it was read, and a figure without that date is not published as verified.
Charges and formulations read across October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026. Corrections are logged at the corrections log.
Cost questions
What buyers ask before choosing a formulation
Each answer is dated to the record dates behind it. Nothing here is a clinical answer.
Is topical testosterone cheaper than injectable TRT?
No, and the comparison cannot be finished either way. The topical medication rates published in this edition are $132 and $199 a month; the injectable rates run $28 to $199.99. But the injectable end of that is an unfinished number: 0 of 7 injectable records publish a complete monthly figure, because each leaves a membership, a lab panel or a shipping charge without an amount. Among the records that name a formulation, exactly one figure can be totalled — $199 for a topical cream. A cheaper rate that excludes a mandatory charge is not a cheaper treatment; it is a smaller number.
Checked October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026
Why can most of these programs not be totalled at all?
0 of 7 injectable records and 1 of 2 topical records carry a complete monthly figure. The reasons are specific, and each one is printed on its own row: a required membership whose amount is published but whose billing period is not, a membership published at two tiers with no statement of which applies to the medication rate, a required lab panel with no amount, a required initial workup with no amount, shipping stated to apply without a figure, and one charge published with no billing interval at all. None of those is zero, so none of them can be added to a total.
Checked October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026
If I buy a 60-day supply, am I billed every two months?
That is the schedule one topical record states: a monthly rate per product, billed every other calendar month on a 60-day supply. That is a billing schedule, not an annualisation — the record establishes no fixed-day cycle distinct from the every-other-month arrangement, so no monthly equivalent is divided out of it here. The same caution applies to the injectable record that prices a 30-day supply without stating a charge schedule: a supply period tells you how long a shipment lasts, and a billing interval tells you when money leaves the account. This page never converts one into the other.
Checked October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026
Why is the $28-a-month injectable not the cheapest option here?
Because $28 is a medication rate with a mandatory membership beside it. The membership is published at $25/mo and at $155/mo, and the pages read do not say which tier applies to that rate — so the two numbers cannot be added, by us or by anyone reading the same page. The record keeps them apart for that reason. It is the lowest figure on this page and the least comparable one on it. Describing it as the cheapest TRT would be quoting a price for a program nobody can buy at that price.
Checked October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026
Where does oral testosterone sit in this comparison?
In its own block, outside both columns. A swallowed capsule is neither an injection nor a cream, and it is never merged into a formulation range. One published oral rate appears in the records read, and it is reported as a separately priced product on a provider page that also sells an injectable. Testosterone stimulators — clomiphene and enclomiphene — are a different matter again: they do not replace testosterone, so they are excluded from every count on this site, not only from this page.
Checked October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026
Is a cheaper month a better treatment?
Nothing on this page says so, and nothing on it compares doses, strengths, blood levels or outcomes. It compares published program charges and the billing terms attached to them. The lower figure in a column is a lower cost per month on published terms — not a claim about effectiveness, suitability or safety, and not a recommendation of one formulation over another. Where a cheaper figure also excludes a mandatory charge, it is not even a lower cost.
Checked October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026