Head to head
Peter MD vs Hone Health
Both programs publish a medication rate. Peter MD publishes $139/mo on a one-month plan and states that membership and medications are included, but never prices the initial lab work it requires. Hone publishes $28/mo for the same injectable cypionate and states that a membership is required beside it, published at $25/mo or $155/mo with no page saying which tier attaches to that rate. Neither record closes to a complete monthly treatment cost, so the difference between the two rates is a difference in scope, not a saving.
The short answer. Peter MD publishes $139/mo on a one-month plan and says membership and medications are included, but never prices the initial lab work it requires. Hone Health publishes $28/mo for the same injectable cypionate and states that a membership is required beside it — published at two tiers, with no page saying which one attaches to that rate. So the rate difference is a difference in scope, not a discount.
Both figures are real published rates. Neither is the cost of treatment, because each record leaves one mandatory charge without an amount. That is what this page sets out: what each provider publishes, what it does not, and which direction the missing field runs in.
- $139 vs $28
- Published medication rate, per month
- 0 of 2
- Publish a complete monthly treatment cost
- $111
- Gap between the two published rates
- 0 of 2
- Publish what is taken before medication arrives
one-month plan against a rate that excludes a required membership
each leaves a mandatory charge without an amount
not a saving: the two rates do not cover the same charges
one term total is published, but not how the term is collected
One more number is worth naming because it explains the rest: Hone Health’s unpublished tier link moves the bill between $53 and $183 for the same medication rate. That span is arithmetic on two published tiers, not a price — and it is not a ceiling, because shipping and any further mandatory charge are unpublished too.
The quoted month, and the bill it does not close
Two records, same fieldsA medication-only quote is not a smaller version of a treatment cost. It is a different object: it prices the prescription and stops before the charges that are required to keep it. Both ladders below are read the same way, one line at a time, until a line has no published amount.
The bill, line by line
Peter MD
- 01Medication rate
- $139/mo
- 02Membership
- None published
- 03Clinician services
- Not stated
- 04Initial lab work
- No amount
- 05Monthly treatment cost
- Not established
One-month plan, no initial term
The provider states membership and medications are included in the rate.
The page states that membership and medications are included and publishes no consultation fee either way. Whether follow-up visits sit inside the monthly rate is not stated on the page read.
Required on the plans page, and never priced on it.
A required charge has no amount, so the recurring figures are not summed into a bill.
The bill, line by line
Hone Health
- 01Medication rate
- $28/mo
- 02Membership
- Required, tier unstated
- 03Clinician services
- Depends on the tier
- 04Initial lab work
- No amount
- 05Monthly treatment cost
- Not established
Medication rate, injectable testosterone cypionate, plus a required membership
Published at $25 or $155/mo, with no page saying which applies to this rate.
The Basic tier leaves the physician consult to be bought separately, and Plus includes physician consults. So the consult is either included or bought separately depending on a tier the provider never attaches to this rate.
Not priced on either treatment page. A $65 Biomarker Test + Consult is listed as an offer.
A required charge has no amount, so the recurring figures are not summed into a bill.
One gap has published candidates
Hone Health does not leave its membership blank. It publishes $25/mo and $155/mo, and never states which of them attaches to the medication rate. So the bill is bounded on both sides by numbers the provider published — $53 if the lower tier applied, $183 if the higher one did. That is a range of possibility, not a price: one unpublished link sits between the two figures, and it is not a ceiling because shipping and further mandatory charges are unpublished as well.
The other gap has none
Peter MD leaves a different shape of hole. The required initial panel is stated and never priced, and no page in the record offers a candidate amount for it, so there is no span to draw at all. The $139 rate cannot be turned into a bill by any arithmetic available here — only by asking the provider. That is the reason this page reports a rate and withholds a total, rather than reporting a total it cannot support.
A blank is never a zero. Neither program is described as including lab work at no charge, because neither says that.
What each record publishes, and what it leaves open
Advantages and unknowns · both sidesEverything below is a published charge, term or policy. Nothing here is scored, ranked or weighed against the other side — an advantage in this list means a field a buyer can read and rely on, and an unknown means a field no page answered.
One-month plan, no initial term
What it publishes
A one-month tier is published as a rate
The shortest commitment a buyer can take is priced at $139/mo with no initial term, rather than existing only as a discount on a longer plan.
Every longer term carries its own total
Six months is published at $109/mo as $654, and twelve months at $79/mo as $948. The term arithmetic is stated on the page, so it can be checked without a calculator.
The billing interval was read, not assumed
The charge is a calendar-month charge on the provider page, so no 28-day or 30-day conversion is applied to it anywhere on this page.
A state list is published
The provider states it treats in 48 states and names Alabama and Idaho as the two it does not prescribe in.
The exit terms are published
Auto-renewal can be cancelled by email, provided the request arrives at least 48 hours before the renewal processing date.
What it does not
The required panel has no amount
Initial lab work is required and unpriced on the plans page, so the published monthly rate cannot be closed into a treatment cost. Nothing on the page offers a candidate figure.
The collection schedule is not published
The page states a monthly rate and a term total, but not whether a term is billed in instalments or taken up front. That leaves the cash at risk on a $948 term unstated.
Nothing comes back
The published policy accepts no refunds, and blood work orders are non-refundable. On a prepaid term, the unused remainder has no published route back to the buyer.
Branded or compounded is not established
The record is marked partially researched on this field. The formulation is stated as injectable testosterone cypionate; whether it is a branded finished product or a compounded preparation is not recorded.
Medication rate, injectable testosterone cypionate, plus a required membership
What it publishes
The lower published medication rate of the two
$28/mo is published for injectable testosterone cypionate, with a cream and troches each priced at $60/mo on the same basis.
The membership is published in full
Two tiers are stated with what each one buys: Basic covers selected medication discounts and leaves the physician consult to be bought separately, Plus covers regular labs, consults and access to medications. Access to medications is not medication being included.
The exit is month to month
The membership can be cancelled at any time by contacting support, and cancellation takes effect on the date it is made. There is no prepaid term to be released from.
One up-front amount is priced
An initial Biomarker Test + Consult is listed at $65. It is published as an offer rather than as a stated requirement, so it is reported here and not added to any total.
The cancellation and refund terms are readable
Both are published in a help-centre article, so the exit and the refund path are quoted from the provider rather than inferred.
What it does not
The link between tier and rate is missing
Both membership tiers are published, and neither is attached to the medication rate. The provider does not state which tier a buyer at that rate pays, so the two figures cannot be added by anyone — including this page.
Coverage contradicts itself
The provider states availability by state, but puts coverage at 35 states in one place and 36 in another, and no complete public list could be read. Coverage is recorded as unestablished.
Paid fees are non-refundable
The published policy states that fees already paid are non-refundable, with refunds considered case by case. A cancellation on the day it is made does not reverse a charge already taken.
The preparation is compounded
The record is marked compounded, which means the preparation is not an FDA-approved finished product and is not interchangeable with a branded one. This is a fact about what is dispensed, not a ranking of it.
Shipping is unpublished
Shipping and any further mandatory charge are not published on the pages read, so neither is counted as zero anywhere in this comparison.
Two different shapes of unknown
Peter MD’s gap is a missing amount: one required charge with no figure attached anywhere. Hone Health’s gap is a missing link: both figures are published, and the sentence that connects them is not. Those are not the same problem, and they do not resolve the same way — one requires a price, the other requires a sentence. Neither is treated as a $0 here, and neither is used to declare one program cheaper.
Method
Five rules, two records, no winner
The pair is chosen because the two programs build their bill differently: one prices a rate and leaves a charge unpriced, the other prices a rate and leaves the sentence that attaches a membership to it unwritten.
How the bill is read
published rate = the medication charge as billed
known charge = rate + every mandatory charge with an amount
treatment cost = known charge, only if no required charge is unpriced
Neither record reaches the third line. That is the finding, not a footnote to it.
- 01
A rate is published as a rate, never rounded into a total
Both providers publish a monthly medication rate and both were read as calendar-month charges. Where a mandatory charge has no amount, the recurring figures are not summed: the record publishes the rate and withholds the total, and so does this page.
- 02
An unresolved membership is never resolved by picking a tier
Both membership tiers are on Hone Health's record because the provider published them. The cheaper tier is not used as a default, because nothing on the provider page states that it applies to the medication rate quoted. Adding the lower tier would produce a number no source supports.
- 03
Arithmetic on published figures is labelled as arithmetic
Where two published numbers are placed on either side of an unpublished link, the result is presented as the size of the gap and never as a price. The span created by the missing tier is the only derived figure in this comparison, and it is labelled every time it appears.
- 04
Commitments and exit terms are quoted from the policy page
Cancellation notice periods, refund positions and commitment lengths are taken from the pages named in the source list below, dated to the day they were read. A policy that could not be read stays blank instead of being inferred from a similar provider.
- 05
No rating, no order, no clinical claim
This comparison adds no score, moves no existing score and declares no winner. It also says nothing about whether either treatment is appropriate — that is a decision for a licensed clinician, and no page here makes it.
One sentence worth repeating
Neither record publishes a complete monthly treatment cost, so no figure on this page is what a buyer pays for care. A medication rate is what the prescription costs; the bill is the medication rate plus every mandatory charge that carries an amount.
Every page this comparison was read from
7 sources- Peter MD (Peter Uncaged)Provider identity, business model and published offeringgetpetermd.com/mens-trt/Oct 23, 2026
- Peter MD (Peter Uncaged)Cancellation and refund termsgetpetermd.com/refund-autobill-policy/Oct 23, 2026
- Peter MD (Peter Uncaged)Return policygetpetermd.com/return-policy/Oct 23, 2026
- Peter MD (Peter Uncaged)Where care is offeredgetpetermd.com/trt-start/Oct 23, 2026
- Hone HealthProvider identity, business model and published offeringhonehealth.com/mens/buy-testosterone/Oct 23, 2026
- Hone HealthCancellation and refund termshelp.honehealth.com/hc/en-us/articles/40162125713815-Hone-Health-Order-Cancellation-and-Refund-PolicyOct 23, 2026
- Hone HealthWhere Hone is availablehelp.honehealth.com/hc/en-us/articles/40162108823319-Hone-Health-Service-Availability-by-State-2026Oct 23, 2026
Peter MD was checked Oct 26, 2026 and Hone Health on Oct 26, 2026. A figure without a source on this list is not published as verified anywhere in this comparison.
What this comparison does not claim
- 01
Neither figure on this page is a quote. Each is a published rate read from a provider page on the date shown, and a provider can change it without notice.
- 02
A medication rate is what the prescription costs. The bill is the medication rate plus every mandatory charge that carries an amount, and both records leave one of those without an amount.
- 03
The published-rate difference describes two different scopes of charge. It is not a saving, and no saving is claimed anywhere on this page.
- 04
The existing commercial scores, positions and sponsored placements on this site are untouched by this page. No placement is mentioned here, and no score is used as an argument.
- 05
Where a provider contradicts itself — on state coverage, or on how many states it serves — the contradiction is published rather than one version being chosen quietly.
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Assumptions this page refuses to make
- 01
No rating is created here and no winner is declared. The two programs are compared on published charges and terms only, and nothing on this page describes a clinical outcome.
- 02
The published-rate difference is reported; the saving is not. The two rates do not cover the same charges, so subtracting one from the other produces a number that describes no invoice.
- 03
Hone's bill span is arithmetic on two published tiers joined by an unpublished link. It is shown to size the gap, never as a price, and it is not a ceiling either: shipping and any further mandatory charge are unpublished on the pages read, so neither is counted as zero.
- 04
Peter MD's lab gap has no published candidate at all. Nothing on the plans page states an amount for the required panel, so there is no span to draw and the monthly rate stays a rate.
- 05
Every figure is dated to the page it came from. A charge that is corrected in the records reaches this page without anyone retyping a number.