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Semaglutide & tirzepatide GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth · Independently scored 6.8/10

Best for: knowing which pharmacy fills the vial — it names Apostrophe Pharmacy LLC

6.8
★★★☆☆3.4/5

Hims's strongest column is the clinical side — which molecules it will prescribe, and how it handles dosing.

$199/mo

Covered by the monthly price

Medication

In the price

Clinician visits

Charged on top

Shipping

Not stated

Lab work

Not stated

Coaching

Charged on top

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Hims is a major men's telehealth brand. Its weight loss offering is compounded semaglutide on a 6-month plan.

By Ruth Calder · Enforcement Editor
Editorially reviewed & fact-checked against primary sources · How we verify contentLast reviewed
Price shown up frontAll 50 statesPharmacy named

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Hims at a glance

Type
GLP-1 telehealth provider
Medications
Semaglutide
Starting price
$199/mo
What's included
Medication
Availability
All 50 states
FDA status
1 FDA warning letter on record — see below

How Hims scores

Six columns, each one computed from something Hims has published rather than from an opinion we formed: what it charges, which molecules it will dispense, what its record shows, and what the monthly figure actually buys. Where it publishes nothing, that absence is what gets scored. Every seller in the register goes through the same six columns.

Value25%

3.0/10

The figures published here are not comparable monthly cash prices for the medication — an insured copay, a per-vial rate, a membership fee or a starting-dose teaser. Capped rather than scored against the register.

Effectiveness25%

10.0/10

Dispenses semaglutide and tirzepatide, including the FDA-approved product. Anchored to SURMOUNT-1 (tirzepatide, -20.9%) and STEP 1 (semaglutide, -14.9%).

User Experience15%

8.0/10

On the seller's own pages, a price is published before the questionnaire starts.

Trust & Safety15%

7.0/10

1 FDA warning letter on record; names its dispensing pharmacy; shows a price before asking for health information; publishes its state list. Our verification confidence is high.

Accessibility10%

10.0/10

Publishes coverage in 50 of 50 states.

Support10%

3.0/10

The price covers medication.

6weighted dimensions
560sellers in the register
Everychecked against the seller's own site
Value 25%Effectiveness 25%User Experience 15%Trust & Safety 15%Accessibility 10%Support 10%

A seller that will not show a price before an intake loses points on Value and carries that note in its review. Withholding the number is itself a finding. How we score →

What we checked on Hims

Last checked August 2026
  • Re-read the price on file across 2 dose or plan tiers
  • Checked state coverage: all 50
  • Established what the monthly figure covers, and what it leaves out
  • Confirmed which compounding pharmacy fills the order, and its accreditation
  • Searched our FDA enforcement register for this operator

Price, availability, and compliance here are read off the seller's own pages and off primary regulatory records, named in the sources below. Editorial confidence in this data: high.

What signing up with Hims involves

Assembled from this seller’s entry in the register — the price record, the state list, the dispensing pharmacy where one is named, and what the monthly figure covers. It describes what a reader can expect to meet on the way to a prescription, and what is missing from the seller’s own disclosures. It is not a clinical judgment and not a prescribing decision.

  1. 1Hims publishes a price on its own site before asking anything about you. You can compare it against this register without starting a questionnaire.
  2. 2The intake is a written questionnaire. No live video visit or baseline bloodwork is recorded as required.
  3. 3A prescription is dispensed by Apostrophe Pharmacy LLC, which Hims names publicly. Most sellers in this register do not.
  4. 4The monthly price is recorded as covering medication.
Price shown before you start
  • No comparable monthly cash price for the medication is on record — either nothing is published, or what is published is a fee, an insured copay or a per-vial rate rather than a monthly cost.
  • Coverage is published for all 50 states.
  • 1 FDA warning letter on record. The letter itself is linked in the enforcement section below — read what it alleges rather than the fact that it exists.

GLP-1 medications Hims offers

Each one has its own guide: how the molecule works, the dosing schedule, the side effects that show up in practice, and what the trials actually measured.

Pricing

Prices re-verified

StartingCompounded
$199/mo
semaglutide
StartingBrand-name
$299/mo
tirzepatide

Brand Zepbound from $299/mo medication-only; requires Hims Weight Loss Membership ($149/mo)

Check the price yourself before you pay

Every figure here was read off Hims's own checkout on the date shown. Sellers move prices without announcing it, and promotional rates lapse, so confirm the standing cost on their site before committing.

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Hims compounding-pharmacy partners

Each partner below is a 503A or 503B pharmacy that Hims routes prescriptions through. Each entry is anchored to a verbatim primary-source quote from the provider’s or pharmacy’s own site.

Apostrophe Pharmacy LLC

  • 503A
License footprint
1 states: AZ
Apostrophe Pharmacy LLC is an additional dedicated licensed mail order pharmacy located in Arizona that provides prescription fulfillment services solely to Hims & Hers customers.

Source: support.hims.com · Verified 2026-05-23

XeCare LLC

  • 503A
License footprint
1 states: OH
XeCare, LLC is a dedicated licensed mail order pharmacy that provides prescription fulfillment services solely to Hims & Hers customers.

Source: support.hims.com · Verified 2026-05-23

Strive Specialties, Inc.

  • 503A
Hims' Service provides access to prescription fulfillment services offered by ... Strive Specialties, Inc. and its affiliates.

Source: www.hims.com · Verified 2026-05-23

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In its favor

  • Publishes a price on its own site before the medical questionnaire, so it can be compared without handing over health information
  • The monthly figure covers medication
  • Coverage is published for all 50 states
  • Names 4 dispensing pharmacies, which most sellers in this register do not do

Against it

  • Billed separately from the monthly figure: consult, coaching
  • 1 FDA warning letter matched to this operator in our enforcement register — read what the letter alleges, since a letter discloses a problem rather than disqualifying a seller
  • Its semaglutide is compounded rather than FDA-approved, so it has not been reviewed by the agency for safety, effectiveness or manufacturing quality

What Hims charges

Hims lists $199/month. That sits above the middle of the market, which puts the burden on whatever else is in the package.

  • Compounded semaglutide — $199/month
  • Brand-name tirzepatide — $299/month

The median standing price across the GLP-1 providers we track is about $169/month, so this is a premium, and a premium has to buy something. Check what is bundled before accepting it.

Found dispenses semaglutide and tirzepatide from $149/month, which makes it the honest comparison to run before committing here.

What Hims dispenses

Hims prescribes semaglutide (approved as Wegovy and Ozempic) and tirzepatide (approved as Zepbound and Mounjaro). Between them these are the pair carrying the strongest published outcome data. Both routes are available: the FDA-approved pen, or a compounded version at lower cost. The distinction is not cosmetic — the approved product has been reviewed for safety, efficacy and manufacturing quality, and a compounded preparation has not.

What we could verify

On the record: it treats patients in all 50 states, it dispenses through an accredited compounding pharmacy, and it names the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. FDA has sent this operator a warning letter, and we flag it at the top of the page. A letter is a disclosure, not a disqualification: read what it actually says before deciding what it means for you. Because the medication is compounded, the named pharmacy is the detail that matters most here — it is the license you can actually look up. How we weigh oversight, disclosure and price evidence is set out in our scoring methodology.

Who should look elsewhere

  • You are optimizing for the twelve-month total rather than the first bill — a flat-rate seller such as CoreAge Rx will usually win that arithmetic.
  • You need to bill insurance. Like most of this market, this is cash-pay.
  • A regulatory record matters to you more than price does — read the warning letter flagged above before deciding.

It fits if

  • you need access regardless of where you live

Our read

Hims costs more than the middle of this market. If the extras it charges for are ones you would actually use, that is a defensible trade. If not, the same molecule is available for less. Breeze Meds is the nearest comparison we track, and worth reading alongside this. Whatever you decide, read the warning letter flagged at the top of this page first, and raise it with the clinician you would be prescribing through.

The Bottom Line

Hims's strongest column is the clinical side — which molecules it will prescribe, and how it handles dosing.

Score: 6.8/10Best for: knowing which pharmacy fills the vial — it names Apostrophe Pharmacy LLCFrom: $199/mo

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Where Hims is the wrong choice

No seller in this register suits every reader, and saying otherwise would be the easiest way to sell one. On these four counts another entry does better.

  • If the standing monthly cost is what decides it, consider Telos Rx (from $99/mo).
  • If you want a human checking in, not just a prescription, consider Oak.

Frequently Asked Questions

Glossary

The words sellers use, defined. Tap any term.

Regulatory notice

Hims has an FDA warning letter on record, dated September 9, 2025

This letter concerns unlawful sale of unapproved and misbranded drugs to united states consumers over the internet (telehealth). A warning letter is public correspondence from FDA, not an adjudication. On its own it establishes no finding of illegal activity, and a company that gets one often answers with corrective action.

Read the full letter →

Sources

Cited across this Hims review: primary regulatory filings, and peer-reviewed studies.

Sources & methodology — as of August 2026
  1. 1.GLP Watchdog — GLP-1 Pricing Index 2026 (our independent dataset)GLP Watchdog.
  2. 2.FDA — Compounding and the 503A Pharmacy FrameworkU.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  3. 3.FDA — Drug Shortages Database (current shortage listings)U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  4. 4.PCAB — Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board StandardsAccreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) / PCAB.
  5. 5.KFF — Medicaid coverage research (anti-obesity & GLP-1 drug policy)Kaiser Family Foundation.
  6. 6.STEP 1 Trial — Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity (Wilding JPH et al.)New England Journal of Medicine.PMID: 33567185.
  7. 7.FDA — Wegovy (semaglutide) Approval History via Drugs@FDAU.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  8. 8.FDA — Ozempic (semaglutide) Prescribing Information via Drugs@FDAU.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  9. 9.SURMOUNT-1 Trial — Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity (Jastreboff AM et al.)New England Journal of Medicine.PMID: 35658024.
  10. 10.FDA — Zepbound (tirzepatide) Approval History via Drugs@FDAU.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  11. 11.FDA — Mounjaro (tirzepatide) Prescribing Information via Drugs@FDAU.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  12. 12.SURMOUNT-5 Trial — Tirzepatide vs. Semaglutide Head-to-Head in Obesity (Garvey WT et al.)New England Journal of Medicine.PMID: 40334173.

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