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Lean Meds Review

Semaglutide & tirzepatide GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth · Independently scored 9.4/10

Best for: seeing the pharmacy list up front: it names four pharmacies with addresses

9.4
★★★★★9.4/10

Lean Meds scores highest on price and lowest on ease of signing up. Its compounded semaglutide costs $79 a month, 60% below the $199 median among the sellers we compare.

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$79/mo
Same price at every dose

Covered by the monthly price

Medication

In the price

Clinician visits

In the price

Shipping

In the price

Lab work

Not stated

Coaching

In the price

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Prices checked October 2026

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Lean Meds is a cash-pay GLP-1 storefront on the OpenLoop platform: OpenLoop Healthcare Partners, PC prescribes, and four named pharmacies fill. Compounded semaglutide is $79 a month and compounded tirzepatide $129, the same every month and at every dose, with a 1:1 care coach in every plan. Its homepage advertises plans "starting at $49" a month, a figure neither plan page charges.

By Ruth Calder · Enforcement Editor
Editorially reviewed. Not medical advice · How we verify contentLast reviewed
GLP-1 from $79/moPrice shown up frontFlat across dosesIncludes medication + consultAll 50 states and DCPharmacy namedNo FDA warning letters found

Is Lean Meds legit?

Yes. Lean Meds is a real, operating US company, and we found no FDA warning letters issued to it. We rate it 9.4/10 overall, across six areas from price to trust and safety. Legitimate is not the same as right for you, though: that part is a decision for you and a licensed clinician.

Is there a Lean Meds promo or coupon code?

We know of no promo or coupon code for Lean Meds. Its listed price is $79 a month. Coupon sites advertising "Lean Meds discount codes" are not a source we can vouch for, and any genuine offer shows at checkout without a code.

See how Lean Meds compares on our rankings of the best semaglutide providers and the best tirzepatide providers.

Vetted alternatives to Lean Meds

9.1/ 10
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Collective

Best for: flat any-dose pricing, if you can absorb a $199 annual membership on top

★★★★★9.1/10

Editorial score · methodology

$59/mo+ membership
CompoundedSemaglutideTirzepatide
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9.3/ 10
Verified partner

Embody

Best for: a flat compounded tirzepatide or semaglutide price at every dose, from a seller that names its pharmacies

★★★★★9.3/10

Editorial score · methodology

$79/mo
CompoundedSemaglutideTirzepatideGlutathioneNAD+
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7.9/ 10
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Luvo Health

Best for: moving between compounded and brand without changing seller

★★★★☆7.9/10

Editorial score · methodology

$179/mo
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Lean Meds at a glance

Type
GLP-1 telehealth provider
Starting price
$79/mo
Pricing model
Flat: the price stays the same as the dose goes up
What's included
Medication · Consult · Shipping · Coaching
Availability
All 50 states + DC
FDA status
No FDA warning letters found

How Lean Meds scores

Six columns, each one computed from something Lean Meds 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 a seller keeps something back, such as its price or its pharmacy, the score reflects it. Every seller we review goes through the same six columns.

Value25%

10.0/10

$79/month is 60% below the $199 median for compounded semaglutide across the sellers we compare.

Effectiveness25%

10.0/10

Dispenses semaglutide and tirzepatide, compounded only. Anchored to SURMOUNT-1 (tirzepatide, -20.9%) and STEP 1 (semaglutide, -14.9%).

User Experience15%

8.0/10

A price is shown before the questionnaire starts.

Trust & Safety15%

9.0/10

It names the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. It shows a price before asking for health information. It lists the states it serves.

Accessibility10%

10.0/10

Serves all 50 states and DC.

Support10%

8.5/10

The price covers the medication, clinician visits, shipping and coaching.

6weighted dimensions
734sellers compared
Everychecked against the seller's own site
Value 25%Effectiveness 25%User Experience 15%Trust & Safety 15%Accessibility 10%Support 10%

A seller that shows no price until after the medical intake loses points on User Experience and Trust & Safety, and its review says so. How we score →

What we checked on Lean Meds

Last checked October 2026
  • Checked the listed price across 2 dose or plan tiers
  • Checked state coverage: all 50
  • Checked what the monthly price covers, and what it leaves out
  • Recorded which pharmacies the seller names as filling its prescriptions, with the page and date
  • Checked FDA warning letters for Lean Meds

Price, availability, and compliance here are read off the seller's own pages and off primary regulatory records, named in the sources below.

What signing up with Lean Meds involves

What to expect on the way to a prescription: where the price appears, who fills the medication, and what the monthly price covers. It is not medical advice, and a clinician makes the prescribing decision.

  1. 1Lean Meds shows a price on its own site before asking anything about you, so you can compare it with other sellers before you start a questionnaire.
  2. 2Lean Meds names 4 pharmacies that fill its prescriptions, including RedRock Pharmacy, which most sellers do not do.
  3. 3The monthly price includes the medication, clinician visits, shipping and coaching.
Price shown before you start
  • Lowest ongoing monthly price: semaglutide $79, tirzepatide $129. That leaves out membership fees, first-month rates and insurance copays.
  • Lean Meds serves all 50 states and DC.
  • The medication is compounded, so it is not an FDA-approved product and has not been reviewed by the agency for safety, effectiveness or manufacturing quality.

Contacting Lean Meds

Email
Lean Meds offers email support

Cancelling Lean Meds

Taken from the terms Lean Meds publishes. Terms change, so check the current policy before you subscribe.

Cancel any time
Yes
Minimum commitment
None on single-month plans; multi-month and bundled plans are sold as one non-refundable purchase
Refund policy
All payments are final. The only refund is for a provider-initiated medical disqualification, minus the value of services already rendered.
Early-termination fee
None

Medications Lean Meds lists

Lean Meds lists compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide. Each one has its own guide: how it works, the dosing schedule, the side effects that show up in practice, and what the trials measured.

Pricing

Prices re-verified

Monthly plan, billed per monthCompounded
$79/mo
semaglutide

"Billing cycle Per month 1-month $79"; "Same price every month. No price hike. Cancel Anytime." Consultation, care, medication, supplies, shipping and support included.

Monthly plan, billed per monthCompounded
$129/mo
tirzepatide

"Billing cycle Per month 1-month $129"; "Same price every month. No price hike. Cancel Anytime." Consultation, care, medication, supplies, shipping and support included.

Check the price yourself before you pay

Every figure here comes from Lean Meds's own website, as of 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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Lean Meds compounding-pharmacy partners

Lean Meds names each pharmacy below as one that compounds or fills its prescriptions, in its own site, terms or filings. The quote under each one is the seller’s own wording.

RedRock Pharmacy

“Prescriptions for Leanmeds members are filled by independently owned and operated state-licensed compounding pharmacies in the Leanmeds network, including: RedRock Pharmacy 1240 E 100 S #220 St. George, UT 84790 ... Health Warehouse 7107 Industrial Rd. Florence, KY 41042 ... Precision Medicine 2657 Merrick Road Bellmore, NY 11710 ... Triad Rx 26258 Pollard Road Daphne, AL 36526”

Health Warehouse

“Prescriptions for Leanmeds members are filled by independently owned and operated state-licensed compounding pharmacies in the Leanmeds network, including: RedRock Pharmacy 1240 E 100 S #220 St. George, UT 84790 ... Health Warehouse 7107 Industrial Rd. Florence, KY 41042 ... Precision Medicine 2657 Merrick Road Bellmore, NY 11710 ... Triad Rx 26258 Pollard Road Daphne, AL 36526”

Precision Medicine

“Prescriptions for Leanmeds members are filled by independently owned and operated state-licensed compounding pharmacies in the Leanmeds network, including: RedRock Pharmacy 1240 E 100 S #220 St. George, UT 84790 ... Health Warehouse 7107 Industrial Rd. Florence, KY 41042 ... Precision Medicine 2657 Merrick Road Bellmore, NY 11710 ... Triad Rx 26258 Pollard Road Daphne, AL 36526”

Triad Rx

“Prescriptions for Leanmeds members are filled by independently owned and operated state-licensed compounding pharmacies in the Leanmeds network, including: RedRock Pharmacy 1240 E 100 S #220 St. George, UT 84790 ... Health Warehouse 7107 Industrial Rd. Florence, KY 41042 ... Precision Medicine 2657 Merrick Road Bellmore, NY 11710 ... Triad Rx 26258 Pollard Road Daphne, AL 36526”

Compare every compounding pharmacy we’ve reviewed →

In its favor

  • Semaglutide costs $79 a month, 60% below the $199 median for compounded semaglutide across the sellers we compare
  • Tirzepatide costs $129 a month, 52% below the $269 median for compounded tirzepatide across the sellers we compare
  • Shows its price before the medical questionnaire, so you can compare it without handing over health information
  • The monthly price stays the same as your dose goes up
  • The monthly price includes the medication, clinician visits, shipping and coaching
  • Serves all 50 states and DC
  • Names 4 pharmacies that fill its prescriptions, which most sellers do not
  • We found no FDA warning letters issued to Lean Meds

Against it

  • Its semaglutide and tirzepatide are compounded rather than FDA-approved, so they have not been reviewed by the agency for safety, effectiveness or manufacturing quality

What Lean Meds charges

Lean Meds charges $79/month, and holds that rate across every dose. That sits at the affordable end of what we see. Flat dose pricing matters more than it sounds: on a tiered plan the bill grows with the dose, so the figure that got you to sign up is not the one you end up paying.

  • Compounded semaglutide: $79/month
  • Compounded tirzepatide: $129/month

For compounded semaglutide, the median across the sellers we compare is $199/month, so Lean Meds' $79 is genuinely below the middle, not just advertised that way. Before you pay, compare Lean Meds' cancellation terms with other sellers' cancellation and refund policies. Across the compounded market the dearest tenth of sellers charges about three times what the cheapest tenth does; how much GLP-1 prices actually vary explains the spread.

CoreAge Rx, at about $79/month, is the closest like-for-like alternative we review.

What Lean Meds dispenses

Lean Meds prescribes semaglutide (approved as Wegovy and Ozempic) and tirzepatide (approved as Zepbound and Mounjaro). Between them these are the two molecules with the largest published weight-loss trial programs behind them. These are compounded preparations from a licensed pharmacy rather than approved pens, which is where the lower price comes from. A compounded drug is not FDA-approved as a finished product: the specific preparation has not been reviewed for safety, efficacy or manufacturing quality. The molecule can be the one in Ozempic and Wegovy; what differs is the formulation, the concentration and the dose ladder.

Safety and disclosure

Lean Meds tells you its price before you start the medical questionnaire, that it treats patients in all 50 states, and the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. It also offers coaching as part of the plan. We found no FDA warning letters issued to Lean Meds. Because the medication is compounded, the named pharmacy is the detail that matters most: its license is the one you can look up. The FDA's warning signs for online medicine sellers are a quick check to run on any seller before you pay. How we weigh oversight, disclosure and price is set out in our scoring methodology.

Who should look elsewhere

  • You want the FDA-approved pen specifically. Everything listed here is compounded.
  • You need insurance to cover the cost. Check whether Lean Meds bills your plan before you start.

It fits if

  • the lowest standing monthly cost is what you are solving for
  • you want the price to stop moving as your dose climbs
  • you want coaching bundled in rather than billed on top
  • you need access wherever you live

Our read

Lean Meds competes on price without an obvious sacrifice elsewhere: $79/month, no FDA warning letters, and wide state coverage.

The Bottom Line

Lean Meds scores highest on price and lowest on ease of signing up. Its compounded semaglutide costs $79 a month, 60% below the $199 median among the sellers we compare.

Score: 9.4/10Best for: seeing the pharmacy list up front: it names four pharmacies with addressesFrom: $79/mo

Before you pay Lean Meds

Starting at $79 a month. Check today's price, then start the intake.

Where Lean Meds is the wrong choice

No seller suits every reader, and pretending otherwise is the easiest way to sell one. On these two counts, another seller does better.

  • If you need the FDA-approved pen rather than a compounded vial, consider WellMedRx.
  • If the standing monthly cost is what decides it, consider Collective (from $59/mo + membership).

If none of these fits, our guide to alternatives to Lean Meds sets more sellers in the same category beside Lean Meds on price, states and what the price includes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Lean Meds is a cash-pay GLP-1 storefront on the OpenLoop platform: OpenLoop Healthcare Partners, PC prescribes, and four named pharmacies fill. Compounded semaglutide is $79 a month and compounded tirzepatide $129, the same every month and at every dose, with a 1:1 care coach in every plan. Its homepage advertises plans "starting at $49" a month, a figure neither plan page charges. We rate it 9.4/10 overall.
Lean Meds starts at $79 a month. That number holds across doses, so titrating up does not move the bill. The pricing table above lists every tier.
Lean Meds says it treats patients in all 50 states.
Lean Meds lists compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide.
Lean Meds lists compounded GLP-1s only. A licensed compounding pharmacy prepares them: same active ingredient as the brand drug, lower cash price, and no FDA approval of the finished product. That last part is the one readers underestimate, and the review above says why.
Check whether Lean Meds bills your insurance before you sign up. Compounded GLP-1s are rarely covered by insurance, so plan on paying the listed cash price.
Lean Meds says the price covers medication, the clinician visit, shipping and coaching. The strip near the top of this review shows what is included and what is not.
You fill in an online intake, a licensed clinician decides whether a GLP-1 is appropriate, and if the answer is yes the medication ships to you. Lean Meds runs that whole sequence on its own site.
We found no FDA warning letters issued to Lean Meds. Before you buy, weigh these: Its semaglutide and tirzepatide are compounded rather than FDA-approved, so they have not been reviewed by the agency for safety, effectiveness or manufacturing quality. None of them rules Lean Meds out, but each is worth settling before you pay.
Other sellers we cover include Embody, CoreAge Rx, and altRX. Which one fits depends on the medication, the monthly price you can sustain and whether it ships to your state, so compare those three facts before you switch.

How to check Lean Meds yourself

Every seller that ships to your state, side by side: Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Virginia, Wyoming and every other state.

Glossary

The words sellers use, defined. Tap any term.

Sources

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

Sources & methodology — as of October 2026
  1. 1.GLP Watchdog — GLP-1 Pricing Index 2026 (our independent dataset)— GLP Watchdog.
  2. 2.FDA — Compounding and the 503A Pharmacy Framework— U.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 Standards— Accreditation 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@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  8. 8.FDA — Ozempic (semaglutide) Prescribing Information via Drugs@FDA— U.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@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  11. 11.FDA — Mounjaro (tirzepatide) Prescribing Information via Drugs@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  12. 12.SURMOUNT-5 Trial — Tirzepatide vs. Semaglutide Head-to-Head in Obesity (Aronne LJ et al.)— New England Journal of Medicine.PMID: 40353578.

See Lean Meds's current pricing

Plans start at $79 a month. Whether you qualify is a clinician's decision, made after your intake.