Found vs. SkinnyRx: prices, fine print, and the honest verdict

Tirzepatide pricing

On tirzepatide, Found is the cheaper program at $289 a month all-in versus SkinnyRx's $299 — a gap of $10 a month, $120 a year, at the 10 mg maintenance basis. Found: $289 a month all-in at the 10 mg maintenance basis, flat at every dose from 2.5 to 15 mg, no membership fee. Prepaid terms bring the effective rate to $169/mo (12-month plan paid up front). SkinnyRx: $299 a month all-in at the 10 mg maintenance basis, flat at every dose from 2.5 to 15 mg, no membership fee. Prepaid terms reorder things: Found at $169/mo (12-month plan paid up front) — paid up front, with the regulatory-era caveat that locked-in months deserve a read of the refund terms first.

Semaglutide pricing

On semaglutide, SkinnyRx wins at $199 versus $289 all-in — $90/mo apart. Found: Semaglutide runs $289 a month all-in at the standing rate ($169 on intro/plan terms). SkinnyRx: Semaglutide runs $199 a month all-in.

Transparency

Found: Third-party-reported (verified 2026-08-05); dispensing pharmacy not publicly named. SkinnyRx: Source-verified (verified 2026-08-05); dispensing pharmacy not publicly named. In this market, a named pharmacy and a dated, source-verified price are worth real money — they are what let you check the claim instead of trusting it.

Commitment & cancellation

Found: none month-to-month; prepaid terms for lowest rate; membership recurs; prepaid terms are paid up front. SkinnyRx: none; no membership on compounded programs.

The gap, compounded over time

A $10/month difference sounds decidable by coin flip until it's annualized: choosing SkinnyRx over Found at the standing rates costs an extra one month, $10; six months, $60; a year, $120; two years of maintenance, $240. Only Found publishes a prepaid tier ($169/mo effective), which undercuts even SkinnyRx's standing $299 by $1,560/year — flexibility versus committed savings, cleanly posed. Every figure is the all-in maintenance basis; the arithmetic reruns from the dataset.

The 24-month ledger

Zoom to the horizon that matters for a chronic-use drug — 24 months — and Found bills $6,936 and SkinnyRx $7,176, a spread of $240 for the same molecule at the same 10 mg basis. If prepaid terms held across both years, Found's $169 effective would total $4,056 — $2,880 under even the cheaper standing plan, with the standing caveat that two years of locked funds in this regulatory climate is a real bet, not a rounding choice. Reference rails for the same 24 months: $5,160 at the verified floor, $10,776 on brand Zepbound at maintenance, $8,376 on Wegovy flat.

Two ladders, side by side

The 2.5-to-10 mg climb is the honest stress test: Found holds $289 on every rung (four-month titration: exactly $1,156); SkinnyRx holds $299 on every rung (four-month titration: exactly $1,196). A flat ladder makes dose decisions purely clinical; a scaled one attaches an invoice to every escalation — including the post-plateau bump from 10 to 12.5 mg that many patients eventually face. Full framework: the titration cost guide.

Three buyers, two invoices

The month-one starter pays $289 at Found versus $299 at SkinnyRx for the 2.5 mg rung — a wash that the maintenance rates immediately un-wash. The settled 10 mg maintainer — the buyer our basis is built for — pays $3,468/year at Found against $3,588 at the other: $120 of annual daylight for the same molecule and dose. The committed prepayer does best at Found: $169/month effective, $2,028/year, funds up front, refund terms first.

The semaglutide board

The boards split: on semaglutide the order flips, with SkinnyRx cheaper at $199 against $289 — a reminder that molecule choice can decide the provider question by itself. Both sit against a verified field floor of $133 and Wegovy's flat $349 brand rate; dual-molecule pricing also sets each program's internal switch cost when a plateau raises the tirzepatide question.

The five normalizations, applied to this pair

1 · All-in, not advertised. Found's ranked figure is $289, with no membership to add; SkinnyRx's ranked figure is $299, with no membership to add. 2 · Maintenance basis. Found is dose-flat, so its entry and 10 mg figures coincide; SkinnyRx is dose-flat, so its entry and 10 mg figures coincide. 3 · Terms separated. Found: standing $289, prepaid $169 effective (12-month plan paid up front); SkinnyRx: standing $299, no prepaid tier — standing rates rank, prepaid effectives are labeled beside them. 4 · Evidence tiered. Found: third-party-reported, read 2026-08-05; SkinnyRx: source-verified, read 2026-08-05. 5 · Pharmacy weighed. Found names no pharmacy; SkinnyRx names no pharmacy — in a pharmacy-variance market, disclosure is a scored asset. Run the same five on any roundup you read and most published “cheapest” lists reorder themselves.

Fine print, itemized

Found: no membership — the medication figure is the billed figure; prepaid 12-month plan paid up front at $169/mo effective; membership recurs; prepaid terms are paid up front; commitment: none month-to-month; prepaid terms for lowest rate. SkinnyRx: no membership — the medication figure is the billed figure; no membership on compounded programs; commitment: none. The pattern to police on both sides is the same: memberships that outlive the medication order, renewal-relative cancellation deadlines, and prepaid terms whose refund language matters more than their discount in a year of live litigation. Cancel in writing; screenshot everything.

Transparency, audited

Found carries third-party-reported pricing (last read 2026-08-05); its dispensing pharmacy is not publicly named, so the five pharmacy questions (name, 503A/503B status, state licensure, certificate of analysis, formulation) are your pre-purchase homework. SkinnyRx carries source-verified pricing (last read 2026-08-05); its dispensing pharmacy is not publicly named, so the five pharmacy questions (name, 503A/503B status, state licensure, certificate of analysis, formulation) are your pre-purchase homework. Our weighting is unapologetic: in a market of identical molecule names, a dated source-verified price and a named pharmacy are the two claims a buyer can actually check, and they carry 25 of 100 formula points between them — the methodology shows the math, and the pharmacy guide decodes every answer the five questions can return.

Switching between them

Neither program locks the door: a Found-to-SkinnyRx move is a new intake, a new prescription at the new pharmacy, and a written cancellation at the old shop — typically a one-to-two-week overlap if you time the last fill. What does not move with you: prepaid months, membership balances, and any dose paperwork, so re-state your current rung clearly at the new intake.

Refills, shipping, and the week-to-week reality

Past the pricing page, the operational facts are what a subscriber lives with: Found: shipping included; consultation included; async visit model. SkinnyRx: shipping included; consultation included; async visit model. Cold-chain shipments run 3–7 days across the market; the recurring failure modes are refill-timing gaps and pharmacy backlogs, so whichever program wins here, order refills a week early and confirm the pharmacy’s current turnaround at intake.

Who should pick which

Pick Found if the $10/month tirzepatide saving is the point; you'll prepay for the $169 effective rate; you want the insurance paperwork done for you. Pick SkinnyRx if the semaglutide line is cheaper here. Neither answer is universal — which is the argument for choosing from data with dates on it rather than from whichever ad loaded first.

If neither one fits

Two programs never exhaust the market — the nearest substitutes on the verified board are ShedRx at $289 (dose-scaled, no membership); OrderlyMeds at $299 (flat, no membership); Amble Health at $300 (flat, no membership) — or skip straight to the rankings page, where every standard “cheapest / best / no-commitment” question is answered in one sourced sentence.

The brand benchmark both must beat

Neither program exists in a vacuum: FDA-approved Zepbound sits at $449/month at maintenance (LillyDirect or retail KwikPens, ~$350 on TrumpRx, ~$50 for newly eligible Medicare patients), and Wegovy at a flat $349. The cheaper of these two compounded options saves $1,920/year against the Zepbound benchmark — the number that has to justify accepting a not-FDA-reviewed product, per the full trade analysis. When a compounded quote drifts above ~$350, this benchmark starts winning the argument on its own.

The verdict

On the numbers alone, Found is the cheaper tirzepatide program by $10/mo ; SkinnyRx's case rests on a cheaper semaglutide line. Both records, with dates and sources, live in the pricing database.