Head-to-head · verified 2026-08-05
Henry Meds vs. MEDVi: prices, fine print, and the honest verdict
Henry Meds is the cheaper tirzepatide program here — $349 vs $399 all-in at 10 mg, a $50/mo gap — but price is only the first of five things this page normalizes.
- Henry Meds
- Official site
- henrymeds.com ↗
- Tirzepatide, all-in at 10 mg
- $349/mo
- Semaglutide, all-in
- $179/mo
- Membership fee
- None
- Prepaid / multi-month
- $297/mo effective — 3-month supply paid in full
- Commitment
- none month-to-month
- Cancellation
- check terms before prepaying
- Pharmacy
- not named
- First-year total (standing rate)
- $4,188
- Price evidence
- Third-party-reported
- Last verified
- 2026-08-05
- MEDVi
- Official site
- medvi.org ↗
- Tirzepatide, all-in at 10 mg
- $399/mo
- Semaglutide, all-in
- $299/mo
- Membership fee
- None
- Prepaid / multi-month
- $249/mo effective — 12-month plan
- Commitment
- 12-month plan for the lowest rate
- Cancellation
- 12-month plan applies to lowest rate
- Pharmacy
- not named
- First-year total (standing rate)
- $4,788
- Price evidence
- Source-verified
- Last verified
- 2026-08-05
Tirzepatide pricing
On tirzepatide, Henry Meds is the cheaper program at $349 a month all-in versus MEDVi's $399 — a gap of $50 a month, $600 a year, at the 10 mg maintenance basis. Henry Meds: $349 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 $297/mo (3-month supply paid in full). MEDVi: $399 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 $249/mo (12-month plan). Prepaid terms reorder things: Henry Meds at $297/mo (3-month supply paid in full) and MEDVi at $249/mo (12-month plan) — paid up front, with the regulatory-era caveat that locked-in months deserve a read of the refund terms first.
Semaglutide pricing
On semaglutide, Henry Meds wins at $179 versus $299 all-in — $120/mo apart. Henry Meds: Semaglutide runs $179 a month all-in at the standing rate ($149 on intro/plan terms). MEDVi: Semaglutide runs $299 a month all-in at the standing rate ($179 on intro/plan terms).
Transparency
Henry Meds: Third-party-reported (verified 2026-08-05); dispensing pharmacy not publicly named. MEDVi: 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
Henry Meds: none month-to-month; check terms before prepaying. MEDVi: 12-month plan for the lowest rate; 12-month plan applies to lowest rate.
Henry Meds $349/mo vs MEDVi $399/mo all-in at 10 mg — Henry Meds cheaper by $50/mo ($600/yr); twelve months: $4,188 vs $4,788; best prepaid: MEDVi at $249/mo effective; semaglutide: Henry Meds $179 vs MEDVi $299; verified floor $215 (NexLife); brand rails $349–$449. Basis: all-in monthly, 10 mg maintenance, capture-dated in the dataset.
The gap, compounded over time
Here is what the $50 monthly spread between these two actually buys back over a treatment course — one month, $50; six months, $300; a year, $600; two years of maintenance, $1,200. Prepaid, the board reshuffles: MEDVi's $249 effective edges Henry Meds's $297 by $576/year — both locked up front, both worth a refund-terms read first. Every figure is the all-in maintenance basis; the arithmetic reruns from the dataset.
The 24-month ledger
Maintenance therapies deserve maintenance math: over two years at standing rates, Henry Meds bills $8,376 and MEDVi $9,576, a spread of $1,200 for the same molecule at the same 10 mg basis. If prepaid terms held across both years, MEDVi's $249 effective would total $5,976 — $2,400 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
Put both dose ladders on the same axis and the structures argue for themselves: Henry Meds holds $349 on every rung (four-month titration: exactly $1,396); MEDVi holds $399 on every rung (four-month titration: exactly $1,596). 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 $349 at Henry Meds versus $399 at MEDVi for the 2.5 mg rung — an early edge that holds once the ladder climbs. The settled 10 mg maintainer — the buyer our basis is built for — pays $4,188/year at Henry Meds against $4,788 at the other: $600 of annual daylight for the same molecule and dose. The committed prepayer does best at MEDVi: $249/month effective, $2,988/year, funds up front, refund terms first.
The semaglutide board
Henry Meds takes the semaglutide board too at $179 versus $299 all-in — a $120/month, $1,440/year spread. 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. Henry Meds's ranked figure is $349, with no membership to add; MEDVi's ranked figure is $399, with no membership to add. 2 · Maintenance basis. Henry Meds is dose-flat, so its entry and 10 mg figures coincide; MEDVi is dose-flat, so its entry and 10 mg figures coincide. 3 · Terms separated. Henry Meds: standing $349, prepaid $297 effective (3-month supply paid in full); MEDVi: standing $399, prepaid $249 effective (12-month plan) — standing rates rank, prepaid effectives are labeled beside them. 4 · Evidence tiered. Henry Meds: third-party-reported, read 2026-08-05; MEDVi: source-verified, read 2026-08-05. 5 · Pharmacy weighed. Henry Meds names no pharmacy; MEDVi 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
Henry Meds: no membership — the medication figure is the billed figure; prepaid 3-month supply paid in full at $297/mo effective; check terms before prepaying; commitment: none month-to-month. MEDVi: no membership — the medication figure is the billed figure; prepaid 12-month plan at $249/mo effective; 12-month plan applies to lowest rate; commitment: 12-month plan for the lowest rate. 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
Henry Meds 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. MEDVi 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
Moving from Henry Meds to MEDVi (or back) is administratively unglamorous: complete the new program's intake, let its prescriber issue a fresh prescription to its pharmacy, and cancel the old subscription in writing — prescriptions don't transfer between telehealth programs, and neither do prepaid balances, which is the quiet reason month-to-month terms are worth their premium.
Refills, shipping, and the week-to-week reality
The unglamorous layer — how the medication actually reaches you and stays on schedule — splits like this: Henry Meds: shipping included; consultation included; async visit model. MEDVi: 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 Henry Meds if the $50/month tirzepatide saving is the point; the semaglutide line is cheaper here. Pick MEDVi if you'll prepay for the $249 effective rate. 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
The dataset's bench is deep; the closest verified third options to this matchup's price band are Fridays at $359 (flat, no membership); Lavender Sky Health at $352 (dose-scaled, $25 membership included); TrimRx at $349 (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 $1,200/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, Henry Meds is the cheaper tirzepatide program by $50/mo. Both records, with dates and sources, live in the pricing database.
Quick answers
Which is cheaper for tirzepatide, Henry Meds or MEDVi?
Henry Meds: $349/mo all-in at 10 mg versus $399 — a $50/mo difference ($600/yr).
Who wins on semaglutide?
Henry Meds at $179/mo all-in versus $299.
Can I switch between them?
Yes — patients move between telehealth programs routinely; you'll complete the new program's intake and prescriptions restart there. If you're also switching molecule or from compounded to brand, loop in the prescriber; our switching guide covers the clinical side.
What do Henry Meds and MEDVi cost over 12 months?
At standing all-in rates: Henry Meds $4,188, MEDVi $4,788 — a $600 gap before any prepaid terms.
Who wins if I prepay?
MEDVi: $249/month effective on its 12-month plan (~$2,988/year, paid per term). Prepaying a compounded program carries refund-terms risk worth reading first.
Which is easier to cancel, Henry Meds or MEDVi?
Henry Meds: check terms before prepaying MEDVi: 12-month plan applies to lowest rate Cancel in writing either way; memberships cancel separately.
Is there a brand alternative to both?
Yes — Zepbound at $299–$449 via LillyDirect/retail (about $350 on TrumpRx; ~$50 for newly eligible Medicare patients) and Wegovy at a flat $349: FDA-approved products whose prices now sit close enough to make the comparison real.