What is the cheapest NSF certified beta-alanine?
Our picks, each format ranked separately: Powders: BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (1 kg) (before delivery); capsules, softgels and tablets: Thorne Beta Alanine-SR (120 tablets). Where to buy
Among capsules, softgels and tablets, NSF names one package we price: Thorne Beta Alanine-SR (120 tablets), at $1.44 with delivery included ($46.00 a container). Among powders, the cheapest is BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (1 kg), at $0.105 before delivery ($34.97 a container). Each format is ranked separately.
4 of the 11 beta-alanine products we track have their exact package named in NSF's Certified for Sport database. That is a stricter test than “the brand is NSF certified”, and it is deliberately so: NSF lists package sizes against each certificate, and a size it does not name is not one it has stood behind. Each price is delivered where the retailer publishes a delivery rate and before delivery where it does not, and each row says which. This page counts NSF's Certified for Sport database only, because its listings name the package size, which lets us check the exact package on sale. Informed Sport and Informed Choice list products rather than package sizes, a different way of answering the question rather than a lesser one.
Capsules, softgels and tablets: 1 product
| Product | Per 3g | Container | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thorne Beta Alanine-SR (120 tablets) buy | $1.44 delivered | $46.00 | free |
Powder: 3 products
| Product | Per 3g | Container | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (1 kg) buy | $0.105 before delivery | $34.97 | not published |
| BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (250 g) buy | $0.277 before delivery | $22.97 | not published |
| BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (100 g) buy | $0.635 before delivery | $20.97 | not published |
NSF's listing names another package
NSF lists this product, and the listing names a package size other than the one we price. NSF has not put its name to this package.
- BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (500 g) ($0.156 per 3g, before delivery)
Cheapest among the 4 beta-alanine packages we track that NSF names at the exact package, not the cheapest that exists. NSF certifies beta-alanine from more brands than we carry, and our catalog is extended brand by brand, so a certified product we have not added yet cannot appear here however cheap it is.
Every brand in this category, by program: Which beta-alanine brands are third-party tested? NSF Certified for Sport vs Informed Sport: what is the difference?
Where to buy: the beta-alanine shortlist
The pick is the cheapest certified product, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no adverse finding on record, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving; per delivered dose where the retailer publishes a delivery rate. Where none does, it is the cheapest such product before delivery, and it says how far the order is from free delivery. It is the same pick the category page shows. Any answer shown beside it is the cheapest under a different rule and says so on its own line; answers that cost more than the pick fold under one line until you ask for them.
How these lines are chosen
Among 7 products and 7 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below. No product here that clears every other bar publishes a delivery rate below its free-delivery threshold, so the pick is priced before delivery.
How these lines are chosen
Among 4 products and 4 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below.
Full comparison of every product in this category: Beta-Alanine. Every question we answer: the question index.
What this rests on: prices we last recorded at the retailer named on each product page, which go stale, and each page says when it was checked; the products we track, not every product sold, and Amazon and Walmart are not among the stores; listings and labels read at the source, each linked from the page. Found an error? Tell us. The full method: How we compare.