How much does creatine cost per serving?
Across the 58 products we track and can price, a 5 g serving of creatine monohydrate costs between $0.135 and $1.66. The middle of the range is $0.336, and the most expensive costs 12.3× the cheapest.
Creatine monohydrate is chemically simple and the products are close to interchangeable, so that spread is mostly not about what is in the tub. It is about package size, retailer, and brand. The figures below are per 5 g, computed from each label's own serving information rather than from marketing copy, before delivery; each product page says whether its retailer publishes a rate.
5 g is the serving size printed on almost every creatine monohydrate label and the intake used in most trials. We use it here as a common yardstick so products in different package sizes can be priced against each other. It is not a recommendation about what to take.
Where to buy: the creatine monohydrate 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 61 products and 74 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 “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below.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: Creatine Monohydrate. 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.