How much does vitamin C cost?
Our picks, each format ranked separately: Capsules and tablets: Nature Made Vitamin C Extra Strength 1000 mg (300 tablets); gummies and chewables: Nature Made Chewable Vitamin C 500 mg (150 tablets). Where to buy
Across the 27 capsules of vitamin C we track and can price, 1,000 mg costs between $0.083 and $1.73, before delivery. The middle of the range is $0.188, and the most expensive costs 21× the cheapest.
Across the 22 powders of vitamin C we track and can price, 1,000 mg costs between $0.027 and $0.574, before delivery. The middle of the range is $0.073, and the most expensive costs 21× the cheapest.
Across the 16 gummies and chewables of vitamin C we track and can price, 1,000 mg costs between $0.183 and $2.22, before delivery. The middle of the range is $0.967, and the most expensive costs 12× the cheapest.
Across the 11 liposomal products of vitamin C we track and can price, 1,000 mg costs between $0.244 and $1.00, before delivery. The middle of the range is $0.583, and the most expensive costs 4.1× the cheapest.
Each format is priced as its own range, never against another; capsules include softgels and tablets.
The brand, the package size and the format all move the price, and the formats are different purchases (a powder sold by the pound, a bottle of capsules, a jar of gummies, a liposomal product), so each is priced against its own kind only. The form each panel names is shown beside it and is not a ranking input. The cheapest row is a price, not a recommendation. Every figure is per 1,000 mg as each product's own Supplement Facts panel states it, before delivery; each product page says whether its retailer publishes a delivery rate.
Capsules, softgels and tablets
Powder
Gummies and chewables
Liposomal
1,000 mg is the unit this site prices vitamin C against, so that packages of different strengths and forms can be compared at all; it is not a recommendation about what to take. The cheapest in each format, side by side: What is the cheapest vitamin C?
Where to buy: the vitamin C 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 29 products and 29 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.
How these lines are chosen
Among 24 products and 24 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.
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, and carry no recall or failed test. Nothing we track here is yet. Each of these misses at least one bar, and says which:
How these lines are chosen
Among 16 products and 16 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.
How these lines are chosen
Among 12 products and 12 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.
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, and carry no recall or failed test. Nothing we track here is yet. Each of these misses at least one bar, and says which:
Full comparison of every product in this category: Vitamin C. 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.