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Is a bigger tub of creatine cheaper per serving?

Yes, in every case we can check. Of the 15 creatine products we track in more than one size in stock, the largest size costs the least per 5 g in all of them. The widest gap is BulkSupplements.com: its smallest size costs 5.9× as much per 5 g as its largest.

Sometimes a smaller size costs more in total, not only per serving: BulkSupplements.com's 250 g is $20.97 at BulkSupplements.com, against $19.97 for the 500 g.

The larger size is more money today, and it is only cheaper per serving if it gets used, so check the best-by date printed on the package. Each product below is priced at one store for every size, so a difference is the size and not the shop; where more than one store sells every size, we use the one whose prices were checked most recently. Sizes count as one product when the brand, the format and the product name match apart from the size.

BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate (Micronized) Powder

At BulkSupplements.com, prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
100 g$15.97$0.798A
250 g$20.97$0.419A
500 g$19.97$0.20A
1 kg$29.97$0.15A
5 kg$134.97$0.135A?

Sports Research Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored

At Sports Research (direct), prices checked Oct 12 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
300 g$17.95$0.299B
500 g$27.95$0.279B
750 g$34.95
last price, out of stock
$0.233B
1 kg$42.95$0.215B

Animal 100% Pure Creatine Monohydrate Powder, Unflavored

At Animal (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
300 g$18.50$0.308D
500 g$26.75$0.268D
1 kg$50.95$0.255D

Nutricost Performance Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored

At Nutricost (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
300 g$18.97$0.316D
500 g$23.97$0.24D
1 kg$46.97$0.235D

Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Powder, Unflavored

At Optimum Nutrition (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
300 g$20.49$0.341B
600 g$31.99$0.267B
1.2 kg$53.99$0.225B

Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Capsules, Unflavored

At Optimum Nutrition (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
100 capsules$22.99$0.92D
200 capsules$39.99$0.80D
300 capsules$57.49$0.767D

Bare Performance Nutrition Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored

At Bare Performance Nutrition (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
150 g$19.99$0.666A
300 g$34.99$0.583A

BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate Capsules

At BulkSupplements.com, prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
210 capsules$20.96$0.699D
420 capsules$23.97$0.40D

California Gold Nutrition Sport Pure Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored

At iHerb, prices checked Oct 7 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
454 g$19.15$0.21D
1 kg$32.15$0.161D

EVLution Nutrition Creatine5000, Unflavored

At EVLution Nutrition (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
300 g$21.99$0.366D
100 servings$32.99$0.33D

Evogen Nutrition Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored

At Evogen Nutrition (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
150 g$15.99$0.533A?
300 g$29.95$0.499A

Force Factor Creatine Monohydrate Powder, Unflavored

At iHerb, prices checked Oct 7 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
300 g$14.99$0.25D
500 g$21.99$0.22D

Micro Ingredients Creatine Monohydrate Powder, Unflavored

At Micro Ingredients (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
500 g$22.95$0.229D
1 kg$39.95$0.20D

Momentous Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored

At Momentous (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
150 g$19.99$0.666A
450 g$42.99$0.478A

Nutricost Creatine Monohydrate Capsules

At Nutricost (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
180 capsules$18.97$0.703D
500 capsules$36.97
last price, out of stock
$0.493D

Thorne Creatine

At Thorne (direct), prices checked Oct 16 or later.

SizePricePer 5 gVerification
450 g$44.00$0.489A
900 g$84.00$0.467A

5 g is the serving printed on almost every creatine monohydrate label. We use it as a yardstick so 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.

Our pick, delivery included · Cheapest independently tested, delivery known
Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Powder, Unflavored (1.2 kg)
$0.25per 5g, delivered$7.50 a month
B · TestedB · Informed ChoiceBuy at Optimum Nutrition (direct) · $53.99
Corrected Oct 2, 2026: until then the pick here was Sports Research Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (1 kg). Our record of Optimum Nutrition's own store left out the flat delivery rate its delivery page publishes below its free-delivery threshold, so delivery there counted as unknown and none of its packages could be the pick. With the rate recorded, its delivered cost is known.
Cheapest per 5g, delivery known
BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate (Micronized) Powder (5000 g)
$0.135per 5g, delivered$4.05 a month
Not our pick: certification does not name this package size, and more than a year's supply at one labeled serving a day (1,000 servings).
A? · package unconfirmedA? · Listed, not at this packageBuy at BulkSupplements.com · $134.97
Cheapest independently tested, before delivery
BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate (Micronized) Powder (1000 g)
$0.15per 5g, before delivery$4.50 a month
Not our pick: delivery cost is not published.
Delivery is extra and not published; free from $59.00.
A · CertifiedA · NSF Certified for SportBuy at BulkSupplements.com · $29.97
Least to spend today
Sports Research Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (300 g)
$0.424per 5g, delivered$12.72 a month
More per 5g, but $34.53 less to spend today, delivered.
B · TestedB · Informed SportBuy at Sports Research (direct) · $17.95
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.

More questions like this

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.