Thorne vs Momentous creatine: which costs less per 5 g?

Before delivery, the cheapest Thorne package is Creatine (900 g) at $0.467 per 5 g, and the cheapest Momentous package is Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (450 g) at $0.478. Those are different package sizes, so they are not a like-for-like comparison of the two brands. Where both sell the same size in the same format, the gap is below.

Every figure is per 5 g, computed from each product's own panel against the price. 3 of the 3 Thorne packages and 3 of the 3 Momentous packages we track are named at the exact package by an NSF Certified for Sport listing; the listing number is beside each.

The same size, side by side

A package from one brand is only comparable to a package from the other when both hold the same number of labeled servings and come in the same format, so a tub is never set against stick packs. Where both match, here is what each costs.

Every other pair in the table above this one differs in package size or in format as well as in brand, so those rows are not a brand-to-brand comparison and nothing here reads them as one. Each brand sets its own price at each size, which is a fact about two companies and not something this page can explain.

What each company says about how it makes this

Quoted from each company's own product page on the date given, because a reader weighing two certified products often wants to know what else each brand claims to do. The rule is every bullet each page prints in its own list of what makes the product different, in the order it prints them, so nothing here was chosen by us. These are the companies' own words and we have not verified any of them. They are not certifications and nothing here checked them. What has been checked is in the table above: the price, the panel it is computed from, and the certifier listing that names the package.

Read this section for what it is. It records what each company chose to print, so the amount of it reflects how much each writes about manufacturing as much as what each does. A company that says nothing here has not been found to do less; it has said less. Where a claim compares the product to something without saying what, that is noted under it, because the comparison is the company's and the page it sits on is ours.

What this does not compare

Purity, taste, how the powder mixes, or anything a label does not state. The section above records what each company claims about some of those things; recording a claim is not checking it, and nothing here checked them. Both brands are priced here on the same amount of the same compound as each panel prints it, and the listing column says which packages a certifier has actually named. “Another size” means a listing exists for the product at a package we do not price. “Not settled” means a listing exists that may cover this package, and whether it does is not decided either way. “None found” means NSF's full directory was read and no listing names it, which is not a failed test. “Not searched” means there is no reading of NSF's directory for it. A price marked last known is older than its retailer's cache limit.

Each brand's full record, package by package, is on its own page: Thorne and Momentous.

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.