Creatine Monohydrate questions

18 questions about creatine monohydrate, each answered from the 61 products we track, priced per 5 g where a price is on record, and from the certifier listings behind them, recomputed on every build. Where the answer is “we do not know”, it says so. See every creatine monohydrate product.

Every creatine we track whose exact package appears in NSF’s Certified for Sport database, ranked per 5 g. Each price says whether it includes delivery.

NSF Certified for Sport vs Informed Sport: what is the difference?

What each program tests: label dose, contaminants, banned substances, manufacturing review and how often, from each program’s own published process.

How much does creatine cost per serving?

Creatine prices compared per 5 g serving, cheapest first, from each label’s own serving size. Powders, capsules and travel packs, before delivery.

Which creatine brands are third-party tested?

Every creatine we track, grouped by which independent program lists it, and which we searched for and did not find. Absence is not a verdict.

Is Thorne creatine worth the price?

What the certification records show for Thorne creatine and for the cheapest certified alternative, and the gap between them per 5 g of creatine.

Creatine powder vs capsules: which should you buy?

A 5 g creatine dose is one scoop of powder or a handful of capsules, and the capsules cost far more per dose. Both figures come from the panels.

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

Every Thorne and Momentous creatine package we price, side by side per 5 g, with the sizes each brand’s NSF Certified for Sport listing names.

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

Every Bare Performance Nutrition and Momentous creatine package we price, side by side per 5 g, with the sizes each brand’s NSF Certified for Sport listing names.

Is Thorne creatine NSF certified?

Thorne creatine checked against NSF Certified for Sport: which tubs and stick packs a listing names, with the listing IDs.

Is Optimum Nutrition creatine third party tested?

Which testing programs list Optimum Nutrition micronized creatine, which packages we price each listing covers, and the cost per 5 g.

Is a bigger tub of creatine cheaper per serving?

The same creatine sold in several sizes, priced per 5 g serving at each size from the same store, and which sizes a certifier names.

How many servings are in a tub of creatine?

Servings in every creatine tub and capsule bottle we track, and which counts the label prints and which we worked out from net weight.

Is Momentous creatine NSF certified?

Momentous creatine checked against NSF Certified for Sport: which tub sizes a listing names, with the listing IDs.

Is BPN creatine NSF certified?

Bare Performance Nutrition creatine checked against NSF Certified for Sport: which tub sizes a listing names, with the listing IDs.

Does micronized creatine cost more?

Which creatine packages call themselves micronized, what each costs per 5 g, and what the panels state. Particle size is not something this page tests.

Is NOW Foods creatine third party tested?

NOW Foods creatine, sold as NOW Sports, checked against Informed Sport and NSF Certified for Sport: what each program lists, and cost per 5 g.

Is Sports Research creatine third party tested?

Sports Research creatine checked against NSF Certified for Sport and Informed Sport, and whether each listing covers the tub sizes we price.

Questions that span every supplement

Do third-party tested supplements cost more?

The cheapest product we track in each category beside the cheapest one a certifier names at the exact package, where one exists, and the gap per dose.

Is BulkSupplements third party tested?

Every BulkSupplements product we track, by whether a certifier names the exact package sold, only another size, or nothing we found. With listing IDs.

Do supplement travel packs cost more per dose?

Every travel pack or single-serve packet we price, next to the same brand’s smallest tub or bottle of the same product, per comparison dose.

Is Thorne third party tested?

Every Thorne product we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: which listing names the exact package sold, with the listing IDs.

Is Core Med Science third party tested?

Every Core Med Science product we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: which listing names the exact package sold, and the IDs.

Is Optimum Nutrition third party tested?

Every Optimum Nutrition product we track, checked in the certifier databases: what each listing covers, package by package, with the listing IDs.

Is Momentous third party tested?

Every Momentous product we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: where a listing names the exact package, and where it names another size.

Is BPN third party tested?

Every Bare Performance Nutrition product we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: which package each listing names, and which it does not.

Which supplements are NSF Certified for Sport?

Every package we price that NSF names in its Certified for Sport database, by category, with the listing IDs and what each listing actually covers.

Do supplement prices actually change?

We re-read every price we can read automatically each day and keep every reading. Which prices have moved since we started, which have not, and by how much.

How many capsules is one serving?

How many pills the label calls one serving, across every capsule, tablet and softgel we price, and what that does to the count on the front of the bottle.

Is BUBS Naturals third party tested?

Every BUBS Naturals product we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: which listing names the exact package sold, with the listing IDs.

Is Sports Research third party tested?

Every Sports Research product we track, checked in the certifier databases: which program lists each one, and which no database we searched lists.

Questions about something else: Magnesium · Vitamin D3 · Omega-3 · Whey Protein · Plant Protein · Collagen Peptides · Vitamin B12 · Zinc. Or every question on one page.

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.