Creatine Monohydrate
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
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).
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.
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.
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 “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below.
Why this pick, and what's cheaper
Not a score, no weightings to argue with. It is the cheapest per delivered dose among products clearing four factual bars (a certification we confirmed applies to this package, naming it where the certifier names packages; no recall, warning letter or failed test in the sources we checked; a price its retailer let us read within its cache limit; no more than a year's supply at the label's serving) and whose delivery cost we actually know. It is provisional: it is the best answer within the products, retailers and sources we have actually checked, and that universe is still narrow.
BulkSupplements.com is $29.03 short of free delivery, worth it if you are buying something else anyway, at $0.15/dose, tier A.
MegaFood is $25.01 short of free delivery, worth it if you are buying something else anyway, at $0.25/dose, tier A.
iHerb prices here may be out of date. iHerb has not given us access to its price data, so the 21 prices were last read by hand on Oct 7, 2026 and are marked stale where they appear. Each retailer offer carries its own check date.
One compound, sold by many brands. On a pure monohydrate the serving and the creatine in it are the same number, which makes this the one category where a like-for-like price is easy to get at.
Prices from brand stores and BulkSupplements are checked daily. Every figure links to its source. Where the data comes from
Of the 61 products here: 17 named at the exact package by a certifier, 10 certified batch by batch, 2 at another size only, 29 in no database we searched, 3 not settled.
61 of 61 products
39 rows marked + delivery exclude an unpublished delivery charge, so their real cost per dose is higher.
Tested? A Certified · B Tested · C Claimed · D None located · A? listed, but not at this size
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BULK BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate (Micronized) Powder (5000 g) powder · 5000 g · 5g per serving | $0.135 $4.05/mo | A? · Listed, not at this package Independently certified package unconfirmed | $134.97 checked today | free | 1,000 2.7 years at 1/day | Buy BulkSupplements.com |
MI | $0.15 $4.49/mo | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $29.95 stale, checked 8 days ago | free after +$0.05 | 200 6.6 months at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
BULK BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate (Micronized) Powder (1000 g) powder · 1000 g · 5g per serving | $0.15 $4.50/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $29.97 checked today | not free $29.03 short | 200 6.6 months at 1/day | Buy BulkSupplements.com |
CGN California Gold Nutrition Sport Pure Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (1000 g) powder · 1000 g · 5g per serving | $0.161 $4.82/mo | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $32.15 stale, checked 8 days ago | free | 200 6.6 months at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
MI | $0.199 $5.99/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $19.95 stale, checked 8 days ago | not free $10.05 short | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
BULK | $0.20 $5.99/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $19.97 checked today | not free $39.03 short | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Buy BulkSupplements.com |
NUTR | $0.21 $6.29/mo | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $41.95 stale, checked 8 days ago | free | 200 6.6 months at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
CGN California Gold Nutrition Sport Pure Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (454 g) powder · 454 g · 5g per serving | $0.21 $6.31/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $19.15 stale, checked 8 days ago | not free $10.85 short | 91 3.0 months at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
SR | $0.215 $6.44/mo | B · Informed Sport Independently tested | $42.95 checked 3 days ago | $7.50 | 200 6.6 months at 1/day | Buy Sports Research (direct) |
FF | $0.22 $6.60/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $21.99 stale, checked 8 days ago | not free $8.01 short | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
DB | $0.22 $6.60/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $21.99 stale, checked 8 days ago | not free $8.01 short | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
NF | $0.221 $6.62/mo + delivery | B · Informed Sport Independently tested | $22.05 stale, checked 8 days ago | not free $7.95 short | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
ON Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Powder, Unflavored (1.2 kg) · our pick powder · 1200 g · 5g per serving | $0.225 $6.75/mo | B · Informed Choice Independently tested | $53.99 checked today | $5.99 | 240 7.9 months at 1/day | Buy Optimum Nutrition (direct) |
ABE | $0.229 $6.88/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $13.75 stale, checked 8 days ago | not free $16.25 short | 60 60 days at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
NF | $0.239 $7.18/mo + delivery | B · Informed Sport Independently tested | $10.77 stale, checked 8 days ago | not free $19.23 short | 45 45 days at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
NUTR | $0.24 $7.19/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $23.97 checked today | not free $35.03 short | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Buy Nutricost (direct) |
EN | $0.25 $7.50/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $14.99 stale, checked 8 days ago | not free $15.01 short | 60 60 days at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
FF | $0.25 $7.50/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $14.99 stale, checked 8 days ago | not free $15.01 short | 60 60 days at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
MEGA | $0.25 $7.50/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $24.99 checked today | not free $25.01 short | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Buy MegaFood (direct) |
ON | $0.25 $7.50/mo | B · Informed Choice Independently tested | $29.99 stale, checked 8 days ago | free after +$0.01 | 120 3.9 months at 1/day | Check price iHerb |
ANIM | $0.255 $7.64/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $50.95 checked today | not free | 200 6.6 months at 1/day | Buy Animal (direct) |
ANIM | $0.268 $8.03/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $26.75 checked today | not free | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Buy Animal (direct) |
SR | $0.279 $8.38/mo | B · Informed Sport Independently tested | $27.95 checked 3 days ago | $7.50 | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Buy Sports Research (direct) |
DWS Double Wood Supplements Creatine Monohydrate Powder, Unflavored (500 g) powder · 500 g · 5g per serving | $0.279 $8.38/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $27.95 checked today | not free $2.05 short | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Buy Double Wood Supplements (direct) |
MUSC | $0.287 $8.62/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $22.99 checked today | not free $7.01 short | 80 80 days at 1/day | Buy MuscleTech (direct) |
SR | $0.299 $8.97/mo | B · Informed Sport Independently tested | $17.95 checked 3 days ago | $7.50 | 60 60 days at 1/day | Buy Sports Research (direct) |
ANIM | $0.308 $9.25/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $18.50 checked today | not free | 60 60 days at 1/day | Buy Animal (direct) |
NUTR | $0.316 $9.48/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $18.97 checked today | not free $40.03 short | 60 60 days at 1/day | Buy Nutricost (direct) |
EN | $0.33 $9.90/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $32.99 checked today | not free $46.01 short | 100 3.3 months at 1/day | Buy EVLution Nutrition (direct) |
ON | $0.341 $10.24/mo | B · Informed Choice Independently tested | $20.49 checked today | $5.99 | 60 60 days at 1/day | Buy Optimum Nutrition (direct) |
HN | $0.353 $10.60/mo | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $21.19 checked today | $5.00 | 60 60 days at 1/day | Buy Havasu Nutrition (direct) |
CMS | $0.389 $11.67/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $35.00 checked today | not free $40.00 short | 90 3.0 months at 1/day | Buy Core Med Science (direct) |
BULK BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate Capsules (420 count) capsule · 5g per serving · 7.00 per dose | $0.40 $11.98/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $23.97 checked today | not free $35.03 short | 60 60 days at 1/day | Buy BulkSupplements.com |
BULK | $0.419 $12.58/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $20.97 checked today | not free $38.03 short | 50 50 days at 1/day | Buy BulkSupplements.com |
THOR | $0.467 $14.00/mo | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $84.00 checked today | free | 180 5.9 months at 1/day | Buy Thorne (direct) |
MOME | $0.478 $14.33/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $42.99 checked today | not free | 90 3.0 months at 1/day | Buy Momentous (direct) |
BN | $0.478 $14.33/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $43.00 checked today | not free | 90 3.0 months at 1/day | Buy BUBS Naturals (direct) |
THOR | $0.489 $14.67/mo | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $44.00 checked today | free | 90 3.0 months at 1/day | Buy Thorne (direct) |
MI | $0.492 $14.77/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $34.95 checked today | not free $24.05 short | 71 71 days at 1/day | Buy Micro Ingredients (direct) |
EN | $0.499 $14.97/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $29.95 checked today | not free $95.05 short | 60 60 days at 1/day | Buy Evogen Nutrition (direct) |
EN | $0.533 $15.99/mo + delivery | A? · Listed, not at this package Independently certified package unconfirmed | $15.99 checked today | not free $109.01 short | 30 30 days at 1/day | Buy Evogen Nutrition (direct) |
BPN | $0.583 $17.50/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $34.99 checked today | not free $64.01 short | 60 60 days at 1/day | Buy Bare Performance Nutrition (direct) |
ANIM | $0.626 $18.78/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $46.95 checked today | not free | 150 = 75 doses 75 days at 1/day | Buy Animal (direct) |
BPN | $0.666 $19.99/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $19.99 checked today | not free $79.01 short | 30 30 days at 1/day | Buy Bare Performance Nutrition (direct) |
MOME | $0.666 $19.99/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $19.99 checked today | not free | 30 30 days at 1/day | Buy Momentous (direct) |
BULK BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate Capsules (210 count) capsule · 5g per serving · 7.00 per dose | $0.699 $20.96/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $20.96 checked today | not free $38.04 short | 30 30 days at 1/day | Buy BulkSupplements.com |
NUTR | $0.703 $21.08/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $18.97 checked today | not free $40.03 short | 45 = 27 doses 27 days at 1/day | Buy Nutricost (direct) |
ON Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Capsules, Unflavored (300 capsules) capsule · 2.5g per serving · 4.00 per dose | $0.767 $23.00/mo | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $57.49 checked today | $5.99 | 150 = 75 doses 75 days at 1/day | Buy Optimum Nutrition (direct) |
BULK | $0.798 $23.95/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $15.97 checked today | not free $43.03 short | 20 20 days at 1/day | Buy BulkSupplements.com |
ON Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Capsules, Unflavored (200 capsules) capsule · 2.5g per serving · 4.00 per dose | $0.80 $23.99/mo | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $39.99 checked today | $5.99 | 100 = 50 doses 50 days at 1/day | Buy Optimum Nutrition (direct) |
ON Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Capsules, Unflavored (100 capsules) capsule · 2.5g per serving · 4.00 per dose | $0.92 $27.59/mo | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $22.99 checked today | $5.99 | 50 = 25 doses 25 days at 1/day | Buy Optimum Nutrition (direct) |
MUSC | $0.92 $27.59/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $22.99 checked today | not free $7.01 short | 50 = 25 doses 25 days at 1/day | Buy MuscleTech (direct) |
SR Sports Research Creatine Monohydrate, Micronized (120 veggie capsules) capsule · 5g per serving · 4.00 per dose | $0.998 $29.95/mo | B · Informed Sport Independently tested | $29.95 checked 3 days ago | $7.50 | 30 30 days at 1/day | Buy Sports Research (direct) |
HN Havasu Nutrition Creatine + AstraGin Capsules (120 capsules) capsule · 3g per serving · 6.67 per dose Second active this price does not pay for: AstraGin 50 mg | $1.11 $33.32/mo | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $19.99 checked today | $5.00 | 30 = 18 doses 18 days at 1/day | Buy Havasu Nutrition (direct) |
THOR | $1.20 $36.00/mo | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $36.00 checked today | free | 30 30 days at 1/day | Buy Thorne (direct) |
EN | $1.50 $44.98/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $17.99 checked today | not free $61.01 short | 60 = 12 doses 12 days at 1/day | Buy EVLution Nutrition (direct) |
MOME | $1.53 $45.98/mo + delivery | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | $22.99 checked today | not free | 15 15 days at 1/day | Buy Momentous (direct) |
DWS Double Wood Supplements Creatine Monohydrate Capsules (120 capsules) capsule · 1g per serving · 10.00 per dose | $1.66 $49.88/mo + delivery | D · None located Could not locate independent data | $19.95 checked today | not free $10.05 short | 60 = 12 doses 12 days at 1/day | Buy Double Wood Supplements (direct) |
| Unknown | D · None located Could not locate independent data | Unknown | Unknown | 125 | ||
SR | Unknown | B · Informed Sport Independently tested | Unknown | Unknown | 150 | |
| Unknown | A · NSF Certified for Sport Independently certified | Unknown | Unknown | 90 |
Common questions
Is BulkSupplements creatine NSF certified?
Which BulkSupplements creatine packages NSF names in its Certified for Sport database, which are listed only at another size, and the listing IDs.
What is the cheapest NSF Certified for Sport creatine?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
About these numbers
What “per dose” means here: 5g creatine monohydrate
The ISSN position stand gives 3-5 g/day as the maintenance intake once muscle stores are saturated. 5 g is the top of that range and is also what the labels use: most labels in this category state a 5 g serving. Used here purely as a common yardstick for price, not as advice on what to take.
Compared on grams of creatine monohydrate, the form used in almost all trials.
Source: International Society of Sports Nutrition, ISSN position stand: safety and efficacy of creatine supplementation · checked Aug 25, 2026
Where the data comes from
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- Where a label does not state servings per container, the figure is derived from net weight and the product page says so.
- Amazon and Walmart are not included, so “cheapest” means cheapest among the retailers we track.
- Prices go stale. Each one shows when it was last checked, and says so when it is older than the retailer allows us to cache it.
- iHerb prices cannot be refreshed automatically. iHerb has not given us access to its price data, so those prices are marked stale until they are re-read. Each retailer offer carries its own check date.
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