What is the cheapest NSF Certified for Sport creatine?
Our picks, each format ranked separately: Powders: Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Powder, Unflavored (1.2 kg) (NSF Certified for Sport does not list this package; it qualifies because Informed Choice lists it); gummies and chewables: Momentous Creatine Chews, Lemon Lime (150 chewable tablets) (before delivery). Where to buy
Among powders, the cheapest is BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate (Micronized) Powder (1000 g), at $0.15 before delivery ($29.97 a container). Among gummies and chewables, the cheapest is Momentous Creatine Chews, Lemon Lime (150 chewable tablets), at $1.67 before delivery ($49.99 a container). Each format is ranked separately.
22 of the 75 creatine products we track have their exact package named in NSF's Certified for Sport database. That is a stricter test than “the brand is NSF certified”, and it is deliberately so: NSF lists package sizes against each certificate, and a size it does not name is not one it has stood behind. Each price is delivered where the retailer publishes a delivery rate and before delivery where it does not, and each row says which. 10 more creatine packages, from Optimum Nutrition, NOW Foods and Sports Research, are certified by Informed Choice or Informed Sport, whose listings name no package size, so they are not in the tables below, which rank only packages NSF names. A pick can still be one of them, because the pick uses the category's own bar. Every brand, by program: Which creatine brands are third-party tested?
Powder: 18 products
Gummies and chewables: 3 products
| Product | Per 5g | Container | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Momentous Creatine Chews, Lemon Lime (150 chewable tablets) buy | $1.67 before delivery | $49.99 | not published |
| Momentous Creatine Chews, Lemon Lime (50 chewable tablets) buy | $2.00 before delivery | $19.99 | not published |
| Momentous Creatine Chews, Lemon Lime (5 chewable tablets) buy | $2.99 before delivery | $2.99 | not published |
Named at the exact package, but not priced per 5g
- Sports Research Creapure Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (450 g): no in-stock listing we can price today.
NSF's listing names another package
NSF lists these products, and the listing names a package size other than the one we price. NSF has not put its name to these packages.
- Sports Research Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (500 g) ($0.355 per 5g, delivered) (last known price, Oct 17)
- Sports Research Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (300 g) ($0.424 per 5g, delivered) (last known price, Oct 17)
- BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate (Micronized) Powder (5000 g) ($0.14 per 5g, delivered)
- Evogen Nutrition Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (150 g) ($0.533 per 5g, before delivery)
- Sports Research Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (1 kg) ($0.252 per 5g, delivered) (last known price, Oct 17)
- Sports Research Creatine Monohydrate, Unflavored (750 g)
- Core Med Science Creatine Monohydrate Stick Packs, Unflavored (45 packets) ($1.11 per 5g, before delivery)
Cheapest among the 22 creatine packages we track that NSF names at the exact package, not the cheapest that exists. NSF certifies creatine from more brands than we carry, and our catalog is extended brand by brand, so a certified product we have not added yet cannot appear here however cheap it is.
Every brand in this category, by program: Which creatine brands are third-party tested? How much does creatine cost per serving? Is a bigger tub of creatine cheaper per serving? NSF Certified for Sport vs Informed Sport: what is the difference?
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.
How these lines are chosen
Among 52 products and 65 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 14 products and 14 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, with no recall or failed test, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving. Where the retailer publishes no delivery rate, the pick is priced before delivery and says so. Nothing we track here clears all of those yet. Each of these misses at least one bar, and says which (the first clears the certification bar):
How these lines are chosen
Among 9 products and 9 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. No product here that clears every other bar publishes a delivery rate below its free-delivery threshold, so the pick is priced before delivery.
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.