Does micronized creatine cost more?
Our picks, each format ranked separately: Powders: Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Powder, Unflavored (1.2 kg); gummies and chewables: Momentous Creatine Chews, Lemon Lime (150 chewable tablets) (before delivery). Where to buy
We hold a record of the Supplement Facts panel for 35 of the 71 creatine packages we price. 17 of those records quote the word “micronized” and 18 do not. For the other 36 we hold no record of the panel, so we do not know either way, and they are counted separately below rather than lumped in with the records that are silent. A serving count checked on the package, a store page or an email is not a record of what the label prints.
What those packages cost per 5 g is in the table. What this page will not do is tell you the word predicts the price. The packages carrying it are concentrated in a few brands, so any gap between the groups is a gap between those brands, and reporting it as a fact about the word would be inventing a finding out of an arrangement of the shelf.
We do not measure particle size, and nothing here says whether a micronized powder is better, worse or the same. That is the question behind the search and it is not one this site can answer. The word is printed on some labels; this page reports what the packages printing it cost, and nothing more.
| Powders, by what our label record says | Packages | Cheapest per 5 g | Median | Most expensive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| It quotes “micronized” | 7 | $0.215 | $0.30 | $0.55 |
| It does not | 3 | $0.21 | $0.467 | $0.666 |
| We hold no record of the panel | 36 | $0.14 | $0.274 | $0.798 |
Powders only, because capsules cost more per 5 g for reasons of format rather than anything printed on them, and mixing the two would put that difference inside these rows. What capsules cost against powder is its own page.
A package counts as printing the word when the label record we hold for it quotes the word, from the panel or the label face. A label record is a reading of the Supplement Facts panel, sometimes with the label faces. Every price is per 5 g of creatine monohydrate, before delivery. Every package we price, ranked on price alone, is on the creatine page.
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.