How much does creatine cost per serving?
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
Across the 50 powders of creatine monohydrate we track and can price, a 5 g serving costs between $0.14 and $1.53. The median is $0.293, and the most expensive costs 10.9× the cheapest.
Across the 12 capsule products of creatine monohydrate we track and can price, a 5 g serving costs between $0.40 and $1.66. The median is $0.783, and the most expensive costs 4.2× the cheapest.
Across the 9 gummies and chewables products of creatine monohydrate we track and can price, a 5 g serving costs between $0.777 and $2.99. The median is $1.30, and the most expensive costs 3.8× the cheapest.
Creatine monohydrate is chemically simple and the products are close to interchangeable, so that spread is mostly not about what is in the tub. It is about package size, retailer, and brand. Powders and capsules are different purchases, so each is priced against its own kind only. The figures below are per 5 g, before delivery, computed from the serving each package's label or the seller's product page states or, where we have read a count on neither, from its net weight. Each product page says which, and whether its retailer publishes a rate.
Powder
Capsules, softgels and tablets
| Product | Per 5 g | Container | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|
| BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate Capsules (420 count) | $0.40 | $23.97 | D |
| Micro Ingredients Creatine Monohydrate Capsules (500 count) | $0.492 | $34.95 | D |
| Nutricost Creatine Monohydrate Capsules (500 count) | $0.493 | $36.97 | D |
| Animal Micronized Creatine Capsules (300 capsules) | $0.626 | $46.95 | D |
| Nutricost Creatine Monohydrate Capsules (180 count) | $0.703 | $18.97 | D |
| Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Capsules, Unflavored (300 capsules) | $0.767 | $57.49 | D |
| Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Capsules, Unflavored (200 capsules) | $0.80 | $39.99 | D |
| Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Capsules, Unflavored (100 capsules) | $0.92 | $22.99 | D |
| MuscleTech Platinum 100% Creatine Capsules (100 capsules) | $0.92 | $22.99 | D |
| Sports Research Creatine Monohydrate, Micronized (120 veggie capsules) (last known price, Oct 17) | $0.998 | $29.95 | B |
| EVLution Nutrition Creatine1000 Capsules (120 capsules) | $1.50 | $17.99 | D |
| Double Wood Supplements Creatine Monohydrate Capsules (120 capsules) | $1.66 | $19.95 | D |
Gummies and chewables
| Product | Per 5 g | Container | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVLution Nutrition Creatine Chew Tabs, Orange (90 tablets) | $0.777 | $13.99 | D |
| Animal Creatine Chews, Sour Surge (120 chewable tablets) | $0.998 | $29.95 | C |
| Double Wood Supplements Creatine Gummies (120 gummies) | $1.04 | $24.95 | D |
| Optimum Nutrition Creatine Monohydrate Gummies, Pineapple (105 gummies) | $1.14 | $39.99 | D |
| MegaFood Creatine Monohydrate Gummies, Raspberry (90 gummies) | $1.30 | $34.99 | D |
| MuscleTech Creatine Chews, Boogieman Punch (90 chewable tablets) | $1.67 | $29.99 | D |
| Momentous Creatine Chews, Lemon Lime (150 chewable tablets) | $1.67 | $49.99 | A |
| Momentous Creatine Chews, Lemon Lime (50 chewable tablets) | $2.00 | $19.99 | A |
| Momentous Creatine Chews, Lemon Lime (5 chewable tablets) | $2.99 | $2.99 | A |
We price creatine per 5 g, the top of the 3-5 g a day the ISSN position stand gives for maintaining muscle creatine stores once they are saturated. It is a common yardstick, so packages of different sizes can be priced against each other, and not a recommendation about what to take. Source: International Society of Sports Nutrition, ISSN position stand: safety and efficacy of creatine supplementation · checked Aug 25, 2026
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.