Alternatives to Sesame Care

It prices Ozempic and Zepbound at $1,399 and $1,599, which almost nobody here does. The compounded line is “from” $49 — under a dated sale, and billed every four weeks.

RxSpan MD is a genuinely well-disclosed service wrapped in marketing that undercuts it. The disclosure: four compounding pharmacies named with phone numbers, two lead physicians named with NPI numbers that verify as active MDs, flat pricing posted before any intake, both compounded and real FDA-approved brand GLP-1s on one platform, and oral capsules for anyone who won't inject. Compounded semaglutide is $249 a month and tirzepatide $329, with brand Zepbound at $1,069, Ozempic at $1,299 and Wegovy at $1,349. The marketing is the problem. Its testimonials still name a different company — one patient describes what she 'expected from CareGLP' — and the doctors quoted in them are not the clinicians the same page names as its medical team. The homepage is built around a board-certified plastic surgeon who founded the practice but is licensed in California only and isn't the prescriber. Its compounded prices also sit above the roster median, and the oral capsules cost the same or more than the injections.

On logistics Hello Alpha is one of the easiest entries on this page: appointment-free online visits, unlimited provider messaging, free shipping, and a women's health platform behind it rather than a single-product weight-loss funnel. On cost it is one of the hardest to plan for. The $79 a month it publishes is the Alpha Plus+ membership, and the medication is billed on top of it — 'insurance or cash pay', with Hello Alpha stating it will work with your plan to find the lowest cost. It prescribes FDA-approved products only, which is its own stated policy, so the menu is the Zepbound and Mounjaro pens and Rybelsus tablets, and no compounded semaglutide exists here at all. That combination has a clear shape: if your employer plan covers a GLP-1, this is one of the few providers on this page built to use that coverage instead of routing around it, and $79 plus a copay may be the cheapest real outcome available to you. If you are paying cash, the total is unknowable in advance, because no cash medication price is published anywhere on the site, and the compounded providers here will be both cheaper and clearer. Hello Alpha is also explicit that a membership does not guarantee a prescription, which is the right thing to say and worth knowing before you pay.

One public number and a great deal of small print. Read live on 2026-08-26, the homepage says "Starting at $269" for compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide, and neither molecule is priced separately anywhere a reader can reach before the quiz. The footnote matters more than the figure: it says the price is paid upfront in full, that the actual price depends on the product and subscription plan you buy, and that the introductory pricing applies only to new customers on the compounded ORAL semaglutide plan — so the cheapest advertised route is a pill, not the weekly injection most readers are shopping for. The banner reading Get $140 Off Today is a discount amount rather than a price, and at least one industry directory has misread it as a $140 introductory rate. Where TellHerDoc is unusually good is disclosure of everything except price: it serves all fifty states, names its medical team and four partner pharmacies, and publishes the seven jurisdictions where a live video consultation is legally required. Where it is unusually blunt: all sales are final.

The widest menu on the board — compounded, oral and four brand pens, all on a chat visit with no camera — sold behind a pricing page that quotes you a monthly figure for a plan you have to pay for a year in advance.

Not a telehealth clinic at all — zero intake, zero video visit, because it's a manufacturer-direct pharmacy for Foundayo (orforglipron), priced on a four-tier dose ladder from $149/mo (0.8mg) through $199/mo (2.5mg) and $299/mo (5.5mg and 9mg) to $349/mo (14.5mg and 17.2mg) self-pay, that only fills a prescription your own doctor already wrote and sent to LillyDirect Pharmacy or a pharmacy of your choosing.

The insurance-and-brand heavyweight: a WeightWatchers-run membership that routes you toward FDA-approved product and insurance coverage, with a video visit required in some states — the membership fee and the medication bill are two separate charges.

GoodRx now runs a real prescriber, not just a coupon, and the two should not be confused. GoodRx Care Direct charges $39 a month for unlimited online care and bills the medication separately — read live on 2026-08-26, it lists the Wegovy pill as low as $149 a month, the Wegovy and Wegovy HD pens as low as $199 and the Zepbound KwikPen as low as $299, all under the label only FDA-approved medications, with no compounded tier at all. Every one of those is an as low as rather than a rate, so treat them as the bottom of a dose ladder. One thing here is better than almost anything else on this list for a working parent: GoodRx says a visit with a healthcare professional takes place via text, call or video, which means a text-only path exists. One thing is worse, and it belongs in the open. In February 2023 the Department of Justice, acting for the Federal Trade Commission, filed a complaint and a stipulated order in the Northern District of California, and GoodRx Holdings, Inc. agreed to a $1.5 million civil penalty over allegations that it shared users' prescription and health information with advertising platforms contrary to its own privacy promises; the order permanently bars it from disclosing user health information for advertising, and the case caption names GoodRx Care, the service reviewed here. That is a data question rather than a medicine question, and it is exactly the kind of thing worth knowing before you type your health history into a form.

No video visit, 5-7 business days to ship, and a full pricing dropdown you can see before you buy — $295/mo flat for semaglutide, $295-$595/mo for tirzepatide by dose.