Nutricost review
Full dose, bare page
Five hundred milligrams a day for under twenty-two dollars, with a testing claim the page never shows you.
Our verdict
Nutricost puts the whole label on the page, prices a 500 mg daily serving at $21.97, and leaves it there. No trial, no trademark, no story. The one claim worth pressing on is "3rd Party Tested by ISO-accredited Laboratories" — plural, unnamed, and unaccompanied by a single certificate you can open. That is an assertion, not evidence, and it sits on a page that is otherwise unusually straight with you. Good value, thin proof.
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At a glance
- Category
- NMN supplement
- Format
- Oral precursor
- From
- $21.97
- Dose published
- Yes
- Prescription
- Not required
- Compounded
- No
- Updated
- September 2026
What it is
A two-capsule daily serving delivering 500 mg of β-nicotinamide mononucleotide, 30 servings to a 60-capsule bottle. Everything else in the capsule is carrier: rice flour, a hypromellose shell, pea protein isolate, an organic flow agent blend and calcium laurate. Nutricost is a high-volume, low-margin supplement brand that sells several hundred single-ingredient products the same way.
How it works
Retail, bought directly. No consultation, no prescriber, no subscription needed for the listed price. The label carries a GMP-compliant-facility badge and the page states third-party testing by ISO-accredited laboratories, but neither the labs nor any batch report is identified anywhere we could find.
Pricing transparency
$21.97 for the bottle, with no struck-through comparison price and no promotional tier attached. At two capsules a day that is a month, so the month-to-month cost is the bottle price. The bottle holds 15 grams of NMN in total, which puts it near $1.46 per gram — a useful number to carry into any other listing, because bottle prices in this category range across more than an order of magnitude per gram of the actual molecule.
Branded vs compounded
A dietary supplement, not a drug; not FDA-approved and not reviewed by the FDA for safety or efficacy before sale. What the label does well is refuse to complicate itself: a single active at 500 mg with the daily value marked as not established, and a short, legible list of carriers underneath. There is no proprietary blend to hide an amount behind and no second ingredient sharing the credit.
Pros and watch-outs
What we like
- 500 mg of NMN per daily serving, stated in milligrams on a published label image
- About $1.46 per gram of NMN, calculated from the bottle's own numbers
- No sale price, no coupon and no subscription gate between you and the listed rate
- Single active ingredient, with every carrier named
- A month per bottle at the labeled dose, so the shelf price is the monthly price
Watch-outs
- Says third-party testing is done by ISO-accredited laboratories without naming one
- Publishes no certificate of analysis and no lot-level result
- The GMP badge describes the facility, not the contents of your bottle
- Nothing on the page addresses what NMN has and has not been shown to do
- A supplement, so no FDA review of safety or efficacy before sale
Best for
A buyer who has settled on 500 mg a day and wants the lowest-friction way to get it from a mainstream brand, and who treats testing badges as marketing until a report shows up.
Who should look elsewhere
Anyone who wants to read the analysis behind the claim, and anyone starting out who needs the page to explain what the evidence for NMN actually supports.
How Nutricost compares
A few alternatives worth a look, depending on what you’re optimizing for.
- Eden
Knowing the vial size and the real ongoing price
See Eden → - RNK Health
Choosing needle or spray without a price penalty
See RNK Health → - ShedRx
A mid-range price you can find without an intake
See ShedRx →
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Cost & access · Reviewed and last verified September 2026
How we assessed this. This review reflects NAD Picks’s own read of Nutricost’s publicly-stated model — pricing transparency, clinical oversight, medication clarity, and access — against our editorial methodology. We publish no fabricated ratings or first-hand outcomes. A partnership never changes the assessment — see how we make money.
Frequently asked
- How much does Nutricost NMN cost?
- $21.97 for 60 capsules. The serving is two capsules, so the bottle is 30 servings — one month at the labeled dose, and the shelf price is therefore the monthly price. There was no sale price and no compare-at price on the listing in September 2026.
- How much NMN do you actually get?
- 500 mg per two-capsule serving, 30 servings, so 15 grams of NMN in the bottle. That works out near $1.46 per gram. Per-gram cost is the comparison that matters here, because two bottles at the same price can hold five times different amounts of NMN.
- What does "3rd Party Tested by ISO-accredited Laboratories" mean here?
- Less than it appears. ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation is a real standard for testing laboratories, and using an accredited lab is better than using an unaccredited one. But the page names no laboratory, publishes no certificate, and gives no lot number to look anything up against. You are asked to accept the testing happened. Other sellers in this category publish signed, lot-specific reports you can read line by line.
- Is 500 mg a day a sensible amount?
- It sits comfortably inside the tested range. In a randomized trial of 80 healthy middle-aged adults published in GeroScience in 2023, Yi and colleagues compared placebo with 300, 600 and 900 mg of NMN daily for 60 days; all three doses raised blood NAD significantly, and the authors reported that efficacy peaked at 600 mg. Doses up to 900 mg were well tolerated in that trial.
- Will it do what NMN is sold for?
- It should raise your blood NAD⁺ — that much is repeatedly demonstrated in randomized human trials. Whether raising blood NAD⁺ produces the outcomes the category is marketed on is a separate question, and a much weaker one. This page makes no outcome claim at all, so there is nothing here to check against a paper. Judge it as a cheap, honestly labeled way to take a molecule whose downstream benefits are still unsettled.
- Is Nutricost expensive compared with other NAD⁺ precursor supplements?
- Nutricost publishes a starting figure of $21.97/mo. Across the 109 NAD⁺ precursor supplements we review that publish a starting price on the same billing basis, those run $17.97/mo to $649/mo with a median of $158.93/mo, which puts Nutricost below the median, toward the cheaper end. The other 41 NAD⁺ precursor supplements we review do not have a comparable published starting price in our records, so they are excluded. A starting figure is not a bill — labs, consultations and shipping are often charged separately, so confirm what your own quote includes.