Creatine monohydrate cost between 1.1 and 74 cents a gram on ten brands' own US stores on 28 October 2026. Almost all of that spread is format: plain powder sits at the bottom, single-serve sticks in the middle, chews and gummies at the top. At the 5 g a day that most labels list, a month of plain powder came to $4.50–$18, and a month of gummies to $40–$112. Brands read after that day fit the same pattern: Jocko Fuel's 5 g stick packs cost almost twice its tub per gram on 2 November (Jocko's three formats).
Every price below was read from the brand's own US store feed on 28 October 2026, at list price, before shipping, tax, promotions or subscription discounts. Where grams per serving were not in the feed, they come from the printed panel read on the brand's page on this site (dated in the table). The arithmetic is ours and is shown. No product was bought, and none is ranked: cost is one fact about a product, and the brand label index sets out the others.
Cost per gram, by format
| Format | Product (store) | List price, 2026-10-28 | Grams of creatine | Per gram |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulk sack | BulkSupplements unflavoured, 25 kg | $270.29 | 25,000 | $0.011 |
| Bulk bag | BulkSupplements unflavoured, 5 kg | $139.97 | 5,000 | $0.028 |
| Unflavoured powder | BulkSupplements, 1 kg | $29.97 | 1,000 | $0.030 |
| Unflavoured powder | Orgain, 17.64 oz (500 g) canister | $22.99 | 500 | $0.046 |
| Unflavoured powder | BulkSupplements, 500 g | $22.97 | 500 | $0.046 |
| Unflavoured powder | Nutricost, 1 kg | $46.97 | 1,000 | $0.047 |
| Unflavoured powder | Nutricost, 500 g | $23.97 | 500 | $0.048 |
| Unflavoured powder | RAW, 100 servings | $39.99 | 500 | $0.080 |
| Unflavoured powder | 1st Phorm, 100 servings | $39.99 | 500 | $0.080 |
| Unflavoured powder | Momentous, 90 servings (5 g scoop, panel 2026-09-30) | $42.99 | 450 | $0.096 |
| Unflavoured powder | 1st Phorm, 50 servings | $29.99 | 250 | $0.120 |
| Flavoured powder | BulkSupplements, 700 g bag (500 g creatine) | $28.97–$33.97 | 500 | $0.058–$0.068 |
| Capsules | BulkSupplements, 420 count (7 per 5 g) | $23.97 | 300 | $0.080 |
| Capsules | BulkSupplements, 210 count | $20.97 | 150 | $0.140 |
| Single-serve sticks | RAW, 30 × 5 g | $19.99 | 150 | $0.133 |
| Single-serve sticks | Create, 30 × 5 g | $40.00 | 150 | $0.267 |
| Gummies | RAW, 30 servings (5 g on the front label) | $39.99 | 150 | $0.267 |
| Creatine blend | Transparent Labs Creatine HMB, 30 × 5 g creatine | $49.99 | 150 | $0.333 (blend) |
| Chews | Momentous, 150 × 1 g | $49.99 | 150 | $0.333 |
| Gummies | Create, 30-serving pouch (4.5 g per 3 on the printed panel, 2026-10-26) | $72.50 | 135 | $0.537 |
| Gummies | OMNI, one pouch bought once (3 g per serving, panel 2026-10-27) | $67.00 | 90 | $0.744 |
The cheapest unflavoured tub of 500 g or more was $0.030 a gram; the dearest was $0.096 (Momentous); the small 250 g tub reached $0.120. The cheapest chew or gummy was $0.267 — more than twice the dearest tub. That gap is the main fact on this page: what a reader pays is decided far more by format than by brand.
Two notes on the rows. Transparent Labs sells creatine only in a blend with 1.5 g HMB, vitamin D and pepper extract, so its per-gram figure buys more than creatine. OMNI's gummy carries 3 g per serving, not 5 g, so its per-serving price understates its per-gram cost; the OMNI page reads its panel against its marketing.
What a month costs
Most panels list one 5 g serving a day. Thirty of them is 150 g, so a month's cost is the per-gram price × 150:
| Per gram | Example from the table | A month at 5 g a day |
|---|---|---|
| $0.011 | BulkSupplements 25 kg sack | $1.62 |
| $0.030 | BulkSupplements 1 kg | $4.50 |
| $0.046 | Orgain or BulkSupplements 500 g | $6.90 |
| $0.080 | RAW or 1st Phorm 100 servings | $12.00 |
| $0.120 | 1st Phorm 50 servings | $18.00 |
| $0.133 | RAW sticks | $19.95 |
| $0.267 | RAW gummies, Create sticks | $40.05 |
| $0.333 | Momentous chews | $49.95 |
| $0.744 | OMNI gummies, bought once (at its own 3 g serving: $67 a month) | $111.60 |
The arithmetic assumes every serving is taken; a gummy at a 3 g serving costs less per day than the 5 g row shows, and buys less creatine.
What a loading week adds
Many labels, and the classic studies, describe a loading phase of about 20 g a day for five to seven days before a 3–5 g daily amount; a 2023 review in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition gives those figures and notes that 3–5 g a day reaches the same muscle saturation over about four weeks (Forbes 2023). Those figures are reported here, not recommended; how long each route takes is on the creatine loading phase and how long creatine takes to work.
Priced: five loading days use 100 g, against 25 g for five days at 5 g — 75 g more.
| Per gram | Extra cost of a 5-day load |
|---|---|
| $0.030 | $2.25 |
| $0.046 | $3.45 |
| $0.080 | $6.00 |
| $0.267 | $20.03 |
| $0.744 | $55.80 |
In gummy form the extra is larger than the cost of a whole month of most plain powders. A loading week in gummies also means about 13–20 pieces a day at 1–1.5 g each (our arithmetic from the panels above).
What the price does not show
- Whether the label is true. Price and identity are separate questions. The checkable fact is a third-party register listing: on 28 October 2026 NSF's Certified for Sport register listed creatine from BulkSupplements (five powders) and 1st Phorm, both near the bottom of the price table; how to read that register is on NSF-certified creatine.
- Where the creatine came from. Few labels name a raw-material maker; the label index records which do.
- Form. Every row except the HCl note below is creatine monohydrate. "Micronized" changes how fine the powder is, not the molecule (micronized creatine). Naked's creatine HCl listed at 232 g for $34.99 on 28 October, $0.151 a gram of HCl; whether HCl does anything monohydrate does not is on creatine HCl.
- Storage time. The 25 kg sack is 5,000 servings, about 13.7 years at one a day; see does creatine expire.
Limits of this survey
Twelve brands' stores were read on one day and ten could be priced; retailers (Amazon, Walmart, Costco, GNC) were not, and several sell the same products for less or more. Prices are list prices and can change within hours. Brands without a readable store feed are not in the table. Grams per serving come from the printed panels; where a panel was read on an earlier date, that date is given. Shipping, tax and subscriptions were not modelled.
Sources and dates
- Brand store product feeds (
/products.json), read 2026-10-28: BulkSupplements (bulksupplements.com), Orgain (orgain.com), Nutricost (nutricost.com), RAW Nutrition (getrawnutrition.com), 1st Phorm (1stphorm.com), Momentous (livemomentous.com), Create (trycreate.co), OMNI (omnicreatine.com), Transparent Labs (transparentlabs.com), Naked Nutrition (nakednutrition.com), Bloom (bloomnu.com; no gram count in the feed, so not priced), Wellah (wellah.com; 3 g servings, see its page). - Printed panels: BulkSupplements and 1st Phorm, read 2026-10-28; Momentous 2026-09-30, Create 2026-10-26, OMNI and RAW 2026-10-27 — each on this site's page for that brand.
- NSF Certified for Sport, certified products register, read 2026-10-28.
- Forbes SC, Candow DG, Neto JHF, et al. Creatine supplementation and endurance performance: surges and sprints to win the race. J Int Soc Sports Nutr 2023;20:2204071 — PMID 37096381, full text (PMC10132248) read 2026-10-28; loading and maintenance figures from its practical-applications section.