Our editorial policy

When we tell you something about the medication, it comes from the research. When we tell you something about a company, it comes from the company. We keep the two apart on purpose.

• About semaglutide itself: we go to peer-reviewed studies, the official FDA prescribing information and the FDA's own announcements, and cite them right where the claim is made. We don't treat a press release, or another website's summary of a study, as evidence.
• About a provider: we go to its own pricing pages, FAQ, terms of service and published policies. That's the version of the offer you'd be held to as a customer, so it's the one we report. If a company's pages contradict each other, we tell you, rather than quietly picking the nicer number.

We’re also careful about what a trial actually proved. If STEP 1 measured weight loss on semaglutide 2.4 mg over 68 weeks, we’ll say exactly that, and we won’t stretch it to cover a compounded product that was never in the study.

Here’s the one rule behind every number on this site: we never print a price we didn’t see on the provider’s own website. We read it in a browser, the way you would, rather than copying it from a dataset or a promotional landing page.

• You get the fine print with the figure. Every price says which dose it covers, whether it's compounded or brand-name, and whether it's a first month, a prepaid rate or what you'll keep paying.
• You can see how fresh it is. Every price shows the month we last checked it, like “October 2026.” In this market a six-month-old price is often just wrong, so we treat the date as part of the price.
• We go back regularly. We re-check partners and the providers people search for most at least every 60 days, and anyone sooner when a reader or the company tells us something changed.
• We don't fill in blanks. If a company only shows a price after an intake form, or doesn't publish one at all, we say so rather than guess. It's also why a number here sometimes differs from one you've seen elsewhere.

A good review answers the questions you’d ask before handing over a card number: What exactly am I buying? What does it cost, and what does that include? Who prescribes it, and which pharmacy fills it? How do billing and cancellation work? What’s the catch? We answer each of those as far as the company’s own pages allow, and when they don’t, we tell you what to ask before you order.

We look up every provider in the FDA’s public list of warning letters. If a company has received one, its review says so. A warning letter is something for you to weigh, not an automatic dealbreaker, so we explain it and let you decide.

When a company changes its prices or terms, we update the review and the date on it. That date means the page was actually re-checked; we never bump a date just to make a page look fresh.

Semawise earns a commission when you become a customer of some providers through our links, and we label those providers “Partner” so you always know. Commissions can affect which providers we feature. They never change what we write about a provider or the prices we report, and our cheapest semaglutide list runs in price order whether or not a provider pays us. The details are in our disclosure.

No provider reads, edits or approves a review before it goes up, and we don’t take money to add or soften a claim. Partners get the same drawbacks section and the same price details as everyone else. There’s more on how Semawise makes money.

Semawise is researched and written by our small editorial team, led by Sofia Mendez. Like most publishers today, we use software, including AI tools, to help gather sources, draft pages and double-check them. The rules on this page apply no matter how a page was drafted: prices come from the company’s own site, medical claims come with a cited source, and automated checks run on every update to catch mistakes such as a missing disclosure before a page goes live.

Semawise is education, not medical advice, and no clinician reviews our pages. We won’t ever imply that one does. Please talk to a licensed clinician before starting, stopping or changing any medication. Our medical disclaimer explains more.

If you spot a mistake, email ask@semawise.com with the page and the sentence that’s wrong. We’ll check it against the original source. If you’re right, we fix it and update the page date, and if it’s a meaningful change, like a price, a disclosure, a safety fact or something we said about a company, we add a dated note to our public corrections log. You can meet the people behind the site on our about page.