Provider comparison

Surfbound Health vs Fridays

On the figure its record carries, Fridays costs more per month than Surfbound Health. Its own page also displays a lower amount, and this page will not pretend that is settled either way.

Provider pages read 30 Oct 2026Rechecked monthly

Short answer

Is Surfbound Health or Fridays cheaper for compounded tirzepatide?

On tirzepatide the recorded monthly charges are $219 at Surfbound Health and $1,828 at Fridays. $1,609 a month lower at Surfbound Health, about 88% less than $1,828. On semaglutide the recorded monthly charges are $169 at Surfbound Health and $1,498 at Fridays. $1,329 a month lower at Surfbound Health, about 89% less than $1,498.

On the monthly charge recorded for this comparison, Surfbound Health is the cheaper of the two on compounded tirzepatide, and the gap is a substantial one. Neither program bills a separate membership fee, and both include clinical care, medication and shipping inside the plan price.

Fridays carries an open question that matters more than the gap. Its pricing page displays several amounts for the same program at once, including two starting figures and a month-to-month amount below the rate this page prints, and the record cannot establish which one applies at the plan selector. If the lowest of them is the real month-to-month rate, the two charges are closer than the table shows, and the record says so instead of resolving it.

What is not ambiguous is the structure, and it is identical on both sides: month to month, no separate membership fee, no minimum term, care and shipping inside the charge. Neither is a prepaid package, so neither carries a term to buy out, and the decision comes down to which figure is actually billed.

Common ownership, disclosed before the comparison

Surfbound Health is operated by the company that operates this guide

GLP1 Buyer Guide and Surfbound Health are both owned by Open Water Rx LLC. When this guide names Surfbound Health, it is naming a program the guide’s own owner also runs and earns from, so we state that commercial interest wherever a Surfbound option appears, not only on the disclosures page.

Both programs on this page are recorded on the same fields from their own published pages, and the lower figure is named on each molecule whoever publishes it. Fridays is not connected to this guide in any way. Full ownership, advertising and placement statement.

The monthly price, molecule by molecule

Both figures are standard monthly charges for a single billing period, with no separate membership fee on either side. The Friday figure is the amount that could be read from its pricing page, not the lowest amount on that page.

Recorded standard monthly charge for one injectable plan, including every mandatory recurring fee. Each figure carries the date the provider page behind it was checked.
Medication	Surfbound Health	Fridays	Difference
TirzepatideCompounded injectable	$219a month · checked October 22, 2026	$1,828a month · checked October 26, 2026	Lower at Surfbound Health$1,609 a month lower at Surfbound Health, about 88% less than $1,828.
SemaglutideCompounded injectable	$169a month · checked October 22, 2026	$1,498a month · checked October 26, 2026	Lower at Surfbound Health$1,329 a month lower at Surfbound Health, about 89% less than $1,498.

Left out of the table on purpose: the other amounts Fridays displays for this program, including its starting figures and its annual plan. A starting price and a discounted plan are different facts from the ongoing monthly rate, and none of them can be resolved into one figure from the page that was read.

The two charges do not cover the same length of time: Surfbound Health bills every 28 days, while Fridays bills once a month. A four-week cycle repeats more often in a year than a calendar month does, so the recorded gap between the two charges is not a like-for-like monthly saving, and no annual total is printed here because neither program bills one.

What the charge includes, and how you leave

With both programs billed month to month and neither carrying a term, the terms decide how easily a plan can be left rather than what it costs to join.

Program terms as recorded from each provider's own pages. Where a program sells two molecules, both are named rather than merged into one figure.
Field	Surfbound Health	Fridays
Membership fee	$0: no separate membership fee	$0: no separate membership fee
Included services	Provider review, prescribed medication and shipping.	Provider review, medication if prescribed, supplies and shipping.
Required or separate fees	No separate membership fee. No laboratory services are provided or billed.	No membership fee. Labs are included in the program price.
Dose increases	One price across the doses listed; no advertised dose-based increase. Recorded doses: Same published price at each prescribed dose; numeric range not established	One price across the doses listed; no advertised dose-based increase. The published dose range is not established.
Billing interval	Every 28 days.	Monthly billing.
Commitment	No long-term commitment and no minimum term. Recurring billing applies until you cancel, so the plan can be stopped before the next renewal. The published Refund Policy and Terms were re-checked on October 26, 2026.	No long-term commitment. Recurring billing applies until you cancel.
Cancellation	Cancel in the patient portal with no required advance notice and no cancellation fee; the published Refund Policy and Terms were re-checked on October 26, 2026. Cancellation stops future orders, not orders the pharmacy has already processed.	Cancel before the next renewal to stop future charges.
Refund conditions	No charge if declined; any amount collected for a declined order is refunded. Pharmacy-processed orders are nonrefundable, subject to policy exceptions.	Not established.
Dispensing pharmacy	Section 503A compounding pharmacy recorded. Surfbound Health publicly identifies several independent pharmacy partners, including Emerald Compounding Pharmacy. The specific pharmacy fulfilling an individual prescription is determined through the prescription and fulfillment process.	Not established. No dispensing facility is recorded for this program on the pages we read, so no pharmacy is attributed here.

Membership fee. A separate membership is a recurring charge billed on top of the medication. Zero means the program states no separate membership fee, which is not the same fact as an unrecorded amount.

Included services. The services the program states are inside the single charge, in the provider’s own wording.

Required or separate fees. Read from each program’s published terms. Where a fee is conditional or charged once, the record names it here rather than folding it into the charge.

Dose increases. A flat price is a claim that the charge does not rise as the dose increases. It is only established across the doses each program publishes, so the recorded ladder or dose scope is stated beside it.

Billing interval. The interval the provider actually bills on, recorded on each offer and not inferred from the medication supply. A 28-day cycle is not a calendar month, and neither is converted into the other.

Commitment. What the plan records about a minimum term, in the program’s own words. A recurring charge on its own proves neither a minimum term nor the absence of one.

Cancellation. Cancelling stops future orders. It does not reverse an order the pharmacy has already processed on either program.

Refund conditions. A refund is a different question from a cancellation: cancelling stops future charges, while a refund depends on what has already been paid, prepared or shipped. Where a program records a processing charge against a cancellation, it appears here.

Dispensing pharmacy. A pharmacy category describes how a compounded product is regulated. It does not identify the named facility filling a specific order, and it says nothing about the price.

Billing basis, Surfbound Health. Owner-confirmed on October 22, 2026 and corrected on November 11, 2026: billed every 28 days, not once a calendar month.

Billing basis, Fridays. Billing cadence corrected in the October 26, 2026 price pass.

Where the figure is certain, and where it is not

This is a comparison between one published rate and one rate that has to be read out of a page showing several. That difference is stated rather than resolved in either program’s favour.

Where Fridays does better

Records a month-to-month plan with no minimum term, with clinical care inside the monthly charge.
Bills no separate membership fee, so the plan price is the whole recurring cost.
Displays a monthly amount below the one printed here; the record cannot establish whether that amount is the plan-selector rate or a starting point, so it is recorded rather than relied on.

Where Surfbound Health does better

Publishes one price for its plan, so the figure on the page is the figure billed each month rather than one of several.
Holds the lower charge on the rate each record actually states.
Records a compounded semaglutide plan as well, where the other program records no eligible monthly price for that molecule.
Bills one period at a time and records cancellation with no required advance notice and no cancellation fee.
Records a Section 503A dispensing category for its product, where the other program’s record names no dispensing facility at all.

Where the two are level. Both are month to month with no stated minimum term, both bill no separate membership fee, and both include care and shipping in the charge. On supply they differ: Surfbound Health records a 28-day supply per charge, while Fridays leaves the supply period unestablished, and neither publishes the covered dose range, so neither can claim a complete offer on those fields.

Both programs also carry a place in the buyer guide index, read from that index rather than assigned here: Surfbound Health at rank 1 with 94.3 out of 100, and Fridays at rank 17 with 77.4 out of 100. No position or score was changed for this page.

What would change the answer. Fridays is the reason each figure on this page carries a check date. A single program page can show a starting price, a discounted plan and a standard rate at the same time, and only a figure with a date and a source behind it can be compared honestly against another program.

What value does not mean. This is a comparison of price and program terms. It is not a clinical comparison, neither program is claimed to work better than the other, and whether a compounded medication is appropriate is a decision for a licensed prescriber.

The tirzepatide row is the one to watch. Where both programs price both molecules, it carries the larger charge of the two, so a change there moves the monthly bill further than the same change would on the other molecule.

What this comparison does not establish

Fridays’ page displays several amounts for one program, and the record cannot establish which applies at checkout. The printed figure is the one that could be read, not the lowest on the page.

Fridays does not publish the days of medication a monthly charge buys, where Surfbound Health records a 28-day supply, and neither program publishes the dose range its price covers.

Fridays records no eligible standard monthly semaglutide price, so that molecule is compared on one side only.

Both products are compounded preparations, which are not FDA-approved and are not generic versions of any brand-name medication.

Compounded and brand-name products appear together because buyers compare them. They can share an active ingredient; they are not the same product. Compounded medications are not FDA-approved and are not generic versions of the brand-name medications.

How these figures were checked

Where one program page displays several amounts for the same plan, the record keeps each of them with its own source and states that the monthly figure is unresolved. None of them is averaged, and the lowest is not promoted to the printed price without evidence that it applies.

Each program’s own pricing page was read for this comparison. Every figure below keeps the check date printed beside it rather than a single freshness badge for the page. A recorded figure is kept until a re-read replaces it, and a replaced figure keeps the date of the reading it came from instead of being quietly overwritten.

Read the field definitions on program cost research, the sourcing rule on how we compare, and the full monthly comparison ledger for the same fields across every recorded program.