Comparison
Hims vs SkinnyRx
Independent, side-by-side. Same methodology, same sourcing standard, no payment accepted from either. Prices are observed market pricing (snapshot 2026-07-20); receipts are computed from sourced records.
| Hims | SkinnyRx | |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Profile in progress | Profile in progress |
| Tirzepatide price | Not tracked | from $299/mo (12-mo prepay) |
| Semaglutide price | from $199/mo (12-mo prepay) | from $199/mo (12-mo prepay) |
| Pharmacy receipt | Names its pharmacy (Strive Pharmacy, Curexa +1) — Strive Pharmacy, RedRock Pharmacy state-verified by us in up to 17 states. Pick your state to check yours. | Fills through Foothills, Pharmacy Innovations +2 per market data (not the clinic's own disclosure). Pick your state to check licenses. |
| Care receipt | Care is outsourced to You Health — a contract medical group named on the clinic's own site. The brand doesn't employ your clinician. | Outsourced contract clinicians — the brand doesn't employ your clinician — with check-ins and coaching on record. |
| Review integrity | Review-integrity flag — 72% of its Trustpilot reviews are unprompted "organic" posts, past our 40% gaming threshold. | Review-integrity flag — 69% of its Trustpilot reviews are unprompted "organic" posts, past our 40% gaming threshold. |
| Company address | Its listed address is a registered-agent or mailbox service — no operating location stands behind the brand's listed address. | Its listed address is a registered-agent or mailbox service — no operating location stands behind the brand's listed address. |
| Pharmacy | In review | In review |
| Clinical support | In review | In review |
| Patient support | In review | In review |
| Value | In review | In review |
| Ships to | In review | In review |
| Pharmacy model | Hims is unusually vertically integrated for a GLP-1 telehealth brand: Hims & Hers Health, Inc. owns and operates its own pharmacy and manufacturing chain rather than only contracting out. Per its FY2025 Form 10-K, the company operates two licensed 503A mail-order pharmacies that fill solely for its own customers - Apostrophe Pharmacy LLC and XeCare, LLC, both now wholly-owned subsidiaries - plus a licensed 503B outsourcing facility, MedisourceRx (acquired September 2024 as Seaview Enterprises, LLC, for $31.0 million; Los Alamitos, CA), which compounded its injectable semaglutide, and a peptide manufacturing facility. The consumer Terms also name third-party partner pharmacies (EHT Pharmacy LLC dba Curexa, CD Pharmacy LLC dba Red Rock Pharmacy, AnazaoHealth Corporation, and Strive Specialties, Inc.). During the April-June 2025 Novo Nordisk bundle, brand-name Wegovy was dispensed through Novo's own NovoCare Pharmacy accessed via the Hims platform. Prescriptions are written by providers in affiliated 'You Health' professional medical groups; Hims & Hers states in its Terms that it is not itself a healthcare provider. | SkinnyRx does not name a compounding or dispensing pharmacy anywhere on its own website or in its Terms and Conditions. Its FAQ states only, generically, that "503A pharmacies are licensed by state boards of pharmacy and are FDA-compliant." Notably, the FDA's February 2026 warning letter to SkinnyRx's operating company found that the compounded semaglutide/tirzepatide product labels pictured on skinnyrx.com display the name "SkinnyRx" itself, which the FDA determined falsely suggests SkinnyRx is the compounder of the drugs when in fact it is not — the actual compounder is left undisclosed to consumers. A federal class-action complaint filed against unrelated defendants (Foothills Professional Pharmacy, Ltd.; Avocado Health Technology, Inc.; Sajad Zalzala, M.D.; TeleRx Providers, P.C.) separately identifies SkinnyRx as one of several consumer-facing telehealth storefronts selling oral tirzepatide tablets, alleging (without SkinnyRx itself being a named defendant) that SkinnyRx's site "does not disclose any corporate leadership, ownership structure, clinical staff, prescribing entity, or pharmacy operations responsible for the issuance of prescriptions or fulfillment of medications sold through the platform." For branded medications (Wegovy, Zepbound, Mounjaro, and the investigational oral GLP-1 Foundayo), SkinnyRx's Terms state the medication purchase, dispensing, fulfillment, shipping, and billing are handled by a separate third-party pharmacy or manufacturer-affiliated program (its FAQ names NovoCare Pharmacy and LillyDirect as the manufacturer programs for this pathway), not by SkinnyRx. |
| Red flags on file | 5 | 3 |
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