NAD+ Price

The NAD+ price at Ascension Peptides is $104.00 for a 1,000 mg vial, or $52.00 once the code PEPTIDEDECK is applied, which comes to $5.20 per 100 mg of material.

That is one number, paid once. The other way people buy NAD+ is priced per session, in a clinic, and it does not stop after the first payment. Those two structures are what this page compares, because the gap between them is far larger than any discount code. This is research material sold for laboratory use, not for human consumption.

Worth clearing up before the arithmetic starts: NAD+ is nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme your cells already make and spend. It is not a peptide, and it is not sold in the milligram vials peptides come in.

NAD+ price on the one listing that carries it

There is a single NAD+ line in the catalogue, which makes this shorter than most price pages.

One gram in one vial. Not ten milligrams, not thirty. That single fact reorders the whole comparison for anyone arriving from a peptide page, and it is why the per-unit figure on this site is quoted per 100 mg.

Why the NAD+ cost per vial is quoted per 100 mg

Run the per-milligram number and you get $0.052. It is arithmetically correct and completely useless.

A research peptide sells in 5 mg or 10 mg vials, so per-milligram is the natural unit there and the figures land somewhere between one and five dollars. NAD+ sells by the gram, so the same unit produces a number with two leading zeros that reads as free next to a peptide and tells you nothing. Per 100 mg keeps the figure in a range you can hold in your head and compare between listings, which is the only job a unit price has.

If you see NAD+ advertised at a few cents a milligram somewhere and it looks like a bargain against a peptide, you have not found a bargain. You have found a different category of substance being priced in the wrong unit.

What you pay once

A gram of NAD+ arrives as a dry, sealed cake of lyophilised powder. That is the entire contents of the box.

Bacteriostatic water is a separate product with its own line item. So are sterile syringes and alcohol wipes. None of them is expensive on its own, and together they are the reason a first order settles above the price anybody planned for. That gap is not a hidden fee, it is a shopping list that was one item long when it should have been four.

There is also delivery. Free shipping starts at $250, and one discounted gram is $52.00, which is around a fifth of the way there. Five discounted units would clear the threshold at $260.00, and buying five grams to avoid one delivery charge is not a saving, it is a much larger purchase wearing the costume of one. On a first order, take the shipping charge and move on.

The useful way to read all of this: the first order is a setup cost, and every order after it is a material cost. The $5.20 per 100 mg figure describes the second order accurately and the first one optimistically.

What you pay per visit

The clinic channel is where NAD+ diverges from every research peptide, because it genuinely has one. IV drip bars, wellness clinics, med spas and mobile IV services all sell NAD+ infusions openly and advertise them by name.

They are not selling you material. They are selling an appointment, and the price is structured accordingly:

We are not publishing clinic figures on this page, because the honest position is that they vary enormously by market and none of the numbers circulating online has a source behind it that we have checked. What is worth knowing is the structure, and one detail that explains why the structure looks the way it does.

Six hours is what the chair is for

The only published human study to infuse NAD+ directly, rather than a precursor, ran the drip for six hours. That is Grant and colleagues, writing in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience in 2019, a pilot study tracking what happened to NAD+ and its metabolites in plasma and urine across the infusion. They reported no measurable change in plasma NAD+ or its metabolites until after the second hour.

Read as a purchase fact rather than a health claim, and it should be read that way, this is the reason clinic NAD+ is expensive in a way a vitamin drip is not. You are buying a long block of chair time, staffed. Several of the authors were affiliated with a wellness centre and an NAD+ research company, which is worth knowing when reading any conclusion drawn from it, and the study establishes nothing about benefit. It measured where infused NAD+ went.

The comparison, then, is not $52.00 against a session price. It is one payment for a gram of material against a recurring payment for supervised hours, and the two are not substitutes on any axis except the name on the invoice.

The quantity tiers, against the code

Two discount mechanisms sit on this store and they work differently, so the quantity decision belongs before the coupon rather than after it.

Ten percent off ten units does not come close to fifty percent off one. Whether the code sits on top of a tier is not something the vendor publishes, so assume it does not, budget on that basis, and check the subtotal in the cart rather than taking anyone's word for it.

The line that decides whether the price was worth anything

Price is the easiest thing to compare and the least informative, and on NAD+ specifically there is a documented reason why.

In a notice with content current as of 30 October 2024, FDA wrote that it was aware of compounders using food-grade nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide sold by repackagers to make intravenous products. Food-grade ingredients, it said, "are not suitable for compounding sterile drugs without appropriate processing, due to the high risk of contamination with microbes and endotoxins". The agency added that it had received adverse event reports following use of NAD+ injectable drugs, including severe chills, shaking, vomiting and fatigue, some requiring medical treatment, and that these reactions were consistent with excessive levels of endotoxins.

That converts directly into a purchase criterion, and it is the one this whole cluster turns on. Ask whether the material is pharmaceutical grade rather than food grade, and ask whether the certificate of analysis reports endotoxin testing, the bacterial endotoxins or LAL result, and not only identity and purity. A certificate showing HPLC and mass spectrometry has told you what the powder is. It has not told you whether it is clean, and clean is the thing that put people in a chair with rigors.

A cheap gram with no endotoxin line on its certificate is not a cheap gram. It is a different product at a different risk, priced as though it were the same one.

There is no insurance NAD+ price to compare against

Readers arriving from the prescription world reasonably ask what this costs with coverage. The question has no object.

There is no FDA-approved NAD+ injectable product, so there is no product code, no formulary line and no negotiated rate. NAD itself sits in Category 1 of FDA's 503A bulk drug substances list, which is the "under evaluation" category, and that is a compounding policy position rather than an approval. Clinic NAD+ is sold as a self-pay wellness service almost everywhere it is sold at all. Cash is the only price this substance has, on either channel.

Dosing arithmetic sits outside this page by design. What a gram becomes once it is reconstituted is a separate question with its own page, and this one stops at the invoice.

Common questions

Keep exploring

If the code is the only thing you came for, the NAD+ coupon page covers where in the checkout it goes. The local search takes the clinic side of this comparison further, and the retatrutide price breakdown runs the same arithmetic on a research peptide if you are pricing both.