Ro vs Henry Meds

Both sell tirzepatide. Ro costs $448 a month and Henry Meds costs $449, a difference of $1 a month or about $12 a year. Here is what that difference actually buys.

Ro is branded medication with insurance help. Henry Meds is sublingual and oral formats. They are not aimed at the same person, and the cheaper one is not automatically the right answer — though it usually is if you are paying cash and tolerate the medication well.

Put plainly. If you picked Ro over Henry Meds and everything else went the same way, you would be $12 better off after a year. Whether that is the right trade depends on the differences below, not on the number alone.

Side by side

Prices verified 2026-09-18. "True monthly cost" is what you are billed in month two, once any introductory rate has lapsed and any membership has renewed.

What actually separates them

They differ on 3 of the 7 things we track. Those differences are what the price gap is buying.

What Ro publishes

• Ro Body membership is $39 for the first month, then $149/month.
• Membership does not include the cost of GLP-1 medication.

Where it wins: FDA-approved medication only, which removes the compounding-regulation question entirely. Watch for: The membership and the medication are two separate bills. A $39 first month does not mean a $39 prescription.

What Henry Meds publishes

• Injectable tirzepatide listed at $399 for the first month and $449/month recurring.
• Oral tirzepatide tablets listed at $299 first month, $349/month recurring.
• Advertising states pricing "starts at $179/month", which corresponds to the lowest sublingual tier.

Where it wins: No membership fee layered on top of medication. Watch for: The advertised "starts at $179" is the sublingual tier. Weekly injectable tirzepatide renews at $449/month.

Where each is stronger

Ro.

• FDA-approved medication only, which removes the compounding-regulation question entirely.
• Genuine help pursuing insurance coverage.
• Clear that medication is not included in the membership.

Henry Meds.

• No membership fee layered on top of medication.
• Real choice of sublingual, oral tablet and injection.
• Discounts for paying a multi-month block up front.

How they score

Ro scores higher overall at 3.5 out of 5. The weights are published on how we rate, and so is the note about which of these is our paid featured partner.

Which should you pick?

If you want the plain answer: Ro, unless one of the differences above matters to you personally. Henry Meds is not worse — it is aimed at somebody with a different problem, and paying $1 a month more for a problem you do not have is how people end up resenting a treatment that was working.

The verdict

We would tell a friend to start with Ro and move if it disappointed them. That is not a strong claim about either company; it is what the arithmetic supports when nothing else is pulling you.

Full detail in the Ro review and the Henry Meds review.

How they sit against everyone else