Price pages answer what therapy costs; this page answers what you’re actually buying with it. Five criteria separate a medical program from a checkout funnel — and they’re the rubric our provider files score against.
The five criteria
Prescriber model: who evaluates you, synchronously or async, and whether obesity-trained clinicians are involved — the axis where Mochi’s specialist structure is the category’s clearest bet. Titration and follow-up: dose changes are where outcomes and side effects are actually managed; a platform that makes escalation frictionless but check-ins nonexistent has told you its priorities. Pricing transparency: flat, locked, all-fees-included structures (the design NexLife runs — disclosed connection, see strip) versus dose-tiered and teaser structures that require our calculator to decode. Cancellation friction: terms in writing, notice periods, refund handling — ledger fields, all of them. Legal pathway: post-shortage, whether a platform routes you to brand channels, dispenses compounded product under contested rationales, or is candid about which lane it occupies (context).
Current honest standings
One platform has completed verification: NexLife, scoring 9.1 on the published rubric — strongest on transparency and included-care, with our standing caveats on its ODT line’s missing outcome data. Structural front-runners pending verification: Ro for insurance-navigation depth, Mochi for specialist care, Found for coaching-plus-coverage breadth, with Hims/Hers, Henry, Orderly, Remedy, Shed, and Fifty 410 queued behind them — every file at the directory, every scoring rule at methodology. No platform gets ranked here on marketing claims, including the one we’re connected to.
How to use this alongside the price pages
Shortlist on care fit here, then stress-test cost on the verified price floor or the category verdicts — and if insurance might cover you, the quiz will interrupt all of it and send you to check that first, because a copay beats every program on this page.