This comparison is not really about price. It is about whether you are buying a drug or a programme, and Noom is unambiguously selling a programme.
Noom's compounded offering is a Microdose GLP-1Rx programme at $179 a month covering semaglutide or tirzepatide, after a $49 introductory month. The behavioural infrastructure around it is the best-developed in consumer weight management — that is the product.
CoreAge Rx charges $79 and $129 for standard-dose compounded medication with a physician review, supplies and shipping. No coaching, no behavioural programme, no labs.
The dose difference matters more than the price difference
That is not a reason to dismiss it. A lower dose taken consistently inside a structured programme beats a standard dose abandoned in week five, and gentler dosing genuinely helps people who cannot tolerate full titration. But it should be a clinical decision made openly rather than a product you select on price.
Where a dose sits on the studied ladder
Move the slider to see whether a dose is one the weight-loss trials actually used. Doses below the studied range may still suit you — they simply have no trial result attached.
Standard titration step
Standard schedule: Weeks 1–4
The standard starting dose. Intended to build tolerance, not to produce weight loss.
In the trial programme behind Wegovy, adults reached a 2.4 mg weekly maintenance dose and lost an average of about 15% of body weight over 68 weeks.
Titration schedules are the standard ones for the approved products and are shown for orientation, not as a dosing instruction. Compounded products are not FDA-approved and your prescriber sets your schedule. Never change a dose on the basis of a web page.
What Noom is genuinely best at
Sustaining change. Most people who stop a GLP-1 regain weight, and the behavioural scaffolding that makes the difference afterwards is exactly what Noom has spent a decade building. If your previous attempts failed on maintenance rather than initiation, that is worth paying for.
If you want standard titration toward the doses the trials used, at the lowest price, CoreAge Rx is $80 a month cheaper on semaglutide and $30 on tirzepatide — and you would need to arrange coaching separately, which our GLP-1 supplements guide covers the essentials of.
What it actually costs per year
Advertised prices in this category are usually medication only. Add the membership back in and the ranking changes. Pick a provider, or enter the quote you were given.
One-month semaglutide rate. Starting at $79/month equivalent requires a 12-month plan ($948 total); confirm payment and renewal terms.
- First month
- $139
- Every month after
- $139
- Total over 12 months
- $1,668
No membership on this plan, so every dollar goes to medication and care.
Figures are the providers' own published prices as of our last review of each. Promotional rates, multi-month prepayment and dose changes can all move these numbers — confirm at checkout.