One seller prices CJC-1295 at $2.82 per mg. Another prices the identical peptide at $40.00 per mg. That is a 14x spread on a molecule that has already been through an FDA advisory committee vote and a halted human trial, so the paperwork here matters as much as the price does.
This post covers standalone CJC-1295, sold on its own rather than pre-mixed with ipamorelin. If you're looking at the blended product, our CJC-1295 + Ipamorelin vendor page and stack dosing protocol cover that separately, because the vendor list and the per-mg math aren't the same for the two products.
We priced CJC-1295 at all 55 vendors carrying it in our latest refresh. Verified Peptides, Peptidology, Atomik Labz, SimplePeptide, and NuLife Peptides are the five we would point people to. The market median is $8.77 per mg, so anything meaningfully under that is a real deal, not a discount on paper only.
Where the market sits right now
Fifty-five sellers list CJC-1295 on its own, and 52 of them ship to US addresses. From our latest price run:
The full sortable table lives on our CJC-1295 vendor page, and every price on it is normalized per milligram on the price index so a 2mg vial and a 10mg vial stop looking like different products.
The five we would actually use
We weight independent third-party lab testing heaviest, then price per mg, US shipping, reputation, catalog depth, and payment options. The full rubric is public in how we score vendors. Here is where it lands for CJC-1295.
Verified Peptides: the cheapest top-tier-lab price we can confirm
$4.08 per mg, roughly half the market median, with a Finnrick certificate of analysis behind every batch. A 5mg vial runs $25.20 and a 10mg runs $40.80, both in stock at the time of writing. Finnrick is the most rigorous lab source we track, and pairing that with the second-cheapest price on the whole board (Growth Guys Canada, which ships within Canada only, is cheaper) is why this is our default pick for a US buyer. Credit card only. Full scorecard.
Peptidology: the strongest paper trail on the board
$8.998 per mg for a 5mg vial at $44.99, right around the market median. Peptidology carries the highest overall scorecard of any vendor we track, ships out of Scottsdale, Arizona, and takes ACH, credit card, crypto, or Zelle. You are not getting a bargain price here, you are getting the cleanest documentation in the category. Full scorecard.
Atomik Labz: the dependable middle
$9.00 per mg for a 5mg vial at $45.00, Finnrick tested, shipping from Alexandria, Virginia. Atomik takes credit card, crypto, or Venmo, and sits near the top of our board overall. It lands right at the market median, which makes it the safe call when Verified Peptides is out of stock. Full scorecard.
SimplePeptide: the only one of the five with two vial sizes in stock
$7.00 per mg, with a 5mg vial at $35 and a 10mg at $115.00 (a jump worth checking against the per-mg math below before you size up). Freedom Diagnostics handles the testing, one of the three labs we index, and SimplePeptide ships from Florida on credit card. Full scorecard.
NuLife Peptides: the widest payment list of the group
$9.00 per mg for a 5mg vial at $45.00, Finnrick tested, and the only one of our five picks that takes ACH, Apple Pay, credit card, and Zelle. A useful option if you want a payment method with a dispute path rather than card or crypto alone. Full scorecard.
Also worth a look: Peptide Crafters matches SimplePeptide at $6.00 per mg on Finnrick COAs, but its 5mg vial was out of stock at the time of writing. Peptide Technologies runs $9.99 per mg out of Sheridan, Wyoming, Finnrick tested. Growth Guys Canada is the cheapest seller on the entire board at $2.82 per mg, Janoshik tested, but ships within Canada only.
Watch the vial-size math before you size up
Buying more is not automatically cheaper here. Verified Peptides prices a 5mg vial at $25.20 ($5.04/mg) against a 10mg vial at $40.80 ($4.08/mg), a 19 percent premium for the smaller size. That gap gets much wider elsewhere: VPeptide Canada, Pure Peptide Labs, and Next Day Peptides all charge roughly a 46 percent premium per mg for their smallest vial versus their next size up, and Behemoth Labz runs a 44 percent premium.
Run the per-mg math on every rung before you commit, and buy the vial you will realistically finish. Reconstituted peptide has a clock on it, and our storage and reconstitution guide covers how long you actually have.
CJC-1295 is the one the committee itself voted down
Most of the peptides on our board that have gone in front of the FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) got a split or favorable recommendation from the committee even when FDA staff proposed against inclusion. CJC-1295 did not. At the December 4, 2024 PCAC meeting, the committee voted on all five CJC-1295-related bulk drug substances FDA had grouped together, and the result was close to unanimous rejection: CJC-1295 free base failed 0 yes to 13 no, CJC-1295 acetate failed 1 to 12, and both DAC forms (the long-acting version most vendors actually sell) failed 0 to 13. One committee member, Allen Vaida, summarized the reasoning on the record: "It just seemed like there really wasn't enough evidence to prove it." None of the five CJC-1295 substances are on the 503A Bulks List today.
That is a different outcome from the July 2026 PCAC meeting, where the committee broke from FDA staff's own cautious proposal and voted to recommend six other peptides, including MOTS-c and BPC-157, for inclusion. CJC-1295 hasn't had that kind of second look. It has never been FDA-approved for any indication, and it is also on the World Anti-Doping Agency's Prohibited List at all times, in and out of competition, under section S2.2.4 (Growth Hormone Releasing Factors), alongside sermorelin, tesamorelin, and ipamorelin. Anything sold through a research supply channel is labeled for laboratory research use, not human consumption.
What the human trial history actually shows
CJC-1295 has more human data than most of the shelf, and it also carries the most serious safety event on our board, so both halves are worth knowing.
The foundational study is Teichman et al., published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in 2006 (PMID 16352683). It enrolled 80 healthy adults, aged 21 to 61, in randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation cohorts testing single and repeated subcutaneous doses of the DAC-conjugated form. A single injection produced a dose-dependent 2- to 10-fold rise in growth hormone sustained for six days or longer, and IGF-1 rose 1.5- to 3-fold and stayed elevated 9 to 11 days after one dose. With repeated twice-weekly dosing, IGF-1 remained above baseline for up to 28 days. The plasma half-life of the DAC form came in at 5.8 to 8.1 days, which is the entire reason it exists: to turn a growth hormone releasing hormone fragment that normally clears in minutes into something that lasts over a week. A smaller follow-up study on the same cohort, Sackmann-Sala et al. in Growth Hormone & IGF Research (2009, PMID 19386527), used 11 of those men to map which downstream serum proteins actually move when GH and IGF-1 rise this way.
The program never got further than that. ConjuChem, the original developer, ran a Phase 2 trial (NCT00267527) in 192 people with HIV-associated visceral obesity, testing low-dose and high-dose CJC-1295 against placebo over 12 weeks. The trial was halted on July 17, 2006 after a participant at an Argentine study site died; the relationship between the death and the study drug was still under investigation when reporting stopped, and no completed efficacy results from that trial were ever published. There is no completed Phase 2 or Phase 3 trial of CJC-1295 for any indication. Everything sold today rests on that one 2006 Phase 1 study.
Which is exactly why the paperwork on the vendor side matters more here than with almost anything else we cover. When a seller publishes a certificate of analysis from a named independent lab, matched to your batch, you at least know what's actually in the vial. Our guide to reading a peptide COA covers the 60-second version, and the full vendor comparison shows which shops we track publish one.
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This article is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before starting any peptide therapy.