Fridays review

Fridays: coaching and a community built in, and headline prices that assume you pay for the year

Fridays sells compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide, plus brand-name Ozempic and Zepbound, wrapped in more support than most online programs offer: an accountability coach, weekly support groups and a fitness app sit inside the compounded plans at no extra charge. It also says plainly who runs it — Thrive Health, Inc., with a street address in Irvine, California, and a phone number in the footer. The thing to understand before anything else is the small print under the big numbers: "Paid annually, delivered monthly." The prices in the headlines are what a year bought up front works out to per month.

What it costs, month to month and prepaid

• Compounded semaglutide, month to month: $249/month
• Compounded semaglutide, prepaid annual plan: $150/month, paid for the year at once
• Compounded tirzepatide, month to month: $359/month
• Compounded tirzepatide, prepaid annual plan: $240/month, paid for the year at once
• Brand-name Ozempic: $1,498/month; Zepbound: $1,828/month — plus a separate membership on the brand track
• Included on compounded plans: membership, provider visits, coaching, the app and shipping

Fridays deserves credit for printing the month-to-month price right beside the annual one rather than a click away. Do the year both ways before you choose. Month to month, a year of semaglutide is $2,988 and tirzepatide $4,308. Prepaid, it is $1,800 and $2,880 — but that money leaves your account on day one, and Fridays' refund terms (below) mean you should assume you will not see it again if you stop early. A promo code can shave the annual figure further; it does not change the shape of the commitment.

"No membership fees" applies to the compounded plans only. The brand-name track bills a membership on top of the medication — $49 the first month, then around $98 a month on a prepaid annual plan. Fridays also advertises a "Forever Pricing" lock: your monthly price holds as long as that subscription stays active, but canceling forfeits it for good, and a dose or plan change you ask for yourself does not keep it.

How signup works, in Fridays' own order

Fridays' FAQ sets out the sequence, and the order matters. You take a short eligibility quiz first. If you pass, you choose how your prescription is filled — with a video visit, or, depending on your state, without one — and then you sign up and pay for a monthly subscription before you complete the full health-history intake. A clinician from OpenLoop Healthcare Partners or another partner network then reviews that intake; the provider team is physicians and licensed nurse practitioners. Check-ins are usually monthly at the start, and Fridays says its providers can order lab tests where they judge them needed.

Two eligibility details stand out. Fridays starts the conversation at a BMI of 20 or higher, a much lower floor than most programs set, and leaves the final call to the clinician. And it states plainly that anyone currently pregnant, breastfeeding, or actively trying to become pregnant may not be eligible — a clear screen for a mother still in those years.

Canceling and refunds

You can cancel by email or from the cancellation option in your account, but timing is everything: Fridays needs the request at least 72 hours before your next billing date, or the subscription renews and the cancellation takes effect a cycle later. Refunds are narrow. You get a full refund for the cycle if a clinician finds you ineligible before services begin — and Fridays counts services as beginning the moment your intake is submitted for review. Billing errors and refunds required by law are covered too. Everything else is non-refundable, including canceling mid-cycle or deciding the medication isn't for you, and shipped medication can't be returned. Missing a scheduled appointment with less than 24 hours' notice can bring a separate fee.

Who it suits, and who it doesn't

Fridays fits a mother who wants more than a prescription — a coach, a group, an app — and who is confident enough in a full year of treatment to prepay it, or comfortable paying the month-to-month rate for flexibility. The pregnancy, breastfeeding and trying-to-conceive screen is a point in its favor, though it isn't postpartum guidance; for the timing questions themselves, see GLP-1s, postpartum timing and breastfeeding and trying to conceive on a GLP-1.

It fits less well if a second baby might be on the calendar within the year, since a prepaid plan and a firm no-refund policy don't bend around a pregnancy. Fridays also doesn't publish a list of the states it serves, so confirm yours before you pay.

The catches

• The advertised prices require paying for twelve months up front; month to month it is $249 and $359
• You pay for the subscription before the full health intake, and services count as started once that intake is submitted
• Refunds cover medical disqualification, billing errors and legal requirements only
• The "success rate" beside the results photos measures order fulfillment and delivery, by Fridays' own footnote — not weight loss
• Brand-name plans add a separate membership on top of the medication price
• No published list of states served

The bottom line

Fridays offers real support around the medication and is unusually open about who operates it, and its pregnancy screen is clear. The money side asks more of you: the friendly prices are annual prepayments, the refund window effectively closes when you submit your intake, and canceling needs 72 hours' notice. Price the year month to month before you look at the annual figure. To compare it with programs that bill one month at a time, see our cheapest GLP-1 programs or the GLP-1 for moms ranking.