Weight loss injection prices in Ireland

Every price on this page is listed with its pack size and its funding position, because the headline number on its own tells you very little. What you actually pay depends on the pack you buy and the indication on your prescription.

All five treatments, cheapest first

Entry price shown. Saxenda and Mounjaro prices are per pack; Rybelsus and Ozempic per month or pen. Full breakdowns below.

Mounjaro prices

Flat pricing across every package. The cost does not rise as you titrate.

Wegovy prices

Also flat. Every pack and every single pen costs the same, which means a single pen is never worth buying.

Ozempic prices

Rybelsus prices

Saxenda prices

The only treatment where the per-unit price falls with volume.

What the State pays for: GLP-1 reimbursement in Ireland

Reimbursement in Ireland turns on the indication written on the prescription, not the medicine in the box. Ozempic and Wegovy contain the same molecule. One is reimbursed and one is not.

How the Drugs Payment Scheme works →

The costs beyond the medication

• Consultation: €50 to €70 at a GP, €35 to €90 at a private clinic
• Baseline bloods: €60 to €100
• Monthly review for the first few months
• Needles and sharps disposal, higher for daily treatments

A realistic first-year total is the medication plus roughly €300 to €500 in consultation and monitoring costs.

Ozempic cost in Ireland, and what a pharmacy quote actually includes

The Ozempic cost Ireland question has two answers and the gap between them is enormous. Reimbursed for type 2 diabetes, your cost is capped at €80 a month. Privately for weight loss it is €260 to €337 a pen, every month, with no State contribution.

If you are pricing Saxenda instead, the term to search is Saxenda Ireland Boots price, because the chains publish figures and independents usually do not. Our own Saxenda Ireland Boots comparison is that the chain price is rarely the lowest available. Ring two independents before you accept it.

Cost per kilogram lost: the figure that changes the ranking

Comparing pack prices tells you what you hand over at the counter. It does not tell you what the treatment costs to achieve a result, and on that measure the order changes completely.

Using the average weight loss reported in each product’s pivotal trial, applied to an 85 kg starting weight, and the Irish monthly cost at maintenance dose:

Trial figures: SURMOUNT-1 (tirzepatide), STEP 1 (semaglutide 2.4 mg), SCALE (liraglutide 3.0 mg), PIONEER (oral semaglutide). Ozempic is licensed for type 2 diabetes, so its weight figures come from diabetes trials at lower doses and are not directly comparable. Trial averages are not a promise of individual results.

Wegovy comes out cheapest per kilogram, not Saxenda. Saxenda has the lowest entry price of the five at €149.99, which is why it often looks like the budget option, but it is a daily injection at a lower average result, so the twelve-month figure lands near the top.

What a full year of treatment actually costs in Ireland

The pack price is roughly two thirds of what you will spend. A realistic first-year budget, privately and without any scheme cover:

• Medication, €1,800 to €6,700 depending on treatment and how long you spend titrating up.
• Initial consultation, €35 to €90. GPs sit at the lower end, private weight management clinics at the upper end.
• Baseline bloods, €60 to €100. Usually HbA1c, kidney and liver function, and thyroid.
• Follow-up reviews, €30 to €60 each. Expect four to six in the first year, more if you tolerate the dose poorly.
• Repeat prescriptions, €15 to €25 each where your prescriber charges for them.
• Sharps disposal, small but real, and higher on a daily treatment than a weekly one.

Add roughly €300 to €500 to any medication figure on this page to get a year-one total. From year two the consultation load drops, so the medication becomes almost the whole cost.

Why the same treatment costs different amounts at different pharmacies

Ireland does not fix the retail price of a prescription medicine that is not being reimbursed. A pharmacy sets its own dispensing fee and its own margin, so the identical pack can differ by €40 or more between two pharmacies in the same city. Nothing about the medicine differs.

Three things move the number: whether the pharmacy buys through a wholesaler or direct, what dispensing fee it applies per item, and whether it treats weight management as a service line worth competing on. Chains and independents both land at either end, so the name above the door predicts very little.

This is exactly the gap we help with. Tell us your county and your treatment, and we come back with the best price we can find near you plus a prescriber who can assess whether it suits you. We sell nothing and take no commission on either.

What moves these prices

Prices on this page change for four reasons, and it is worth knowing which is which before you assume a quote is wrong.

Manufacturer supply. Wegovy and Saxenda have both been through Europe-wide supply constraints. When supply tightens, low-cost pharmacies run out first and the remaining stock sits at higher prices.

Reimbursement decisions. If the HSE adds a treatment to the reimbursement list for weight management, the private price stops mattering for most people overnight. That has not happened for any weight loss indication in Ireland yet.

Strength changes during titration. Moving from a starting dose to a maintenance dose usually changes the pack you buy and therefore the price. Budgeting from the starting price understates the real cost.

Pack format. Multi-pen packs cost less per pen than singles. Saxenda drops from €149.99 for one pen to €106.00 per pen in a five-pack, which is a 29% difference for the same medicine.

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