IV Therapy Cost by Drip Type: 2026
Signal Hill Strategies collected 1,048 posted prices from the online menus of 85 IV bars, wellness clinics, and mobile IV services across 20 large US metros on November 2, 2026. Together they show what a hydration, vitamin, or NAD+ drip costs in the fourth quarter of 2026, and how city, dose, and service model move that price.
Key Findings
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IV drips are now sold from storefront lounges, med spas, and nurses who travel to patients' homes. In October 2021, the FDA warned that IV hydration clinics, medical spas, and mobile IV infusion services were doing sterile compounding, such as adding vitamins to IV infusion bags, and said that "the number of these entities and the compounding practices occurring at these entities are not fully understood." In August 2024, the California State Board of Pharmacy said IV hydration clinics "are generally unregulated in California." No agency tracks what these drips cost. Each business sets its own menu, so the posted menu is the only public price record a patient can check.
Our analysts recorded only prices printed on each business's own website, kept regular prices apart from membership rates, and sorted every drip into one of seven types: hydration, Myers' Cocktail, hangover and recovery, immunity, energy, beauty, and NAD+. Because some businesses sell several drips of the same type, we took each business's median price within a type first, then the median across businesses, so a long menu counts no more than a short one.
In the following sections, we compare IV drip prices by drip type, by metro, by NAD+ dose, and by whether a business treats patients in a clinic, at home, or both.
IV Drip Prices by Type, From Hydration to NAD+
Most IV menus are built around the same handful of drips, even when the names are branded. Sorting them into common types makes menus from different cities comparable.
Posted IV Drip Prices by Drip Type (November 2026)
Drip type | Businesses | Median | Middle 50% | Lowest | Highest |
Hydration | 61 | $150 | $100 to $199 | $50 | $449 |
Energy | 53 | $224 | $184 to $269 | $115 | $595 |
Myers' Cocktail | 59 | $235 | $180 to $275 | $125 | $349 |
Hangover and recovery | 74 | $238 | $199 to $299 | $125 | $595 |
Immunity | 76 | $240 | $189 to $299 | $99 | $595 |
Beauty | 63 | $248 | $199 to $289 | $160 | $499 |
NAD+ (all doses) | 50 | $549 | $374 to $673 | $100 | $814 |
Source: Signal Hill Strategies analysis of 85 IV therapy business pricing pages in 20 US metros, accessed November 2, 2026
Source: Signal Hill Strategies analysis of 85 IV therapy business pricing pages in 20 US metros, accessed November 2, 2026
Key Findings
A basic hydration drip, which is mostly saline with few or no added vitamins, cost $100 to $199 at the middle half of the 61 businesses that listed one. The six vitamin-based drip types sat close together, with medians from $224 for energy drips to $248 for beauty drips.
NAD+ stood apart, with a median of $549 across all doses at 50 businesses. That is more than twice the median for any vitamin drip type in our data.
Add-ons raise the bill in smaller steps. The median add-on price was $30 for a vitamin B12 shot, Zofran, or Toradol and $40 for glutathione, so for a patient the drip type sets most of the cost, and that is likely to hold while menus price extras this way.
IV Drip Prices in 20 Large US Metros
Prices change from city to city, sometimes by more than a shopper might expect for the same drip. The table ranks each metro by the typical price of a standard drip.
Standard IV Drip Prices by Metro (November 2026)
Metro | Businesses | Median drip price | Lowest posted drip | Highest posted drip |
San Francisco Bay Area | 4 | $300 | $145 | $650 |
New York City | 4 | $293 | $150 | $595 |
Miami | 4 | $285 | $119 | $385 |
Chicago | 5 | $263 | $99 | $349 |
Dallas | 4 | $259 | $110 | $349 |
Los Angeles | 4 | $247 | $149 | $549 |
Tampa | 5 | $247 | $99 | $300 |
Las Vegas | 4 | $246 | $89 | $375 |
Nashville | 4 | $237 | $75 | $375 |
Washington DC | 4 | $225 | $124 | $275 |
Houston | 4 | $225 | $70 | $385 |
Seattle | 5 | $224 | $99 | $399 |
Philadelphia | 4 | $224 | $70 | $399 |
Phoenix/Scottsdale | 4 | $215 | $94 | $345 |
Denver | 4 | $201 | $75 | $435 |
San Diego | 5 | $199 | $50 | $300 |
Boston | 4 | $195 | $89 | $279 |
Atlanta | 4 | $189 | $85 | $379 |
Austin | 4 | $182 | $89 | $319 |
Charlotte | 4 | $179 | $109 | $362 |
Source: Signal Hill Strategies analysis of 85 IV therapy business pricing pages in 20 US metros, accessed November 2, 2026
Source: Signal Hill Strategies analysis of 85 IV therapy business pricing pages in 20 US metros, accessed November 2, 2026
Key Findings
New York City and Miami followed the Bay Area, with medians of $293 and $285. Both cities also had businesses posting standard drips at $385 or more.
Boston had a median of $195, below Phoenix/Scottsdale at $215 and Denver at $201, and closer to Atlanta at $189 than to New York City.
In every metro, the gap between the lowest and highest posted standard drip was wider than the gap between the highest and lowest metro medians. For a patient, comparing three or four menus in one city can save more than moving between cities would, and that is likely to stay true while most businesses set prices on their own.
NAD+ IV Drip Prices by Dose
NAD+ drips are sold by dose, most often in steps of 250 milligrams. That makes the menu price depend on how much a patient buys as well as where.
Posted NAD+ Drip Prices by Dose (November 2026)
Dose | Businesses | Median price | Lowest | Highest | Median per 100 mg |
250 mg | 15 | $379 | $188 | $629 | $152 |
500 mg | 27 | $599 | $350 | $1,000 | $120 |
750 mg | 11 | $725 | $550 | $870 | $97 |
1,000 mg | 10 | $899 | $699 | $1,600 | $90 |
Source: Signal Hill Strategies analysis of 85 IV therapy business pricing pages in 20 US metros, accessed November 2, 2026
Source: Signal Hill Strategies analysis of 85 IV therapy business pricing pages in 20 US metros, accessed November 2, 2026
Key Findings
A 250 mg drip had a median price of $379, or $152 per 100 mg. At 1,000 mg, the median of $899 works out to $90 per 100 mg.
Prices at the same dose varied widely. At 1,000 mg, posted prices ran from $699 to $1,600, a spread larger than the median price itself.
Only 32 of the 50 businesses that sold NAD+ printed a dose next to the price. A lower menu price can simply mean a smaller dose, so price per 100 mg gives patients a fairer comparison, and that will likely stay useful while doses vary this much.
Mobile IV Therapy Prices Compared With In-Clinic Drips
Some IV businesses treat patients in their own space, some send a nurse to a home or hotel, and some do both. Each model carries different costs, and the menus reflect them.
Standard Drip Prices by Service Model (November 2026)
Service model | Businesses | Hydration | Myers' Cocktail | All standard drips |
In-clinic only | 30 | $149 | $229 | $209 |
In-clinic and mobile | 28 | $114 | $190 | $195 |
Mobile only | 26 | $199 | $279 | $282 |
Source: Signal Hill Strategies analysis of 85 IV therapy business pricing pages in 20 US metros, accessed November 2, 2026
Source: Signal Hill Strategies analysis of 85 IV therapy business pricing pages in 20 US metros, accessed November 2, 2026
Key Findings
Businesses that offered both clinic and mobile visits posted medians of $114 for hydration and $190 for a Myers' Cocktail. Mobile-only services posted $199 and $279 for the same drips.
Of the 54 businesses offering mobile visits, 10 posted a separate travel fee, from $25 to $199 with a median of $87.50, and 6 stated that they charge no travel fee.
Fifteen businesses posted member prices next to individual drips, which cut standard drip prices by a median of 26.9%. Five of the 15 were Restore Hyper Wellness locations, so the figure leans toward one chain. For patients who plan regular drips, a discount of that size adds up over several visits.
For patients, the drip they choose and the way it is delivered set most of the price. A clinic hydration drip and a large NAD+ session in the same city can differ by several hundred dollars.
IV drips are now sold much like spa services, with prices printed next to branded drip names. Regulators in California and at the FDA have questioned how some of these businesses prepare their bags, and the posted menu remains the clearest public record of what the service costs.
So if you are pricing an IV drip, compare the drip type and dose first, then the city and service model.
Sources
Signal Hill Strategies analysis of posted IV drip and add-on prices on the websites of 85 IV therapy businesses in 20 US metro areas, conducted November 2, 2026
California State Board of Pharmacy, Intravenous Hydration Policy
Methodology
We searched for IV therapy businesses in 20 large US metro areas and kept 85 whose own websites posted dollar prices for named drips, with four or five businesses per metro. Directory and deal sites were used only to find business websites, never for prices.
Each drip was assigned to one type: hydration, Myers' Cocktail, hangover and recovery, immunity, energy, beauty, or NAD+. Weight loss, migraine, iron, and other specialty drips were recorded but left out of the type, metro, and service model figures.
Where a page printed a starting price or a price range, we recorded the lowest printed price. Where a page printed member and regular prices, we used the regular price and recorded the member price separately. Prices listed per month were excluded.
Medians were taken in two steps: first within each business and drip type, then across businesses. A metro's median drip price is the median of each business's median standard drip price, and the lowest and highest columns are single posted prices. Metro and service model counts include only businesses that posted a standard drip price.
Service model follows each business's website: in-clinic only, mobile only, or both. NAD+ dose figures include only drips with a stated milligram dose, and price per 100 mg divides the median price at each dose by that dose.
Derived figures, including medians, percentiles, prices per 100 mg, travel fee medians, and membership discount percentages, were calculated from these data.
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