Is the semaglutide a shot or a tablet, and does the price say?

The question is not rhetorical: semaglutide is sold in both forms

Semaglutide is prescribed both as an injection and as something swallowed. The two prescribing-information documents this site cites are listed at the foot of this page, and one of them carries both forms in its own title — the same brand name, an injection and a tablet, in a single record. So “is this a shot?” is a question a semaglutide price page can answer either way, and a reader has no way to guess which from the number.

That makes the form part of what a price means. A figure that buys a weekly injection and a figure that buys a daily tablet are not the same purchase, whatever the two numbers are, and the difference does not show up in a dollar sign.

How often the form is named beside the price

97 of the 281 sellers named one form and not the other, which is what a catalogue with a single product looks like. 23 named both across different figures, which is what a catalogue with a choice in it looks like — and on those pages the form is part of what the price is for, in the seller’s own layout.

The words themselves, and why they are printed rather than translated

52 distinct spellings appear across the 233 figures. They are not a vocabulary anybody agreed on. The table keeps each one exactly as it was printed, including its capitals, because normalising them would be this site deciding that two sellers meant the same thing.

Three of them are worth reading slowly. One seller’s word for the form is “Injection-Free” — the product named by what it is not. One is “How often do I inject?”, which is a heading on a list of questions, not a product name at all. One is “DOSE / INJ”, which is a column heading in a table. Each of those told a reader what form the thing is; none of them was written to.

22 of the 52 spellings were filed as something injected and 30 as something taken by mouth. The spread on both sides is the finding: this is a market where the same fact about the same molecule is written 52 different ways on the page where the price is.

Which seller printed which word

The table below pairs each seller with each word it printed. A seller that printed the same word beside six figures appears once for that word, and a seller that printed two different words appears twice.

What to do with this at the point of buying

Read the form off the product, not off the price. If the page names it beside the figure, the question is answered. If it does not, it is a question for the intake or the prescriber rather than something to infer from a number, and the answer changes what the number is buying.

What kind of number a published price is at all is on why two semaglutide prices are usually not comparable. What the figure is said to cover — the drug, the consultation, the pharmacy that fills it — is on what a semaglutide price actually includes. The 95 sellers whose figures this site publishes as prices are on the review index, and who pays this site is on the disclosure page.