Clindagel

Generic name: clindamycin

Used for: Acne

How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Generic clindamycin

No pharmacy we check posts a price for it.

  1. Ask your pharmacy for the cash price of generic clindamycin.Find pharmacies near you 
  2. Ask one or two other pharmacies too. Cash prices for the same generic can differ a lot from store to store.

A regular generic has the same active ingredient as Clindagel, and the FDA requires it to work the same way.

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameClindagel
Authorized genericclindamycin
Regular genericclindamycin
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the highest price
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyOften less than Clindagel
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the lowest
Same as Clindagel?
The original
Same medicine
Same active ingredientFillers and dyes can differ

Brand nameNo maker’s card

We didn’t find a savings card or cash price from Clindagel’s maker. Ask the pharmacy for Clindagel’s cash price. With insurance, ask what your plan charges.

Authorized genericThe NDC to ask for

The same medicine as Clindagel, without the brand name. Give the pharmacy its NDC to get it.

clindamycin

Sold by
  • Oceanside PharmaceuticalsPart of Bausch Health, the company behind Clindagel
NDC to ask for
  • 1%gel
    • 68682-462-7511-digit: 68682-0462-7575 mL per bottle

Source: FDA, updated October 30, 2026

What to say at the pharmacy

“Before you fill my Clindagel, can you tell me what I’d pay for the brand, for the authorized generic from Oceanside Pharmaceuticals (NDC 68682-462-75), and for a regular generic?”

Paying cash? Ask for each one’s cash price. With insurance, ask what your plan charges for each.

Brand and authorized generic labels

Official labels and ingredient lists from DailyMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine).

Same active and inactive ingredients as Clindagel.

BrandClindagel
Authorized genericOceanside Pharmaceuticals
See the ingredients

Active: clindamycin phosphate 1%

Inactive, on both labels:

  • Carbomer homopolymer type A
  • Methylparaben
  • Polyethylene glycol 400
  • Propylene glycol
  • Sodium hydroxide
  • Water

Regular genericWho makes it

2 companies sell a generic of Clindagel that the FDA rates a substitute. A pharmacy fills whichever one it stocks. To get a certain maker, ask for it by name; most pharmacies can order it in a day or two.

  • Amneal Pharmaceuticals1%
    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    1% Clear, colorless

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 75 mL69238-2031-7

    Inactive ingredients: propylene glycol, polyethylene glycol 400, methylparaben, carbomer homopolymer type a, sodium hydroxide, water

    FDA label

  • Solaris Pharma1 g/10 mL

    Product page on solaris-pharma.com

    Packages and NDCs

    1 g/10 mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 75 mL73473-302-75

    FDA label

The FDA doesn’t rate Alembic Pharmaceuticals, Encube Ethicals, Fougera Pharmaceuticals, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, NorthStar Rx, Padagis, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Viona Pharmaceuticals’s versions of clindamycin a substitute for Clindagel, so a pharmacy can’t swap them in without your prescriber’s OK.

Who sells it: FDA and Medicaid records, updated weekly. Each maker’s page, card and program is from its own site.

What it’s used for

What the FDA label says

CLINDAGEL is indicated for topical application in the treatment of acne vulgaris. In view of the potential for diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, and pseudomembranous colitis, the physician should consider whether other agents are more appropriate (see CONTRAINDICATIONS, WARNINGS, and ADVERSE REACTIONS).

Source: the FDA label for Clindagel (Bausch Health US, LLC), January 1, 2020. Full label on DailyMed 

Good to know

Prices change: confirm with the pharmacy before you fill. drugalt.com/drug/clindagel/