How to pay the least
Lowest price
$4 for 30 tablets
Generic folic acid 1 mg at Walmart
- Ask your prescriber to send the prescription to your nearest Walmart. Or ask the store’s pharmacy to transfer it from your pharmacy.Find the nearest store
- Ask for generic folic acid 1 mg. Walmart’s posted price: $4 for 30 tablets.See Walmart’s price list
Rather have it mailed? $5.38 for 30 tablets, plus $5.25 shipping from Cost Plus Drugs, by mail. Make a free account there, and have the prescription sent there.
Open Cost Plus DrugsFor 3 months at a time $10 for 90 tablets at Walmart. Ask your prescriber to write it for 90 days.
See Walmart’s price listEvery company’s folic acid is rated by the FDA to work the same, so any pharmacy can fill your prescription with the one it stocks.
Regular genericWhere to buy it
Pharmacies’ own cash prices for generic folic acid, lowest first. Any of them can fill your prescription.
Pick up in storeDelivered
- Pick up in store: Costco $10.99for 90 tablets1 mgMembers only · $65 a yearFind the nearest store
- Pick up in store: Food City $4for 30 tablets1 mg60 tablets: $8 · 90 tablets: $9.99Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, AlabamaFind the nearest store
- Pick up in store: Hy-Vee $4for 30 tablets1 mg90 tablets: $10Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, WisconsinFind the nearest store
- Pick up in store: Walmart $4for 30 tablets1 mg90 tablets: $10Not in North DakotaFind the nearest store
- Delivered: Costco $13.98for 90 tablets1 mgMembers only · $65 a year · Plus shipping
- Delivered: Cost Plus Drugs $5.38for 30 tablets1 mgPlus $5.25 shipping
- Delivered: Marley Drug $37for a 6-month supplyNot every strength is on its list12-month supply: $70Shipping included
- Pick up in store: Team Cuban Card $13.78for 30 tablets1 mgFree card · Kroger, Albertsons, Safeway, Meijer and many local pharmaciesFind a pharmacy that takes it
- Pick up in store: Sam's Club See its pricePlus members only · $120 a yearFind the nearest store
From each pharmacy’s own site, read October 5, 2026. Confirm the price before you fill. Prices change, can differ by store and state, and may depend on the strength and how many you take. With insurance, ask what your plan charges; it can be less.
Regular genericWho makes it
8 companies sell folic acid in this form, each one rated by the FDA as a substitute for the others. 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.
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Amneal Pharmaceuticals1 mg
Packages and NDCs
1 mg
Package NDC Bottle of 100 53746-361-01 Bottle of 1000 53746-361-10 1 mg
Package NDC Bottle of 10 65162-361-01 Bottle of 100 65162-361-10 Bottle of 500 65162-361-50 Bottle of 1000 65162-361-11 -
Chartwell RX1 mg
Packages and NDCs
1 mg
Package NDC Bottle of 90 62135-210-90 Bottle of 100 62135-210-01 Bottle of 500 62135-210-05 Bottle of 1000 62135-210-10 Bottle of 1800 62135-210-72 Bottle of 3000 62135-210-97 -
Leading Pharma1 mg
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Method Pharmaceuticals1 mg
Made by Rising Pharma Holdings
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Modavar Pharmaceuticals1 mg
Made by Cadila Pharmaceuticals
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Quagen Pharmaceuticals1 mg
Made by AiPing Pharmaceutical
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Rising Pharma Holdings1 mg
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Sunrise Pharmaceutical1 mg
Made by Nuvo Phamaceuticals
Packages and NDCs
1 mg
Package NDC Bottle of 90 11534-165-90 Bottle of 100 11534-165-01 Bottle of 1000 11534-165-03
Who sells it: FDA and Medicaid records, updated weekly. Each maker’s page, card and program is from its own site.
What to say at the pharmacy
“Before you fill it, what would I pay for generic folic acid?”
Paying cash? Ask for the cash price. With insurance, ask what your plan charges.
Good to know
- Different companies’ folic acid can look different. The FDA requires each to work the same way.
- Don’t stop or change a medicine without talking to your pharmacist or prescriber.