Halaven is given by a doctor or nurse and billed by the clinic, not a pharmacy. Your care team and your insurance decide which product you get, so ask them what you’d pay.

How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Given by your care team

Billed by the clinic

Halaven is given by a doctor or nurse, not picked up at a pharmacy.

  1. Ask your care team or your plan what you’d pay before your visit.

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameHalaven
Authorized genericeribulin
Regular genericeribulin
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the highest price
Not soldThere isn’t one
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the lowest
Same as Halaven?
The original
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Same active ingredientFillers and dyes can differ

Brand nameThe maker’s card

HALAVEN $0 Co-Pay Program

Savings card from Eisai

No insuranceNeeds insuranceNo cash price listed.
Insurance · as little as $0 a month

The card takes up to $18,000 a year off your co-pay.

Sign up on halaven.com 

Or call 1-855-347-2448.

In the maker’s words

“Eligible commercially insured patients may pay as little as $0 per month, with an annual limit of $18,000.”

From the maker’s offer on halaven.com, checked November 2, 2026. Co-pay cards can’t be used with Medicare (including Medicare Advantage), Medicaid, TRICARE or VA.

Authorized genericNot sold

There isn’t one. An authorized generic is Halaven itself, from the same company, sold without the brand name, and usually for less. A regular generic is sold, with the same active ingredient: ask the pharmacy for its price.

See the regular generic →

Regular genericWho makes it

11 companies sell an FDA-rated generic of Halaven. It’s given by your care team, who choose which one to use.

  • ApotexInjection 0.5 mg/mL

    Made by Gland Pharma

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL60505-6289-0

    Inactive ingredients: alcohol, hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, water

    FDA label

  • Baxter HealthcareInjection 0.5 mg/mL
    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL10019-080-01

    Inactive ingredients: alcohol, water, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

  • BluePoint LaboratoriesSolution 0.5 mg/mL

    Made by Long Grove Pharmaceuticals

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL68001-656-41

    Inactive ingredients: water, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid, alcohol

    FDA label

  • Dr. Reddy’s LaboratoriesInjection 0.5 mg/mL
    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL43598-125-11

    Inactive ingredients: alcohol, water, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

  • Glenmark PharmaceuticalsInjection 0.5 mg/mL

    Product page on glenmarkpharma-us.com

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL68462-770-20

    Inactive ingredients: alcohol, water, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

  • Hikma PharmaceuticalsInjection 0.5 mg/mL

    Made by Jiangxi Kvvit Pharmaceutical

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL0143-9167-01

    Inactive ingredients: alcohol, water, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

  • Long Grove PharmaceuticalsSolution 0.5 mg/mL

    Product page on longgrovepharma.com

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL81298-3890-1

    Inactive ingredients: alcohol, water, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

  • NorthStar RxSolution 0.5 mg/mL

    Made by Long Grove Pharmaceuticals

    Product page on northstarrxllc.com

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL72603-368-01

    Inactive ingredients: alcohol, water, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

  • SandozInjection 0.5 mg/mL
    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL0781-3391-94

    Inactive ingredients: alcohol, water, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

  • Sun Pharmaceutical IndustriesInjection 0.5 mg/mL

    Made by Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL70095-080-01

    Inactive ingredients: alcohol, water, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

  • XGen Pharmaceuticals DJBInjection 0.5 mg/mL

    Product page on xgenpharmadjb.com

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.5 mg/mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 2 mL39822-2080-1

    Inactive ingredients: alcohol, water, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

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

HALAVEN is a microtubule inhibitor indicated for the treatment of patients with:

  • Metastatic breast cancer who have previously received at least two chemotherapeutic regimens for the treatment of metastatic disease. Prior therapy should have included an anthracycline and a taxane in either the adjuvant or metastatic setting.
  • Unresectable or metastatic liposarcoma who have received a prior anthracycline-containing regimen.

Source: the FDA label for Halaven (Eisai Inc.), November 7, 2025. Full label on DailyMed 

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