How to pay the least
From
$9 for 30 tablets
Generic minoxidil at Walmart. Pick the strength on your label above for its own price.
- 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 minoxidil. Walmart’s posted price: from $9 for 30 tablets.See Walmart’s price list
Rather have it mailed? From $6.10 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 DrugsEvery company’s minoxidil 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 minoxidil, lowest first. Any of them can fill your prescription.
Pick up in storeDelivered
- Delivered: Cost Plus Drugs from $6.10for 30 tablets2.5 mg $6.10 · 10 mg $6.67Plus $5.25 shipping
- Delivered: Amazon Pharmacy $7.40for 30 tablets2.5 mg, 10 mgPrime members only · $139 a year · Free delivery
- Pick up in store: Walmart $9for 30 tablets10 mg90 tablets: $24Not in North DakotaFind the nearest store
- Pick up in store: Costco $10.99for 30 tablets2.5 mgMembers only · $65 a yearFind the nearest store
- Delivered: Costco $13.98for 30 tablets2.5 mgMembers only · $65 a year · Plus shipping
- Pick up in store: Team Cuban Card from $13.99for 30 tablets2.5 mg $13.99 · 10 mg $14.48Free 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
3 companies sell minoxidil 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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Actavis Pharma2.5 mg, 10 mg
Made by Watson Laboratories
Packages and NDCs
2.5 mg
Package NDC Bottle of 100 0591-5642-01 Bottle of 500 0591-5642-05 10 mg
Package NDC Bottle of 100 0591-5643-01 Bottle of 500 0591-5643-05 -
Par Health2.5 mg, 10 mg
Made by PH Health
Packages and NDCs
2.5 mg
Package NDC Bottle of 100 49884-256-01 10 mg
Package NDC Bottle of 100 49884-257-01 Bottle of 500 49884-257-05 -
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries2.5 mg, 10 mg
Packages and NDCs
2.5 mg
Package NDC Bottle of 100 53489-386-01 Bottle of 250 53489-386-03 Bottle of 500 53489-386-05 Bottle of 1000 53489-386-10 10 mg
Package NDC Bottle of 100 53489-387-01 Bottle of 250 53489-387-03 Bottle of 500 53489-387-05 Bottle of 1000 53489-387-10
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 minoxidil?”
Paying cash? Ask for the cash price. With insurance, ask what your plan charges.
Good to know
- Different companies’ minoxidil 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.