How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Cash price

$4,500+ for 30 tablets

Pharmacies pay about this for Stribild; you’d pay more.

  1. Ask your pharmacy for Stribild’s cash price, and one or two other pharmacies too.
  2. Stribild’s savings card works only with insurance from a job or one you bought.

Free from the maker, if you qualify Advancing Access Patient Assistance Program/Medication Assistance Program (PAP/MAP). Or call 1-800-226-2056.

See if you qualify 

No generic is sold yet.

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameStribild
Authorized genericelvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine, and tenofovir disoproxil
Regular genericelvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine, and tenofovir disoproxil
What you’d pay
At least$4,500for 30 tablets; pharmacies pay this
Not soldThere isn’t one
Not soldNone sold yet
Same as Stribild?
The original
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Brand nameThe maker’s card

Gilead Advancing Access Co-pay Savings Program

Savings card from Gilead Sciences

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

Sign up on gilead.com 

Or call 1-866-664-5327.

In the maker’s words

“Eligible patients could pay as little as $0 per month.”

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

Maker’s card or discount card?

A discount card like GoodRx lowers the pharmacy’s cash price, but for a brand-name drug that price often stays high. Compare it with the maker’s card above. You can usually use one or the other on a fill, not both.

Authorized genericNot sold

There isn’t one. An authorized generic is Stribild itself, from the same company, sold without the brand name, and usually for less. For now Stribild is the only choice; its maker’s savings card can lower what you pay.

See the brand name →

Regular genericNot sold

No generic is sold yet. Generics usually come once the brand’s patents and exclusivity end. Until then, the maker’s savings card is the way to pay less.

See the brand name →

What it’s used for

What the FDA label says

STRIBILD is a four-drug combination of elvitegravir, an HIV integrase strand transfer inhibitor (HIV-1 INSTI), cobicistat, a CYP3A inhibitor, and emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), both HIV nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors (HIV NRTI) and is indicated as a complete regimen for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older weighing at least 35 kg who have no antiretroviral treatment history or to replace the current antiretroviral regimen in those who are virologically suppressed (HIV-1 RNA less than 50 copies/mL) on a stable antiretroviral regimen for at least 6 months with no history of treatment failure and no known substitutions associated with resistance to the individual components of STRIBILD.

Source: the FDA label for Stribild (Gilead Sciences, Inc.), February 4, 2025. Full label on DailyMed 

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