Wakix savings card: as little as $0 a prescription with commercial insurance

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Wakix

The FDA has approved a generic, but it isn’t in pharmacies yet.

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

Compare every option

Brand nameWakix

Authorized genericpitolisant

Regular genericpitolisant

What you’d pay

Cash priceAsk the pharmacy

Not soldThere isn’t one

Not soldNot in stores yet

Same as Wakix?

The original

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Brand nameThe maker’s card

WAKIX Copay Program (WAKIX for You)

Savings card from Harmony Biosciences

No insuranceNeeds insuranceNo cash price listed.

Insurance · as little as $0 a prescription

In the maker’s words

“You may be eligible to pay as little as a $0 copay on your WAKIX prescription with the WAKIX for You Program…”

From the maker’s offer on wakix.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 Wakix itself, from the same company, sold without the brand name, and usually for less. For now Wakix is the only choice; its maker’s savings card can lower what you pay.

See the brand name →

Regular genericNot sold

The FDA has approved a generic, but it isn’t in pharmacies 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

WAKIX is a histamine-3 (H3) receptor antagonist/inverse agonist indicated for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) or cataplexy patients 6 years of age and older with narcolepsy

Source: the FDA label for Wakix (Harmony Biosciences, LLC), February 13, 2026. Full label on DailyMed

Good to know

“Commercial insurance” means a plan from a job, from the marketplace, or one you buy yourself. A retiree plan that’s part of Medicare counts as Medicare. Co-pay cards can’t be used with Medicare (including Medicare Advantage), Medicaid, TRICARE or VA.
Most cards need a sign-up on the maker’s site, and many work only if your plan covers the drug. Then give the card’s details to your pharmacy.
Don’t stop or change a medicine without talking to your pharmacist or prescriber.

Prices checked November 2, 2026. Prices change: confirm with the pharmacy before you fill. drugalt.com/drug/wakix/