NEURONTIN: what pharmacies pay, and what that tells you

Acquisition cost from CMS NADAC, 2026-07-22. Updated .

BrandPrescriptionwide price spread216.1x its generic

NEURONTIN costs a pharmacy a median of $8.87 per unit. Its generic equivalent costs $0.0410, which makes the brand 216.1 times the price of the same molecule. That is what the pharmacy pays to acquire it. It is not your price: a dispensing fee and margin sit between this number and your receipt.

$8.87median acquisition cost per unit
78%of priced drugs cost less than this one
269listed products, more than 80% of the corpus
5.7xspread from the cheapest tenth to the dearest

This one genuinely varies between pharmacies

Most drugs are bought at close to a single price. NEURONTIN is not: between the cheapest tenth of listings and the dearest, it varies by 5.7 times. That is the unusual case where calling two pharmacies can change what you pay, and it outranks every other consideration on this page.

Where it sits against every other priced drug

Acquisition cost percentile, 3,439 priced products

NEURONTIN · 78%
cheapestdearest

This sits in the middle of the corpus, the range where where-you-fill-it genuinely changes the total.

The brand and the generic, side by side

Acquisition cost per unit, CMS's own correspondence

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generic

$8.87 against $0.0410. The generic bar is drawn to scale, which is why it is barely visible at 216.1x. CMS publishes this correspondence per product, so it is a comparison of the same thing rather than a match on names.

What the spread tells you about shopping around

Between the cheapest tenth of listings and the dearest tenth, NEURONTIN varies by 5.7 times. That is a wide band, and it means the same product genuinely costs different pharmacies different amounts. It is one of the cases where calling around can change the number.

A note on the 30-unit figure. Thirty units of NEURONTIN would cost a pharmacy about $266.02. That is a comparison basis, not a prescription quantity and not a monthly cost: it assumes one unit at a time and says nothing about how this drug is actually dosed.

What this page is, and is not

Every figure here is CMS NADAC, the federal survey of what retail pharmacies pay to acquire a drug. It is public-domain federal data and it is the cleanest available floor. It excludes your dispensing fee, your pharmacy's margin, your insurance design and any discount-card pricing, all of which sit between this number and what you hand over. Nothing here is medical advice.

Source: CMS NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, dataset generated 2026-07-22. See how NEURONTIN compares across 385 brand and generic pairs, or look up another drug in our price tools.