WELLBUTRIN: what pharmacies pay, and what that tells you

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

BrandPrescriptiontight price spread90.4x its generic

WELLBUTRIN costs a pharmacy a median of $7.51 per unit. Its generic equivalent costs $0.0831, which makes the brand 90.4 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.

$7.51median acquisition cost per unit
76%of priced drugs cost less than this one
87listed products, more than 55% of the corpus
2.0xspread from the cheapest tenth to the dearest

A smaller gap, and still the lever worth pulling

WELLBUTRIN runs 90.4 times its generic equivalent. That is modest next to the extremes in this corpus and it is still the largest single change available on this drug, because its price is otherwise stable across pharmacies.

Where it sits against every other priced drug

Acquisition cost percentile, 3,439 priced products

WELLBUTRIN · 76%
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

$7.51 against $0.0831. The generic bar is drawn to scale, which is why it is barely visible at 90.4x. 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, WELLBUTRIN varies by 2.0 times. That is a tight band. Pharmacies are buying it at close to the same price, so a difference in what you are charged is a difference in fees and margin rather than in the drug.

Documented interactions

Interaction data is informational and not a substitute for your pharmacist, who can see your full list.

A note on the 30-unit figure. Thirty units of WELLBUTRIN would cost a pharmacy about $225.43. 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 WELLBUTRIN compares across 385 brand and generic pairs, or look up another drug in our price tools.