Epitalon
A pineal tetrapeptide famous in longevity and telomere research — the flagship 'anti-aging' peptide.
Get told when a price moves or a lab test changes.
Observed median price
$92
Every observation
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Median of 14 listings' 30-day changes; 27 excluded for insufficient history.
40
Active listings
8 · 99.0%
Independent lab tests
$23–$1,584
Observed price range
4
Known aliases
Read from the certificate, not re-measured by VialGrade. Purity is not a grade. Purity vs grade
Understand this compound
What is Epitalon?
Preclinical / animal onlya.k.a. Epithalon, EpithaloneA tiny lab-made molecule modeled on a pineal-gland extract, famous in longevity circles for cell-dish results on telomeres — the protective caps on chromosomes that shorten with age.
Good to know: The telomerase-activation findings come from human cells in culture, not living human subjects, so whether this translates to any in-vivo anti-aging effect is unproven.
How does Epitalon work?
The science
A synthetic tetrapeptide (Ala-Glu-Asp-Gly) modeled on a bovine pineal gland extract, proposed to activate telomerase expression and modulate neuroendocrine/pineal signaling.
Mechanism of action from published research — how the molecule behaves, not a claim about any product or any human-use effect.
What is Epitalon researched for?
Studied for cellular senescence, telomere biology, and general geroprotection.
- Longevity & anti-agingStudied in aging, cellular-senescence, and mitochondrial-function research.
How far has the research gone?
Preclinical / animal research — human data are limited to isolated cell-culture work (e.g., telomerase upregulation in fetal fibroblasts) and small, non-Western-standard Russian studies; no controlled human aging-outcome trials exist.
Where the science stands — an approved drug is not the same as the research-grade material a vendor sells, which is unregulated regardless.
What should I check before buying?
- Independent purity. Look for a third-party COA (Janoshik or MZ) showing a measured purity — not just a number the vendor typed.
- Batch match. The strongest evidence is a certificate for the exact batch you’ll receive, attributed to this vendor — check the cross-verification on the listing.
- Vendor reputation. See how the vendor is talked about in the community before trusting a new name.
Research context only — VialGrade never gives dosing, medical, or human-use guidance.
Current market
The Epitalon market
Every Epitalon listing we track — 40 in all. The standout picks first where the evidence supports them, then the full table, ranked by what a milligram really costs wherever the vendor published a strength we can read.
Open full marketEpitalon 20mg Peptide 20mg
Nootropic SourceC-
$35$1.75/mg-34% vs median
Lowest price per mg that isn't flagged as suspiciously cheap.
In stockChecked 10 hours ago
Epitalon 100mg Peptide 100mg
Nootropic SourceC-
$100$1.00/mg-62% vs median
Lowest real cost per active mg — price divided by measured purity.
In stockChecked 10 hours ago
Epithalon 50mg · 10-vial kit
Chameleon PeptidesA
$964$1.93/mg-28% vs median
Independently tested at 99.4%.
UnavailableChecked 27 days ago
N-Acetyl Epithalon 100mg
Behemoth LabzC
$113$1.13/mg-58% vs median
The most recently re-verified listing on this market.
UnavailableChecked 9 hours ago
N-Acetyl Epithalon Amidate N-Acetyl Epithalon Peptide · 100mg
PureRawzC-
$190$1.90/mg-29% vs median
Ranked #4 of 34 listings by price per milligram.
In stockChecked 11 days ago
Compare by real cost
Every Epitalon listing, cheapest per mg first
Sticker prices hide the size, so listings are ranked by what a milligram actually costs — with independently tested purity where it exists. All 40 are here: the last 6 are listings whose vendor never published a strength we can read, so they have no per-mg figure to sort on.
| # | Vendor | Size | Price | Per mg | Tested purity | Real $/active mg | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nootropic Source | 100mg total | $100 | $1.00/mg · too cheap? | — | $1.01/mgbest value | View |
| 2 | Behemoth LabzUnavailable | 100mg total | $113 | $1.13/mg · too cheap? | — | $1.14/mg | View |
| 3 | Nootropic Source | 20mg total | $35 | $1.75/mg | — | $1.77/mg | View |
| 4 | Purerawz | 100mg total | $190 | $1.90/mg | — | $1.92/mg | View |
| 5 | Chameleon PeptidesUnavailable | 500mg total50mg · 10-vial kit each | $964 | $1.93/mg | 99.4% | $1.94/mg | View |
| 6 | Chameleon PeptidesUnavailable | 100mg total10mg · 10-vial kit each | $210 | $2.10/mg | 99.4% | $2.11/mg | View |
| 7 | Chameleon Peptides | 250mg total50mg · 5-vial pack each | $536 | $2.14/mg | 99.4% | $2.15/mg | View |
| 8 | Umbrella Labs | 30mg total500MCG each | $65 | $2.17/mg | — | $2.19/mg | View |
| 9 | Modern Aminos | 50mg total | $109 | $2.18/mg | — | $2.20/mg | View |
| 10 | Chameleon Peptides | 50mg total | $113 | $2.27/mg | 99.4% | $2.28/mg | View |
| 11 | Swiss Chems | 10mg total | $23 | $2.32/mg | — | $2.34/mg | View |
| 12 | Swiss Chems | 100mg totalKIT (10 vials) each | $232 | $2.32/mg | — | $2.34/mg | View |
| 13 | Ion PeptideUnavailable | 50mg total | $119 | $2.38/mg | — | $2.40/mg | View |
| 14 | Sports Technology Labs | 10mg total | $25 | $2.55/mg | 95.3% | $2.67/mg | View |
| 15 | Chameleon PeptidesUnavailable | 50mg total10mg · 5-vial pack each | $128 | $2.55/mg | 99.4% | $2.57/mg | View |
| 16 | Felix Chemical Supply | 50mg total | $130 | $2.60/mg | — | $2.63/mg | View |
| 17 | Bluum Peptides | 40mg total | $109 | $2.73/mg | — | $2.75/mg | View |
| 18 | Peptide Pros | 500mg total10mg/vial × 50 vials each | $1,584 | $3.17/mg | — | $3.20/mg | View |
| 19 | PurerawzUnavailable | 50mg total | $162 | $3.23/mg | — | $3.27/mg | View |
| 20 | Simple Peptide | 10mg total | $33 | $3.30/mg | — | $3.33/mg | View |
| 21 | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 100mg total10MG / 10 Vials each | $344 | $3.44/mg | — | $3.48/mg | View |
| 22 | Ion PeptideUnavailable | 10mg total | $35 | $3.50/mg | — | $3.54/mg | View |
| 23 | Core Peptides | 25mg total | $90 | $3.60/mg | — | $3.64/mg | View |
| 24 | Biotech Peptides | 25mg total | $94 | $3.76/mg | — | $3.80/mg | View |
| 25 | Ez Peptides | 10mg total | $38 | $3.80/mg | 99.3% | $3.83/mg | View |
| 26 | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 20mg total10MG / 2 Vials each | $77 | $3.85/mg | — | $3.89/mg | View |
| 27 | Modern Aminos | 10mg total | $40 | $4.00/mg | — | $4.04/mg | View |
| 28 | PurerawzUnavailable | 20mg total | $82 | $4.10/mg | — | $4.14/mg | View |
| 29 | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 10mg total | $45 | $4.50/mg | — | $4.55/mg | View |
| 30 | Bluum Peptides | 10mg total | $45 | $4.50/mg | — | $4.55/mg | View |
| 31 | Peptide Pros | 10mg total | $45 | $4.53/mg | — | $4.57/mg | View |
| 32 | Ascension PeptidesUnavailable | 10mg total | $50 | $5.00/mg | — | $5.05/mg | View |
| 33 | Umbrella Labs | 500mcg total | $36 | $72.0/mg | — | $72.7/mg | View |
| 34 | Simple Peptide | 1mg total | $110 | $110.0/mg | — | $111.2/mg | View |
| Listed, but not rankable — no published strength to price per mg | |||||||
| — | Chameleon PeptidesUnavailable | 1 vial | $30 | no size published | 99.4% | — | View |
| — | Eternal Peptides | 1 vial | $35 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Behemoth LabzUnavailable | 1 vial | $97 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Nootropic SourceUnavailable | 1 vial | $105 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Purerawz | 1 vial | $172 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Behemoth LabzUnavailable | 1mg per spray/100mg/10ml | $187 | no size published | — | — | View |
Real $/active mg divides the price-per-mg by the measured purity — the honest cost of the actual peptide, so a 90%-pure vial isn’t compared as if it were 99%. Too cheap? flags a listing far below the market rate — often underdosing or a fake, not a deal. The crown marks the cheapest non-outlier; best value marks the lowest real cost per active mg. A vendor shown as Unavailable or Low stock is priced here but not currently buyable.
Independent testing
Epitalon — independent lab tests
Real, publicly verifiable third-party tests. Purity is read from the certificate itself. A test reflects one lab’s result for one submitted batch — not a guarantee that every vial matches.
How does this data get here?
Every record below is a real certificate of analysis, gathered two ways: from the public verification feeds that independent labs (like Janoshik) publish, and from the certificates vendors post on their own product pages. We open each certificate document and read the measured purity, content, batch, and date directly off it — a scraper can’t read a number printed inside an image, so this is done by machine vision, then recorded here with a link back to the original.
Nothing here is typed in by a vendor or invented by us. Where a certificate is missing, we say so rather than filling the gap.
We re-check the lab feed, too. A “still listed” tag means the certificate is currently public in Janoshik’s database — we re-verify against the live feed and stamp the date. If a cert is later pulled, the tag flips. It’s a freshness check on the same source, not a second independent opinion.
What a certificate does & doesn’t prove
Three different questions. Purity (“how clean?”), identity (“is it the right molecule?”, a mass-spec test), and content (“did I get the labeled mg?”) are separate. A vial can be 99% pure and still be the wrong peptide, or the right peptide underdosed. We flag the measured dose against the label above; underdosing is the most common real fraud.
Who submitted the sample matters. Most of these are vendor-submitted — the seller chose which vial to send, so one good certificate doesn’t prove every batch is the same. The gold standard is a blind test, where a buyer sends a vial they bought as a normal customer. Same label doesn’t prove same product; same batch number doesn’t prove same batch.
99.6%
highest tested purity
| Certificate | Manufacturer | Batch | Purity | Content / dose | Lab | |
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| www.dcxpeptides.com | 4 | 99.62% | 65.59/50mg · | Janoshik Analytical Still listed | Verify | |
 | Chameleon Peptides | — | 99.41% | 10.61 mg | Janoshik Analytical | View |
| EZ Peptides | EZP-EPIT1006012026-10 | 99.27% | 10.95 mg; 11.01 mg; 10.93 mg | Janoshik Analytical | Verify | |
| PeptideGurus | 10th June 2026 | 98.65% | 90.83/100mg · full | Janoshik Analytical Still listed | Verify | |
| PeptideGurus | 10th June 2026 | 98.39% | 29.08/30mg · full | Janoshik Analytical Still listed | Verify | |
 | Sports Technology Labs | 2025-06-26 | 95.32% | — | MZ Biolabs | View |
| www.uwa- biotech.com | — | See report | — | Janoshik Analytical | Verify | |
| https://crystalpeptides.eu/Endotoxin | ET5088CP | See report | — | Janoshik Analytical Still listed | Verify |
Tested batches
Batch test records for Epitalon
The full test history for one batch — who picked the sample, who tested it, and what came back. It describes the vials that were tested, never every vial they sold.
What the research says
Scientific evidence & regulatory status
What the published literature actually shows about Epitalon — separate from any vendor’s marketing. Each finding links to its paper. This is education, not medical or dosing advice.
Regulatory status
No FDA-approved drug
Not FDA-approved; sold for research use only. FDA placed epitalon in category 2 (significant safety risks) for compounding over immunogenicity and peptide-impurity concerns and said it had identified no adequate human data; the nomination was later withdrawn. A related pineal extract, Epithalamin, has been used in Russia; neither is approved in the US or EU.
Honest overall read
Human evidence for epitalon/epithalamin comes almost entirely from older Russian studies of variable, generally low methodological quality, supported by in-vitro telomerase findings; no modern rigorous RCT confirms anti-aging or longevity benefits.
A long-term Russian observation of 266 elderly people reported that the pineal peptide Epithalamin was associated with roughly 1.6-1.8-fold lower mortality versus controls.
Older study with little reported detail on randomization, blinding, or controls; methodological quality is low, so the mortality claim should be treated with caution.
read the sourceIn cultured human fetal fibroblasts, Epithalon (epitalon) induced telomerase catalytic-subunit expression, telomerase activity, and telomere elongation.
Cell-culture result only; it demonstrates a mechanism, not a proven anti-aging benefit or safety profile in living people.
read the sourceCommonly researched together
Often stacked with Epitalon
Compounds the research community frequently discusses alongside Epitalon. Not a protocol or a recommendation — a starting point for what to read about next.
Research-use-only — not FDA-approved
Sold “for research use only,” this compound is not FDA-approved for human use and has not been evaluated for safety, purity, or sterility in people. It is generally not a scheduled controlled substance, so buying it as a research chemical is typically not itself a drug crime — but marketing or using it as a drug is not lawful, and it is not a dietary supplement.
General information, not legal or medical advice. VialGrade sells nothing and encourages no human use.
Research notes aren’t product proof
Research summaries describe published literature and market data only. They do not establish the identity, quality, safety, or legal status of any listed physical product.