Ipamorelin
A gentle, selective growth-hormone secretagogue popular in GH research — the usual partner to CJC-1295.
Get told when a price moves or a lab test changes.
Observed median price
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Median of 11 listings' 30-day changes; 39 excluded for insufficient history.
46
Active listings
11 · 99.7%
Independent lab tests
$18–$451
Observed price range
3
Known aliases
Read from the certificate, not re-measured by VialGrade. Purity is not a grade. Purity vs grade
Understand this compound
What is Ipamorelin?
In clinical trialsThe 'polite' growth-hormone releaser: it prompts a clean pulse of your own growth hormone with little effect on stress hormones or hunger. That selectivity is why it's the usual partner to CJC-1295 in research.
Good to know: Human trials were early-phase and did not lead to an approved product; its selectivity is better substantiated than any long-term outcome data.
How does Ipamorelin work?
The science
A selective pentapeptide agonist of the ghrelin receptor (GHS-R1a); triggers pituitary GH release while largely sparing cortisol, prolactin, and ACTH compared with other GH-releasing peptides.
Mechanism of action from published research — how the molecule behaves, not a claim about any product or any human-use effect.
What is Ipamorelin researched for?
Studied, often alongside GHRH analogs like CJC-1295, for GH stimulation, recovery, and body-composition research.
- Growth hormone supportStudied for how it interacts with the body's own growth-hormone axis in research settings.
- Recovery & healingStudied in tissue-repair research — tendon, ligament, muscle, and wound-healing models.
How far has the research gone?
In clinical trials (early-phase, discontinued); Phase 1/2 studies were conducted by Novo Nordisk but it was never advanced to approval.
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 Ipamorelin market
Every Ipamorelin listing we track — 46 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 marketDrops – Ipamo | 30mg
Ion PeptideC
$99$3.30/mg-53% vs median
Lowest price per mg that isn't flagged as suspiciously cheap.
UnavailableChecked 3 days ago
Ipamorelin 5 mg
Sports Technology LabsA
$55$11.0/mg+57% vs median
Independently tested at 99.7%.
In stockChecked 9 hours ago
Ipamorelin 10MG
Cernum BiosciencesC-
$65$6.50/mg-7% vs median
The most recently re-verified listing on this market.
UnavailableChecked 8 hours ago
Ipamo 10mg
Ion PeptideC
$42$4.20/mg-40% vs median
Ranked #2 of 35 listings by price per milligram.
In stockChecked 9 hours ago
Ipamorelin 10mg
EZ PeptidesA
$44$4.40/mg-37% vs median
Ranked #3 of 35 listings by price per milligram.
In stockChecked 9 hours ago
Compare by real cost
Every Ipamorelin 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 46 are here: the last 11 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 | |
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| 1 | Ion PeptideUnavailable | 30mg total | $99 | $3.30/mg | — | $3.31/mgbest value | View |
| 2 | Ion Peptide | 10mg total | $42 | $4.20/mg | — | $4.21/mg | View |
| 3 | Ez Peptides | 10mg total | $44 | $4.40/mg | — | $4.41/mg | View |
| 4 | Chameleon PeptidesUnavailable | 100mg total10mg · 10-vial kit each | $451 | $4.51/mg | 99.5% | $4.54/mg | View |
| 5 | Felix Chemical Supply | 10mg total | $50 | $5.00/mg | — | $5.01/mg | View |
| 6 | Chameleon Peptides | 50mg total10mg · 5-vial pack each | $251 | $5.01/mg | 99.5% | $5.04/mg | View |
| 7 | Chameleon Peptides | 10mg total | $53 | $5.31/mg | 99.5% | $5.34/mg | View |
| 8 | Chameleon Peptides | 50mg total5mg · 10-vial kit each | $266 | $5.32/mg | 99.5% | $5.35/mg | View |
| 9 | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 30mg total3 Vials / 10MG each | $163 | $5.43/mg | 99.1% | $5.48/mg | View |
| 10 | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 20mg total2 Vials / 10MG each | $115 | $5.75/mg | 99.1% | $5.80/mg | View |
| 11 | Bluum Peptides | 10mg total | $59 | $5.90/mg | — | $5.92/mg | View |
| 12 | Modern AminosUnavailable | 10mg total | $64 | $6.40/mg | — | $6.42/mg | View |
| 13 | Chameleon Peptides | 25mg total5mg · 5-vial pack each | $162 | $6.46/mg | 99.5% | $6.49/mg | View |
| 14 | Nootropic SourceUnavailable | 10mg total | $65 | $6.50/mg | — | $6.51/mg | View |
| 15 | Cernum BiosciencesUnavailable | 10mg total | $65 | $6.50/mg | — | $6.52/mg | View |
| 16 | Simple Peptide | 10mg total | $65 | $6.50/mg | — | $6.52/mg | View |
| 17 | Nootropic Source | 5mg total | $35 | $6.99/mg | — | $7.01/mg | View |
| 18 | Ion Peptide | 5mg total | $35 | $7.00/mg | — | $7.02/mg | View |
| 19 | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 10mg total | $75 | $7.50/mg | 99.1% | $7.57/mg | View |
| 20 | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 10mg total | $75 | $7.50/mg | 99.1% | $7.57/mg | View |
| 21 | Core Peptides | 5mg total | $43 | $8.60/mg | — | $8.62/mg | View |
| 22 | Swiss Chems | 2mg total | $18 | $8.78/mg | — | $8.80/mg | View |
| 23 | Swiss ChemsUnavailable | 20mg totalKIT (10 vials) each | $176 | $8.78/mg | — | $8.80/mg | View |
| 24 | Felix Chemical SupplyUnavailable | 5mg total | $45 | $9.00/mg | — | $9.02/mg | View |
| 25 | Umbrella Labs | 10mg total10 Milligrams each | $90 | $9.00/mg | — | $9.02/mg | View |
| 26 | Biotech Peptides | 5mg total | $46 | $9.20/mg | — | $9.22/mg | View |
| 27 | Ascension PeptidesUnavailable | 5mg total | $50 | $10.0/mg | — | $10.0/mg | View |
| 28 | Umbrella Labs | 5mg total5 Milligrams each | $51 | $10.2/mg | — | $10.2/mg | View |
| 29 | Ez Peptides | 5mg total | $53 | $10.6/mg | — | $10.6/mg | View |
| 30 | PurerawzUnavailable | 5mg total | $55 | $11.0/mg | — | $11.0/mg | View |
| 31 | Sports Technology Labs | 5mg total | $55 | $11.0/mg | 99.7% | $11.0/mg | View |
| 32 | Peptide Pros | 2mg total | $24 | $12.0/mg | — | $12.0/mg | View |
| 33 | PurerawzUnavailable | 6mg totalSublingual Tablets · 200mcg per tab/30ct/6mg each | $81 | $13.4/mg | — | $13.5/mg | View |
| 34 | Umbrella Labs | 2mg total | $30 | $15.0/mg | — | $15.0/mg | View |
| 35 | Ion Peptide | 3mg total | $99 | $33.0/mg | — | $33.1/mg | View |
| Listed, but not rankable — no published strength to price per mg | |||||||
| — | Nootropic Source | 1 vial | $18 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Eternal Peptides | 1 vial | $26 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | PurerawzUnavailable | 1 vial | $29 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Chameleon Peptides | 1 vial | $34 | no size published | 99.5% | — | View |
| — | Cernum Biosciences | 1 vial | $50 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | PurerawzUnavailable | Nasal Spray · 20mcg per spray/2mg | $64 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Ascend Bio Labs | 10MG / 1 Vial | $76 | no size published | 99.1% | — | View |
| — | Vici PeptidesUnavailable | 1 vial | $79 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Behemoth LabzUnavailable | 1 vial | $81 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | PurerawzUnavailable | Nasal Spray · 50mcg per spray/5mg | $112 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Ascend Bio Labs | 10MG / 2 Vials | $126 | no size published | 99.1% | — | View |
Open the full Ipamorelin market
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
Ipamorelin — 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.
99.9%
highest tested purity
| Certificate | Manufacturer | Batch | Purity | Content / dose | Lab | |
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| peptidegurus.com | 24th April 2026 | 99.94% | 9.46/10mg · full | Janoshik Analytical Still listed | Verify | |
| PeptideGurus | — | 99.80% | 9.92/10mg · full | Janoshik Analytical Still listed | Verify | |
| https://crystalpeptides.eu/ | IP1053CP | 99.79% | 9.28 mg | Janoshik Analytical Still listed | Verify | |
![]() | Sports Technology Labs | 2025-03-17 | 99.74% | — | MZ Biolabs | View |
![]() | Chameleon Peptides | B002 | 99.52% | 4.45 mg | Janoshik Analytical | View |
| Ascend Bio Labs | V260629-27-002 | 99.10% | — | Vanguard Laboratory | Verify | |
| Ascend Bio Labs | V260602-23-006 | 99.10% | — | Vanguard Laboratory | Verify | |
| www.onlinepeptides.comBlend | — | See report | — | Janoshik Analytical | Verify | |
| longevityprolabs.com | — | See report | — | Janoshik Analytical | Verify | |
| https://crystalpeptides.eu/Sterility | IP1053CP | See report | — | Janoshik Analytical Still listed | Verify | |
| www.uwa-biotech.comBlend | Blue | See report | 10.91 mg; 10.53 mg | Janoshik Analytical Still listed | Verify | |
Tested batches
Batch test records for Ipamorelin
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 Ipamorelin — 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. Ipamorelin acetate is currently in FDA's category 2 — significant safety risks — for outsourcing-facility (503B) compounding, added 29 September 2023, citing immunogenicity risk by some routes and peptide-related impurities. Its separate 503A nomination was withdrawn. Clinical development as a drug was discontinued.
Honest overall read
Ipamorelin is a selective GH-secretagogue peptide that provably stimulates a short GH burst in early human studies, but robust human data stop there: no controlled trials support anti-aging, muscle-building, or fat-loss claims, and formal development was discontinued.
In healthy male volunteers, intravenous ipamorelin showed dose-proportional pharmacokinetics (~2 h half-life) and triggered a single, dose-related pulse of growth-hormone release peaking at roughly 40 minutes.
Short pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic study only; no controlled trials of efficacy or long-term safety exist, and stimulating the GH axis carries theoretical risks.
read the sourceCommonly researched together
Often stacked with Ipamorelin
Compounds the research community frequently discusses alongside Ipamorelin. Not a protocol or a recommendation — a starting point for what to read about next.
CJC-1295
Growth hormone secretagogue
A GHRH analog studied for sustained growth-hormone research. The canonical CJC-1295 + Ipamorelin stack is the most-discussed GH combo.
Tesamorelin
Growth hormone secretagogue
A GHRH analog known from prescription use for visceral-fat research contexts.
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.

