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Ipamorelin

Growth hormone supportRecovery & healing

A gentle, selective growth-hormone secretagogue popular in GH research — the usual partner to CJC-1295.

IpamNNC 26-0161

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Observed median price

$50

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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 trials

The '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.

Growth hormone supportRecovery & healing
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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 market

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.

#VendorSizePricePer mgTested purityReal $/active mg
1Ion PeptideUnavailable30mg total$99$3.30/mg—$3.31/mgbest valueView
2Ion Peptide10mg total$42$4.20/mg—$4.21/mgView
3Ez Peptides10mg total$44$4.40/mg—$4.41/mgView
4Chameleon PeptidesUnavailable100mg total10mg · 10-vial kit each$451$4.51/mg99.5%$4.54/mgView
5Felix Chemical Supply10mg total$50$5.00/mg—$5.01/mgView
6Chameleon Peptides50mg total10mg · 5-vial pack each$251$5.01/mg99.5%$5.04/mgView
7Chameleon Peptides10mg total$53$5.31/mg99.5%$5.34/mgView
8Chameleon Peptides50mg total5mg · 10-vial kit each$266$5.32/mg99.5%$5.35/mgView
9Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable30mg total3 Vials / 10MG each$163$5.43/mg99.1%$5.48/mgView
10Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable20mg total2 Vials / 10MG each$115$5.75/mg99.1%$5.80/mgView

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

CertificateManufacturerBatchPurityContent / doseLab
peptidegurus.com24th April 202699.94%9.46/10mg · fullJanoshik Analytical Still listed Verify
PeptideGurus—99.80%9.92/10mg · fullJanoshik Analytical Still listed Verify
https://crystalpeptides.eu/IP1053CP99.79%9.28 mgJanoshik Analytical Still listed Verify
Certificate of analysisSports Technology Labs2025-03-1799.74%—MZ Biolabs View
Certificate of analysisChameleon PeptidesB00299.52%4.45 mgJanoshik Analytical View
Ascend Bio LabsV260629-27-00299.10%—Vanguard Laboratory Verify
Ascend Bio LabsV260602-23-00699.10%—Vanguard Laboratory Verify
www.onlinepeptides.comBlend—See report—Janoshik Analytical 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.

All batch records

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.

Human studyPharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modeling of ipamorelin, a growth hormone releasing peptide, in human volunteers (Pharm Res, 1999)

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.

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Commonly 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.

US legal statusBanned in drug-tested sport (WADA/USADA)

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.

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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.