MK-677
An orally-active ghrelin mimetic (Ibutamoren) widely discussed in growth-hormone and body-composition research — a non-injectable favorite.
Get told when a price moves or a lab test changes.
Observed median price
$75
Every observation
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Median of 17 listings' 30-day changes; 23 excluded for insufficient history.
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Active listings
2 · 99.9%
Independent lab tests
$33–$640
Observed price range
5
Known aliases
Read from the certificate, not re-measured by VialGrade. Purity is not a grade. Purity vs grade
Understand this compound
What is MK-677?
In clinical trialsa.k.a. IbutamorenA pill — not an injection — that mimics the hunger hormone to raise growth hormone and IGF-1. Big-pharma trials found raised blood sugar and no strength benefit, so it was shelved and never approved.
Good to know: Trials found increased fasting glucose and, in one elderly trial, more congestive heart failure events, without a functional strength benefit; it is not FDA-approved for any use.
How does MK-677 work?
The science
An orally active, non-peptide ghrelin receptor (GHSR-1a) agonist; increases GH and IGF-1 secretion and stimulates hypothalamic appetite pathways.
Mechanism of action from published research — how the molecule behaves, not a claim about any product or any human-use effect.
What is MK-677 researched for?
Studied for GH/IGF-1 restoration in aging and muscle-wasting (cachexia) research, sleep quality, and body composition.
- Growth hormone supportStudied for how it interacts with the body's own growth-hormone axis in research settings.
- Muscle & performanceStudied in muscle-growth, repair, and physical-performance research.
How far has the research gone?
In clinical trials, discontinued; Merck-sponsored Phase 2/3 trials were completed but no NDA was ever filed after mixed results.
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 MK-677 market
Every MK-677 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 marketMK-677 Powder (Ibutamoren) | 2 Grams
Sports Technology LabsA
$98$0.05/mg-47% vs median
Lowest price per mg that isn't flagged as suspiciously cheap.
In stockChecked 10 hours ago
Carnitine MAX Injectable (L-Carnitine + Synephrine + MK-677) 50ml/545mg per ml/27.25g
PureRawzC-
$143$0.0052/mg-94% vs median
Lowest real cost per active mg — price divided by measured purity.
In stockChecked 9 days ago
MK-677 Powder – 1g
ChemyoC+
$60$0.06/mg-36% vs median
Independently tested at 100.0%.
In stockChecked 24 days ago
MK-677 Powder 10 Grams
Nootropic SourceC-
$300$0.03/mg-68% vs median
The most recently re-verified listing on this market.
UnavailableChecked 8 hours ago
Grow While You Sleep Capsules (MK-677 + Zinc + 5-HTP + Vitamin B6 + TUDCA) 60ct/155mg per capsule/9.3g
Behemoth LabzC
$98$0.01/mg-89% vs median
Ranked #2 of 21 listings by price per milligram.
UnavailableChecked 10 hours ago
Compare by real cost
Every MK-677 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 19 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 | Purerawz | 27.25g total50ml/545mg per ml/27.25g each | $143 | $0.0052/mg · too cheap? | — | $0.0052/mgbest value | View |
| 2 | Behemoth LabzUnavailable | 9.3g total60ct/155mg per capsule/9.3g each | $98 | $0.01/mg · too cheap? | — | $0.01/mg | View |
| 3 | Behemoth LabzUnavailable | 4.65g total30ct/155mg per capsule / 4.6g each | $51 | $0.01/mg · too cheap? | — | $0.01/mg | View |
| 4 | Nootropic SourceUnavailable | 10g total10 Grams each | $300 | $0.03/mg · too cheap? | — | $0.03/mg | View |
| 5 | Nootropic Source | 5g total5 Grams each | $200 | $0.04/mg · too cheap? | — | $0.04/mg | View |
| 6 | Sports Technology Labs | 2g total2Grams each | $98 | $0.05/mg | 99.9% | $0.05/mg | View |
| 7 | Chemyo | 1g total1g each | $60 | $0.06/mg | 100.0% | $0.06/mg | View |
| 8 | Chemyo | 1.25g total25mg each | $80 | $0.06/mg | 100.0% | $0.06/mg | View |
| 9 | Umbrella Labs | 1g total | $71 | $0.07/mg | — | $0.07/mg | View |
| 10 | PurerawzUnavailable | 1.8g totalTablets · 90mg per tablet/20ct/1.8g each | $130 | $0.07/mg | — | $0.07/mg | View |
| 11 | Nootropic Source | 750mg total25mg each | $70 | $0.09/mg | — | $0.09/mg | View |
| 12 | Umbrella Labs | 750mg total25MG each | $71 | $0.09/mg | — | $0.09/mg | View |
| 13 | Umbrella Labs | 750mg total12.5MG each | $71 | $0.09/mg | — | $0.09/mg | View |
| 14 | Peptide Pros | 750mg total25mg each | $79 | $0.11/mg | — | $0.11/mg | View |
| 15 | PurerawzUnavailable | 1.5g totalTablets · 75mg per tablet/20ct/1.5g each | $162 | $0.11/mg | — | $0.11/mg | View |
| 16 | Swiss Chems | 600mg total10mg each | $70 | $0.12/mg | — | $0.12/mg | View |
| 17 | PurerawzUnavailable | 1g total10ml/100mg per ml/1g each | $142 | $0.14/mg | — | $0.14/mg | View |
| 18 | PurerawzUnavailable | 1g totalLGD-4033 1g Liquid + Rad-140 Testolone 1g Liquid + MK-677 1g each | $256 | $0.26/mg | — | $0.26/mg | View |
| 19 | Modern Aminos | 25mg total | $89 | $3.56/mg | — | $3.56/mg | View |
| 20 | Simple PeptideUnavailable | 10mg total | $199 | $19.9/mg | — | $19.9/mg | View |
| 21 | Simple Peptide | 12.5mg total | $249 | $19.9/mg | — | $19.9/mg | View |
| Listed, but not rankable — no published strength to price per mg | |||||||
| — | Behemoth LabzUnavailable | 1 vial | $33 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Nootropic Source | 1 vial | $50 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Behemoth LabzUnavailable | 20mg/30ct/600mg | $66 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Sports Technology Labs | 1 vial | $67 | no size published | 99.9% | — | View |
| — | Sports Technology Labs | 25mg | $68 | no size published | 99.9% | — | View |
| — | Modern Aminos | 1 vial | $68 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | PurerawzUnavailable | 1 vial | $79 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 1 Bottle | $80 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Simple Peptide | 1 vial | $85 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | PurerawzUnavailable | Tablets · 20mg/27ct/540mg | $88 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | PurerawzUnavailable | Capsules · 20mg/60ct/1200mg | $95 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Behemoth LabzUnavailable | Capsules · 30mg/30ct/900mg | $103 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | PurerawzUnavailable | 20mg/60ct/1200mg | $106 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | PurerawzUnavailable | Tablets · 20mg/54ct/1080mg | $121 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Chemyo | 1 vial | $140 | no size published | 100.0% | — | View |
| — | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 2 Bottles | $144 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 3 Bottles | $204 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Swiss Chems | 1 vial | $218 | no size published | — | — | View |
| — | Ascend Bio LabsUnavailable | 10 Bottles | $640 | 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
MK-677 — 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.
100.0%
highest tested purity
Tested batches
Batch test records for MK-677
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 MK-677 — 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. FDA placed ibutamoren mesylate in category 2 (significant safety risks) for compounding, citing a trial stopped early over a congestive-heart-failure signal, and its advisory committee voted 13-1 against adding it to the compounding list in 2024. FDA also excludes ibutamoren from the dietary-supplement definition; WADA prohibits it at all times as a growth-hormone secretagogue (S2.2.4).
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.

