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MOTS-c

Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

A 16-amino-acid mitochondrial-derived peptide encoded within the mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA gene.

MOTScMOTS c

Observed median price

$69

0%

21

Active listings

6 · 99.2%

Independent lab tests

$42–$696

Observed price range

3

Known aliases

Read from the certificate, not re-measured by VialGrade.

Understand this compound

What is MOTS-c?

Preclinical / animal only

A mitochondrial peptide studied in metabolism, exercise-capacity, and longevity research.

Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

Good to know: Human interventional (dosing) trial data are sparse; most human evidence is observational and does not establish a causal therapeutic effect.

How does MOTS-c work?

A mitochondrial-DNA-encoded peptide; activates AMPK signaling and translocates to the cell nucleus under metabolic stress to regulate genes involved in glucose uptake and stress response.

Mechanism of action from published research — how the molecule behaves, not a claim about any product or any human-use effect.

What is MOTS-c researched for?

Studied as an exercise mimetic for metabolic homeostasis, insulin sensitivity, obesity, and markers of aging.

  • Longevity & anti-agingStudied in aging, cellular-senescence, and mitochondrial-function research.
  • Weight & metabolicStudied in weight, appetite, blood-sugar, and fat-metabolism research.
How far has the research gone?

Preclinical / animal research, with emerging early human observational data; most human findings are correlational rather than from dosing trials.

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.

US legal status

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.

Read the full US legal overview →

General information, not legal or medical advice. VialGrade sells nothing and encourages no human use.

Compare by real cost

Cheapest MOTS-c, by price per mg

Vials come in different sizes, so the sticker price lies. This ranks every listing by what a milligram actually costs — with independent test purity where we have it.

#VendorSizePricePer mgTested purityReal $/active mg
1Bluum Peptides40mg total$99$2.48/mg$2.49/mgbest valueView
2Modern Aminos40mg total$115$2.88/mg$2.90/mgView
3Chameleon Peptides40mg total$134$3.35/mg99.0%$3.38/mgView
4Chameleon Peptides200mg total20mg · 10-vial kit each$696$3.48/mg99.0%$3.51/mgView
5Vici Peptides40mg total$155$3.88/mg$3.90/mgView
6Chameleon Peptides20mg total$82$4.10/mg99.0%$4.13/mgView
7Chameleon Peptides100mg total10mg · 10-vial kit each$413$4.13/mg99.0%$4.17/mgView
8Bluum Peptides10mg total$45$4.50/mg$4.53/mgView
9Ez Peptides10mg total$54$5.40/mg99.7%$5.41/mgView
10Felix Chemical Supply10mg total$60$6.00/mg$6.04/mgView
11Umbrella Labs10mg total$69$6.90/mg$6.95/mgView
12Swiss Chems10mg total$70$7.00/mg$7.05/mgView
13Peptide Pros5mg total$47$9.45/mg$9.52/mgView
14Sports Technology Labs5mg total$57$11.4/mg99.7%$11.4/mgView

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.

Current market

All MOTS-c listings

MOTS-C 1 vialModern Aminos
?Not rated yet
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$42

Testing unverified Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

1 hour ago

MOTS-C 1 vialSimple Peptide
C+Grade C+
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$43

Vendor catalog Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

2 hours ago

MOTS-c 10mgBluum Peptides
B+Grade B+
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$45

$4.50/mg

+4% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

2 hours ago

MOTS-C 5mg Peptide Pros
C+Grade C+
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$47

$9.45/mg

+119% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago

MOTS-C 1 vialChameleon Peptides
AGrade A
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$49

Independent test Independently testedLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

36 minutes ago

MOTS-C 1 vialVici Peptides
C+Grade C+
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$49

Vendor catalog Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

21 minutes ago

MOTS-c 1 vialPureRawz
C-Grade C-
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$51

Vendor catalog Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

2 hours ago

MOTS-C 10mg EZ Peptides
AGrade A
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$54

$5.40/mg

+25% vs median/mg

Independent test Independently testedLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

36 minutes ago

MOTS-c 5 mg Sports Technology Labs
AGrade A
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$57

$11.4/mg

+164% vs median/mg

Independent test Independently testedLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

2 hours ago

MOTS-C 10mg Felix Chemical Supply
A-Grade A-
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$60

$6.00/mg

+39% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

36 minutes ago

MOTS-C 10mg Swiss Chems
C-Grade C-
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$70

$7.00/mg

+62% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

2 hours ago

MOTS-C 1 vialCernum Biosciences
C-Grade C-
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$70

Testing unverified Vendor flaggedLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

21 minutes ago

MOTS-C 1 vialBehemoth Labz
CGrade C
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$79

Vendor catalog Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

8 days ago

MOTS-c 40mgBluum Peptides
B+Grade B+
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$99

$2.48/mg

-43% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

Unavailable

Last checked

2 hours ago

MOTS-C 40MGModern Aminos
?Not rated yet
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$115

$2.88/mg

-33% vs median/mg

Testing unverified Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

1 hour ago

MOTS-C 40mgVici Peptides
C+Grade C+
Longevity & anti-agingWeight & metabolic

$155

$3.88/mg

-10% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Compound: 6 COAsLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

21 minutes ago

Commonly researched together

Often stacked with MOTS-c

Compounds the research community frequently discusses alongside MOTS-c. Not a protocol or a recommendation — a starting point for what to read about next.

Independent testing

MOTS-c — 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.

99.7%

highest tested purity

CertificateManufacturerBatchPurityContent / doseLab
EZ PeptidesEZP-MOT1003302026-1899.73%11.26 mg; 11.24 mg; 11.23 mgJanoshik Analytical Verify
Certificate of analysisSports Technology Labs2026-05-3099.66%MZ Biolabs View
www.certapeptides.comCP-2605-MOT1099.30%10.09/10mg · fullJanoshik Analytical Still listed Verify
cocerpeptides.com,WhatsApp:+852 6904 8891CS-mc20-060599.20%23.38/20mg · fullJanoshik Analytical Still listed Verify
PeptideGurus99.17%55.17/60mg · fullJanoshik Analytical Still listed Verify
Certificate of analysisChameleon PeptidesB00299.04%11.28 mgJanoshik Analytical View

Tested batches

Batch test records for MOTS-c

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

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.