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MOTS-c 1 Vial / 10MG

Name: MOTS-c 1 Vial / 10MG
Brand: Ascend Bio Labs
SKU: V260602-23-017
Price: 45 USD
Availability: LimitedAvailability

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

Observed price

$45$4.50/mg

Median $/mg

$4.50/mg

Range $/mg

$2.48/mg–$11.4/mg

This listing

#12 of 23

mid-market

Real / active mg

$4.51/mg

low $2.48/mgmedian $4.50/mghigh $11.4/mg

Compared by cost-per-mg against 23 vendor listings of this compound whose size we can read. Real / active mg divides cost-per-mg by measured purity. Read from the certificate, not re-measured by VialGrade. Purity is not a grade. Purity vs grade

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Lab tests

99.1%

Median purity

Listings

Real listing aggregated from the vendor's public page. Buying happens on their site, never on VialGrade — we take no payment and hold no stock. These are sold for laboratory research use only, not for human consumption; the seller sets their own terms and age limits at checkout.

Best-case evidence

Independently tested — with one caveat

An independent lab record backs Ascend Bio Labs' MOTS-c at 99.7% — the exact evidence most listings lack.
A certificate covers one submitted batch, not every vial — confirm it matches the batch you receive.

How to verify this yourself

Check the seller's COA is for YOUR batch number, then paste it into Verify to confirm it's a real, unedited Janoshik record.

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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.

#	Vendor	Size	Price	Per mg	Tested purity	Real $/active mg
1	Bluum Peptides	40mg total	$99	$2.48/mg	—	$2.49/mgbest value	View
2	Simple Peptide	40mg total	$114	$2.85/mg	—	$2.87/mg	View
3	Modern Aminos	40mg total	$115	$2.88/mg	—	$2.90/mg	View
4	Ascend Bio Labs	40mg total	$115	$2.88/mg	99.7%	$2.88/mg	View
5	Chameleon Peptides	40mg total	$134	$3.35/mg	99.0%	$3.38/mg	View
6	Chameleon Peptides	200mg total20mg · 10-vial kit each	$696	$3.48/mg	99.0%	$3.51/mg	View
7	Ascend Bio Labs	20mg total	$75	$3.75/mg	99.7%	$3.76/mg	View
8	Vici Peptides	40mg total	$155	$3.88/mg	—	$3.90/mg	View
9	Ascend Bio Labs	20mg total2 Vials / 10MG each	$81	$4.05/mg	99.7%	$4.06/mg	View
10	Chameleon Peptides	20mg total	$82	$4.10/mg	99.0%	$4.13/mg	View
11	Chameleon Peptides	100mg total10mg · 10-vial kit each	$413	$4.13/mg	99.0%	$4.17/mg	View
12	Ascend Bio Labs	10mg total	$45	$4.50/mg	99.7%	$4.51/mg	View
13	Bluum Peptides	10mg total	$45	$4.50/mg	—	$4.53/mg	View
14	Ez Peptides	10mg total	$54	$5.40/mg	99.7%	$5.41/mg	View
15	Felix Chemical Supply	10mg total	$60	$6.00/mg	—	$6.04/mg	View
16	Umbrella Labs	10mg total	$69	$6.90/mg	—	$6.95/mg	View
17	Swiss Chems	10mg total	$70	$7.00/mg	—	$7.04/mg	View
18	Swiss Chems	100mg totalKIT (10 vials) each	$700	$7.00/mg	—	$7.04/mg	View
19	Peptide Pros	5mg total	$47	$9.45/mg	—	$9.52/mg	View
20	Purerawz	10mg total	$101	$10.1/mg	—	$10.2/mg	View
21	Purerawz	20mg total	$202	$10.1/mg	—	$10.2/mg	View
22	Purerawz	40mg total	$405	$10.1/mg	—	$10.2/mg	View
23	Sports Technology Labs	5mg total	$57	$11.4/mg	99.7%	$11.4/mg	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.

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

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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 is MOTS-c commonly stacked with?

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

NAD+

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.

The lab evidence

What we could verify

Each row answers a different question. Passing the identity test doesn’t mean it’s sterile or correctly dosed — we show each answer separately.

Identity — independent test

Established

An independent lab confirmed the exact cited batch for this vendor.

Measured purity (HPLC)

Established

Independently measured 99.70%. Read from the certificate, not re-measured by VialGrade. Purity is not a grade.

Batch traceability

Established

The exact batch cited on this listing resolves to an independent lab record.

Sterility & endotoxin

Not tested

A purity COA does not measure sterility or endotoxins — no such test is on record.

Dose / fill accuracy

Unknown

VialGrade does not independently measure vial fill or delivered dose.

These certificates are for MOTS-c across every maker VialGrade tracks — not necessarily Ascend Bio Labs’s own stock. This listing’s specific evidence is the matrix above.

Independent testing

Independent lab tests on record for MOTS-c

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

Manufacturer	Batch	Purity	Content / dose	Lab
EZ Peptides	EZP-MOT1003302026-18	99.73%	11.26 mg; 11.24 mg; 11.23 mg	Janoshik Analytical	Verify
Ascend Bio Labs	V260602-23-017	99.70%	—	Vanguard Laboratory	Verify
Sports Technology Labs	2026-05-30	99.66%	—	MZ Biolabs	View
www.certapeptides.com	CP-2605-MOT10	99.30%	10.09/10mg · full	Janoshik Analytical Still listed	Verify
cocerpeptides.com，WhatsApp:+852 6904 8891	CS-mc20-0605	99.20%	23.38/20mg · full	Janoshik Analytical Still listed	Verify
PeptideGurus	—	99.17%	55.17/60mg · full	Janoshik Analytical Still listed	Verify
Chameleon Peptides	B002	99.04%	11.28 mg	Janoshik Analytical	View

Independently confirmedvendor cites Janoshik

This exact batch was independently tested at 99.70%

The batch this listing cites matches an independent record for Ascend Bio Labs's MOTS-c in the lab's own feed. That's the same batch, tested by a third party — the best documentary evidence available. It still isn't a promise about the vial you'll receive.

Certificate attribution. Batch resolves to an independent record for Ascend Bio Labs's MOTS-c.
Measured purity. Independently measured at 99.70%.

Certificate analyzed 2026-06-12

Open the independent certificate

Cross-checks the vendor’s testing claim against independent lab records. Purity is read from the lab's certificate as issued — VialGrade doesn't re-run the assay or sample the vial. It reflects one lab's result for one submitted batch, not every vial — and it says nothing about how the peptide was MADE. A high purity number can come from an uncontrolled facility; "pharmaceutical grade" is a marketing phrase unless a GMP certificate backs it. Never a statement that a product is safe, sterile, or correctly dosed. What “grade” actually means

Report record

Lab: Janoshik
Report date
Batch: V260602-23-017
Who picked the sample: Public vendor listing
Lab confirmed it’s theirs: Yes

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.

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