How many servings are in a tub of creatine?
At a 5 g serving, a 300 g tub holds 60, a 500 g tub holds 100 and a 1 kg tub holds 200 servings. 44 of the 45 creatine powders we track have a 5 g serving on record, so a tub's count is its weight in grams divided by five.
Capsule bottles are counted at the label's own serving, which is 2 capsules for 2.5 g, 2 capsules for 1 g, 4 capsules for 3 g, 4 capsules for 5 g and 7 capsules for 5 g on the 14 capsule products we track.
Where each count comes from: 25 printed on the label, 12 from the seller's own product page, and 24 worked out by us from the package weight and the serving size, where we had no reading of a printed count. The table marks which is which.
Servings are counted at the serving printed on each label. That is a way to compare packages, not a recommendation about how much to take. What each tub costs per 5 g: How much does creatine cost per serving?
Where to buy: the creatine monohydrate shortlist
The pick is the cheapest certified product, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no adverse finding on record, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving; per delivered dose where the retailer publishes a delivery rate. Where none does, it is the cheapest such product before delivery, and it says how far the order is from free delivery. It is the same pick the category page shows. Any answer shown beside it is the cheapest under a different rule and says so on its own line; answers that cost more than the pick fold under one line until you ask for them.
How these lines are chosen
Among 61 products and 74 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below.
Full comparison of every product in this category: Creatine Monohydrate. Every question we answer: the question index.
What this rests on: prices we last recorded at the retailer named on each product page, which go stale, and each page says when it was checked; the products we track, not every product sold, and Amazon and Walmart are not among the stores; listings and labels read at the source, each linked from the page. Found an error? Tell us. The full method: How we compare.