Get a hair-loss prescription online, and know what each step costs
- Step 1Questionnaire
$0 to startfree, or “typically complimentary”
- Step 2Clinician review
In the plan priceplus follow-up messages
- Step 3Delivery
$20–$26.67 a month$20–$26.67/mogeneric finasteride, as listed
Same generic tablets, your own doctor’s prescription, a cash-price pharmacy: $5.83 for 30.
The questionnaire is free, the clinician's review is folded into the price, and the medicine is where you pay. We read the pages and terms of five online hair-loss services so you can compare the paperwork before you hand over a card.
Scriptside compares online hair-loss services: Hims, Keeps, Ro, Happy Head and Strut Health. Each one sells the same idea in three steps, and each step has a price you can find if you know where to look.
Three steps, three prices
The first step is the questionnaire, usually with photos of your scalp. Hims, Keeps and Ro list the visit as free, Happy Head's FAQ calls its consultations free, and Strut Health says its visit is typically complimentary. You pay nothing until a clinician approves something.
The second step is the review by a licensed clinician: a doctor or nurse practitioner at Ro, US-licensed physicians at Strut Health, board-certified dermatologists at Happy Head by its own account, and licensed providers at Hims and Keeps. Their time is folded into the plan price, along with follow-up messaging.
The third step is delivery, and that is where the money goes. Generic finasteride was listed at $20 to $26.67 a month at the four services that publish a price, on 22 September 2026. The same generic tablets, on a prescription from your own doctor, were listed at $5.83 for 30 at a cash-price pharmacy, before shipping.
How we judge a service
We score each service out of 100 on five things you can check before paying: how clearly it states the price and billing interval, who reviews you and how you reach them afterwards, how you cancel, whether compounded products are labelled, and whether you can use your own pharmacy. The full scoring is on our online hair-loss services compared page.
The score is about the paperwork, never about whether a medicine works on your hair. That is a question for the evidence and a prescriber, and a questionnaire is not an examination.
What we won't do
We don't sell or recommend a drug, show results photos, quote patients, or tell you what to take. We don't link to a service because it pays: the service we score highest, Ro, has no link from us and pays us nothing. And where the cheapest answer is your own doctor and a pharmacy, we say so first, because it is.
If you are starting from scratch, read how to get a finasteride prescription, then what finasteride costs.
Five services, one scorecard
Ro, Strut Health, Hims, Keeps and Happy Head, scored out of 100 on price clarity, clinician access, exit terms, compounding labels and pharmacy choice. See the scores and the prices side by side.
Guides, one question each
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Red Flags in Online Hair-Loss Prescribing
The FDA's four signs of a safe online pharmacy, its warning signs, and the service-level red flags to check before a hair-loss prescription ships.
Sep 22, 2026
How to Cancel a Hair-Loss Subscription (Every Service)
How to cancel Hims, Keeps, Ro, Happy Head and Strut Health, how much notice each needs, and what happens to money already paid, from each service's own terms.
Sep 21, 2026
Hims vs Keeps for Hair Loss: Prices, Terms, Clinicians
Hims and Keeps sell the same generic finasteride and minoxidil. They differ on how prices are shown, how you are billed, how long messaging lasts and how you leave.
Sep 20, 2026
What an Online Hair-Loss Consult Asks You
The questionnaire, the photos, the ID check and the medicines list: what an online hair-loss consultation asks, why, and where a form stops being enough.
Sep 19, 2026
Topical Finasteride Through Telehealth: The FDA Caution
Every service we compare sells a spray, serum, gel or drop with finasteride in it. None is FDA-approved, and in 2025 the FDA said why that matters.
Sep 18, 2026
Happy Head Review, and What "Compounded" Means
Happy Head leads with dermatologists and custom compounded formulas at $59 to $119 a month. Its 25-day billing cycle and cancellation terms need reading first.
Sep 17, 2026