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Chronic weight management

Cagrilintide + Retatrutide

Cagrilintide with retatrutide

Also called cagri reta, cagrilintide retatrutide stack, amylin triple agonist stack, CagriReta

An unapproved compound paired with an unapproved compound. No trial, no label, no precedent.

XInsufficient / conflictingevidence for this combination, not for the compounds individually

Combination evidence: Insufficient / conflicting

Neither compound is approved for anything. Retatrutide's evidence is one phase 2 trial. Cagrilintide's is one phase 2 trial plus its role in the CagriSema programme. The combination has no registered trial, no publication, and no regulatory precedent anywhere. This page exists because the pairing is circulating, and because a page that shows the figures with that stated is more useful than one that pretends the pairing does not exist.

Where every number on this page comes from

Each quantity carries one of these five labels. They are not interchangeable, and the difference between the first and the last is the difference between a regulated finding and a rumour with a number attached.

FDA labelling
This figure appears in FDA-approved product labelling for an approved indication. It is the strongest warrant on this site.
Published study arm
This figure is the quantity administered in a named arm of the linked study. It describes what was studied, not what is advised.
Clinical guideline
This figure appears in published clinical or professional guidance.
Manufacturer protocol
This figure comes from a manufacturer or investigator document rather than from peer-reviewed literature.
Community practice — no trial
No clinical trial has tested this figure. It reflects what is commonly reported in practice and carries no evidentiary weight. It is shown because it is what circulates, and because showing it with this label is more useful than pretending it does not exist.
Plan against

The figure most often reported for each compound. Where a compound has no separately sourced figure at this level, its most commonly reported figure is used instead, and the citation beneath it says so.

Duration

16 weeks

2 phases

Administrations

32

about 2/week at peak

Vials required

10

2 compounds

Cost at this plan

$1,042.95

Peptira, list price

Phase by phase

Weeks 112 · 12 weeks

Escalation

Retatrutide's own phase 2 escalated every four weeks for up to twelve weeks. Cagrilintide's escalated every two. Combining them means choosing one cadence with nothing to justify the choice.

Retatrutide

Once weekly, Sunday · Subcutaneous

Lowest sourced, per dose

1 mgPublished study arm

Retatrutide 1 mg · Phase 2, lowest arm, no escalation · in the study register

Most commonly reported, per dose

4 mgPublished study arm

Retatrutide 4 mg · Phase 2, 4 mg maintenance arm · in the study register

Highest sourced, per dose

8 mgPublished study arm

Retatrutide 8 mg · Phase 2, 8 mg maintenance arm · in the study register

Prepared at 10 mg in 2 mL

Every quantity above is one administration. At once weekly, sunday, that is 4.00 mg per week.

Concentration5.00 mg/mLDraw volume0.800 mL
Pull to (U-100)80.0 unitsDoses per vial2
This phase12 administrationsVials, this phase6

Why it is here

Triple agonist at the GIP, GLP-1 and glucagon receptors. The largest weight changes reported in any published obesity trial to date.

What is not known

One phase 2 trial, 338 people, 48 weeks. No phase 3 result is published, and no regulator has reviewed it.

Cagrilintide

Once weekly, Sunday · Subcutaneous

Lowest sourced, per dose

300 mcgPublished study arm

Cagrilintide 0.3 mg · Phase 2 dose-finding, lowest arm · in the study register

Most commonly reported, per dose

1.2 mgPublished study arm

Cagrilintide 1.2 mg · Phase 2 dose-finding, mid arm · in the study register

Highest sourced, per dose

2.4 mgPublished study arm

Cagrilintide 2.4 mg · Phase 2 dose-finding, the amount taken into phase 3 · in the study register

Prepared at 5 mg in 2 mL

Every quantity above is one administration. At once weekly, sunday, that is 1.20 mg per week.

Concentration2.50 mg/mLDraw volume0.480 mL
Pull to (U-100)48.0 unitsDoses per vial4
This phase12 administrationsVials, this phase3

Why it is here

Amylin analogue, added on the argument that satiety signalling is a separate pathway from the incretin receptors.

What is not known

That argument is mechanistic. It has been tested with semaglutide and with nothing else.

Weeks 1316 · 4 weeks

Hold

Four weeks at the held amounts.

Retatrutide

Once weekly, Sunday · Subcutaneous

Most commonly reported, per dose

8 mgPublished study arm

Retatrutide 8 mg · Phase 2, 8 mg maintenance arm · in the study register

Highest sourced, per dose

12 mgPublished study arm

Retatrutide 12 mg · Phase 2, highest arm · in the study register

Prepared at 20 mg in 2 mL

Every quantity above is one administration. At once weekly, sunday, that is 8.00 mg per week.

Concentration10.00 mg/mLDraw volume0.800 mL
Pull to (U-100)80.0 unitsDoses per vial2
This phase4 administrationsVials, this phase2

Why it is here

The arms that produced the largest reported weight change at 48 weeks.

What is not known

The 12 mg arm's advantage over 8 mg at week 24 was within noise. The separation appeared later, in a secondary endpoint.

Cagrilintide

Once weekly, Sunday · Subcutaneous

Most commonly reported, per dose

2.4 mgPublished study arm

Cagrilintide 2.4 mg · Phase 2 dose-finding, the amount taken into phase 3 · in the study register

Prepared at 5 mg in 2 mL

Every quantity above is one administration. At once weekly, sunday, that is 2.40 mg per week.

Concentration2.50 mg/mLDraw volume0.960 mL
Pull to (U-100)96.0 unitsDoses per vial2
This phase4 administrationsVials, this phase2

Why it is here

The amount the phase 3 programme selected.

What is not known

Selected for a semaglutide pairing, not this one.

What you would need to buy

Vial counts are computed by simulating consumption, not by dividing total milligrams. Those two disagree whenever a vial cannot be finished, which is most of the time, and dividing under-buys.

CompoundVialAdministrationsTotal materialVials
RetatrutideEscalation · Hold20 mg1680.00 mg5
CagrilintideEscalation · Hold5 mg1624.00 mg5
Total3210

What it would cost

List prices from each vendor’s own product pages, with the date each figure was read. Quantity tiers are applied where a vendor publishes them.

Loti Labs

Prices as of 2026-08-24

$1,859.88

$16.61/day · $505.49/month

RetatrutideReta 20mg (GLP-3) · 20 mg$14.25/mg listed · $17.81/mg after what expires unused5 × $284.99$1,424.95
CagrilintideCagrilintide 5mg · 5 mg$16.20/mg listed · $16.87/mg after what expires unused5 × $80.99$404.95
Bacteriostatic water10ML Reconstitution Solution · 10 mLThis plan uses 20.0 mL across every reconstitution.2 × $14.99$29.98
Syringes32 administrations, so 32 syringes. None of the vendors priced on this site sells syringes, alcohol pads or a sharps container. They are ordinary pharmacy items in most places and restricted in some. The count below is what the plan requires; where to obtain them is outside what this site can tell you.32 × —Not sold here
Total, compounds and water$1,859.88

Above this vendor's published $99 free-shipping threshold.

We earn nothing from this link. Loti Labs has no affiliate programme.

Pure Health Peptides

Prices as of 2026-08-24

$286.99

$2.56/day · $78.00/month

RetatrutidePure Health Peptides's largest listing for this compound is 5 mg, and this plan administers up to 8 mg at once. One vial cannot deliver a single administration. Drawing each dose from two vials is possible, but it changes the syringe pull and doubles the reconstitution, so it is a different plan and is not priced here.
CagrilintideGLP-1 (C) · 10 mg$6.90/mg listed · $11.50/mg after what expires unusedPriced at the 10 mg size rather than the 5 mg this plan assumes, because across the sizes this vendor stocks it works out cheapest for the whole course. Vial count re-simulated at that strength.4 × $69.00$276.00
Bacteriostatic waterBacteriostatic Water · 10 mLThis plan uses 8.0 mL across every reconstitution. 2.0 mL is left over, because bottles do not divide.The only size this vendor sells. Stock was reported as one unit remaining when read.1 × $10.99$10.99
Syringes32 administrations, so 32 syringes. None of the vendors priced on this site sells syringes, alcohol pads or a sharps container. They are ordinary pharmacy items in most places and restricted in some. The count below is what the plan requires; where to obtain them is outside what this site can tell you.32 × —Not sold here
Total, compounds and water$286.99

Above this vendor's published $175 free-shipping threshold.

This total is not comparable. Pure Health Peptides cannot supply Retatrutide, so the figure above covers a smaller basket than the other columns.

We earn nothing from this link. No affiliate programme was found for this vendor.

Peptira

Prices as of 2026-08-25

$1,072.95

$9.58/day · $291.61/month

RetatrutideRETA-3 | 20MG · 20 mg$5.91/mg listed · $7.38/mg after what expires unusedIdentity inferred. This vendor sells it as “RETA-3 | 20MG” and does not write the compound name anywhere on the page. The mapping is ours, not theirs.5 × $118.15$590.75
CagrilintideCAG-4 | 10MG · 10 mg$11.30/mg listed · $18.84/mg after what expires unusedIdentity inferred. This vendor sells it as “CAG-4 | 10MG” and does not write the compound name anywhere on the page. The mapping is ours, not theirs.Priced at the 10 mg size rather than the 5 mg this plan assumes, because across the sizes this vendor stocks it works out cheapest for the whole course. Vial count re-simulated at that strength.4 × $113.05$452.20
Bacteriostatic waterBAC Water 10ML · 10 mLThis plan uses 18.0 mL across every reconstitution. 2.0 mL is left over, because bottles do not divide.2 × $15.00$30.00
Syringes32 administrations, so 32 syringes. None of the vendors priced on this site sells syringes, alcohol pads or a sharps container. They are ordinary pharmacy items in most places and restricted in some. The count below is what the plan requires; where to obtain them is outside what this site can tell you.32 × —Not sold here
Total, compounds and water$1,072.95

Above this vendor's published $250 free-shipping threshold.

Peptira runs an affiliate programme. This site has not applied to it, so no commission is earned on this link today.

List price is not the price anyone pays

All three vendors run frequent site-wide promotional codes: commonly 20 to 40 percent at Loti Labs, and a permanent-looking banner advertising up to 50 percent in the cart at Peptira. Those codes are not captured here and cannot be, because they change weekly and are not published in any stable form. Treat every figure above as an upper bound on a list basis, read on the date shown, and check the vendor’s own cart before committing to anything. Ordering is by price. It is not influenced by which vendors pay us, and today none of them do.

What usually goes wrong

Ranked by how often it happens rather than by how serious it sounds.

Treating retatrutide's phase 2 numbers as settled

A single phase 2 trial is where drugs look their best. Effect sizes routinely shrink between phase 2 and phase 3, and this one has not made that transition in public.

Adding an amylin analogue to the strongest incretin available

The mechanistic argument for cagrilintide was built around adding to a GLP-1 agonist. Retatrutide already hits three receptors. What an amylin analogue adds on top of that is not established by anything.

Assuming sixteen weeks is a fair test

Retatrutide's own trial ran 48 weeks and its arms did not separate cleanly until well past week 24. Sixteen weeks would not have detected its main result.

What is worth measuring

Markers that would actually tell you something, and what each one tells you. Nothing here is a requirement, and none of it substitutes for a clinician who knows your history.

MarkerWhenWhat it tells you
Weight and waistWeekly, same conditionsThe measured endpoint in the underlying trial.
Resting heart rateBaseline and periodicallyHeart-rate increase was reported in the retatrutide phase 2.
Fasting glucoseBaseline and periodicallyGlucagon receptor agonism has glucose effects the other classes do not.

Populations this was not studied in

An absence of evidence in a group is not evidence of safety in that group. These are listed because the gap itself is the finding.

  • Anyone — no human trial of this combination exists
  • Anyone at all for retatrutide outside a clinical trial; it is not approved in any jurisdiction
  • Pregnancy and breastfeeding
  • Anyone under 18

Protocol last reviewed 2026-08-25. Every quantity on this page carries its own source. If you find one that does not, that is a bug and the build should have caught it.