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Chronic weight management

Cagrilintide + Tirzepatide

Cagrilintide with tirzepatide

Also called cagri tirz, cagrilintide tirzepatide stack, amylin GIP GLP-1 stack, CagriTirz

Two well-evidenced compounds, and a pairing nobody has ever tested in a human being.

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

Combination evidence: Insufficient / conflicting

Search the literature for this combination and you find vendor pages, not trials. Cagrilintide and tirzepatide appear together in the published record exactly once, in REDEFINE 4, and there they are opponents rather than partners: CagriSema was tested against tirzepatide, not with it. Each compound below carries real evidence. The pairing carries none.

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

16

2 compounds

Cost at this plan

$744.00

Pure Health Peptides, list price

Phase by phase

Weeks 18 · 8 weeks

Escalation

Both step every four weeks from their own studied starting amounts. Note that these schedules come from two separate trials of two separate compounds; no protocol exists for escalating them together.

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

600 mcgPublished study arm

Cagrilintide 0.6 mg · Phase 2 dose-finding, second arm · in the study register

Highest sourced, per dose

1.2 mgPublished study arm

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

Prepared at 5 mg in 2 mL

Every quantity above is one administration. At once weekly, sunday, that is 0.60 mg per week.

Concentration2.50 mg/mLDraw volume0.240 mL
Pull to (U-100)24.0 unitsDoses per vial4
This phase8 administrationsVials, this phase2

Shelf life, not volume, is what limits this vial. It holds enough for more administrations than you can use inside roughly 30 days of being reconstituted, so the vial count above is driven by that window rather than by the arithmetic. Buying a larger vial would make this worse, not cheaper.

Why it is here

Amylin analogue acting on satiety through a receptor system the incretins do not touch.

What is not known

Every cagrilintide figure here comes from monotherapy or from the semaglutide pairing. None of it was generated alongside tirzepatide.

Tirzepatide

Once weekly, Sunday · Subcutaneous

Lowest sourced, per dose

2.5 mgFDA labelling

Zepbound USPI, starting amount

Most commonly reported, per dose

5 mgFDA labelling

Zepbound USPI, first maintenance amount

Highest sourced, per dose

7.5 mgFDA labelling

Zepbound USPI, escalation step

Prepared at 10 mg in 2 mL

Every quantity above is one administration. At once weekly, sunday, that is 5.00 mg per week.

Concentration5.00 mg/mLDraw volume1.000 mL
Pull to (U-100)100.0 unitsDoses per vial2
This phase8 administrationsVials, this phase4

Why it is here

Dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist with approved labelling and a large trial programme.

What is not known

The labelled schedule assumes tirzepatide alone. Nothing in that labelling contemplates a concurrent amylin analogue.

Weeks 916 · 8 weeks

Hold

Eight weeks at the held amounts. There is no studied maintenance amount for this pairing because there is no study.

Cagrilintide

Once weekly, Sunday · Subcutaneous

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 phase8 administrationsVials, this phase2

Why it is here

Held rather than escalated further, because nothing establishes what a ceiling looks like in combination.

What is not known

Monotherapy evidence only.

Tirzepatide

Once weekly, Sunday · Subcutaneous

Most commonly reported, per dose

7.5 mgFDA labelling

Zepbound USPI, escalation step

Highest sourced, per dose

10 mgFDA labelling

Zepbound USPI, maintenance amount

Prepared at 10 mg in 2 mL

Every quantity above is one administration. At once weekly, sunday, that is 7.50 mg per week.

Concentration5.00 mg/mLDraw volume1.500 mL
Pull to (U-100)150.0 unitsDoses per vial1
This phase8 administrationsVials, this phase8

Why it is here

Labelled maintenance range.

What is not known

Labelled for use alone.

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
CagrilintideEscalation · Hold5 mg1614.40 mg4
TirzepatideEscalation · Hold10 mg16100.00 mg12
Total3216

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

$1,737.10

$15.51/day · $472.12/month

CagrilintideCagrilintide 5mg · 5 mg$17.46/mg listed · $24.25/mg after what expires unused4 × $87.29$349.16
TirzepatideTirz 50mg (GLP-2) · 50 mg$6.79/mg listed · $13.58/mg after what expires unusedPriced at the 50 mg size rather than the 10 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 × $339.49$1,357.96
Bacteriostatic water10ML Reconstitution Solution · 10 mLThis plan uses 16.0 mL across every reconstitution. 4.0 mL is left over, because bottles do not divide.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$1,737.10

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

$787.96

$7.04/day · $214.16/month

CagrilintideGLP-1 (C) · 10 mg$6.90/mg listed · $19.17/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
TirzepatideGLP-2 (T) · 10 mg$3.90/mg listed · $4.68/mg after what expires unusedThis listing is sold in several vial sizes and the figure shown is the cheapest one, so the real price is higher.12 × $39.00$468.00
Bacteriostatic waterBacteriostatic Water · 10 mLThis plan uses 32.0 mL across every reconstitution. 8.0 mL is left over, because bottles do not divide.The only size this vendor sells. Stock was reported as one unit remaining when read.4 × $10.99$43.96
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$787.96

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

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

Peptira

Prices as of 2026-08-25

$1,086.40

$9.70/day · $295.27/month

CagrilintideCAG-4 | 10MG · 10 mg$11.30/mg listed · $31.40/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
TirzepatideTIRZ-2 | 30MG · 30 mg$5.04/mg listed · $6.04/mg after what expires unusedIdentity inferred. This vendor sells it as “TIRZ-2 | 30MG” and does not write the compound name anywhere on the page. The mapping is ours, not theirs.Priced at the 30 mg size rather than the 10 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 × $151.05$604.20
Bacteriostatic waterBAC Water 10ML · 10 mLThis plan uses 16.0 mL across every reconstitution. 4.0 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$1,086.40

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.

Reading the evidence grades of the parts as the grade of the whole

Tirzepatide is grade A on its own. Cagrilintide is grade B on its own. The pairing is grade X, because a combination is a new exposure and this one has never been tested.

Stacking two escalations at once

Both compounds produce their worst gastrointestinal effects while stepping up. CagriSema needed sixteen weeks of co-escalation to manage that with a weaker GLP-1 than tirzepatide.

Citing REDEFINE 4 as support

REDEFINE 4 tested CagriSema against tirzepatide. Finding both compounds named in one trial is not the same as finding them combined in one arm.

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 only outcome either compound has been shown to move.
Fasting glucoseBaseline and periodicallyTwo mechanisms acting on glucose handling with no combination safety data.
Gastrointestinal toleranceEach stepThe predictable failure point, and the one with no combination precedent.

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
  • Personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or MEN 2 — labelled contraindication for tirzepatide
  • Pregnancy and breastfeeding
  • History of pancreatitis
  • 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.