Sunlight review

What I actually think of Sunlight

The flattest, cheapest sticker in this batch — $88/mo semaglutide, $157/mo tirzepatide — but it's the one program here that makes you book and sit through a video visit before it'll write anything. It runs about $88/month, and it's flat at every dose — toward the cheaper end of what I walked.

I look at Sunlight the way moms actually have to — not just the real monthly number, but nursing and pregnancy timing and canceling without a fight. That's the stuff a generic weight-loss review skips right over.

What Sunlight really costs

• Compounded semaglutide — Flat monthly rate: $88/mo
• Compounded tirzepatide — Flat monthly rate: $157/mo

That's under the roughly $179 median I found across the providers I walked — real money back in the grocery budget.

Which meds Sunlight prescribes

Sunlight prescribes semaglutide and tirzepatide — the two with the strongest published weight-loss numbers, and having both on one account genuinely matters if insulin resistance is in the mix (which it often is with PCOS or after gestational diabetes), because that's when tirzepatide tends to be the better fit. These are compounded from a licensed pharmacy — that's why the price stays down — but compounded GLP-1s aren't FDA-approved finished products the way Wegovy and Zepbound are, and it's worth knowing that going in.

Who Sunlight is — and isn't — for

A good fit if…

• money is the actual barrier and you want a low, predictable number you can plan around.
• you might need to move between semaglutide and tirzepatide as your body and hormones shift.
• staying covered no matter where you are matters — a move for family shouldn't blow up your care.

Look elsewhere if…

• you specifically want an FDA-approved brand pen with its own pregnancy and lactation labeling.
• you want to be able to cancel without a fight — the exit terms are the part of the fine print I'd read twice here.
• you'd rather a prescriber actually talk through nursing and pregnancy timing with you — that's what my #1 pick, CoreAge Rx, is built to do.

Can you trust it?

I'm confident in the public facts on Sunlight — pricing, pharmacies, and the clinical network all checked out when I last looked. With any compounded GLP-1, the most useful thing you can do is confirm which licensed pharmacy fills it and what's actually in the formulation — I explain how I weigh oversight in the scoring method.

A standing caveat, because I'm a mom writing this and not your doctor: GLP-1 meds aren't established as safe during pregnancy or breastfeeding, and every label advises against it. Nothing here changes that — plan the timing with your own clinician.

So, would I use it?

Sunlight is a genuine budget play — weigh it against the picks below on nursing and pregnancy timing and canceling without a fight. For most moms, CoreAge Rx is still the stronger all-round fit — and you can see them side by side in this head-to-head.