MOTS-c for Sale: 10 mg Dry, Not a Pre-Mixed mg/mL
MOTS-c for sale, format by format: 10 mg lyophilised vials, blends, pre-mixed solutions and purity claims, and which of them leaves you a per-mg figure.
MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: Educational research guidelines only. Lyophilized peptides are investigational chemical compounds and are NOT approved for human consumption, diagnosis, or therapy. Consult a licensed physician before any research application.
MOTS-c for sale covers several different products wearing the same name. One of them is a plain lyophilised vial with a stated milligram content. The others are blends, pre-mixed solutions, sprays and bulk powder, and what they have in common is that the milligram content is either shared with something else or not stated at all, which removes the number every price comparison depends on.
This matters more here than for most compounds because MOTS-c is sold in one standard format. A 10 mg lyophilised vial is the market. When a listing offers something else, the useful question is not whether the alternative is better but whether you can still work out what a milligram costs. Usually you cannot.
MOTS-c itself is a 16-amino-acid peptide encoded in mitochondrial DNA, described by Lee and colleagues in Cell Metabolism in 2015 and studied since almost entirely in cells and rodents. It has no approval anywhere, so everything on this page is research material sold for laboratory use. Listings for MOTS-c peptide for sale and MOTS-c peptides for sale are all describing the same unapproved compound, whatever the packaging says.
Lowest cost per milligram we track
MOTS-c — Ascension Peptides
Independently assayed research material. With the code the 10 mg vial works out at $3.75/mg.
Buying 3, 5 or 10 vials takes 3%, 5% or 10% off the list price. Free shipping starts at $250, which one discounted vial does not reach.
- Two third-party assays per batch
- Free carriage over $250
- Same-day dispatch before 2pm CST
Laboratory research material only, not for human consumption. Affiliate links: we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Figures checked August 19, 2026.
MOTS-c for sale: the formats you will actually see
Six formats turn up repeatedly. The third column is the one that decides whether a listing can be priced at all.
| Format | What it is | Can you compute a cost per mg? |
|---|---|---|
| 10 mg lyophilised vial | Freeze-dried powder, sealed, reconstituted by the buyer | Yes: divide the price by 10 |
| Multi-vial kit | The same vial, sold three, five or ten at a time | Yes, once you apply the tier price to the milligram total |
| Blend or mitochondrial stack | MOTS-c combined with one or more other peptides in one vial | Rarely: the split between components is often unstated |
| Pre-mixed solution | Already reconstituted, sold as a liquid | Only if both mg/mL and total volume are printed |
| Spray or capsule | Nasal or oral presentation, milligrams per actuation or unit | Usually not: content per dose is often absent |
| Bulk powder by the gram | Unfilled material sold by weight | On paper yes, in practice no batch certificate follows it |
Two of those six leave you with a working denominator. That is the whole argument of this page. A format that hides the milligram content is not a different product, it is the same compound sold in a way that stops you comparing it with anything.
The 10 mg lyophilised vial: the format the arithmetic assumes
The compound in it is the one Lee and colleagues characterised in 2015, and the research that followed was done on dissolved powder of known concentration, which is a reasonable argument for buying it in the state the literature used.
Freeze-dried peptide in a sealed vial is the default for a reason. It is stable dry, it survives shipping without a cold chain in most conditions, the milligram content can be stated exactly, and the buyer controls the concentration. Everything on this site assumes it.
The commercial numbers are simple because there is one size. List is $75.00, reduced from a previous $89.99, and the code PEPTIDEDECK halves it to $37.50. That is $3.75 per mg against $7.50 per mg at list. The vial holds 10,000 mcg, so at a 2 mL reconstitution it is 5 mg/mL, 200 units of a U-100 syringe, and a 10 unit draw is 500 mcg. At 1 mL it is 10 mg/mL, 100 units, and 10 units is 1 mg. The compound cost does not change with the water; only the unit does.
What the label has to carry
- The compound name and the milligram content, printed rather than implied.
- A batch or lot code you can match to a certificate.
- Research-use wording, which is the condition that makes the sale lawful in the United States.
- A storage instruction for the lyophilised state.
A vial missing the milligram figure cannot be priced, cannot be reconstituted to a known concentration, and cannot be compared to the vial next to it. Our reconstitution guide and the calculator both start from that printed number, and neither can check it for you.
Blends and mitochondrial stacks: a vial with no denominator
A good share of the listings advertising MOTS-c for sale are not selling a single-compound vial at all. Blends pair MOTS-c with other research peptides in a single vial and sell the combination as a mitochondrial or longevity stack. Commercially it is an easy product to move, because the buyer sees one price and assumes the components were priced fairly inside it. Analytically it is a problem.
The split is usually unstated. A blend advertised as 10 mg total across two peptides could be 5 mg each or 9 mg and 1 mg, and unless both figures are printed you cannot tell. If you cannot tell, you cannot compute a cost per milligram of MOTS-c, which means you cannot compare the blend with a single-compound vial at $3.75 per mg.
The certificate gets harder, not easier. A certificate for a blend has to resolve two or more peaks and assign mass to each. Many blend listings publish a certificate for one component, or a generic document with no batch code at all.
The concentration is fixed for you. With a single-compound vial you choose the fill volume, and with it the mg/mL and the units per draw. In a blend the ratio between components is fixed at manufacture, so the only variable left is total volume, and every component moves together.
None of that makes blends fraudulent. It makes them unpriceable on this site's terms. If a blend does print a milligram figure per component and publishes a batch certificate resolving each, it can be evaluated like anything else. Most do not.
Pre-mixed solutions, sprays and capsules: paying for the water
A pre-mixed vial arrives already reconstituted. The appeal is obvious and the cost is threefold.
First, you lose control of the concentration. The seller has decided the mg/mL, so the units on the barrel per draw are decided too. With a dry 10 mg vial you set 5 mg/mL or 10 mg/mL yourself depending on what the work needs.
Second, the clock started without you. Peptides in solution degrade faster than in the lyophilised state, and the useful life of a pre-mixed vial began at the filler, not at your fridge. You are buying an unknown fraction of a shelf life.
Third, the denominator often disappears. A listing that states a volume but not a concentration, or a concentration but not a volume, cannot be converted into milligrams. Both figures or no purchase.
Sprays and capsules raise a separate question. MOTS-c is a 16-residue peptide, and there is no established oral or intranasal delivery data for it in the way there is for a handful of small, well-studied peptides. Listings in these formats rarely state milligrams per actuation or per capsule at all, which again leaves nothing to divide. Treat an unstated content figure as the disqualifying detail, regardless of what the format claims to do.
The consistent thread: a dry vial with a printed milligram content is the only format that leaves both the arithmetic and the handling decisions with you.
Listing claims and what each one actually obliges the seller to prove
Marketing language in this market has settled into a small vocabulary. None of it is regulated, and none of it corresponds to any status in the FDA's approval databases, so each phrase is worth translating into the document that would substantiate it.
| Listing claim | What it is worth on its own | What to ask for instead |
|---|---|---|
| "99% purity" | Nothing without a batch reference | An HPLC chromatogram on a certificate carrying your vial's batch code |
| "Pharmaceutical grade" | No defined meaning for an unapproved compound | The actual analytical results, plus who ran them |
| "Third-party tested" | Depends entirely on which party | The laboratory's name on the certificate, separate from the seller |
| "Lab verified" | Often an in-house quality sheet | Both HPLC for purity and mass spectrometry for identity |
| "Made in the USA" | May describe filling, not synthesis | A stated dispatch origin and a published cut-off time |
| "Best price for MOTS-c peptides for sale" | A vial price, not a compound price | The milligram content, so you can divide it yourself |
Ascension Peptides publishes two third-party certificates for its MOTS-c material, from Kovera Labs on batch 24-05260628 and MZ Biolabs on batch 24-01260229. Those are the vendor's published documents. What makes them useful is not that they exist but that they carry batch codes, which you can match against the vial you are sent. This page does not restate a purity percentage, because that figure belongs to the certificate for your batch.
What a sale price means once you have divided it
The words MOTS-c for sale usually sit above a percentage. Sale pricing in this market moves in two ways: a percentage code and a quantity tier. They are worth different amounts and they are not documented as combining.
| Basis | Per vial | Per mg | Per 500 mcg at a 2 mL fill |
|---|---|---|---|
| List price | $75.00 | $7.50 | $3.75 |
| Code PEPTIDEDECK | $37.50 | $3.75 | $1.88 |
| 3 vials, 3% off list | $72.75 | $7.28 | $3.64 |
| 5 vials, 5% off list | $71.25 | $7.13 | $3.56 |
| 10 vials, 10% off list | $67.50 | $6.75 | $3.38 |
The last column is the same vial reconstituted with 2 mL of bacteriostatic water, giving 5 mg/mL and 20 draws of 500 mcg. Read across and the ranking never changes: the code is worth roughly twice what the deepest quantity tier is worth, because 50% off beats 10% off and no arithmetic will rearrange that. The vendor does not document the two combining, so plan on one or the other and let the cart total decide.
One more line belongs in the calculation. Free carriage starts at $250, and a single $37.50 vial is nowhere near it, so postage on a one-vial order is real money against a small base. Seven discounted vials come to $262.50 and clear the threshold. For the full cost breakdown see the sibling page on MOTS-c price, and for how the suppliers themselves compare, best MOTS-c source. If you are weighing this against a compound with registered human trials behind it, our retatrutide for sale page runs the same arithmetic on a different molecule.
Frequently Asked Questions
What formats is MOTS-c actually sold in?expand_more
The standard research format is a 10 mg lyophilised vial, sold singly or in multi-vial quantities. You will also see blends with other peptides, pre-mixed solutions, sprays and capsules, and bulk powder by the gram. Only the plain vial and the multi-vial kit reliably state a milligram content you can divide a price by.
Why avoid a pre-mixed MOTS-c solution?expand_more
Three reasons. The seller has fixed the concentration, so you cannot choose between 5 mg/mL and 10 mg/mL yourself. The solution has been degrading since it was filled rather than since it reached you. And many listings state either a volume or a concentration but not both, which leaves no way to work out how many milligrams you are buying.
Are MOTS-c blends worth buying?expand_more
They can be, but only if the listing prints the milligram content of each component and the certificate resolves each one against a batch code. Without that split there is no cost per milligram of MOTS-c, so the blend cannot be compared with a single-compound vial at $3.75 per mg. Most blend listings do not publish it.
Does "pharmaceutical grade" mean anything for MOTS-c?expand_more
Not in any defined sense. MOTS-c is not an approved drug in any market, so there is no pharmacopoeial monograph or approved specification for it to be graded against. The substantive version of that claim is a batch-coded certificate from a named outside laboratory reporting HPLC purity and mass spectrometry identity.
Is a quantity discount better than the code?expand_more
No, on the published figures. The tiers take 3%, 5% or 10% off the $75.00 list price, so the best of them is $67.50 per vial, or $6.75 per mg. The code takes a single vial to $37.50, or $3.75 per mg. The vendor does not document the two combining, so treat them as alternatives and check the cart total.
References & Citations
- [1]
Lee C, Zeng J, Drew BG, et al. (2015) Cell Metab 21(3):443-454. The mitochondrial-derived peptide MOTS-c promotes metabolic homeostasis and reduces obesity and insulin resistance.View source →
- [2]
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03998514. A Phase 1a/1b study of CB4211, a MOTS-c analogue (CohBar, Inc.), completed.View source →
- [3]
US Food and Drug Administration. Drug approvals and databases.View source →