How I actually use The Supp Hub to compare supplement prices
The price table is the whole point of the site. Here's how to read it in about ten seconds and avoid the three traps that catch most people out.
By Dan Armstrong · 6 July 2026
I built The Supp Hub because I got sick of having eight retailer tabs open every time I needed protein. Same tub, same flavour, forty bucks of difference — and half the time the cheapest listing was a smaller size or already out of stock. So the price table on every product page is really the whole site. Everything else is decoration.
Start on the product page, not the search bar
Search is fine if you know exactly what you want. But if you're browsing, go through a category or one of the buyer guides — those pages already rank products by value, so you're starting from a shortlist instead of 400 tubs.
Once you're on a product page, scroll to Where to Buy. Every Australian retailer we track for that exact product is listed with its current price, and the cheapest in-stock one gets the primary button.
What each bit of the table means
- •Best Price pill — the lowest in-stock price we've seen on our last check. Out-of-stock listings never win this, even if they're cheaper on paper.
- •Cost per serve — total price divided by servings in the tub. This is the number that actually matters, and it's the one I look at first.
- •Out of stock badge — we keep the listing visible so you can see the price history, but it's excluded from the best-price maths.
- •Different size — a flag we raise when a listing's price per serve is way off the others, which almost always means it's a different pack size. Check the retailer page before you assume it's a bargain.
The one thing I'd tell everyone
Sticker price is a bad way to compare supplements. A $69 tub with 30 serves is worse value than an $89 tub with 60. Sort by cost per serve and the ranking often flips completely.
Three traps worth knowing about
1. The suspiciously cheap listing
Nine times out of ten it's a 500g tub sitting next to a 2kg one, or a sample size. That's exactly what the Different size flag is for. If you see it, click through and check the label before you get excited.
2. Sale prices that aren't
Some retailers run a permanent 'was $99, now $69'. On the deals page we only show something as on sale when the current price is genuinely below the recorded original, so it's a bit quieter than the retailer sites — deliberately.
3. Shipping
We compare product prices, not delivered prices, because free-shipping thresholds change constantly. If two listings are within a few dollars, the one that gets you over a free-shipping threshold usually wins.
How often the prices update
We re-scrape retailers on a rolling schedule, so prices are usually hours old rather than days. The retailer page is always the source of truth at checkout — if something's changed since our last check, that's the price you pay.