Research price & evidence comparison

BPC-157
vs TB-500.

BPC-157 and TB-500 frequently appear together in research-catalog searches, but they are distinct seller-labelled materials with separate identities, price boards, document trails, and FDA safety-context records. This page compares the current public US research-market footprint without treating either listing category as a medical option.

7shared seller pages
Same10 mg / 10 mg board sizes
12rows with public evidence routes
0clinical or effect rankings
Identity before price

Two records, kept separate.

BPC-157 is catalogued here as a synthetic pentadecapeptide research material; TB-500 is catalogued as thymosin beta-4 research material. A shared 10 mg board size makes list-price normalization possible within each board, but it does not make the compounds chemically, biologically, or clinically interchangeable.

Like-for-like fields

Commercial footprint, side by side.

Price ranges use rows marked in stock. “Public evidence route” means a seller exposed a document link; it does not establish authenticity, chain of custody, purity, sterility, or vial contents.

Comparison fieldBPC-157TB-500
Editorial familyTissue and thymic peptidesTissue and thymic peptides
Seller-listed identitySynthetic pentadecapeptide research materialThymosin beta-4 research material
Nominal board size10 mg10 mg
Available list range$39.99–$92.00$49.00–$124.00
Median available price$50.00$64.91
Lowest available / mg$4.00$4.90
Available rows7 of 86 of 8
Public evidence routes6 rows6 rows
Evidence only on request1 rows1 rows
Available-price spread130%153%
Snapshot checkedAug 22, 2026Aug 22, 2026
Unit warning

Per-milligram figures normalize the seller’s nominal quantity only. They are not a cross-compound value, potency, effect, or dose comparison.

Seller overlap

Where the current boards intersect.

Both sit in Peptide Local’s tissue and thymic research family and share much of the same seller set, so readers often need to separate a genuine price-footprint comparison from an unsupported equivalence claim.

Shared sellers7
  • AminoCore Research
  • Biotech Peptides
  • Pax Peptide
  • Pepta Labs
  • Prime Peptides
  • Pure Health Peptides
  • Purgo Labs
BPC-157 only1
  • Onyx BioLabs
TB-500 only1
  • Core Peptides
Three reading rules

What keeps this comparison honest.

  1. 01

    Compare each compound’s sellers against its own exact-size board before looking across compounds.

  2. 02

    A lower dollar-per-milligram figure does not establish equal research value, potency, purity, or suitability.

  3. 03

    FDA’s cited compounding-risk context applies as a safety boundary, not as a ranking input.

Official context boundary

Read the source behind each category note.

These official context records explain why Peptide Local keeps research listings outside medical and approved-product lanes. They do not certify any seller or material.

BPC-157

FDA lists BPC-157 among bulk substances that may present significant safety risks in compounding and says it lacks sufficient information to know whether it would cause harm when administered to humans.

Read the FDA source
TB-500

FDA identifies thymosin beta-4 fragment (LKKTETQ), often marketed as TB-500, among bulk substances that may present significant safety risks in compounding.

Read the FDA source
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