A reader in Australia wrote:

Could you tell us which laboratory is the cheapest? Like many families facing a credit squeeze, the cost of regular testing has become prohibitive.

The criteria to be included is simple — it must be up loadable or transferable to MicrobiomePrescription. The criteria of the whether the test provider will ship to Australia etc is not evaluated. There is always the “friends solution” — i.e. someone where they will ship to, orders the test and forwards to Australia.

Low resolution tests and not uploadable tests(No CSV files provided) are excluded. These include:

• Biomefx
• Bioscreen (cfu/gm)
• Biovis Microbiome Plus (cfu/g)
• Chuckling Goat
• DayTwo
• Diagnostic Solution GI-Map (cfu/gm)
• Estudio de Disbiosis: Intestinal + Parasitos
• GanzImmun Diagnostic A6 (cfu/gm)
• GanzImmun Diagnostics AG Befundbericht
• Genova Gi Effects (cfu/g)
• Genova Parasitology (cfu/g)
• GI EcologiX (Invivo)
• GI360 Stool (UK)
• Gut Zoomer (vibrant-wellness)
• HealthPath
• InVitaLab (cfu/gm)
• Kyber Kompakt (cfu/g)
• Laboratorio Teletest
• Medivere Mikrobiom Plus Stuhlanalyse
• Medivere: Darm Mikrobiom Stuhltest (16s limited)
• Medivere: Darn Magen Diagnostik (16s Limited)
• Medivere: Gesundsheitscheck Darm (16s Limited)
• Metagenomics Stool (De Meirleir) (16s Limited)
• Microbiome Healthpath Maxi
• MyBiota (Austria)
• Nordic Laboratories
• NutriPATH
• Randox Health
• Smart Gut (16s – Limited Taxonomy)
• Tarmkollen Mega
• TinyHealth
• Verisana (cfu/ml) aka (kbe/ml)
• Viome (Latest Reports Fail to provide ANY measurements)

The numbers are in $AU. Some sites have a variety of price according to subscription model, discount codes, sales – for example “The Gut Club’s Biomesight discount code: THEGUTCLUB50 provides 33% discount for single kits).

Type	Provider	Lowest	Highest
16s	Biomesight	$187	$312
16s	Ombre	$136	$180
Shotgun	Thorne	$180 (via US Amazon)	$300
16s	Vitract (transfers are pending)	$212	$228
Shotgun	Tiny Health	$302	$377
Shotgun	Xenogene	$800

On a personal note, this household is shifting to Thorne because of the greater detail from Shotgun including virus and phages. Ombre / Biomesight has been our prior preferred test when focused on symptoms.

This is an interest item by item price list.