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.
It appears the Thorne link may erroneously be for Ombre.