How CostFinders works

Every deal here comes from an offer a clinic published itself. Today that is mostly the specials and membership pages on clinics' own websites.

We collect those offers from the public pages ourselves, so a listing doesn't mean the clinic works with us or has checked it. A deal the clinic has checked says Confirmed by the clinic.

Clinics write offers in their own ways: a price per unit, per area or per syringe, a package, a member price, a percentage off. We read each offer's own words and show its price in a form you can compare. Every deal carries one of three labels.

• As advertised

  Every figure we show is in the clinic’s own words.

  The clinic says

  “Juvederm lip filler, $599 per syringe”

  We show

  $599 per syringe

• Our math

  We worked something out from the clinic’s wording, and the deal page says what.

  The clinic says

  “40 units of Botox for $450”

  We show

  $450 for 40 units

  We divide it out to $11.25 per unit so you can compare it.

• Confirm when booking

  We couldn’t be sure of the price from the clinic’s wording. Confirm it when you book.

  The clinic says

  “$100 off when you buy 40 or more units of Botox”

  We show

  $100 off

  No price, because the offer never states one.

In a list of deals, a deal with no label is As advertised. The deal page always shows the label, and under How we read this deal it quotes the clinic's words and says what we worked out.

Our math covers five things:

• a per-unit price we divided out of a package
• a total we multiplied out from a per-unit price and a number of units
• one price for several treatments, listed under one of them
• a neurotoxin deal that doesn't name one brand, compared against every brand's prices
• a percentage off we counted from an offer like “buy 2, get 1 free”

A deal is marked Confirm when booking when the clinic's words don't state its price or discount, or don't say what the price buys.

We show a regular price, or a saving worked out from one, only when the clinic's own words state that regular price.

When you browse a city's neurotoxin deals, a deal can say how it compares with the typical price there, such as “32% below typical”. Typical is the median, the middle value, of the per-unit prices listed for neurotoxins in that city.

• Neurotoxins compare per unit: “40 units for $450” counts as $11.25 per unit. A neurotoxin deal priced per area, or with no number of units to divide by, doesn't count.
• A price one clinic lists more than once, such as the same per-unit price for Botox and Jeuveau, counts once.
• We show a typical price only when there are at least 5 such prices from at least 3 clinics.
• Deals marked Confirm when booking never count.
• A starting price (“from $9 per unit”) doesn't count and isn't compared: it is the lowest the clinic charges, not what you pay.
• Dysport doesn't count and isn't compared. A Dysport unit is smaller than a Botox unit, so its per-unit price isn't a like-for-like figure.

The neurotoxin figure pools every other brand, so it is a typical neurotoxin price, not a typical Botox price. Where the lowest price is a brand other than Botox, we name the brand. The same prices count toward every neurotoxin median we show across brands, on the homepage and in the cost guides.

Other treatments have no typical price. Under one treatment, clinics list things that cost very different amounts: one vial of a skin treatment beside a package of three sessions, or one syringe of filler beside several syringes or a vial of Sculptra. The middle of those isn't a price anyone pays, so for other treatments we show the lowest price listed and no comparison.

• Units and areas. Some clinics price neurotoxins by the area treated, not by the unit. An area isn't a set number of units, so we don't convert it, and those deals aren't compared per unit.
• Dysport and Botox units. Dysport and Botox units aren't the same size. A treatment usually takes more Dysport units, so Dysport's per-unit price looks lower. That is why Dysport is left out of the typical price. Compare brands with that in mind.
• Packages. When one price covers several treatments, we list it under one of them and the price is for the whole package. Outside neurotoxins, sorting by price puts a package beside a single session.
• Membership fees. A member price also needs a paid membership. Lists mark these “for members”. The deal page shows the fee, how often it's billed and any minimum commitment when the clinic publishes them, and says so when it doesn't.
• Ended offers. A deal ends when the end date the clinic published passes, or when its own wording dates it, such as “for the month of September”. An ended deal stays on the site for 90 days, marked with the date it ended, as a record of what was advertised. It can't be claimed or saved, and it never counts toward a typical price or a lowest price. Most offers publish no end date at all, so a deal can still be listed after the clinic stops offering it.
• Conditions. We show the conditions we can read, such as new customers only or a required membership. Offers often carry more fine print, like minimum units or one per person. Ask the clinic when you book.

If a deal looks wrong, report it.

Clinic names stay hidden until you claim a deal, so you compare deals on price and terms first, and a clinic's details go to people who have asked about its deal. Until then we also leave out anything that would point to the clinic, such as its name in the offer's wording and its Google rating.

To claim, you sign in and give your name and phone number. The claim shows you the clinic's name, address, phone number and website. When you claim, we share your name and contact details with the clinic: our team passes your request on to them.

Every deal page has Report a problem under How we read this deal. Choose what's wrong (the price is wrong, the deal has ended, the clinic wouldn't honor it, the terms are different, or something else) and add a note if you like. You don't need an account. Reports go to our team, who can correct a deal or take it off the site.

After you claim a deal, your claims page asks whether the clinic honored the price.

A clinic with a CostFinders business account sees its deals on its business dashboard. For each one it can confirm we have it right or suggest a correction. A confirmed deal says Confirmed by the clinic, and the deal page gives the date, until its price or wording changes. Corrections go to our team to review. If the clinic's own page changes later, the listing can change with it.

Most clinics don't have a business account. Any clinic can ask us to correct a deal, fix a price, or add or remove its listing with the listing change form. A person reviews every request.