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Head-to-head for women

Oak vs Sesame Care

Oak and Sesame Care both offer GLP-1 telehealth to women, but they make different trade-offs on PCOS and hormonal suitability, clinical oversight, price and access. Here they are side-by-side on the Luna Fit Score — our women's-health rubric.

Oak

Ranked #53 for women · Grade C

Best for: Women who would rather buy a package outright than manage a recurring plan, and who are willing to complete a long health intake before finding out what they will actually be charged.

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Sesame Care

Higher score

Ranked #5 for women · Grade B

Best for: Shoppers who want genuine FDA-approved brand-name GLP-1s and the ability to pick their own provider and see the price up front, rather than one fixed compounded program.

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The verdict for women

Higher Luna Fit Score: Sesame Care

Sesame Care edges out Oak on the Luna Fit Score, 85 to 72 (B vs C). Shoppers who want genuine FDA-approved brand-name GLP-1s and the ability to pick their own provider and see the price up front, rather than one fixed compounded program. The reasoning behind that number is in the Sesame Care scorecard.

Oak is still a genuine option — a compounded program sold as one-off packages rather than a subscription, in Spanish as well as English, charging $200/mo for semaglutide and $250 for tirzepatide at one flat rate per dose — but its own pages give nine different starting figures, none carrying a term and none of them the price it actually charges, plus two different answers on how many states it serves. Weigh the six women's-health factors below against your own priorities; our full Oak review goes through each of them, and if neither of these two is the one, the Oak alternatives, scored on the same six factors widens the field.

Side-by-side on the six factors

Both providers scored on the same women's-health rubric — the higher side on each factor is marked. See the methodology.

Oak Sesame Care
PCOS & hormonal suitability7884
Oak
Sesame
Clinical oversight & labs7288
Oak
Sesame
Price transparency4280
Oak
Sesame
Nationwide access8092
Oak
Sesame
Ongoing support7682
Oak
Sesame
Cancellation fairness8885
Oak
Sesame

Price, access & features

DetailOakSesame Care
Luna Fit Score72/100 · C85/100 · B
Overall rank#53#5
Semaglutide$250/mo (one flat rate at every dose), read on its order form the afternoon of 15 August; it showed $200/mo that morningBrand Wegovy pill from $149/mo at 1.5 and 4 mg only, $299/mo at 9 and 25 mg — plus Sesame care: $59/mo only on the 12-month prepay, otherwise $99 billed every 28 days (13 charges a year)
Tirzepatide$300/mo (one flat rate at every dose), read on its order form the afternoon of 15 August; it showed $250/mo that morningBrand Zepbound vial $299/mo (2.5 mg), $399 (5 mg), $449 (7.5–15 mg); KwikPen $299 / $399 / $499 / $699 (10–15 mg) — plus Sesame care: $59/mo on the 12-month prepay, otherwise $99 per 28 days
CoverageNo state list published — Oak's own checkout accepts all 50 states and DC; its Terms of Use say 45Nationwide marketplace
Brand-name accessCompounded onlyYes
Oral / sublingualInjection onlyYes

Oak

Ranked #53 · Grade C

What we like

  • No membership or subscription fee and no plan to manage — Oak sells one-month and three-month packages, with shipping included
  • Oak's own checkout currently accepts every state and Washington D.C., and the site and the intake are offered in Spanish as well as English
  • There is no recurring charge to stop, so there is nothing to cancel and no auto-renewal to catch you out

The caveats

  • Oak does not publish a price you can act on. Across its own pages it gives nine different "starting" figures — $119, $133, $160, $167, $180, $185, $190, $199 and $250 — and attaches a term or a billing cadence to none of them
  • The two cheapest of those figures are not monthly rates. "Semaglutide from $119 / Tirzepatide from $185" appears only beside a "$200 off — new patient offer", and Oak's own affiliate page defines that offer as "$50 off your first month, $200 off 3-months" — a three-month package discount printed as if it were a per-month price
  • The undiscounted floors Oak itself publishes are $190/mo on its weight-loss page and $167/mo in the comparison table on its homepage, and those two do not agree with each other either

Sesame Care

Ranked #5 · Grade B

What we like

  • Real FDA-approved brand-name access — Wegovy pen and pill, Zepbound, Ozempic, Mounjaro and Rybelsus
  • Established platform (operating since 2018) with LegitScript, BBB accreditation and large third-party review volume
  • You choose the provider and see the price up front — genuine marketplace transparency

The caveats

  • A generalist marketplace, not a dedicated weight-loss program — lighter ongoing hand-holding than a specialist desk
  • Two-part cost (a platform subscription plus the medication) makes the true monthly total harder to compare
  • Brand-name cash prices can run high without insurance

Assume any provider we list may compensate us — we may earn a commission, at no cost to you. Pricing, states and verification reflect each provider's public disclosures at last review; the Luna Fit Score is our editorial judgment per the methodology. Prices change — confirm on each provider's site. Not medical advice; see our disclosure.

More head-to-heads

Neither Oak nor Sesame Care is only worth comparing with the other. Oak is also written up against CoreAge Rx, 21 points apart on the Luna Fit Score — see how Oak and CoreAge Rx compare on the Luna Fit Score. Sesame Care is also written up against CoreAge Rx, 8 points apart — see Sesame Care against CoreAge Rx, factor by factor.

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