Drug analogues by active ingredient

The same active ingredient is sold under a dozen brand names, and prices differ several times over. This shows everything registered with the same ingredient, priced per tablet or capsule, as a table you can export.

Features

How it works

Enter the drug
Type the medicine name.
Choose what to collect
54,314 positions, 949 active ingredients, 5,489 brand names.
Run the lookup
The source is the open state register of medicines.
Download the Excel file
Analogues with the active substance and manufacturer.
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FAQ

Where do the prices come from?
From the Russian state registry of maximum ex-factory prices for essential medicines. It is an official Ministry of Health document, updated daily, and we take it in full. No logins, no bypassing of protections — the registry is open.
Is this the price I pay at the pharmacy?
No. The cap is the ceiling for the manufacturer; wholesale and retail margins are added on top, so the till will show more. Comparing drugs against each other by this figure is valid; budgeting your purchase by it is not.
Why not simply compare every drug with the same ingredient?
Because the answer would be false. One ingredient covers both an ampoule and a canister: the spread reaches thousands of times, but that is a difference in form, not overpayment. We compare only within the same form and dosage. Where a “unit” cannot be defined — solutions, ointments, sprays — we deliberately do not compute a per-unit price.
Does the registry cover every medicine?
No. It covers only the essential-medicines list — 949 active ingredients by our measurement. A drug outside that list is simply absent, and that is not a search error.
Can I use this to replace a prescribed drug?
No. We show registry data, not medical advice. A matching ingredient and dosage do not make two drugs interchangeable for a given person: excipients, coating and release rate differ. That decision belongs to a doctor or pharmacist — the table is convenient to show them.

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