A Hims prescription requires a recurring subscription that bundles the online consult, provider messaging, and auto-refills from partner pharmacies, including proprietary compounded formulas, with oral finasteride starting at $22 per month as of October 2026. FutureClinic works without a required subscription: you pay $40 for the best-fit physician (or a chosen doctor's listed price, typically $20 to $100) and send prescriptions to the pharmacy you choose.

On FutureClinic, a specific doctor reads your whole case and answers with a written plan and a Human Signature, a short video or voice note recorded live for you. No form gets approved in bulk. You can message the same doctor time after time, however long in between, to build trust, try treatments together, and track progress: checking hair photos after months on finasteride, swapping an irritating acne cream, or adjusting a dose. That doctor can also treat other problems in their specialty, like eczema or rosacea, and every FutureClinic doctor you see works from one medical record.

How do Hims and FutureClinic compare?

What does Hims include, and who treats you?

Per the Hims help center, prescriptions require a subscription bundling the consult, messaging, and fills from partner pharmacies like XeCare Pharmacy and Apostrophe Pharmacy LLC. You must cancel at least 48 hours before your next order date; refunds are not guaranteed once processed. Hims clinicians belong to an independent group certified in family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, and more. In Hims's provider credential lists (updated July 23, 2026), our count of about 1,459 providers found roughly half are nurse practitioners: about 757 NPs, 538 MDs, and 165 DOs.

FutureClinic has over 300 doctors. They span more than 60 specialties, generalists and specialists alike. Every clinician is a state-licensed, background-checked physician with an MD, DO or MBBS degree, never a nurse practitioner or physician assistant. FutureClinic sells no medicine, and your doctor earns nothing extra for any prescription or test, prescribing any non-controlled brand or generic without a house formulary. Real care takes hours, not seconds: replies typically come within a few hours, almost always the same day or the next.

In September 2026, Hims launched AI-native care for weight-loss members, where an "AI clinical engine" gives non-clinical direction or escalates to a provider; Hims says, "The AI informs. The clinician decides. Always." At FutureClinic, we believe AI is a tool for doctors and the doctor is in charge of every case. Health problems have nuance needing one-to-one attention, and only an expert knows when an AI has made a mistake or headed to the wrong answer. Our AI works behind the scenes like a chief resident, gathering your history to confirm, and never gives medical advice by itself.

How does a year of Hims compare with a pharmacy fill?

A low monthly price assumes you stay subscribed to keep getting the medicine. FutureClinic has no subscription required: pay $40 for the best-fit doctor, or pick a chosen doctor at their listed price, typically $20 to $100. Most doctors also offer an optional membership, typically $25 to $100 a month, for unlimited care with that doctor, cancel any time.

As of October 2026, Hims offers oral finasteride from $22 per month ($264/year) and does not accept insurance. On FutureClinic, if your doctor decides it's right for you, one $40 visit can cover a six-month script for a stable medicine when the doctor judges it safe, sent to the pharmacy you choose. Per GoodRx as of October 2026 for 30 finasteride 1 mg tablets (zip 11201), a fill is $10.20 at Sam's Club, $16.99 at Costco, or $29.45 at CVS ($14.93 on GoodRx's table): about $202/year at Sam's Club or $284/year at Costco with two $40 visits, or less with insurance.

For weight loss, Hims's program fee as of October 2026 is $39 month one and $149/month thereafter ($1,678 in year one), plus brand GLP-1 cash prices from $149/month, and medicine requires a membership. Any licensed doctor can prescribe to NovoCare or LillyDirect without a membership: as of October 2026, self-pay prices start at $149/month for the 1.5 mg Wegovy pill via NovoCare or $299/month for the 2.5 mg Zepbound KwikPen or vial via LillyDirect. With commercial insurance, FutureClinic helps with prior authorizations, and Wegovy's savings card lowers eligible copays to as little as $25/month (up to $100/month savings).