Best Budget Protein Powders

The cheaper half of the category — every product at or below the median cost per gram of protein — ranked by the same composite used on the full protein powders page.

Ranking

Pick up to four rows, then read them side by side.


1	Pea Protein Powder	9.55	100%	10.0	9.0	$0.028
2	Soy Protein Isolate Powder	9.49	100%	9.8	9.1	$0.035
3	Casein Protein Powder	9.32	100%	9.5	9.1	$0.048
4	Micellar Casein Protein Powder	9.19	100%	8.7	9.4	$0.056
5	Casein Protein	9.06	100%	9.3	8.3	$0.050
6	Nutricost Pea Protein Powder	8.90	75%	9.7	8.0	$0.047
7	Animal 100 Whey Protein	8.68	100%	9.3	7.3	$0.050
8	Nutricost Casein Powder Chocolate	8.57	100%	9.0	8.3	$0.051
9	Chocolate Protein Powder	8.56	100%	8.2	8.3	$0.062
10	Whey Protein Concentrate 80 Percent Powder Clean	8.47	100%	7.9	8.4	$0.063
11	Pea Protein Powder	8.39	75%	8.4	8.4	$0.057
12	Whey Protein Powder Isolate 90 Percent Clean	8.37	100%	6.9	9.1	$0.068
13	Select Protein	8.35	100%	7.1	8.7	$0.068
14	Combat 100 Whey	8.32	100%	8.6	6.9	$0.056
15	Classic Whey	8.27	100%	8.1	7.7	$0.063
16	Gold Standard 100 Whey Double Rich Chocolate 2lb	8.25	100%	7.7	8.0	$0.064
17	Gold Standard 100 Whey Vanilla Ice Cream 5lb	8.25	100%	7.7	8.0	$0.064
18	Combat Protein Powder	8.10	100%	8.9	7.1	$0.054
19	Chocolate Micellar Casein	7.88	100%	6.3	8.3	$0.071
20	Loaded Protein	7.85	100%	7.3	7.1	$0.067
21	Grass Fed Whey Protein Powder	7.70	100%	6.0	8.3	$0.074
22	Whey Protein Isolate	7.57	100%	5.5	8.6	$0.076
23	Grass-Fed Whey Protein Concentrate Powder	7.52	100%	6.1	7.7	$0.072
24	R1 Protein Whey Isolate	7.49	100%	5.3	8.3	$0.076
25	Whey Protein	7.43	100%	6.5	6.9	$0.071
26	Select Protein Vegan Series	7.34	100%	6.0	7.3	$0.074
27	Organic Vegan Protein Powder	7.23	100%	6.6	6.9	$0.069
28	Gold Standard 100 Casein Chocolate Supreme 4lb	7.21	100%	5.2	8.0	$0.077
29	Nutricost Whey Protein Concentrate Powder	6.84	100%	5.0	7.7	$0.077
30	Syntha 6 Edge Protein	6.41	75%	6.8	6.0	$0.069
31	Syntha 6 Protein	6.01	75%	7.4	4.4	$0.065
32	Pro Protein	5.93	75%	5.7	6.3	$0.075

Click a column header to sort. not enough data means the number could not be verified from the label or price on record — never estimated.

How this ranking is built

These are the same composite scores as the full Protein Powders ranking — value math against the whole category, formula and dose auditing from the verified label — shown for the budget half of the category only. Nothing is re-scored for this page; see how we rate for the full method.