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	$0.034
3	Casein Protein Powder	9.39	100%	9.7	9.1	$0.047
4	Micellar Casein Protein Powder	9.07	100%	8.4	9.4	$0.056
5	Casein Protein	9.06	100%	9.4	8.3	$0.050
6	Nutricost Pea Protein Powder	8.81	75%	9.5	8.0	$0.047
7	Vanilla Milkshake Protein Powder	8.70	100%	8.1	8.7	$0.059
8	Animal 100 Whey Protein	8.69	100%	9.4	7.3	$0.050
9	Nutricost Casein Powder Chocolate	8.58	100%	9.1	8.3	$0.051
10	Pea Protein Powder	8.49	75%	8.6	8.4	$0.056
11	Chocolate Protein Powder	8.44	100%	7.9	8.3	$0.062
12	Whey Protein Concentrate 80 Percent Powder Clean	8.42	100%	7.8	8.4	$0.062
13	Whey Protein Powder Isolate 90 Percent Clean	8.32	100%	6.8	9.1	$0.067
14	Combat 100 Whey	8.20	100%	8.3	6.9	$0.056
15	Select Protein	8.18	100%	6.7	8.7	$0.068
16	Gold Standard 100 Whey Double Rich Chocolate 2lb	8.13	100%	7.5	8.0	$0.064
17	Gold Standard 100 Whey Vanilla Ice Cream 5lb	8.13	100%	7.5	8.0	$0.064
18	Classic Whey	8.09	100%	7.6	7.7	$0.063
19	Combat Protein Powder	8.04	100%	8.7	7.1	$0.054
20	Stacked Protein	7.85	75%	8.9	6.7	$0.052
21	Loaded Protein	7.74	100%	7.0	7.1	$0.067
22	Chocolate Micellar Casein	7.71	100%	5.9	8.3	$0.071
23	Grass Fed Whey Protein Powder	7.60	100%	5.7	8.3	$0.074
24	Grass-Fed Whey Protein Concentrate Powder	7.54	100%	6.2	7.7	$0.071
25	Whey Protein Isolate	7.47	100%	5.2	8.6	$0.076
26	Cinnamon Crunch Protein Powder	7.45	100%	6.5	7.3	$0.069
27	R1 Protein Whey Isolate	7.40	100%	5.1	8.3	$0.076
28	Whey Protein	7.33	100%	6.2	6.9	$0.071
29	Select Protein Vegan Series	7.24	100%	5.7	7.3	$0.074
30	Syntha 6 Edge Protein	6.19	75%	6.3	6.0	$0.069
31	Syntha 6 Protein	5.86	75%	7.1	4.4	$0.065
32	Pro Protein	5.80	75%	5.4	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.