- As-needed tablets are the cheap road: tadalafil from $69 monthly, down to $49 on the twelve-month plan.
- Troches cost far more: $142 to $209 a month depending on how many you take.
- The ladder is not the same on both. Tablets have four commitment tiers. Troches have two.
- Across a year the tablets save you $240 by committing. The troches save you $112.
- Plain packaging, free shipping, cancel or pause at any time.
This is a straightforward programme with one genuinely confusing thing in it. Aspen sells the same category in two formats, and the format you choose on day one does two separate jobs: it sets your monthly price, and it decides whether a discount ladder is available to you at all. Nobody explains the second part, because at the point of choosing you are comparing formats, not pricing structures.
What the programme actually is
Two familiar molecules, tadalafil and sildenafil, ordered online and delivered in plain packaging with free shipping. You can cancel or pause whenever you want. That part is simple and it is not where the money goes wrong.
The tablets: where the ladder works
| As-needed tadalafil, 20mg | What you pay | Per month | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Month to month | $69 monthly | $69 | — |
| 3 months | $177 once | $59 | 14% |
| 6 months | $324 once | $54 | 22% |
| 12 months | $588 once | $49 | 29% |
| As-needed sildenafil, 100mg | What you pay | Per month | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Month to month | $64 monthly | $64 | — |
| 3 months | $168 once | $56 | 13% |
| 6 months | $312 once | $52 | 19% |
| 12 months | $588 once | $49 | 23% |
Four rungs, ending at a real discount. Run it across a year: $828 drifting along monthly against $588 committing at the start. $240 of difference for the identical medication.
The troches: where it quietly stops working
Troches are the dissolvable format, priced by how many you get each month.
| Troches | Monthly | 3 months | What that saves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 a month — about two a week | $142 | $399 once | $27 |
| 12 a month — about three a week | $179 | $509 once | $28 |
| 18 a month — about four a week | $209 | $599 once | $28 |
Two things stand out. The first is obvious: this route starts at more than double the monthly tablet price and climbs to more than four times it. The second is the one worth your attention. There is no six-month plan and no annual plan here. Monthly or three months, and that is the entire ladder — a saving of roughly six percent, on the route that already costs several times more.
The comparison nobody puts in front of you
Take the tier the platform marks as popular, twelve troches a month, and run it for a year. Paying monthly is $2,148. Taking the best route available to you, four consecutive three-month blocks, is $2,036. That is $112 across an entire year. On the tablets, the same exercise saved you $240 — on a base price a fraction of the size.
Being fair about the troches
They are not a scam and we are not implying they are. There are real reasons to prefer something that dissolves rather than something you swallow, and if that suits you better then paying more for it is a defensible decision that plenty of people will make and be right about. What we object to is making that call without knowing that the cheaper format is also the one with the working ladder, and discovering it in month seven.
The downsides
- The cheapest tablet price needs a year up front. $588 is a real cheque to write on day one.
- The troche route is structurally worse value, and its pricing page does not draw attention to the missing tiers.
- Availability depends on where you live, so the eligibility check is not a formality and the answer can come back no.
- These are real medications with real interactions, particularly with anything containing nitrates.
Who it is for
- Want tablets and know you want them for the year
- Would rather pay $588 once than $828 in pieces
- Value plain packaging and free shipping
- Want the full grid visible before you commit
- Specifically want troches at a competitive annual rate — that tier does not exist
- Want to commit for a month and reassess
- Need the absolute lowest entry price rather than the lowest annual one
If you want the tablets and you already know this is a twelve-month thing, this is competitively priced and the ladder rewards you properly for committing. Just make the format decision with the whole grid in front of you, because on this platform that single choice is worth a few hundred dollars a year.
This review covers the service and its pricing, not the medication. Suitability and results vary from one person to the next, availability depends on where you live, and nothing here is medical advice. Discuss it with a qualified healthcare professional before starting anything.