Why there is no score
The seven checks behind every rating on this site ask the same question in seven ways: does the page tell you this before you pay? Not whether the company knows it, not whether it appears somewhere on the internet — whether it is in front of a man at the moment he hands over his card.
No third party can answer that. A review site can tell you Hims sells a compounded chewable; it cannot tell you whether the checkout page names the nitrate interaction. And the absence of a warning from somebody else's article is not evidence of its absence from the page.
So scoring this from secondary sources would mean writing seven findings we did not make. Recording them as failures would say, in effect, that Hims hides the nitrate warning — which we have no reason to believe and no way to check. That is not a data gap, it is an accusation, and we are not making it.
The sources disagree, and that is the finding
This is the clearest demonstration of why we did not simply take the numbers and publish them.
| Source A | Source B | |
|---|---|---|
| Sildenafil | 45 mg | 45 mg |
| Tadalafil | 11 mg | 18 mg |
| Price per dose | $8.00 (six-dose pack at $48) | “From $1.63 per use” |
The sildenafil figure matches. The tadalafil figure does not, and the gap between 11 mg and 18 mg is not academic — it is most of the way from a modest dose to a substantial one, on the drug that stays in your system for 36 hours and sets the nitrate washout window at 48.
The price figures differ by roughly five times. Both are probably true of different plans, and that is exactly the problem: we cannot tell you which one applies to the offer in the advert, because we cannot see the advert's landing page.
Publishing either number as fact would put a figure on this site that we cannot stand behind. We have done that once already, and corrected it publicly. How that happened.
What is not in dispute
Hims' own copy, as surfaced through search, states plainly that compounded drug products are not FDA-approved and that the FDA does not evaluate them for safety, effectiveness or quality. That is the correct disclosure and it is worth saying so.
Its published drug information also names the nitrate interaction in unusual detail — listing nitroglycerin, isosorbide dinitrate, isosorbide mononitrate, amyl nitrate and sodium nitroprusside — and gives the four-hour rule with the consequence attached. If that material appears on the page a buyer actually lands on, it would score well. We cannot confirm that it does. Which medicines count as nitrates.
A note about the sources themselves
The most detailed third-party review we found carries affiliate links to Hims throughout and publishes no affiliate disclosure statement alongside them.
That does not make its figures wrong, and we have used them. It does mean they come from a party paid on conversions, which is worth knowing when weighing a number nobody else can check. It is also the practice this site exists to be the opposite of. How we make money.
If you want this properly reviewed
The block is on automated access, not on people. Anyone who can open the page can send us the price block, the safety text, the ingredients and the billing terms, and we will audit it against the same seven checks as everything else. Send it to us.