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Drugs.com Professional

by Drugsite Trust  ·  NZ

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Free drug reference for professionals: AHFS monographs, interaction checker, pill identifier, FDA alerts and shortages. No AI features described.

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At a glance

Pricing
Free to use with a free sign-up to save drug and interaction lists. Funded by advertising. No Pro subscription or price was found.
HIPAA
Not disclosed
SOC 2
Not disclosed
EHRs
—
Founded
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HQ
NZ
AI features
None stated. Listed as a reference for comparison.
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Independent score  ·  By our public rubric

12/100Tracked
How it’s computed →
  • Regulatory & Compliance
    0/22

    No FDA clearance listed

  • Clinical Integration
    0/26

    No EHR integrations listed

  • Evidence Strength
    0/27

    No peer-reviewed coverage

  • Vendor & Market
    10.9/21.6

    Mid-tier funding and adoption

  • Sentiment & Transparency
    3/15

    Pricing on request, no public amounts

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Regulatory & Compliance

  • FDA clearance0/12

    No FDA clearance listed

  • HIPAA / SOC2 / BAA0/10

    No public HIPAA/SOC2/BAA attestation

Clinical Integration

  • EHR integrations (count)0/14

    No EHR integrations listed

  • Top-3 EHR coverage (Epic / Oracle / Athena)0/8

    None of the top-3 EHRs covered

  • Bidirectional write-back0/4

    No bidirectional write-back documented

Evidence Strength

  • Peer-reviewed papers0/21

    No peer-reviewed coverage

  • RCT / meta-analysis / systematic review0/6

    No RCT, meta-analysis, or systematic review

Vendor & Market

  • Funding & adoption signal11/16

    Mid-tier funding and adoption

  • Years in market0/6

    Founded year not recorded

Sentiment & Transparency

  • Clinician sentiment (Reddit)0/9

    No clinician sentiment data available

  • Pricing transparency3/6

    Pricing on request, no public amounts

Scored October 15, 2026 · Public scoring method v1.1.0

Bottom line  ·  Best free public + Pro

Strong free public tier + Pro $285/yr.

Drug database + interactions + IV compatibility + pill ID.

Editorial review  ·  By MedAI Verdict

Bottom line

Drugs.com is a free, ad-supported drug reference. It offers an interaction checker, a pill identifier, prescribing information for more than 5,000 medications and a professional hub with AHFS monographs. It is owned by a New Zealand trust and paid for by advertising. In one study it flagged more interactions than Micromedex and in an SSRI study more than the other four checkers, and its severity ratings often disagree with Micromedex and Lexicomp. It is useful as a fast second look for a clinician and a weak sole source for alert decisions.

What is Drugs.com and who runs it?

Drugsite Limited, as trustee of the Drugsite Trust, owns and operates the site. The About page says it is "administered by two New Zealand Pharmacists," lists an address in Auckland, and says it is hosted in Dallas, Texas. It calls itself "the largest, most widely visited, independent medicine information website available on the Internet" and says it is not affiliated with any pharmaceutical company. Revenue comes from ads, with Healthline Networks for the consumer side and eHealthcare Solutions for the professional side.

What is in it?

The database is powered by ASHP, Cerner Multum and Micromedex content. The professional hub lists AHFS DI monographs, a natural product database, FDA alerts and drug shortages. The /pro/ section carries FDA prescribing information described as "official labeling, full prescribing details, and clinical pharmacology data for over 5,000 medications." A free sign-up lets users save drug and interaction lists. The site also runs a veterinary product database through DVMetrics, and its symptom checker uses Harvard Health content.

How accurate is the interaction checker?

Three published comparisons put numbers on it:

  • A comparison of nine tools on 145 oral oncolytic drug pairs found Lexicomp and Drugs.com the top performers with no significant difference between them, while sensitivity across all tools ranged from 0.65 to 0.96.
  • In metabolic syndrome drugs, Micromedex reported 724 interacting pairs and Drugs.com 1,122, and the two gave the same severity rating for 37.43% of pairs.
  • A 2025 comparison of five checkers on SSRIs found Drugs.com reported the most interactions and agreed poorly with Lexi-Interact.

What does it cost?

It is free to use, with a free sign-up for saved lists.

The verdict

A pharmacist or physician who wants a quick interaction lookup, a pill identifier and the FDA label in one place at no cost gets that here, and in the oral oncolytic comparison its sensitivity matched Lexicomp's. A team writing alert rules from severity grades has a different problem, since the grades are where the studies show the gaps.

Editorial review last generated October 15, 2026. Synthesized from clinician sentiment, peer-reviewed coverage, and our editorial silo picks. Refined by hand where vendor facts change.

Pricing

What it costs

All tiers are custom-quoted. The vendor does not publish per-provider list pricing.

TierMonthlyAnnualNotes
Free——Free to use with a free sign-up to save drug and interaction lists. Funded by advertising. No Pro subscription or price was found.

Source: vendor pricing page. Last checked October 15, 2026.

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