Maximus Tribe Reviews

Every day, it seems more men are waking up to the fact that their testosterone levels are bound to decline with age.1 Fortunately, a growing telehealth infrastructure is eager to serve them with testosterone testing and TRT prescriptions without ever asking them to leave the house.

Maximus Tribe is one such outfit, but it's expanded in recent years to offer far more than just support for men with low testosterone. The company’s catalog now encompasses testosterone, weight loss, hair loss, peptide therapy, and more.

In this review, we'll break down all of Maximus’ products and services to help you determine if their costs and processes align with your wellness goals.

Maximus Tribe delivers a reasonable range of TRT options, including traditional testosterone injections and more recently developed treatments like oral enclomiphene, all at competitive prices. It also offers therapies for hair loss, erectile dysfunction, and more, though some of these treatments are available from others for less. Its yearly billing cycles bring the effective monthly prices of most TRT treatments down below most competitors, and its fast shipping and easy-to-use at-home testosterone test easily make it the most convenient option for men seeking a TRT regimen.

At Innerbody Research, we carefully scrutinize every product and service we review, including the testing and treatment options offered by Maximus Tribe. Our team has extensive expertise in the testosterone and male wellness space, so much so that we developed our own supplement to increase male testosterone.

We’ve spent more than 3,000 hours reviewing treatments and protocols employed in more than 200 published scientific studies. Additionally, like all health-related content on this website, this guide was thoroughly vetted by one or more members of our Medical Review Board for accuracy and will continue to be monitored for updates by our editorial team.

Over the past two decades, Innerbody Research has helped tens of millions of readers make more informed decisions about staying healthy and living healthier lifestyles.

To evaluate Maximus Tribe, we compared it to the top competing TRT and testosterone testing companies on the market. In doing so, we kept an eye on five critical criteria we believe will matter most to consumers, as they mattered most to us throughout our investigation. These include available treatments, safety, cost, quality of care, and convenience.

Let’s take a closer look at each criterion to see how Maximus Tribe performed.

Available treatments

While a surprising number of TRT providers focus on just one or two treatments — typically testosterone injections or topical creams — Maximus belongs to a more expansive camp of telehealth clinics that offer a much wider assortment of options for men with different needs.

We’ll break down the advantages and disadvantages of each of these approaches later, but Maximus currently offers the following for men concerned with low testosterone:

• Testosterone cypionate injection
• Topical testosterone cream
• Oral testosterone
• Oral enclomiphene citrate
• Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)

This isn’t the most comprehensive lineup of testosterone treatments on the market, but it’s among the most, and it includes our preferred TRT option, enclomiphene. Compared to injections and creams, enclomiphene provides a slower, steadier rise in testosterone levels, along with fewer significant side effects, most notably the loss of fertility associated with more traditional treatments.2

Maximus doesn’t stop at testosterone treatments, either. Its catalog has grown over the years to include treatments for ED, hair loss, weight loss, and anxiety. One of the most recent additions to its catalog has been peptide therapy in the form of sermorelin, a catalyst for the increased output of human growth hormone (HGH) that can help with body recomposition — burning fat and building muscle.3 4

Together, these treatments make Maximus a smart place to start for men seeking treatments for various issues that arise with age, from sexual health to strength and appearance.

Safety

Most of Maximus’ products boast a significant amount of human clinical research evaluating both efficacy and safety, with safety profiles typically consisting of only mild side effects for most users. There are a few exceptions, like the fertility issues that can arise from certain TRT treatments, as well as potential autoimmune reactions (rising to anaphylaxis in some cases) from peptide therapies.2 5

And as a purveyor of prescription drugs, Maximus is LegalScript Certified, meaning its doctor and pharmacy network is vetted by a third party to ensure legal compliance and product safety. That’s something you definitely want to see from any telehealth provider.

That said, some competitors go even further in their quest for safety, though that often comes at the expense of convenience. As you’ll see under our convenience header in a bit, Maximus scores very highly. But part of that rating comes from its speed, including a rapid review of medical information and a prescription that gets written without ever needing a video call with your provider (some states may require calls, however). That speeds up the process, but it seems like it could be easy for a person to misrepresent their health status — intentionally or not — in a way that gets them a prescription for which they might not be suitable.

Ultimately, this puts the onus on the consumer to verify their health information before seeking a prescription, which is fine. It’s just that companies like 1st Optimal, for example, have additional safeguards in place before prescribing, including a video conference with your original reviewing nurse practitioner and an MD. Very few telehealth outfits employ MDs to that end.

Cost

Maximus offers outstanding value for most of its treatments, but that doesn’t always mean the company can win out on pure cost when compared to certain competitors. To get the best value out of Maximus, you need to be able to pony up a year’s worth of treatment costs all at once. But since this is a common practice among telehealth outfits offering similar treatments, it’s hard to hold it against Maximus specifically.

Most of those other companies also rely on membership fees, which Maximus does not. Companies with membership fees, like Hone, list much lower prices for their medications, but those prices exist on top of membership fees. The fees sometimes cover things like lab costs, but not always.

Here's a quick comparison pitting a few similar companies against Maximus for enclomiphene citrate, a smart first-line treatment for many men with hypogonadism:

As you can see, Hims is the only company whose low enclomiphene price and included lab costs outperform Maximus for total costs. Of course, Hims only offers enclomiphene for TRT, so men seeking injections, creams, or other treatment would need to look elsewhere.

Outside the TRT space, Maximus is still competitive, but there are almost always competitors with better offerings. Hims has better prices for a wider assortment of ED medications. Henry, Eden, and several other providers have better prices for the maintenance doses of GLP-1 medications for weight loss.

But in the TRT space, which remains Maximus’ niche even as the company expands, few can compare with the cost of certain treatments, and none can compare with the combination of quality and cost offered in its testosterone test.

Quality of care

As we discussed under our safety criterion, Maximus has a relatively hands-off approach to its care process. As long as there’s nothing that sticks out in your labs or intake questionnaire, you’re liable to get a prescription for any of its products without any formal call with a doctor or nurse practitioner.

For some men, this isn’t going to be an issue, but for anyone who wants to have a more comprehensive intake experience or to discuss concerns with a doctor in real time, it could get frustrating. To be fair, our interactions with our Maximus doctors were pretty streamlined, with conversations on the company’s messaging platform getting us answers to most of our questions within 24 hours, but we can’t guarantee that would be everyone’s experience.

Another knock on Maximus’ quality of care is that there aren’t a lot of avenues to explore should certain side effects arise. For example, if your TRT experience caused mood issues, Maximus doesn’t offer any psychiatric care or potentially useful prescriptions. By comparison, a company like 1st Optimal offers a host of additional testing and prescription services in the face of side effects most commonly associated with its standard treatments.

Convenience

Where the slight dings to Maximus’ safety and quality of care arise, there exists a counterbalancing boost in convenience. Nearly everything about the Maximus experience is fast and straightforward, including the intake and testing process and the company’s impressive shipping times and lab work turnaround.

For example, we ordered a testosterone test on a Thursday and received it the next day. One of our testers took that test on the following Wednesday, and we had the results before the end of the following day. To be clear, the roughly 30-hour results turnaround includes shipping. Some testosterone testing competitors, like Choose Health, took weeks to deliver results.

The following Monday, a board-certified family medicine physician reached out to us to offer us an enclomiphene prescription, which we accepted and received two days later. Start to finish (excluding the gap between our receiving the test and taking it), the process went from purchasing a test to receiving our prescription in the mail in just seven business days.

This degree of efficiency is unmatched among similar companies.

One knock on Maximus’ convenience for men just visiting the site and looking for information is that the AI chat assistant is a dumpster fire of misinformation. When it accurately parses even simple questions, it often gives answers that directly contradict or at least confuse the information already available on the site. It needs a major overhaul.

Maximus Tribe is a telehealth company offering prescriptions for TRT, ED, hair loss, and more. Most of its treatments are targeted at men, but some of its offerings, including hair loss and weight loss treatments, are also marketed to women.

TRT is at the core of Maximus’ offering, with more TRT products in its catalog than the rest of the lineup combined. These include various treatments, as well as a comprehensive testosterone test that the company uses to evaluate prospective customers for eligibility and to track their progress once they start on a treatment path.

Maximus Tribe’s company reputation

Maximus Tribe’s online reputation is somewhat mixed, with a high rating on Trustpilot and a poor rating from the Better Business Bureau (BBB). Specifically, the company is not BBB-accredited, and it currently has an F on the BBB website. This appears to stem from a quartet of complaints filed with the BBB regarding unfulfilled prescriptions. Whether these are the fault of Maximus or of its affiliated pharmacies is unclear, but it appears that Maximus has let these few cases linger unresolved.

On Trustpilot, the picture is very different, with the company boasting a rating of 4.4 stars out of a possible 5 after more than 600 reviews. The small percentage of negative reviews here often focus on medication efficacy, as well, which is less a knock on the company than it is a misfortune for the user.

Maximus Tribe offers prescription products that can improve testosterone levels, stop hair loss and regrow hair, restore erectile function, improve body composition, and more. There’s a lot to unpack about its treatment paths, so let's break them down individually to help you understand how each works.

Testosterone

Treatment for low testosterone is the heart of Maximus’ catalog, with five medications available, some of which can be combined to increase efficacy. There are only a few providers on the market that offer as many or more treatment options, making Maxius a smart choice for men who are new to the process and unsure of what might be right for them.

Let’s take a closer look at each of these testosterone-boosting medications:

Testosterone Testing

We’ve dedicated a lot of time to exploring at-home testosterone testing options, both from companies offering interventions like TRT and from standalone testing companies that don’t offer treatments. Maximus provides one of the most comprehensive testosterone tests we’ve encountered for an extremely reasonable price.

For $99, our team had a better testing experience with faster, more comprehensive results from Maximus than we got from certain competitors who charge over $200 (some of which didn’t offer treatment options after results were in).

All told, the Maximus testosterone test measures the following:

• Total testosterone
• Free testosterone
• Vitamin D
• Luteinizing hormone
• Follicle-stimulating hormone
• Estradiol
• Sex hormone-binding globulin
• Alanine aminotransferase
• Total prostate-specific antigen

These parameters allow a practitioner to diagnose hypogonadism and give them some insight into potential causes. They also include markers that can ensure the safety of ongoing treatment, like the alanine aminotransferase measurement, which relates to liver health.16

Perhaps the best part of the Maximus testosterone test is the blood-draw method. Most at-home testosterone tests we’ve tried employ a finger-prick method, which can be painful and messy. Maximus uses a product called Tasso+ — a pain-free lancet system that attaches to your shoulder and connects directly to the collection vial.

One of our testers actually didn’t know whether he’d gotten a dud or used it incorrectly, as there was no sensation of the needle piercing his skin. But after a moment, blood started to flow, and plenty to fill a vial without making a mess.

As for the results, they offer insights into reference ranges and percentiles for free and total testosterone, but they lack some useful specifics that certain competitors offer, like optimal ranges rather than lab reference ranges for potential results. Here’s a look at the first page of results one of our testers got back after using Innerbody Labs Testosterone Support for 12 weeks:

Peptides and weight loss

Peptides have long been suspected of harboring great health benefits, but bioavailability, cost, and administration have been hurdles to many. Collagen peptides are an exception that have been on the market for a while now, with potential benefits including improvements in body recomposition and skin aging.17 18

Maximus offers two kinds of peptides:

• Sermorelin: a human growth hormone secretagogue capable of improving strength and muscle size while burning fat, and19
• GLP-1 receptor agonists: the generic versions of things like Ozempic (semaglutide) and Mounjaro (tirzepatide), primarily targeting body fat and blood glucose.20

Between the two, sermorelin is the more novel treatment, and it’s a little more expensive. That said, it doesn’t have the same restrictive prescribing guidelines as GLP-1 medications like semaglutide and tirzepatide, making it more suitable for a general population seeking body recomposition. One way Maximus attempts to circumvent these restrictions is by offering microdosed versions of GLP-1 medications, which the company claims are designed for individuals with a BMI under 25 who seek “metabolic benefits rather than high rates of weight loss.”

The only problem here is that there’s almost no scientific data examining whether microdosing either medication would yield benefits.

Hair loss

To combat hair loss, Maximus offers a handful of well-researched prescription interventions that have consistently been shown to stop hair loss and instigate renewed growth with varying levels of efficacy and varying side effects. Here’s a quick look at each offering:

Erectile dysfunction (blood flow)

Maximus relies on three drugs for its erectile dysfunction treatments, though the company somewhat strangely labels these as treatments for “blood flow.” It’s true that blood flow is central to erectile health, and the company positions these as ED treatments when you look at them through your member dashboard, but they’re advertised as providing “better sex, workouts, recovery, and focus” on the general access pages.30

However you slice it, the treatments in question — sildenafil, tadalafil, and vardenafil — are the generic equivalents of Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra, respectively. All are excellent at treating erectile dysfunction, though they have slightly different regimens.

• Sildenafil is a drug you take only on an as-needed basis. It takes about an hour to work, and its effects last for around 6-8 hours.31
• Vardenafil is more or less identical to sildenafil, but it has one less notable side effect associated with color vision processing, and there’s a bit more research suggesting you could take it daily if you wanted to.32 33
• Tadalafil can be taken as needed or daily, with doses typically higher in the as-needed medications. When taken as needed, it lasts much longer than sildenafil or vardenafil, typically between 18 and 36 hours.34

Maximus offers each treatment individually in standard dose ranges, as well as a combination of vardenafil and tadalafil in what the company calls a microdose. That microdose is 2.5-5.0mg for tadalafil and 2.5mg for vardenafil. In truth, that’s a microdose for vardenafil and a typical daily dose regimen for tadalafil.33 34

Depression and anxiety

Maximus doesn’t offer psychiatric help or counseling, but it does offer a roll-on oxytocin cream. Oxytocin is sometimes referred to as the love hormone for the boost in its endogenous production during courtship and immediately following intercourse.35 36 Those good vibes apparently extend to the treatment of anxiety and depression, at least in some research.37

The hangup here is that there isn’t much research into topical oxytocin administration outside of vaginal application in menopausal and postmenopausal women, where it’s used to improve libido and intercourse quality.38 More research is needed to determine if topical oxytocin is truly recommendable for depression and anxiety.

General wellness

Maximus recently added a general wellness supplement to its lineup, and it‘s the only nonprescription product in the company’s catalog. It’s intended as a supportive product that Maximus only lets you put in your cart if you’re actively purchasing another prescription product.

It’s essentially a multivitamin, but it’s relatively well-formulated.

Here’s a look at the ingredients:

• Vitamin A (retinyl palmitate): 900mcg
• Vitamin C (ascorbic acid): 90mg
• Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol): 250mcg/10,000 IU
• Vitamin E (d-alpha-Tocopheryl succinate): 50mg
• Vitamin B1 (thiamin mononitrate): 5mg
• Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): 5mg
• Niacin (nicotinic Acid): 50mg
• Vitamin B6 (pyridoxal-5'-phosphate): 5mg
• Folate (L-5-methyltetrahydrofolate): 680mcg
• Vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin): 100mcg
• Biotin: 60mcg
• Pantothenic acid (d-Calcium pantothenate): 15mg
• Iodine (potassium iodide): 150mcg
• Magnesium (dimagnesium malate): 200mg
• Chromium (chromium nicotinate glycinate chelate): 200mcg
• Molybdenum (molybdenum glycinate): 100mcg
• Leucine: 483mg
• Benfotiamine: 5mg

The glaring issue here is that you could likely find a similarly formulated multivitamin for less money. If you want to keep everything in-house, and you find purchasing this product alongside your prescription to be especially convenient, that’s fine. But we have guides to multivitamins for men and for women that you can check out to discover alternatives.

Maximus Tribe started out offering testosterone-focused treatment for men with hypogonadism, but its catalog has expanded to include several treatments that can serve either biological sex. Men and women both have a lot of compelling options here, though biomarker testing remains limited to men at this time.

Any man interested in evaluating his testosterone levels and exploring viable treatment paths would do well to start with Maximus, not least of all because it offers what we consider to be the best bang-for-your-buck testosterone testing.

The company is also a great source of pharmaceutical-grade sermorelin at a time when such peptides are a little hard to come by, with numerous shady companies offering “research-grade” alternatives that are legitimately hazardous to humans who might take them. Its other peptide treatments — specifically semaglutide and tirzepatide — appear at first to be among the better-priced options out there, but Maximus uses a sliding scale for pricing as you increase your GLP-1 medication dose. That results in higher final and maintenance costs than many competitors who may start out more expensive, but who promise to keep costs flat across their dose ranges (saving you a lot more money in the long run).

Maximus also has a respectable lineup of hair loss interventions, though companies like Hims, Roman, and Strut offer comparable solutions, sometimes with more exciting or flexible formulations and often for less cost. The same can be said about Maximus’ ED medications, with competitors like BlueChew, Roman, and Hims all offering compelling alternatives with more variety and better prices.

Finally, if you’re looking for a depression solution and haven’t tried more well-researched pharmaceuticals than topical oxytocin, you’d do better to start elsewhere. There just isn’t enough evidence to support its use for depression at this time.

As a prescriber, Maximus Tribe is pretty safe. Its pharmacy network is aboveboard, and the company itself is LegalScript Certified, a third-party measure of legal medical compliance and product safety — so you can trust in the medications it provides. Where its safety takes a little bit of a backseat is in the company’s push for convenience. We were able to get prescriptions from Maximus without ever speaking with a doctor. To be fair, an MD reviewed our labs and made the recommendations we accepted, but there wasn’t really a back-and-forth about it, and everything was done through a messaging portal — no phone or video calls.

That sort of service is incredibly convenient, but it also leaves a little safety gap where a more comprehensive company would require extra steps. For example, the process with 1st Optimal, a Maximus competitor, involved labs, a review by a physician’s assistant or nurse practitioner, a call with that PA or NP, then a follow-up conference call to loop your MD into the picture. Only after that level of interaction can you get a prescription. It’s more of a hassle, but it provides additional safeguards and opportunities to go over health history, have questions answered, and more.

Moreover, there’s a wide variety of potential complications associated with Maximus’ individual treatments. Some are far safer than others, but it’s a sprawling and complicated picture to paint. For now, let’s look at some of the best-known risks associated with some of Maximus’ products:

Make sure to have a thorough conversation with any doctor prescribing you medication through Maximus or any other telehealth provider to ensure you’re aware of all the risks involved.

For certain prescriptions, Maximus Tribe offers some of the best prices we’ve seen among reputable providers. In other cases, prices are a bit of a letdown. Consultations are built into the pricing, so you’ll never have to pay more for your intake or to message with your doctor.

Let’s take a look at some of the individual product pricing in Maximus Tribe’s catalog for a better sense of what things cost. Note that these are monthly costs associated with a 12-month plan, billed annually. Month-to-month plans are available, but they’re typically more expensive.

Testosterone

Testosterone products make up the lion’s share of Maximus’ offering, with lower prices than many competitors if you sign up for yearly billing and shipment.

• Testosterone testing: $99.99
• Testosterone injections: $99.99
• Oral testosterone: $149.99
• Testosterone cream: $109.99
• Enclomiphene citrate: $99.99
• Oral T and enclomiphene bundle: $199.99
• Testosterone cream and enclomiphene bundle: $189.99

As you can see, the two bundle options can save you a bit per month, but these are less likely to be prescribed to men new to TRT. They’re more likely an option for men who’ve had a lackluster response to a given monotherapy. Month-to-month pricing is higher for each treatment, often around twice as high per month as what annual plans work out to be. But these prices are only available at the point of prescription. That’s what our testing team discovered with enclomiphene, the month-to-month cost of which was $199.99.

Peptides and weight loss

Maximus’ peptide prices initially seem favorable, including both its sermorelin peptide pricing and its GLP-1 medication pricing for weight loss. But a closer look at the pricing structure for GLP-1 medications reveals a range of price increases as you work your way up toward maintenance dosing, at which point the prices no longer compare favorably to competitors.

Here’s a quick breakdown of those ranges in a quarterly billing cycle. Maximus obscures annual and month-to-month billing prices for these products:

Tirzepatide monthly costs:

• 2.5mg: $165.99/month
• 5mg: $182.99/month
• 7.5mg: $208.99/month
• 10mg: $249.99/month

Semaglutide monthly costs:

• 0.25mg: $132.99/month
• 0.5mg: $149.99/month
• 1mg: $179.99/month
• 1.7mg: $199.99/month

Sermorelin is a little different, with a single dose for starting and maintaining, and no per-dose increases in price. It costs $174.99/month.

Hair Loss

Maximus Tribe’s hair loss products are among the company’s most expensive when compared to similar offerings from Hims, Roman, Happy Head, and others, but it’s still worth listing them here for your information. All of the products are 90-day supplies, with the costs below broken down per month:

• Oral minoxidil: $24.99/month
• Oral finasteride: $34.99/month
• Oral dutasteride: $34.99/month
• Oral minoxidil and oral dutasteride bundle: $59.99/month
• Topical minoxidil: $44.99/month
• Topical dutasteride: $54.99/month
• 4-in-1 gel: $64.99/month

For context, you can get the same amount of oral minoxidil from Strut for a little over $18/month and topical minoxidil from Keeps for around $11/month.

Erectile dysfunction (and blood flow)

Prescriptions for blood flow medications that we typically see given out in cases of erectile dysfunction start at $49.99/month for any of the three: tadalafil, sildenafil, or vardenafil. You can also get a combination of tadalafil and vardenafil starting at $99.99/month at the lower dose and $149.99/month for the higher dose.

Compared to prices from companies like BlueChew, Hims, and Strut (like tadalafil doses as low as $1.07), there isn’t a good reason to seek ED (or blood flow) treatment through Maximus at this time.

Depression and anxiety

The oxytocin roll-on is the only treatment Maximus currently has under this banner. It’s listed at $99.99/month, but billing cycle information is not provided.

Nutritional supplement

Maximus’ Building Block Supplement costs $49.99/month, but remember that you have to have an active subscription to another protocol for you to be able to purchase it. That means you’ll need to spend whatever that given protocol costs to have the privilege to spend $50 on a multivitamin that you could find in comparable forms elsewhere for less.

There are viable alternatives to Maximus Tribe for just about every category in the company’s lineup. Many will offer more variety or better prices, though some of Maximus’ products still boast the best price and the best quality. Let’s look at some comparables: