How Much Does Dysport Cost?

By Lucas, Founder & Lead Researcher

Reviewed for medical accuracy against our Medical Review Board  ·  Last updated 23 August 2026

Part of The Ultimate Dysport Guide

Dysport is sold on two incompatible pricing scales and almost nobody tells you which one you are being quoted. Some clinics charge $3.50 to $7 a unit, which reflects how Dysport units are counted. Others charge $12 to $13, the same as their Botox rate. At the labelled dose of 50 units for frown lines, that is the difference between a $175 treatment and a $650 one for exactly the same result.

Every rate on this page was read off a clinic's own published price list during our city research, and every one is attributed. The pattern matters more than any single number, because the pattern is what tells you whether your own quote is fair.

1. The short answer

A Dysport treatment for frown lines costs roughly $175 to $350 at clinics that price Dysport on its own scale, and $600 to $650 at clinics that charge their Botox rate per Dysport unit. The treatment is identical. The difference is entirely in how the clinic decided to count.

Per unit, published rates we have verified run from $3.50 to $13. That spread is not a quality difference and it is not regional cost of living. It is two different units of account being used for the same product, which is why comparing Dysport per-unit prices between clinics is close to meaningless unless you also know the unit count.

If you only remember one thing: ask for the total, not the rate.

2. The two pricing scales

Dysport's label doses frown lines at 50 units. Botox Cosmetic's label doses the same two muscles at 20. The units are measured by different assays and are not interchangeable, which we work through in Dysport units against Botox units. A clinic therefore has a choice to make about pricing, and there are two defensible answers plus one that quietly is not.

Scale one: price the unit as Dysport counts it. Divide the Botox rate by about two and a half, so the total lands in the same place. This is the honest version and it is what the low numbers are:

• $3.50 a unit at BotoxRN, against $12 for Botox, in Houston.
• $4 a unit at Medical Aesthetics in Charleston, against $13 for Botox. To that clinic's real credit, its own page explains that Dysport needs about three times the units, so the two land in much the same place.
• $4 a unit at Better Med Spa in Chicago, and $5 at a Phoenix clinic listing Botox at $10.

Scale two: charge the Botox rate per Dysport unit. The per-unit number looks competitive, and the bill is not:

• $13 for both at The Aesthetics Club in Nashville.
• $13 for both at a Raleigh practice, and $12 across all brands at a Tampa clinic.

There is no suggestion any of these clinics is acting in bad faith, and several state their reasoning openly. But the reader comparing two price lists has no way to know that one of those $13 figures means something entirely different from the other.

3. Why an identical per-unit price is a 150% markup

Here is the arithmetic, using each label's own dose for frown lines.

Read the last column. At an identical per-unit price, Dysport costs two and a half times what Botox costs, because it takes two and a half times as many units to do the job. The per-unit figure that looks like a fair comparison is the thing hiding the markup.

And notice that the cheap-looking rates are not automatically cheap either. Lyle Plastic Surgery in Raleigh publishes Botox at $13.50 a unit and Dysport from $7. Seven dollars looks like a bargain beside thirteen fifty, but 50 units at $7 is $350 against 20 units at $13.50 for $270, so the Dysport treatment is about 30% more expensive. The rate tells you nothing. Only the total does.

4. The dilemma, and there is no good side of it

If a clinic charges you its Botox rate per Dysport unit, there are only two things that can happen, and you should know which one you are getting.

Either you are charged for 50 units, and you pay roughly two and a half times what the equivalent Botox treatment would have cost.

Or you are given 20 units so the bill matches, and you are underdosed by about 60% against the labelled dose. That is the commonest reason a switch to Dysport disappoints, and it usually gets blamed on the product. The result fades in six weeks, the patient concludes Dysport does not work for them, and the actual problem was arithmetic.

One Denver clinic we looked at lists Dysport at $12 a unit and describes it as dosed the same as Botox units, which is not the conventional conversion. That is not hidden, it is printed on their page, and it is precisely the sort of thing to ask about rather than assume.

So the question that settles it is not "how much per unit". It is "how many units will you use, and what is the total?"

5. What each area costs

Only the glabella has a labelled Dysport dose. Every other area is off-label with no published dose, and the unit counts below are clinical convention derived from Botox practice, as our page on Dysport treatment areas explains in full. Priced at the two scales:

The masseter row is where this stops being an academic point. At a parity rate, jaw slimming with Dysport runs to nearly two thousand dollars for a treatment that costs $520 to $780 in Botox at the same $13 a unit. If you are quoted a masseter treatment in Dysport units, get the total in writing.

Rates vary by city, and the range across the sixteen cities where we have read published pricing runs from $9 to $18 a unit for Botox. Our locations index lists every city we have checked, with named clinics and their own published figures, and the Botox price guide covers what drives the spread.

6. Who injects you changes the price more than the brand does

Across the sixteen cities where we have read published price lists, the pattern is consistent enough to plan around: med spas sit at the bottom of the range and plastic surgery practices at the top, with dermatology in between.

• Med spas publish the lowest rates. dermani MEDSPA in Atlanta is $9 a unit above 20 units; Phoenix MedSpa and Solve Med Spa in Chicago also publish $9, though the Chicago figure is a first-visit price and returning clients are quoted $13.
• Plastic surgery practices publish the highest. Gold Coast Plastic Surgery in Chicago is $15 a unit, Desert Hills in Las Vegas $16, and Charlotte Plastic Surgery quotes $12 to $15 while stating plainly that a typical 30 to 50 unit treatment runs $400 to $750.

The sharpest illustration is inside a single practice. Lux Medspa in Philadelphia publishes $15 a unit if Dr Lee injects, with a $750 minimum, and $12 a unit with another injector, on a $300 minimum. Same clinic, same product, same room. The variable is who is holding the syringe, and the minimum charge moves by $450.

That is worth understanding rather than resenting. You are buying judgement about placement, and there is no reversal agent if the judgement is wrong. But it does mean a Dysport rate is only comparable between two clinics if the injector's seniority and any minimum charge are comparable too, and they usually are not.

7. Vial sizes, and the real reason for the low rates

Dysport comes in 300 unit and 500 unit vials, and once reconstituted it must be kept refrigerated and used within 24 hours, for one patient and one session. Botox comes in 50 and 100 unit vials.

Do the division and the pricing logic appears. A 300 unit Dysport vial covers exactly six labelled glabellar treatments. A 100 unit Botox vial covers five. The vials are sized around the same number of patients, because the unit scales differ by roughly the same factor as the vial sizes. Dysport's low per-unit rates are not a discount the clinic is offering you; they are what happens when you divide a similar vial cost by two and a half times as many units.

The 24 hour rule also explains something people misread as a sales tactic. A clinic that has opened a 300 unit vial has a strong reason to use it that day, which is why Dysport offers and same-day availability cluster the way they do. That is real economics rather than pressure, but it is still worth recognising when someone suggests treating an extra area while you are in the chair.

8. Cost per year, which is the number that matters

The label says the clinical effect may last up to four months and that Dysport should be given no more often than every three months. In practice most people land on three treatments a year for frown lines, sometimes four. Our page on how long Dysport lasts covers why the range is that wide.

The gap between the top and bottom rows is about $1,400 a year for the same treatment. That is the cost of not asking one question.

9. Is Dysport cheaper than Botox?

Genuinely, and modestly, yes, at clinics that price it on its own scale. The Houston figures give the cleanest read because both come from the same price list: $12 a unit Botox against $3.50 a unit Dysport works out at $240 against $175, a 27% saving. Not the 70% the per-unit rates suggest, but real money.

At clinics pricing on parity it is substantially more expensive. And at a handful it is priced somewhere in between, which usually means nobody has thought about it very hard.

Two things worth adding. Dysport is often the brand a clinic promotes hardest, because the manufacturer's rebates and the vial economics both favour it, so it turns up in new-patient offers more than its market share would predict. And a lower price is not a reason to choose it: the product differences that should actually decide it, the wider spread and the cow's milk protein contraindication, are covered in our Dysport against Botox comparison and the side effects page.

10. Where the genuine savings are

In rough order of how much they are worth:

1. A clinic that prices Dysport on the Dysport scale. Worth up to about 150% of the treatment cost, which dwarfs every other saving on this list combined.
2. Correct dosing the first time. An underdosed treatment that fades in six weeks costs you the whole treatment, because you pay again.
3. New-patient offers, read carefully. Dysport appears in these disproportionately for the vial reasons above. Our page on which deals are real covers the ones that carry minimums, memberships or per-area pricing that undoes the headline.
4. Treating the right areas. Paying for a forehead treatment when the frown lines are doing the work is the commonest way to spend money on the wrong muscle.

Not on the list: choosing an injector on price. There is no reversal agent for any botulinum toxin, so a placement you dislike is not refundable or dissolvable, it is a wait of up to four months.

11. The four questions that settle any quote

1. "How many units, and what is the total?" The only two numbers that matter. A rate without a unit count is not a price.
2. "Is that rate on the Dysport scale or the same as your Botox rate?" Any injector who uses both will understand the question immediately.
3. "What would the same treatment cost me in Botox?" Forces the comparison into totals, where it belongs.
4. "Is there a minimum charge or a per-area price?" A per-unit rate with a $150 minimum is not a per-unit rate for a small treatment.

If the answer to the first question is a rate rather than a total, ask it again. It is a reasonable question and a good clinic answers it without friction.

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Written by

Lucas Pradella

Founder & Lead Researcher, BestBotoxClinics.com

Lucas founded BestBotoxClinics.com to bring clarity to the aesthetics industry, bringing 13+ years of experience in digital research and analysing online data for signals of quality and trust. He is not a physician, his work is research, data analysis and verifying provider credentials.

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Medical accuracy: BestBotoxClinics.com maintains a Medical Review Board of licensed clinicians. This article is educational and is not medical advice.

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