List prices for cultivated meat's inputs — recorded daily, never revised.

Vendor list prices for growth media, cell lines, scaffolds and reagents, recorded daily and joined to published research.

Answers draw only on recorded prices and indexed research.

Examples

Recording since

28 Aug 2026

Inputs tracked

645

Research records

Last recorded

5 Oct 2026

Assay Markets records each input's published list price once a day and never revises it. Every pack size is tracked as its own series, so change is only ever measured within one exact product.

How the numbers are made →

Market structure

DMEM$34.98 /L

/L · 500 mL–1 L · 4 vendors · $11.00 /L–$47.52 /L

DMEM/F-12$52.80 /L

/L · 500 mL–1 L · 3 vendors · $14.00 /L–$80.00 /L

DPBS / PBS$24.36 /L

/L · 500 mL–1 L · 3 vendors · $23.76 /L–$40.92 /L

FBS$745.86 /L

/L · 500 mL–1 L · 4 vendors · $650.00 /L–$1,042.88 /L

FGF-2 / bFGF$550.03 /mg

/mg · 1 mg · 5 vendors · $125.00 /mg–$950.00 /mg

EGF$175.00 /mg

/mg · 1 mg · 4 vendors · $100.00 /mg–$277.22 /mg

IGF-1$225.00 /mg

/mg · 1 mg · 3 vendors · $125.00 /mg–$277.22 /mg

Class	Spec	Vendors	Median	Range
DMEM	/L · 500 mL–1 L	4	$34.98 /L	$11.00 /L–$47.52 /L
DMEM/F-12	/L · 500 mL–1 L	3	$52.80 /L	$14.00 /L–$80.00 /L
DPBS / PBS	/L · 500 mL–1 L	3	$24.36 /L	$23.76 /L–$40.92 /L
FBS	/L · 500 mL–1 L	4	$745.86 /L	$650.00 /L–$1,042.88 /L
FGF-2 / bFGF	/mg · 1 mg	5	$550.03 /mg	$125.00 /mg–$950.00 /mg
EGF	/mg · 1 mg	4	$175.00 /mg	$100.00 /mg–$277.22 /mg
IGF-1	/mg · 1 mg	3	$225.00 /mg	$125.00 /mg–$277.22 /mg

Observed list prices within one class, at the pack sizes in the class specification: one figure per vendor, its cheapest in-spec per-unit price. Nothing modelled. Prices in USD.

Price terminal

Growth Media

DMEM · class median per litre

Spec 500 mL–1 L · 4 vendors · benchmark Gibco™ DMEM, high glucose · 1 L

— Class median— Benchmark: Gibco™ DMEM, high glucose · 1 L

Class median

$34.98 /L

4 vendors · range $11.00–$47.52 /L

-0.2% over 3 days

Recorded since

28 Aug 2026 · 34 days

Last observed

5 Oct 2026

Benchmark series: Gibco™ DMEM, high glucose · 1 L →

Method · Median of each vendor's cheapest in-spec per-unit list price, as published on Cellbase. Class specification on the Methodology page ↗

Tracked inputs

View all 645 series →

Reference basket — widely cited inputs, one variant each, at least one per category.

Input	Reference	Normalised	Recorded since
Gibco™ DMEM, high glucose · 500 mL Growth Media · Gibco	$44.88 per 500 mL $89.77 /L 28 Aug 2026	$89.77 /L	28 Aug 2026
HiMedia Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM), High glucose · 500 mL Growth Media · HiMedia	$18.48 per 500 mL $36.96 /L 28 Aug 2026	$36.96 /L	28 Aug 2026
Corning® DMEM High Glucose · 500 mL Growth Media · Corning	$23.76 per 500 mL $47.52 /L 28 Aug 2026	$47.52 /L	28 Aug 2026
Gibco™ FBS, Qualified, Heat Inactivated · 50 mL Growth Media · Gibco	$330.03 per 50 mL $6,600.50 /L 28 Aug 2026	$6,600.50 /L	28 Aug 2026
Capricorn Scientific Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) Growth Media · Capricorn Scientific	$425.50 — 28 Aug 2026	—	28 Aug 2026
Novel Farms Chemically Defined, Serum-Free Suspension Medium for Chicken Cells · 100 mL Growth Media · Novel Farms	$300.00 per 100 mL $3,000.00 /L 28 Aug 2026	$3,000.00 /L	28 Aug 2026
Gibco™ TrypLE™ Express Enzyme (1X) · No Phenol Red · 500 mL Reagents · Gibco	$110.89 per 500 mL $221.78 /L 28 Aug 2026	$221.78 /L	28 Aug 2026
Gibco™ Trypsin-EDTA (0.25%), with phenol red · 500 mL Reagents · Gibco	$76.57 per 500 mL $153.13 /L 28 Aug 2026	$153.13 /L	28 Aug 2026
Qkine Recombinant Bovine/Porcine FGF-2 (154 Aa) Protein · 100 µg Reagents · Qkine	$231.02 per 100 µg $2,310.18 /mg 28 Aug 2026	$2,310.18 /mg	28 Aug 2026
Lucius Labs 1x DPBS · 1 L Reagents · Lucius Labs	$24.36 per 1 L $24.36 /L 28 Aug 2026	$24.36 /L	28 Aug 2026
Merck Millipore ECMatrix™-511 E8 Laminin Substrate Scaffolds · Merck Millipore	$554.44 — 28 Aug 2026	—	28 Aug 2026
MyoWorks MyoZein Microcarriers Scaffolds · MyoWorks	$143.00 — 28 Aug 2026	—	28 Aug 2026
Smart MCs Methacryloyl Gelatin (GelMA) · 60 ± 5% (GelMA-60) · 10 g Scaffolds · Smart MCs	$1,507.00 per 10 g — 28 Aug 2026	—	28 Aug 2026
Opo Bio Bovine Angus Satellite Cells Cell Lines · Opo Bio	$900.00 — 28 Aug 2026	—	28 Aug 2026
Quest Bovine Primary Cell Lines · Aberdeen Angus Cross Myosatellite · Industry Cell Lines · Quest	$2,640.20 — 28 Aug 2026	—	28 Aug 2026