What Is Monj? Independence, Commissions and Why We Exist

What Monj actually is

Monj tracks what UK pharmacies charge for the same prescription medicine and publishes it in one place, updated as prices move. The lists cover Mounjaro across every dose, with sister sites covering Wegovy and other treatments. Alongside price we publish the things that change the real cost or the risk: consultation fees, delivery charges, working discount codes, GPhC registration and published inspection outcomes.

What we are not: a pharmacy, a prescriber, a clinic or a regulator. We cannot supply a medicine, adjudicate a complaint or overrule a prescriber. If you want the mechanics of how the comparison is produced, read how Monj works and how pricing works.

How we are paid, plainly

Monj earns commission when a reader goes on to use a pharmacy we list. That is standard for comparison sites and we say so rather than implying we run on goodwill. Two things about how we handle it are not standard:

• Commission does not affect ranking. Listings are sorted by lowest total patient price with an alphabetical tie-break, and by nothing else. A pharmacy that pays us nothing can and does sit at the top.
• We ask for less. Where a pharmacy is willing, we take a lower commission in exchange for a lower price to the reader. Several have agreed, and that is part of why some listed prices are lower here than on the pharmacy’s own page.

We do not accept payment for placement, for a badge, for a review, or to be listed at all. The formal version is our independence statement.

Why independence is worth checking

As the market has grown, so has the number of sites that look like comparisons. Some are run by, or on behalf of, the pharmacies they recommend, without saying so. A site that appears impartial while quietly funnelling readers to one provider is a different product from a comparison, and UK rules take that seriously:

• The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 prohibit misleading practices, including failing to disclose commercial intent or presenting a trader’s own promotion as independent.
• The CAP Code requires marketing communications to be obviously identifiable as such.
• The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 restrict advertising prescription-only medicines to the public.

Before you trust any comparison site, including this one, three checks take a minute: who owns it, whether it discloses commercial relationships, and whether its ranking rule is written down. If a site fails those, treat it as advertising.

If you find a site you believe is presenting advertising as impartial advice, the Advertising Standards Authority handles misleading advertising and undisclosed marketing. Depending on the issue you can also raise it with the GPhC (pharmacy conduct), the MHRA (medicines promotion) or the CMA (consumer protection). You can tell us too and we will pass it on, but we are not a regulator and cannot adjudicate.

The checks we run before listing a pharmacy

• GPhC premises and superintendent registration confirmed on the official register, with no restrictions.
• Published inspection outcome recorded and shown as a Pharmacy Score against the five GPhC inspection principles.
• Prescribing route identified, and prescribers registered with the GMC, GPhC or NMC.
• UK company and ownership confirmed at Companies House.
• Cold-chain packaging confirmed. A pharmacy that ships a fridge medicine without insulation and cooling does not get listed.
• Fees and delivery costs recorded so the published total is what you will pay.
• Reassessment every three to six months, or sooner if a reader reports a problem.

Pharmacies that stop meeting these are removed. The full method, including corrections and complaints, is in our editorial and review policy.

What we will not do

• Sell rankings, visibility or influence, or take payment to remove a pharmacy from a list.
• Publish a price we have not checked, or a discount code we have not tested.
• Advertise a prescription-only medicine in a way that breaches UK rules, however common the practice becomes.
• Sell the site to a pharmacy. We have had offers, including one that ended with a promise to copy the site instead. That was their choice to make.
• Pretend to be neutral about commission. We earn it, we disclose it, and we keep it out of the ranking.

We also give back: 20 per cent of verified annual profits go to charity at the end of each financial year, based on audited figures rather than a promise.