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🐾Dog & cat food price calculator

Enter what a pack costs and how many lbs it holds — we’ll give you the real cost per lb and tell you where it lands against the live market. Across the 42 dog & cat food listings we track right now, the median is $1.57 per lb, a good price is $1.15 or less, and the cheapest we’ve found is $0.87.

Enter the price and the pounds in the bag — we’ll show the real cost per lb and whether it beats the $1.57 median across the 42 dog & cat food listings we track.

What it costs you a month:lb a month

Default assumes 1 lb a day, medium dog — change it to match your household.

Skip the math — we already ranked them

All 42 dog & cat food ranked by real cost per lb

Frequently asked

How do I calculate the cost per lb of dog & cat food?

Divide the pack price by the pounds in the bag. Across the 42 dog & cat food listings we track the median is $1.57 per lb and the cheapest is $0.87 per lb — so anything at or below $1.15 per lb is a genuinely good price.

What is a good price per lb for dog & cat food?

$1.15 per lb or less. That is the 25th percentile of the 42 live listings we track: cheaper than three quarters of the market. The median sits at $1.57 and anything above $2.05 per lb means you are overpaying.

How much do dog & cat food cost per month?

At 1 lb a day, medium dog, the median price works out to about $47 a month, or $565 a year. Buying at the cheapest price we track instead would cost $26 a month — a saving of $253 a year.