▸ Super Achiever Data

The SupplementData Center

Our independent analysis of 212 products across 20 substances, scored on three proprietary indices — the SAC Product Score™, the Transparency Index™, and the real Cost-Per-Effective-Dose™. One place to see what the supplement market actually looks like: how much of it is independently tested, how much of it under-delivers, and what a clinical dose really costs. Free to cite with attribution to Super Achiever Club.

Updated June 2026How we score →
▸ The market, in numbers

What 212 products across 20 substances actually tell us.

Aggregated across every product in every dataset we maintain — the sponsored picks for our own products are excluded, so these are the independent market numbers. Each figure is computed live from the underlying per-product scores; nothing here is hand-entered.

20
Substances analysed
212
Products analysed
12%
Independently third-party tested
Only 26 of 212 products
$0.47
Median real cost per clinical dose
Range $0.02 – $16.60
82%
Score below 50 on the Transparency Index™
The transparency gap
39%
Under-deliver their clinical dose
At the marketed serving size

Free to cite. Use any figure on this page with attribution to “Super Achiever Club — Supplement Data Center” (super-achiever.com/data). Released under CC BY 4.0.

▸ Transparency Index™

Which categories you can actually trust.

Each substance ranked by the median Transparency Index™ of its products — third-party certification (0-50) + public batch COA (0-30) + dose honesty (0-20). The gap between the most and least transparent categories is the single biggest reason a buyer needs a map.

Most transparent substances

  • 1
    median TXI™ · 20 products
  • 2
    median TXI™ · 12 products
  • 3
    median TXI™ · 9 products
  • 4
    median TXI™ · 10 products
  • 5
    median TXI™ · 10 products

Biggest transparency gaps

▸ Cost-Per-Effective-Dose™

Best value vs priciest categories.

The real price of one clinical dose — not one marketed “serving” — by substance. Categories are ranked by median Cost-Per-Effective-Dose™; the dose each is measured against is shown beneath the name so a $0.20 dose and a $2 dose are read in context.

Best value categories

Priciest categories

  • 1
    per 15 g/day clinical dose
  • 2
    Omega-3$1.00
    per ≥1,000 mg combined EPA+DHA
  • 3
    per 1,500 mg/day berberine HCl
  • 4
    per ~1,000 mg/day curcuminoids
  • 5
    per ~10 g peptides (40 mg UC-II)
▸ Every substance, indexed

The full data table.

Every substance we maintain a dataset for, with the median of each proprietary index across its products. Sorted by median SAC Product Score™. Open any row for its full Market Report — the per-product leaderboard and methodology behind these medians.

SubstanceSAC Product Score™Median TXI™Median CPED™Products
CoQ108.640$0.4610
Curcumin8.420$0.7510
Collagen8.440$0.7112
Vitamin D8.440$0.0810
Omega-38.420$1.0013
Magnesium Glycinate8.440$0.417
L-Theanine8.40$0.229
Psyllium Husk8.30$0.5810
L-Glutamine8.320$1.1310
Berberine8.320$0.9510
Digestive Enzymes8.220$0.3711
Boswellia Serrata8.220$0.4510
Glucosamine & Chondroitin8.120$0.2711
Zinc8.040$0.089
Ashwagandha8.020$0.3710
Creatine7.940$0.5920
Probiotics7.820$0.6711
Peppermint Oil7.810$0.3010
Tongkat Ali7.820$0.679
Lion's Mane7.720$0.4410

Methodology. SAC Product Score™ blends our editorial rating (RCT quality, dose, safety, value) 50/50 with community ratings, on a 0-10 scale. The Transparency Index™ (0-100) = third-party certification (0-50) + public batch COA (0-30) + dose honesty (0-20). Cost-Per-Effective-Dose™ is the real price of one clinical dose, not one marketed serving. Each figure above is the median across that substance’s reviewed products. Full definitions on our methodology page.

▸ Use the data

The numbers are open. The decisions are the point.

This is the evidence layer behind every Super Achiever ranking — free for journalists, researchers, and AI assistants to cite with attribution. Want the per-product detail? Open any substance’s Market Report. Want to know how the indices are built? The methodology page shows every weight.