Decode vs Superpower
One builds you a protocol and stocks the shop it points at. The other checks the supplements you already own and sells nothing. Superpower is $199 a year: 100+ biomarkers, a 24/7 care team, and a discounted supplement marketplace. Decode is $12.99 a month, draws no blood, and earns the same whatever you decide to take.
Last updated 11 August 2026 · Superpower figures verified on superpower.com the same day
| Decode | Superpower | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An iPhone app that reads bloodwork you already have | A membership: an annual panel, a care team, and a shop |
| Price | $12.99 a month or $79.99 a year, 7-day free trial | $199 a year |
| Blood draw | None. Bring the report you already have | One a year, at 2,000+ Quest locations or at home |
| Tests covered | Whatever your panel already contains, from any lab | 100+ biomarkers; a 100+ follow-up is a $199 add-on |
| Reading labs you already have | The whole product. Photo, PDF or Apple Health, any lab | Upload past labs; syncs Oura, Whoop and Apple Health |
| Where “optimal” comes from | Not ours to set. A physician or research scientist put the number on the record, and you can watch them do it and judge the reasoning yourself | Superpower’s own protocol, built by its AI from your data |
| Supplements | Scans the label of one you own and grades it at your numbers. Sells none. | A curated discounted marketplace, stated as up to 20% off |
| Prescriptions and imaging | Neither | Personalised prescription access; gut microbiome testing |
| Asking a follow-up question | Ask about a result or a supplement. Every factual answer carries the speaker’s name and the video cued to the moment, and a question the library can’t source comes back saying exactly that | Advanced AI chat with context on your health, plus the 24/7 care team |
| Talking to a clinician | None. Decode never diagnoses | A private care team you can message 24/7 |
| Biological age | Not offered | Included in the membership |
Decode is an iPhone app launching soon — the app-side rows describe what ships at launch. Superpower figures come from superpower.com and its own comparison pages on 11 August 2026; it footnotes its biomarker count as including “direct laboratory measurements and calculated health metrics”. Check their site before you buy.
What Superpower does that Decode doesn’t
- Orders the draw, at 2,000+ Quest locations or your kitchen table
- 100+ biomarkers a year for $199, the cheapest membership on this site
- A private care team you can message at any hour
- Prescription access and gut microbiome testing
- Syncs Oura, Whoop and Apple Health alongside your bloodwork
- Reports a biological age
What Decode does that Superpower doesn’t
- Names the physician behind every optimal number, and links the video
- Scans a supplement label and grades it against your own numbers
- Says out loud when nobody has stated a number for a biomarker
- Backs every follow-up answer with a name and a video that opens at the moment it was said
- Sells no supplements and takes no affiliate money
- Reads any lab’s report with nothing to order and no draw to book
Which one should you pick?
- Pick Superpower if you want one place that does all of it.
- You have not had proper bloodwork in years, you would rather not assemble this yourself, and having the panel, the plan, the shop and a clinician behind one login is worth more to you than being able to audit where a number came from. At $199 that is a lot of product.
- Pick Decode if you want the advice separated from the shop.
- You already get labs, you take a handful of supplements, and your question is whether they are doing anything at your numbers — asked by something with no stake in the answer. $12.99 a month, no draw, no marketplace.
- Use both if you like the panel but want a second opinion on the plan.
- Superpower for the draw and the care team. Decode to sit the same report next to what physicians have stated on the record, and to check anything the protocol tells you to buy before you buy it.
Superpower is the cheapest full membership here, and it reads old labs too
Worth saying before anything else, because two of the obvious arguments against it are wrong. At $199 a year it undercuts Function’s $365 and lands well under InsideTracker once a test is added. And it already does the thing people assume is Decode’s alone: you can upload past labs, and it syncs Oura, Whoop and Apple Health alongside them.
A 24/7 care team you can message is also a real thing that Decode does not have and does not pretend to. If what you want is one place that draws the blood, reads it, and answers you at 11pm, that is a coherent product and this page is not going to talk you out of it.
The protocol recommends supplements. Superpower sells the supplements.
This is the difference that matters, and it is structural rather than a criticism of anyone’s intentions. Superpower reads your blood, its AI builds a protocol, and that protocol points at a curated marketplace it runs at a member discount. Most people would call that convenient, and for a lot of them it is.
It also means the same company picks the target, judges whether you hit it, and stocks the thing you buy to close the gap. Even run scrupulously, there is no version of that arrangement where you can fully separate the advice from the inventory.
Decode sells no supplements, runs no affiliate links, and has no panel to sell you. It earns $12.99 a month whether you take nine things or none. That is also why it can afford to tell you a supplement you already own is fine and you need nothing.
Where does the optimal range come from?
Superpower’s bar is Superpower’s. The protocol is described as clinician-grade and built by its own AI from your data, which is a normal way to run it and an entirely opaque one from the outside: there is no source to open and nobody to look up.
Decode sets no number at all. Every optimal figure in the app is a sentence with the number in it, said by a named physician or research scientist and found by reading every video on the topic. Liver enzymes are the clearest case, because the gap is wide and almost nobody mentions it.
Your lab stops flagging ALT at 55. The number on the record is 30.
“now the general rule of thumb is that you would like to see an A and ALT both below about 30 IU per liter”
An ALT of 44 comes back unflagged on most US reports. Elsewhere on tape the same physician calls the lab’s own bound “unnecessarily high” and puts the practice’s line at 20. Decode shows you both, names the source, and links to the second the words were said. See the full pages on optimal ALT levels and optimal AST levels.
Attia is one of the fourteen physicians and research scientists Decode quotes with a number attached. A few of the others, and where each drew their line:
- Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D.HDL cholesterol · above 60 mg/dL11:21 →
- Dr. Peter Attia, M.D.Triglycerides · under 100 mg/dL0:36 →
- Dr. Rhonda Patrick, PhDVitamin D · 40–60 ng/mL15:08 →
- Dr. Bill Harris, Ph.D.Omega-3 Index · 8–12%1:23:04 →
Most markers carry no stated number, and the app says which
Of the 98 biomarkers Decode covers, 25 have a range someone actually said — 57 quotes, each linked to its video. The other 73 show your lab’s own range with a note that nobody we cite has named a number for that marker. Browse them at all biomarkers.
Common questions
How much does Superpower cost in 2026?
$199 a year for the membership, which starts with 100+ lab tests and one blood draw at a Quest location or at home. A 100+ biomarker follow-up test is a $199 add-on. Superpower is HSA and FSA eligible. Verified on superpower.com on 11 August 2026.
What is the difference between Decode and Superpower?
Superpower sells a membership: it draws your blood, builds a protocol from the results, gives you a care team, and runs a discounted supplement marketplace the protocol points at. Decode draws no blood and sells nothing. It reads a panel you already have, puts each number next to a figure a named physician stated on the record, and checks the supplements you already own against your results.
Does Superpower sell supplements?
Yes. Superpower lists a curated discounted marketplace for supplements, stated as up to 20% off for members, alongside personalised prescription access. Decode sells no supplements and takes no affiliate money, so it earns the same whether you take nine things or none.
Can Superpower read blood tests I already have?
Yes. Superpower lets you upload past labs and syncs wearables including Oura, Whoop and Apple Health. Decode does the same from a photo, a PDF or Apple Health, and adds the stated optimal line and the video underneath each number.
How much does Decode cost?
$12.99 a month or $79.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial. There is no draw to buy, no add-on test, and no marketplace.
Is Superpower cheaper than Function Health?
Yes, on the headline membership. Superpower is $199 a year against Function Health's $365 for the first year, though Function includes 160+ lab tests across two draws where Superpower's membership starts with 100+ and charges $199 for a follow-up panel.
Does Decode report a biological age?
Not today. Superpower includes one and Decode does not, which is an honest gap rather than a position — a biological age is a number a product computes, and Decode's rule is that it never invents a number of its own.
Does Decode diagnose or give medical advice?
No. Decode reports what named physicians and research scientists have said on the record and puts your number next to theirs. It is educational, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor before you change anything.
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