VIP is sold here for laboratory research, in 2 sizes (5mg to 10mg), starting at $65.00 a vial. Every batch arrives with a certificate naming the test that identified it, the test that measured its purity, and the date each was run. It is not an FDA-approved medicine. Research use only, and never for people or animals.
VIP specifications
| Product name | VIP |
|---|---|
| Also sold as | vasoactive intestinal peptide, VIP peptide |
| Formula | C147H237N43O43S |
| Physical form | Freeze-dried powder — a solid cake in a sealed vial |
| Appearance | White to off-white cake |
| Sizes on this page | 5mg · 10mg |
| Purity specification | ≥99% by RP-HPLC. The number for the lot you receive is whatever its own certificate says. |
| Identity check | Mass spectrometry, read against the mass this compound should have |
| Net content | Weighed per lot and reported separately from purity |
| Lot documentation | At the laboratory — each certificate posts here the day it clears |
| Storage | Sealed, cold and out of the light |
| Ships from | Santa Ana, California — same business day on verified in-stock orders placed before 12 PM Pacific |
| Intended use | Laboratory research only. Not for human or animal use. |
What is VIP, and what is it used for?
VIP is also listed and searched as vasoactive intestinal peptide, VIP peptide. They all mean the same compound. Supplier lists write it as VIP peptides or peptide VIP as well; every one of those is this record. A name is not a test, which is why the lot record further down counts for more than the wording on a label.
Chemically: molecular formula C147H237N43O43S, average mass 3326.8 g/mol (PubChem CID 53314964). Those figures are what the identity test on a certificate is read against.
Vasoactive intestinal peptide — a 28-residue endogenous peptide hormone in the secretin/glucagon superfamily.
Agonist at the VPAC1 and VPAC2 class B G-protein-coupled receptors, both of which respond to VIP and to the related peptide PACAP with high affinity. It does not activate the PAC1 receptor, which is PACAP-selective.
Circadian rhythm, learning and memory, anxiety and stress responses in the central nervous system; control of immunity and inflammation, pancreatic insulin secretion and adrenal catecholamine release in the periphery. A large mainstream physiology literature.
No approved VIP product. Its extremely short circulating half-life is the practical obstacle that has defeated development repeatedly.
VIP for sale: 5mg and 10mg vials, price per mg
VIP is sold in 2 sizes here, 5mg and 10mg, from $65.00 a vial. The per-mg column is the honest comparison between sizes; the two tier columns show what ten and twenty vials of one size bill at, because the volume discount is per size and mixed sizes do not combine.
| Size | One vial | Per mg | 10 vials −10% | 20 vials −15% | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIP 5mg | $65.00 | $13.00 | $585.00$11.70/mg | $1,105.00$11.05/mg | Backordered — waitlist |
| VIP 10mg | $150.00 | $15.00 | $1,350.00$13.50/mg | $2,550.00$12.75/mg | Backordered — waitlist |
VIP discounts: bulk pricing, Subscribe & Save, and codes
Three things move this price and nothing else does: how many vials of one size are on the order, whether that order repeats, and one code. The fourth column prices each route against the 5mg vial.
| Buying option | Takes off | When it applies | 5mg at this option |
|---|---|---|---|
| One vial, one time | — | Any order | $65.00 |
| 10–19 vials of one size | 10% | This order | $585.00$58.50 a vial |
| 20 vials of one size | 15% | This order | $1,105.00$55.25 a vial |
| Subscribe, every 1 month | 6% | Shipment 2 onward | First $65.00, then $61.10 |
| Subscribe, every 2 months | 4% | Shipment 2 onward | First $65.00, then $62.40 |
| Subscribe, every 3 months | 2% | Shipment 2 onward | First $65.00, then $63.70 |
| 10 vials on a monthly subscription | 10%, then 6% more | Shipment 2 onward | First $585.00, then $549.90 |
| Sign-up code | 10% of the order | One use, dead 24 hours after signup | $58.50 for one vial |
| Friday newsletter code | 5% of the order | Live 24 hours, a new one each Friday | $61.75 for one vial |
| On-site offer code | 5% of the order | Live 30 minutes from when it appears | $61.75 for one vial |
| Free standard shipping | The shipping charge | Orders over $200 | 4 vials |
The first three stack; the codes do not. A volume discount comes off the line, a subscription cadence comes off that same line from shipment 2, and one code comes off what is left. One code per order, never two. A subscription runs a minimum of two shipments and can be cancelled once the second has shipped, and the first shipment always bills at today's eligible price with no cadence discount on it. The lowest this record ever bills is $10.39 per mg: twenty 5mg vials on a monthly subscription, from shipment 2 onward.
Every figure above is what you pay; nothing is added at checkout — dispatch and delivery work the same on every order.
Where to buy VIP: five checks before you order from anyone
Where to get VIP, and how to buy VIP online
VIP for sale, or VIP peptide for sale, means this page: one record, 2 sizes, a lot certificate for each. You can buy VIP online here with guest checkout; verified in-stock orders placed before 12 PM Pacific are dispatched the same day.
Run these on us too. A supplier who cannot pass them is asking you to take their word for it, and their word is the one thing a certificate exists to replace.
- Check the certificate on the lab’s own site, not ours.
- See whether it was written for the seller.
- Match the lot number on the paper to the one on the vial.
- Look for a method and a date next to every number.
- Make sure identity was tested, not assumed.
Each of those is worked through, with what a failed check actually looks like, on verifying a certificate.
VIP nasal spray? What this vial is, and is not
Search results for VIP also show nasal spray products, under listing titles such as vip peptide nasal spray, vasoactive intestinal peptide vip nasal spray. Those are finished consumer goods made and marketed by other companies, and none of them is what this page sells. This record is freeze-dried VIP in a sealed glass vial, 5mg and 10mg, with a lot certificate, supplied for laboratory work.
The difference matters for the paperwork. A certificate on this page describes the powder in the vial: identity, purity and net content for one lot. It says nothing about a capsule, a spray or a cream, which carry other ingredients and sit under different rules. When a listing elsewhere borrows a lot report to vouch for a different product form, the report does not describe what is being sold.
The VIP certificate: lot, purity, identity, and how to verify it
A certificate answers identity, purity and net content as three separate questions, each with the method that produced it and the date it was run — how to read one covers what each field does and does not cover. For VIP that means a mass spectrum landing on 3,326.8 g/mol for C147H237N43O43S, the figure published against PubChem CID 53314964.
The certificate below belongs to one lot, and its number matches the one printed on the vial you receive. A real report for a different batch is still the wrong report.
| Size | Lot | Identity method | Purity | Test date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5mg | Pending verification | Pending verification | Pending verification | Pending verification |
| 10mg | Pending verification | Pending verification | Pending verification | Pending verification |
No lot documentation is published for VIP yet. Rather than display a placeholder certificate, this record shows the gap until each field has been verified against the lot in hand. The certificate index lists every lot the moment its report clears.
Solution arithmetic for the bench, with no administration guidance: the vial concentration calculator, preset to VIP.
Where the FDA stands on VIP
The FDA has not approved this compound for anything, and nothing in this catalogue is a medicine. Where a compound stands legally depends on what it is, what form it is in, what it is being used for and which country you are in, and it changes over time, so the status shown here carries the date it was last checked.
Status verified 2026-08-25. Regulatory positions move; check the primary source before relying on any summary, including this one.
It is sold here as laboratory material under the research-use restriction that closes this page, which is not an approval, and not a statement that the compound is safe, effective or right for any purpose.
VIP research: what the published studies examine
Status: No FDA-approved application. This compound is sold as laboratory material. Where research on it has been published, it sits at the animal, cell or early-human stage, and this record does not summarise what it found. A supplier is not a neutral judge of evidence about its own catalogue.
VIP belongs to a structurally related superfamily that includes glucagon, the glucagon-like peptides, secretin, GIP and GHRH — which is worth noting on this catalogue, because several of those relatives appear here as separate products and the family resemblance is real rather than nominal. VIP and the related peptide PACAP act through three class B GPCRs: PAC1, which is PACAP-selective, and VPAC1 and VPAC2, which respond to both with high affinity. The functional range is unusually wide.
Centrally, VIP is involved in circadian rhythm control, learning and memory, anxiety and responses to stress and brain injury. Peripherally it participates in immunity and inflammation, pancreatic insulin secretion, adrenal catecholamine release, and acts as a co-transmitter in autonomic and sensory neurons. Genetic work has implicated the VPAC2 receptor in susceptibility to schizophrenia, which gives some sense of how central this system is.
| Reported observation | Model | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The IUPHAR review confirming receptor nomenclature: VIP and PACAP act through PAC1, VPAC1 and VPAC2, class B GPCRs; PAC1 is PACAP-selective while VPAC1 and VPAC2 respond to both with high affinity. Functions span circadian rhythms, learning and memory, anxiety and stress responses centrally, and immunity, inflammation, pancreatic insulin secretion, adrenal catecholamine release and autonomic co-transmission peripherally. VPAC2 has been implicated in schizophrenia susceptibility and PAC1 in post-traumatic stress disorder. | IUPHAR receptor nomenclature and pharmacology review | Harmar and colleagues, Pharmacology and functions of receptors for vasoactive intestinal peptide and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide: IUPHAR review 1, British Journal of Pharmacology (2012)The official IUPHAR nomenclature review — as authoritative as receptor pharmacology sources get. |
Open questions. The receptor pharmacology here is about as well established as anything on this catalogue, being the subject of an official IUPHAR nomenclature review. The problems are practical. VIP has a very short circulating half-life, which is the reason repeated development efforts have not produced an approved product despite decades of interest and a compelling biology.
Its receptors are expressed across an extremely wide range of tissues and functions — circadian, cognitive, immune, pancreatic, autonomic — which means systemic exposure is systemic in an unusually literal sense, and selectivity for any one of those effects is not achievable with the native peptide. VPAC1 and VPAC2 also cannot be distinguished by VIP itself, since it binds both with high affinity, so the peptide is a blunt tool for asking which receptor does what.
Each row above describes an observation in the stated model. None of it describes what VIP would do in a person or an animal outside that model, and none of it is a recommendation to use it for anything.
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FOR LABORATORY AND IN-VITRO RESEARCH USE ONLY. NOT FOR HUMAN OR ANIMAL CONSUMPTION. NOT FOR PERSONAL, MEDICAL, DIAGNOSTIC, THERAPEUTIC, OR RECREATIONAL USE.
