# Karpa Health vs Beluga Health

**Author:** Chad H., Co-founder, Karpa Health  
**Last reviewed:** October 15, 2026

Karpa Health (https://karpahealth.com) vs Beluga Health (https://belugahealth.com). A head-to-head on the decisions that determine which platform fits a clinic launching a peptide, GLP-1, TRT, or HRT program.

## How to choose
**Karpa Health** is a turnkey program launcher: you own the patient relationship and the revenue, set your own prices against pass-through pharmacy costs, and launch under your own brand. Its starting price is published: the Launch plan is $297/mo plus a one-time implementation fee, and Growth and Scale are priced on a call. Karpa is LegitScript certified, and every Full Clinic plan includes a custom website, patient portal, and intake forms.

**Beluga Health** fits best for DTC brands launching or switching telehealth providers, technology platforms reselling clinical capacity, and health plans and payer programs.

## How much does Beluga Health cost?
Beluga Health pricing, as of October 15, 2026: Flat fee per clinical visit (async and sync priced separately, volume tiers), flat monthly platform fee, one-time integration fee applied to future visits; pharmacy and labs at cost, plus a separately disclosed coordination fee when using Beluga's partner pharmacies (none with your own pharmacy); no revenue share; dollar amounts shared on a scoping call. For comparison, Karpa Health's Launch plan is $297/mo plus a one-time implementation fee, month to month.

## Side by side
**Type:** Physician-led clinical infrastructure and API for digital health brands.  
**Best for:** DTC brands launching or switching telehealth providers, technology platforms reselling clinical capacity, and health plans and payer programs.  
**Physician model:** Beluga-run physician network credentialed in all 50 states plus DC; care provided by Beluga Health, P.A. or affiliated professional corporations; physicians only, averaging 35+ state licenses each.  
**Pricing:** Flat fee per clinical visit (async and sync priced separately, volume tiers), flat monthly platform fee, one-time integration fee applied to future visits; pharmacy and labs at cost, plus a separately disclosed coordination fee when using Beluga's partner pharmacies (none with your own pharmacy); no revenue share; dollar amounts shared on a scoping call. Pricing model: pass-through.  
**Patient ownership:** Yes.  
**White-label branding:** Yes.  
**LegitScript certified:** Yes.

## What Karpa offers
Karpa Health is a turn-key platform built for two types of operators: licensed clinicians who want to add cash-pay GLP-1, TRT, peptide, or HRT programs to their existing practice, and entrepreneurs or multi-state operators who want to launch a fully branded telehealth clinic without a medical license. Independent licensed providers in Karpa's 50-state network review patients and prescribe under the operator's white-label brand, so non-clinicians can launch without a medical license. Both include patient intake, an automated eligibility screen, and direct compounding pharmacy integration with one-click ordering. Karpa Health is a LegitScript Certified Healthcare Merchant and a LegitScript Enterprise Certification Partner, which speeds up and lowers the cost of a partner's own LegitScript certification.

## About Beluga Health
Beluga Health describes itself as the physician-led clinical engine behind hundreds of digital health brands across all 50 states and DC. The partner brand runs marketing and the customer relationship, while Beluga supplies physicians, protocols, intake questionnaires, prescribing, lab orders, and pharmacy routing through an API, a hosted intake option, or platform partners. Its protocol list covers 70+ visit types across 11 categories, including GLP-1 weight loss, TRT, and female HRT.

**Why each is used:**
- **Karpa:** Custom marketing website, patient portal, and intake forms built for you on every Full Clinic plan
- **Beluga Health:** Physician network credentialed in all 50 states plus DC, with 70+ visit types across 11 clinical categories
- **Beluga Health:** Clinical API with documented visit payloads, plus hosted intake under the partner's subdomain

## Beluga Health: limitations
- Dollar pricing is not published; numbers are shared on a scoping call
- Peptide programs are not named in the public protocol list
- Beluga supplies the physicians by default; bring-your-own prescriber is not offered publicly
- A coordination fee applies when fulfillment runs through Beluga's partner pharmacies
- Contract length and data export terms are not publicly specified

Karpa wrote this comparison and is one of the platforms compared. Every competitor fact comes from a public source cited below, reviewed October 15, 2026. “Not publicly specified” means we could not verify that detail from a public source. Spot something wrong or out of date? Contact us at https://karpahealth.com/contact with a public source, and we’ll review it and update the page.

Last reviewed: October 15, 2026

## Sources
- [Beluga Health](https://belugahealth.com/)
- [Beluga Health Platform](https://belugahealth.com/platform)
- [Beluga Health Protocols](https://belugahealth.com/protocols)
- [Beluga Health Pharmacy and Labs](https://belugahealth.com/pharmacy-labs)
- [Beluga Health Pricing](https://belugahealth.com/pricing)
- [Beluga Health Solutions](https://belugahealth.com/solutions)
- [Beluga Health Switching](https://belugahealth.com/solutions/switching)
- [Beluga Health Start Here](https://belugahealth.com/start-here)
- [Beluga Health About](https://belugahealth.com/about)

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