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Foundation test: Online pharmacies in the price-Check

  • Mar 18, 2026
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Online pharmacies are booming - Stiftung Warentest has therefore subjected the pharmacies in the Web and a price - and Service-Test: Can depend on the Online vendors, the small pharmacy on-site, or there are also risks and side effects? The Test results of Stiftung Warentest, we have summarized in this article.

Online pharmacies in the case of goods test: Only every fourth is "Good"

Good Service, there is no shortage of the mail-order pharmacies, rather, the technical competence is not every Web pharmacy satisfactory. The German Internet pharmacy tops the test Ranking with an overall grade of 2.0 ("Good"). The Details of the test winner:
  • Professional quality: As the only Online pharmacy the Internet pharmacy recognized all of the interactions, and noted that the test customer to the potentially life-threatening Interaction of the drugs. In the category of technical competence of the winner of the test section is also the best.
  • Order and delivery: The Medication delivery times and the correct Handing over of unfolded without problems, only the payment methods and the checkout process other providers offer significantly more comfort. PayPal , for example, is not offered. In addition, there is a free delivery from € 75. Most of the other pharmacies already from 20 Euro purchase price (the delivery of prescription drugs is always free).
  • Privacy: Not only the address and account data will be encrypted in the web shop of the pharmacy, also the contact for pharmaceutical advice is protected. Since it is highly sensitive data, is actually a Must.
(Photo: Stiftung Warentest)

"Good" pharmacies in the network: 3 additional providers impressed in the Test

Also the predicate "Good" there was for medpex (2,4), time to rethink (2.5) and versandApo.de (2,5). The pharmacies to deliver of 20 or 25 Euro (Aponeo.de), to calculate without additional shipping costs. The other characteristics of the individual Web-pharmacies:
  • Medpex.de: Better than the competition Medpex cut off the telephone Service and the comprehensibility of the information. Customers can find on the website, in addition, is particularly easy to all of the important information on the supply, cost and the contact with the pharmacy staff.
  • Aponeo.de The technical quality downgraded a test quite as good as Medpex, and the winner of the test. This Lack comes up with extremely quick delivery times. Orders in Berlin (until 12 noon) to be delivered, for example, on the same day.
  • Versandapo.de: The website of the pharmacy the best in the Test. You convinced by a good Navigation without any annoying advertising, and an extensive search function. Among the individual drugs, the website also detailed information.
Mail-Order Pharmacy: Aponeo.de

Technical Competence: Poor (Score Of 5.3)

As the only mail-order pharmacy receives the "Zur Rose", the predicate "Deficient". Reason for this is poor technical quality in the Test.

Online pharmacies: Up to 50% save

For almost 10 years, there is no price fixing in over-the-counter medications and more. Pharmacies can set their own prices - so there is now a lively competition between the pharmacies. Especially on the Internet you save up about 50 percent of the list price.
  • Of the 17 tested mail-order pharmacies, 14 sold over-the-counter medicines under the list price, and this almost without price fluctuations. In comparison: most of The pharmacies are based on the list price of the pharmaceutical companies.
  • The hook in most of the Web pharmacies: the cost of shipping and the minimum order value. Only the pharmacy mycare.de provides really free. More information in the article "shipping free Online pharmacies".
  • The winner of the test, the shipping cost will fall from 75 Euro. In the CHIP-pharmacy comparison, we will show you two effective Alternatives.
  • Tip: A Web pharmacy, which is always the cheapest, also could not make up Foundation goods test. However, to help you search engines like the medicine Fuchs-compare prices , the cheapest drugs in the mail-order pharmacies to find.
Medication compare prices of

Online pharmacies in comparison: on-site pharmacy better?

Stiftung Warentest has tested in addition to the mail-order pharmacies are also 21 local pharmacist. The comparison shows:
  • Just one pharmacy (Marien Apotheke Hannover) was able to beat the winner of the test of the Online pharmacies (grade: 1,8).
  • The advice to over-the-counter medicines in the pharmacies of sound, however, pharmacies interactions Online better, the were test experts.
  • Compare prices the Online pharmacies were the products tested, with a Saving of up to 46 per cent in the front.
  • The individual Details of the test you will find cost-free on test.de.
App-tip: you Need as quickly as possible a medication are pharmacies on site, of course, the fastest solution. The free pharmacy finder shows you the nearest pharmacy on the map. Also, the telephone numbers familiar with the App and with a touch of the contact to the pharmacist.

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