Vertex Labs
21 third-party certificates are on file across 17 tracked compounds, issued by Freedom Diagnostics Testing. Certificates are readable without an account. Record last re-checked 28 September 2026.
Edited by Slava Melikov, Research Editor · reviewed 28 Sept 2026
Last verified · 21 certificate records · rubric v1.11.0 · vertexlabs.shop
Source: PepIndex, an independent index of research-peptide vendors. No vendor can pay for a rank, every score is computed by a published formula, and every figure links to the document it was read from.
PepIndex score
56.1 / 100
2.8/ 5Partly documentedData coverage
72%
Coverage is the share of scored fields we hold and corroborated for Vertex Labs. A score built on a handful of unchecked claims and a score built on forty verified data points are not the same finding, so both numbers are always published together. How coverage is computed.
Is Vertex Labs legit?
Yes, on the evidence PepIndex holds. We have read 21 certificate records for Vertex Labs, all issued by Freedom Diagnostics Testing, and score it 56.1/100 on 72% data coverage — rank 33 of 57.
- Across those lots the mean assayed purity is 99.69%, and the weakest single lot came back at 99.00%.
- 10 of 21 lots assayed below the mass printed on the label.
- PepIndex holds no ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation record for the laboratory on those certificates, Freedom Diagnostics Testing, either way.
- Its certificates can be read without an account, so anyone can check these figures.
- On the business side it publishes a postal address.
What this does not tell you
- PepIndex has located no independent customer reviews for Vertex Labs, so nothing here speaks to its service or fulfilment.
- A score measures what a vendor publishes about its testing and its business. It does not measure the contents of any vial a buyer actually receives, and PepIndex does not commission its own assays.
Certificate recordsLot-level results with labeled versus assayed mass21 lots9.9% mean deviationView all →Hide ↑
Discrepancy is computed as the absolute difference between labeled and assayed mass, divided by the labeled mass. A vendor-published certificate is a claim; only an independently commissioned assay is treated as corroboration.
Recorded data pointsEvery field with its source, capture date and whether we corroborated it6 verified5 claimed8 not recordedView all →Hide ↑
A tag of verified means we opened the cited source and confirmed the value; published means we recorded the vendor’s own published information, taken at face value. Both count in full; only a value with no checkable source earns nothing. Fields older than 30 days are marked stale.
Testing
- Testing laboratory
- Freedom Diagnostics TestingVerifiedStale28 Aug 2026sourceCertificates located on the Freedom Diagnostics public COA portal (company: Vertex).
- ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation
- Not recordedNot recorded
- Certificate granularity
- Per lotVerifiedStale18 Aug 2026sourceLot-specific certificates observed directly. Evidence: “Certificates carry lot identifiers tied to individual product variants.”
- Certificate accessibility
- publicVerifiedStale28 Aug 2026sourceCertificates located on the Freedom Diagnostics public COA portal (company: Vertex).
- Labeled vs. actual mg published
- YesVerifiedStale18 Aug 2026sourceLabeled mass is published against assayed mass, not purity alone. Evidence: “Labeled 10 mg, assayed 9.73 mg, purity 99.74% (lot 072026, Analysis FreedomDiagnostics).”
- Historical certificates retained
- Not recordedNot recorded
Business
- Website
- https://vertexlabs.shopVerifiedStale18 Aug 2026sourceConfirmed reachable by the analysis run. Evidence: “Origin resolved and fetched: https://vertexlabs.shop”
- Legal entity
- Not recordedNot recorded
- Country
- USVerified28 Sept 2026sourceEstablished by the postal address published on the vendor's own site: 198 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116, United States
- Physical address
- 198 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116, United StatesPublished28 Sept 2026sourcePublished by the vendor. Confirmed present on the page; not independently confirmed as an operating location.
- Contact channels
- Not recordedNot recorded
Commercial
- Pricing
- Not recordedNot recorded
- Payment methods
- Not recordedNot recorded
- Guarantee / reship policy
- Not recordedNot recorded
Track record
- Independent reviews located
- Not recordedNot recorded
- Mean sentiment (0–5)
- Not recordedNot recorded
- Complaint pattern
- Not recordedNot recorded
Compounds carried
What Vertex Labs charges for each compound, read from its own store: the vial it lists, the price per milligram that implies, and that figure against the median of the vendors this index prices. Below 100% is cheaper than the market.
- BPC-157$2.67 /mg49%Visit
- TB-500$9.33 /mg156%Visit
- AOD-96041 cert$18 /mg171%Visit
- Cagrilintide1 certNo price capturedVisit
- DSIP1 certNo price capturedVisit
- Epithalon1 certNo price capturedVisit
- GHK-Cu1 certNo price capturedVisit
- Glutathione1 certNo price capturedVisit
- IGF-1 LR31 certNo price capturedVisit
- KPV1 certNo price capturedVisit
- Melanotan II1 certNo price capturedVisit
- MOTS-c1 certNo price capturedVisit
- NAD+1 certNo price capturedVisit
- PT-1411 certNo price capturedVisit
- Retatrutide4 certsNo price capturedVisit
- Semax1 certNo price capturedVisit
- SS-311 certNo price capturedVisit
- Tesamorelin1 certNo price capturedVisit
- Tirzepatide2 certsNo price capturedVisit
Score history
| First recorded | 61.2 · #312 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Best rank | #312 Oct 2026 |
| Today | 56.1 · #33-5.1 since first recorded |
Strengths
- 21 lot-level certificates read and recorded here
- Certificates are readable publicly, without an account
- Testing laboratory named on certificates (Freedom Diagnostics Testing)
- Publishes a physical postal address
Weaknesses
- No ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation recorded for the testing lab
- No registered legal entity is disclosed
- No independent third-party reviews located
What the certificates test
Beyond purity and mass. Each row is an assay the laboratory ran and the verdict its own certificate printed. Coverage is recorded, not figures: these documents are tables, and the specification and the result are not reliably separable once the text is extracted.
- Identity (mass spectrometry)
- ReportedLC-MSon 19 of 19
- Purity (HPLC)
- ReportedHPLC-UVon 19 of 19
- Content / quantitation
- Reportedon 19 of 19
- Appearance
- Reportedon 19 of 19
Not reported on the certificates read: Bacterial endotoxins, Sterility, Elemental impurities / heavy metals, Residual solvents, Microbial / bioburden. A test a certificate does not mention is a test this index holds nothing on — it is not a failure and is not counted as one.
Read 5 Oct 2026 from the certificates themselves. How evidence is recorded.
Regulatory & enforcement record
No adverse regulatory or enforcement action on record. We record authority actions — FDA warning letters, import alerts, seizures, criminal charges — when located. Self-reported reviews are deliberately not scored, because for this market they can be manufactured.
How this score was calculatedEvery signal, its weight and the arithmetic — reconstructable by handrubric v1.11.0View calculation →Hide ↑
Each criterion is scored out of 100 over the signals we could assess, then weighted into the overall figure. Within a criterion, a signal contributes weight × merit × credit: merit is how good the recorded value is, credit is what its provenance earns — 1.00 for a value with a checkable source, 0 for a value recorded without one. A missing signal counts as a partial gap — half its weight — so a vendor that publishes what others leave blank scores higher, while a blank still costs; a value recorded without a source counts in full and earns nothing, so omitting one can never raise a score. A criterion with no data at all — track record when no independent reviews are locatable — is set aside and the remaining weights renormalised; the coverage figure, shown alongside, reports how complete the assessment is.
Testing transparency
78.8 / 100 · weight 26% → 20.5
Is the testing lab named? Is it ISO/IEC 17025 accredited? Are certificates of analysis lot-specific, and can anyone read them without an account?
| Signal | Recorded value | Provenance | Weight | Merit | Credit | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Testing lab is namedA specific laboratory is identified, so the assay can be traced. | Freedom Diagnostics TestingCertificates located on the Freedom Diagnostics public COA portal (company: Vertex). | VerifiedStale28 Aug 2026 · source | 1 | 1.00 | 1.00 × 0.9 stale | 0.90 / 1 |
| Lab holds ISO/IEC 17025 accreditationNot recorded. | — | Not recorded | 4 | 0.00 | not recorded | 0.00 / 4 |
| Certificate granularityCertificates are lot-specific, so a certificate maps to the vial received. | Per lotLot-specific certificates observed directly. Evidence: “Certificates carry lot identifiers tied to individual product variants.” | VerifiedStale18 Aug 2026 · source | 3 | 1.00 | 1.00 × 0.9 stale | 2.70 / 3 |
| Certificates readable without an accountAnyone, including us, can read the certificates without registering. | PublicCertificates located on the Freedom Diagnostics public COA portal (company: Vertex). | VerifiedStale28 Aug 2026 · source | 4 | 1.00 | 1.00 × 0.9 stale | 3.60 / 4 |
| Recognised testing laboratory21 of 21 certificates name a real, identifiable testing laboratory (a known lab, or a clearly independent one). Certificates with no named lab, or where the "lab" is just the vendor's own name, do not count — anyone can print those. | 21 / 21 recognised lab | PublishedStale25 Aug 2026 · source | 6 | 1.00 | 1.00 × 0.9 stale | 5.40 / 6 |
| Testing transparency subtotal · coverage 73% | 12.60 / 18 | |||||
Documentation depth
74.6 / 100 · weight 22% → 16.4
Does the vendor publish labeled-versus-actual milligram figures, retain historical certificates, and how large are the discrepancies we can measure?
| Signal | Recorded value | Provenance | Weight | Merit | Credit | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labeled vs. actual mg publishedQuantitative fill data is published, not only a purity percentage. | PublishedLabeled mass is published against assayed mass, not purity alone. Evidence: “Labeled 10 mg, assayed 9.73 mg, purity 99.74% (lot 072026, Analysis FreedomDiagnostics).” | VerifiedStale18 Aug 2026 · source | 1 | 1.00 | 1.00 × 0.9 stale | 0.90 / 1 |
| Historical certificates retainedNot recorded. | — | Not recorded | 3 | 0.00 | not recorded | 0.00 / 3 |
| Certificates the vendor publishes21 certificates located, 21 of them indexed with readable results; full credit at six. | 21 indexed | PublishedStale25 Aug 2026 · source | 7 | 1.00 | 1.00 × 0.9 stale | 6.30 / 7 |
| Labeled vs. actual discrepancyMean absolute deviation between labeled and assayed mass across 21 certificates. Zero scores full marks; 10% or worse scores nothing. | 9.9% mean | PublishedStale25 Aug 2026 · source | 1 | 0.01 | 1.00 × 0.9 stale | 0.01 / 1 |
| Certificate recencyThe most recent certificate is dated 2026-08-25, about 2 months ago. Certificates within a year score full marks; two years or older scores nothing. | newest 2026-08-25 | PublishedStale25 Aug 2026 · source | 4 | 1.00 | 1.00 × 0.9 stale | 3.60 / 4 |
| Documentation depth subtotal · coverage 81% | 10.81 / 16 | |||||
Price & value
9.5 / 100 · weight 20% → 1.9
How the vendor’s per-milligram prices for a standard basket of common compounds compare to the market. Priced below the peer median scores higher; well above it scores lower. An overpriced vendor cannot outrank a comparably documented, better-priced one.
| Signal | Recorded value | Provenance | Weight | Merit | Credit | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price vs market ($/mg)Priced about 56% above the peer median per milligram across a standard basket — weaker value than the typical vendor. | 156% of medianPrice index 155.5% of peer median across 3 compounds (0 outliers dropped): tb-500 $9.33/mg, bpc-157 $2.67/mg, aod-9604 $18/mg. | Verified6 Oct 2026 · source | 10 | 0.10 | 1.00 | 0.95 / 10 |
| Price & value subtotal · coverage 100% | 0.95 / 10 | |||||
Track record
100 / 100 · weight 12% → 12
Adverse regulatory or enforcement action on record — warning letters, import alerts, seizures, criminal charges. Authority-issued and publicly verifiable. Self-reported reviews are deliberately not scored: for this market they can be manufactured.
| Signal | Recorded value | Provenance | Weight | Merit | Credit | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regulatory & enforcement recordNo adverse regulatory or enforcement action on record. Authority actions — warning letters, import alerts, seizures, criminal charges — are recorded here when located; self-reported reviews are deliberately not scored, because for this market they can be manufactured. | None on record | Verified24 Oct 2026 | 10 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 10.00 / 10 |
| Track record subtotal · coverage 100% | 10.00 / 10 | |||||
Business transparency
44.4 / 100 · weight 12% → 5.3
Is a legal entity named, is there a physical address, and can the vendor be reached?
| Signal | Recorded value | Provenance | Weight | Merit | Credit | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Named legal entityNot recorded. | — | Not recorded | 3 | 0.00 | not recorded | 0.00 / 3 |
| Physical address publishedA postal address is published. | 198 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116, United StatesPublished by the vendor. Confirmed present on the page; not independently confirmed as an operating location. | Published28 Sept 2026 · source | 2 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 / 2 |
| Contact channelsNot recorded. | — | Not recorded | 2 | 0.00 | not recorded | 0.00 / 2 |
| Business transparency subtotal · coverage 29% | 2.00 / 7 | |||||
Commercial clarity
Not assessed — excluded from the score
Is pricing visible without an account, is there a stated guarantee or reship policy, and are payment methods disclosed?
| Signal | Recorded value | Provenance | Weight | Merit | Credit | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing visible without an accountNot recorded. | — | Not recorded | 4 | 0.00 | not recorded | 0.00 / 4 |
| Guarantee / reship policyNot recorded. | — | Not recorded | 3 | 0.00 | not recorded | 0.00 / 3 |
| Payment methods disclosedNot recorded. | — | Not recorded | 1 | 0.00 | not recorded | 0.00 / 1 |
| Payment offers buyer recourseNot recorded. | — | Not recorded | 3 | 0.00 | not recorded | 0.00 / 3 |
| Commercial clarity subtotal · coverage 0% | 0.00 / 11 | |||||
Total
| Criterion | Subscore | Weight | Contribution | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Testing transparency | 78.8 | 26% | 20.5 | 73% |
| Documentation depth | 74.6 | 22% | 16.4 | 81% |
| Price & value | 9.5 | 20% | 1.9 | 100% |
| Track record | 100 | 12% | 12 | 100% |
| Business transparency | 44.4 | 12% | 5.3 | 29% |
| Commercial clarity | — | 8% | excluded | 0% |
| Computed score | 100% | 56.1 | 72% |
Rubric v1.11.0 · 6 verified, 5 claimed, 0 unsourced, 8 not recorded, 8 stale of 19 scored signals
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