The short version
20 companies supply this market — deep enough that no single failure threatens the supply. The brand price has jumped 195% in a year, to $0.0775 per mL — sharp rises like this often mean supply is already tightening.
Market view
sodium chloride
300+ marketed package NDCs · 20 active manufacturers
Most dispensed: 50 mg/g · Ointment · #1 tube/carton / 3.5 g in 1 tube · 50 mg/mL · Solution · #1 bottle/carton / 15 ml in 1 bottle · 9 mg/mL · Injection, Solution · #25 vial, single-doses/tray / 10 ml in 1 vial, single-dose · 9 g/1000mL · Injection, Solution · #1000 mL/bag
All formsInjection, Solution (166)Injection (34)Liquid (29)Spray (27)Tablet (21)Powder (19)Granule (18)Pellet (17)Solution (16)Irrigant (16)Ointment (11)Crystal (9)Injection, Solution, Concentrate (8)Solution/ Drops (3)Tablet, For Solution (2)Gel (1)Kit (1)Shampoo (1)Aerosol, Spray (1)Tablet, Soluble (1)
Price range and competition
RSS: changes for this drugpriced separately — they are not the same market
Brand-name products only. Every company selling this drug reports its own price. The line follows the middle of the pack; the shaded band holds the middle half of companies — the wider it is, the more they disagree.
Latest · Sep 2026 — typical price $0.0775 · middle half $0.0505–$0.0883 · full range $0.0021–$0.0883 · 4 products · 96 companies
ⓘ How this was built
Data sources
- CMS NADAC weekly survey + monthly archives back to 2013 (data.medicaid.gov)
- CMS Federal Upper Limit files (weighted AMP)
- FDA NDC Directory (openFDA) — maker roster
Method
Each month's band spans the NADAC unit prices of every NDC of this drug (min, quartiles, median, max), split into brand and generic cohorts by FDA marketing category. Maker counts come from distinct labelers with the NDC actively listed.
Pipeline and calculations built by Claude (Fable 5) from the public datasets above. Educational only — verify against primary sources before acting.
What changed in the last 90 days
Every detected change for sodium chloride, newest first — price moves, shortages, recalls, and manufacturers entering or leaving. Detected by comparing each day’s federal data against the day before.
- Nacl 0.9% Normal Saline SolutionSep 3, 2026Mfr enteredChi Fung Technology Company · sodium chloride
- Sodium ChlorideSep 3, 2026Mfr enteredYyba Corp · sodium chloride
- Nacl 0.9% Normal Saline SolutionSep 3, 2026New productChi Fung Technology Company
- Nacl 0.9% Normal Saline SolutionSep 3, 2026New productChi Fung Technology Company
- Nacl 0.9% Normal Saline SolutionSep 3, 2026New productChi Fung Technology Company
- Sodium ChlorideSep 3, 2026New productYyba Corp
- Sodium ChlorideSep 3, 2026New productYyba Corp
- BurbleSep 2, 2026Mfr exitedLets Burble, Inc. · sodium chloride
- BurbleAug 26, 2026Mfr enteredLets Burble, Inc. · sodium chloride
- Sodium ChlorideAug 19, 2026Price upNADAC $0.08672 → $0.08833 per unit (+1.86%)
Same drug class
Other molecules FDA puts in Osmotic Laxative, with whether each is in shortage right now. Same class is not the same drug — substitution is a clinical decision, and this is a supply picture, not a recommendation.
- sodium acetate· in shortage
- sodium bicarbonate· in shortage
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- 0.9% sodium chloride· 1 maker
- 3% sodium chloride· 1 maker
- 50% magnesium sulfate· 1 maker
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- abrotanum (artemisia abrotanum), anacardium orientale, fucus vesiculosus, helleborus niger, hypothalamus suis, lycopodium clavatum, thymolum, thymus serpyllum, thyroidinum (bovine), glandula suprarenalis suis, hepar suis, pancreas suis, cinchona officinalis, nicotinamidum, baryta carbonica, calcarea carbonica, calcarea phosphorica, magnesia phosphorica, solidago virgaurea, graphites· 1 maker
- abrotanum, boldo, cimicifuga racemosa, kali phosphoricum, taraxacum officinale, convallaria majalis, magnesia sulphurica, oleander, natrum muriaticum, bellis perennis· 1 maker
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- aceticum ac, adrenal gland, arnica, benzoicum ac, ferrum phos, fluoricum ac, ginseng, kali carb, kali lod, kali mur, kali phos, lacticum ac, phosphoricum ac, picricum ac.· 1 maker
Common questions
- Is Sodium chloride in shortage right now?
- No. FDA does not currently list Sodium chloride in shortage. This page is rebuilt every morning from FDA's shortage database, so a new posting appears here the day it is published.
- Who makes Sodium chloride?
- 93 companies have marketed Sodium chloride in the last 30 days, according to the FDA NDC Directory. Every manufacturer and package is listed on this page.
- What does Sodium chloride cost?
- The typical pharmacy pays about $0.0883 per mL, based on the most recent CMS NADAC survey of actual acquisition costs. That is what the pharmacy pays for the drug itself — not the cash price, and not what an insurer is billed.
All marketed products
Expand a strength to see its dosage forms, then package sizes, then each manufacturer and NDC. Click an NDC for its full detail page.