Carnitas Taco at Chipotle. 320 calories, $4.20, 15 g protein.
At 320 calories it is lighter than 71% of the 76 Chipotle items we track, against a menu median of 560. It delivers 4.7 g of protein per 100 calories, 30th of 64 items with published protein. At 76 calories per dollar it is 38th of 76 priced items on value.
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken Taco | 310 | −10 |
| Pollo Asado Taco | 310 | −10 |
| Beef Barbacoa Taco | 306 | −14 |
| Sofritas Taco | 300 | −20 |
| Steak Taco | 300 | −20 |
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taco Bell | Tajín® Taco | 210 | — |
Priced at 4127 Chipotle restaurants in 49 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $3.95 and $4.60, a spread of 16%.
Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.
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The cheapest Carnitas Taco in the sample is $2.70 in Hyannis, MA, and the most expensive is $5.15 in San Francisco, CA. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 47 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 39 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND | $3.98 | 4 | cheapest |
| MN | $4.00 | 98 | cheapest |
| MS | $4.00 | 13 | cheapest |
| KS | $4.03 | 42 | cheapest |
| NY | $4.88 | 252 | most expensive |
| CA | $4.55 | 531 | most expensive |
| ME | $4.45 | 7 | most expensive |
| VT | $4.45 | 5 | most expensive |
149 of the 4,147 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-07. Where it moved, the typical change was +2.4%. A typical one now charges $4.20.
2026-09-07 · $4.07 to 2026-09-26 · $4.20. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.
The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.
See every Carnitas Taco we price on the map — 4,127 restaurants, one dot each →
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Carnitas Taco’s $4.20. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Side of Chicken (SideChicken) | $4.00 | 12% | 4,124 |
| Side of Pollo Asado (SidePolloAsado) | $4.60 | 10% | 4,121 |
| Pollo Asado Taco | $3.75 | 12% | 4,118 |
| Beef Barbacoa Taco | $4.70 | 15% | 4,128 |
| Steak Taco | $4.70 | 15% | 4,121 |
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Calcium | 9.1 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2.0 g |
| Iron | 1.5 mg |
| Protein | 15 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2.8 g |
| Sodium | 630 mg |
| Sugars | 0.0 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 40 g |
| Total Fat | 12 g |
| Trans Fat | 0.0 g |
Chipotle publishes the protein, not a finished taco. This panel adds one soft flour tortilla (the first tortilla Chipotle lists). Salsa, cheese, and sour cream are optional and are not counted.