Basket of Fries
Basket of Fries at McDonald's. 630 calories, $4.69, 9 g protein.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 630 calories it is heavier than 88% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. It delivers 1.4 g of protein per 100 calories, 155th of 174 items with published protein. At 134 calories per dollar it is 39th of 184 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at McDonald's
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| McTeri Deluxe | 620 | −10 |
| McWrap Classic | 610 | −20 |
| McWrap Sweet Chili | 610 | −20 |
| Bacon Egg Cheese Bagel | 590 | −40 |
| Samurai Burger | 590 | −40 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendy's | Pub Fries | 460 | — |
| Wendy's | Cheese Fries | 470 | — |
What a Basket of Fries costs across America
Priced at 3719 McDonald's restaurants in 23 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $4.19 and $5.59, a spread of 33%.
It is on the menu at 3719 of the 12235 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.
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 Basket of Fries in the sample is $3.29 in Tulsa, OK, and the most expensive is $7.09 in Louisville, KY. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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By state, for what it is worth
About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 22 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 14 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| NM | $3.99 | 64 | cheapest |
| AR | $4.19 | 49 | cheapest |
| OK | $4.39 | 162 | cheapest |
| KS | $4.39 | 60 | cheapest |
| MD | $5.39 | 5 | most expensive |
| IN | $5.39 | 302 | most expensive |
| PA | $5.19 | 147 | most expensive |
| IL | $5.19 | 410 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
162 of the 3,730 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +3.3%. A typical one now charges $4.69.
See every Basket of Fries we price on the map — 3,719 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Basket of Fries’s $4.69. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hotcakes | $4.69 | 49% | 12,235 |
| Egg McMuffin® | $4.69 | 40% | 12,234 |
| Sausage Egg Biscuit | $4.69 | 43% | 12,234 |
| Sausage McMuffin® with Egg | $4.59 | 39% | 12,234 |
| Cheesy Jalapeno Bacon Egg and Cheese Biscuit | $4.50 | — | 15 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 0 g |
| Calcium | 35 mg |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 8 g |
| Iron | 1.5 mg |
| Potassium | 1310 mg |
| Protein | 9 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 520 mg |
| Sugars | 0 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 85 g |
| Total Fat | 30 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
| Vitamin D | 0 mcg |
The nutrition label as McDonald's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.