Hot 'n Spicy McChicken®

Hot 'n Spicy McChicken® at McDonald's. 390 calories, $2.29, 14 g protein.

Hot 'n Spicy McChicken®

Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.

390calories
$2.29price
14 gprotein
+1label score
170calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 390 calories it is heavier than 63% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. Scored on McDonald's own printed label, it comes to +1 on the label score, 8th of 61 McDonald's items we can score that way. It delivers 3.6 g of protein per 100 calories, 87th of 174 items with published protein. At 170 calories per dollar it is 17th of 184 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at McDonald's

ItemCaloriesSaving
Filet-O-Fish®380−10
Spicy Snack Wrap®380−10
Chicken McGriddles®380−10
Hot 'n Spicy McChicken® McGriddles®380−10
Bacon Cheeseburger370−20

What a Hot 'N Spicy McChicken® costs across America

Priced at 9031 McDonald's restaurants in 47 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.89 and $2.99, a spread of 58%.

$2.29median price
$1.89–$2.99middle 80%
9031restaurants priced
47states

It is on the menu at 9031 of the 12235 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.

257 restaurants at $1.59–$1.69308 restaurants at $1.69–$1.79467 restaurants at $1.79–$1.89944 restaurants at $1.89–$1.99321 restaurants at $1.99–$2.091386 restaurants at $2.09–$2.19930 restaurants at $2.19–$2.2911 restaurants at $2.29–$2.39574 restaurants at $2.39–$2.491200 restaurants at $2.49–$2.59628 restaurants at $2.59–$2.69620 restaurants at $2.69–$2.7924 restaurants at $2.79–$2.891361 restaurants at $2.89 and above$1.59$2.89+

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.

Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.

$1.09cheapest sampled — Atlanta, GA
$5.49most expensive sampled — Windsor Locks, MA

The cheapest Hot 'N Spicy McChicken® in the sample is $1.09 in Atlanta, GA, and the most expensive is $5.49 in Windsor Locks, MA. 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 44 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 36 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
MO$1.99289cheapest
KS$1.99117cheapest
OK$1.99163cheapest
OH$1.9924cheapest
MT$2.9517most expensive
SD$2.8917most expensive
CA$2.891118most expensive
WA$2.79195most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

2,372 of the 9,063 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +31.6%. A typical one now charges $2.29.

$2.19$2.24$2.292026-09-01 - $2.29 - median of 339 restaurants2026-09-02 - $2.29 - median of 339 restaurants2026-09-03 - $2.19 - median of 9,027 restaurants2026-09-04 - $2.19 - median of 9,035 restaurants2026-09-05 - $2.19 - median of 9,044 restaurants2026-09-06 - $2.19 - median of 9,049 restaurants2026-09-07 - $2.20 - median of 9,050 restaurants2026-09-08 - $2.29 - median of 9,050 restaurants2026-09-09 - $2.29 - median of 9,050 restaurants2026-09-10 - $2.29 - median of 9,050 restaurants2026-09-11 - $2.29 - median of 9,050 restaurants2026-09-12 - $2.29 - median of 9,050 restaurants2026-09-13 - $2.29 - median of 9,050 restaurants2026-09-14 - $2.29 - median of 9,051 restaurants2026-09-15 - $2.29 - median of 9,051 restaurants2026-09-16 - $2.29 - median of 9,051 restaurants2026-09-17 - $2.29 - median of 9,051 restaurants2026-09-18 - $2.29 - median of 9,054 restaurants2026-09-19 - $2.29 - median of 9,054 restaurants2026-09-20 - $2.29 - median of 9,055 restaurants2026-09-21 - $2.29 - median of 9,055 restaurants2026-09-22 - $2.29 - median of 9,055 restaurants2026-09-23 - $2.29 - median of 9,057 restaurants2026-09-24 - $2.29 - median of 9,057 restaurants2026-09-25 - $2.29 - median of 9,063 restaurants2026-09-26 - $2.29 - median of 9,063 restaurants2026-09-012026-09-26

2026-09-01 · $2.29 to 2026-09-26 · $2.29. 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.

Everything that changed at this chain →

See every Hot 'n Spicy McChicken® we price on the map — 9,031 restaurants, one dot each →

Priced like this at McDonald's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Hot 'n Spicy McChicken®’s $2.29. 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.

ItemMedianSpreadRestaurants
Scrambled Eggs$2.2958%12,235
Vanilla Cone$2.29114%12,222
Fried Apple Pie$2.2958%1,022
Hash Browns$2.1950%12,235
Hamburger$2.1956%12,234

Full nutrient panel

NutrientAmount
Added Sugars4 g
Calcium20 mg
Cholesterol40 mg
Dietary Fiber2 g
Iron2 mg
Potassium300 mg
Protein14 g
Saturated Fat3.5 g
Sodium600 mg
Sugars4 g
Total Carbohydrate37 g
Total Fat21 g
Trans Fat0 g
Vitamin D0 mcg

The nutrition label as McDonald's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.