McRib
McRib at McDonald's. 520 calories, 24 g protein.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 520 calories it is heavier than 79% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. Scored on McDonald's own printed label, it comes to -4 on the label score, 38th of 61 McDonald's items we can score that way. It delivers 4.6 g of protein per 100 calories, 60th of 174 items with published protein.
Lighter choices at McDonald's
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Bacon Double Cheeseburger | 510 | −10 |
| Double Homestyle Burger | 500 | −20 |
| Sausage, Egg & Cheese Blueberry McGriddles® | 500 | −20 |
| Large Popcorn | 500 | −20 |
| Daily Double® | 490 | −30 |
What a McRib* costs across America
Priced at 167 McDonald's restaurants in 25 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.00 and $6.99, a spread of 599%.
It is on the menu at 227 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.
Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.
The cheapest McRib* in the sample is $1.00 in Kansas City, MO, and the most expensive is $7.99 in Canaan, 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 15 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 7 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | $1.00 | 5 | cheapest |
| TX | $1.00 | 32 | cheapest |
| KS | $1.00 | 4 | cheapest |
| NC | $1.49 | 6 | cheapest |
| MA | $7.99 | 13 | most expensive |
| PA | $6.29 | 13 | most expensive |
| SC | $5.89 | 3 | most expensive |
| AZ | $5.49 | 17 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
None of the 225 restaurants we price has changed this since 2026-09-03. A typical one charges $5.29.
See every McRib we price on the map — 167 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the McRib’s $3.99. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sausage Gravy Biscuit | $3.99 | 52% | 3,636 |
| Crispy Chicken Biscuit | $3.99 | 43% | 3,246 |
| Crispy Chicken McMuffin® | $3.99 | 44% | 1,359 |
| Daily Double® | $4.19 | 43% | 11,716 |
| Big Breakfast | $4.29 | 77% | 10,757 |
Priced at 227 of 12,238 McDonald's restaurants in our sample (1.9%). That is a rare menu item on this sample. See the rarest items at McDonald's.
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 11 g |
| Calcium | 40 mg |
| Cholesterol | 75 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Iron | 3.5 mg |
| Potassium | 450 mg |
| Protein | 24 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 890 mg |
| Sugars | 13 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 46 g |
| Total Fat | 28 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.