Sausage Biscuit

Sausage Biscuit at McDonald's. 460 calories, $1.89, 11 g protein.

Sausage Biscuit

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

460calories
$1.89price
11 gprotein
Fnutrition score
243calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 460 calories it is heavier than 73% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. Its nutrition score is F — very poor. Its salt, saturated fat and sugar outweigh what it provides. It ranks 46th of 46 scored McDonald's items. It delivers 2.4 g of protein per 100 calories, 123rd of 174 items with published protein. At 243 calories per dollar it is 5th of 184 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at McDonald's

ItemCaloriesSaving
Steak & Egg McMuffin®450−10
Ebi Filet-O450−10
Double Cheeseburger440−20
10 McNuggets440−20
Sausage McGriddles®430−30

The same thing at other chains

ChainItemCaloriesNutrient density
KFCBiscuit175-15.58
Chick-fil-ASausage240—
PopeyesBiscuit241-5.32
Burger KingEgg & Cheese Biscuit370—
Wendy'sEgg & Cheese Biscuit370—
Wendy'sSausage Gravy & Biscuit410—

What a Sausage Biscuit costs across America

Priced at 12225 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.49 and $2.49, a spread of 67%.

$1.89median price
$1.49–$2.49middle 80%
12225restaurants priced
50states
516 restaurants at $0.99–$1.1258 restaurants at $1.12–$1.2556 restaurants at $1.25–$1.381464 restaurants at $1.38–$1.501017 restaurants at $1.50–$1.631282 restaurants at $1.63–$1.762641 restaurants at $1.76–$1.892082 restaurants at $1.89–$2.02210 restaurants at $2.02–$2.15583 restaurants at $2.15–$2.28750 restaurants at $2.28–$2.40448 restaurants at $2.40–$2.53195 restaurants at $2.53–$2.66923 restaurants at $2.66 and above$0.99$2.66+

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.

$0.25cheapest sampled — Houston, TX
$10.00most expensive sampled — New Orleans, LA

The cheapest Sausage Biscuit in the sample is $0.25 in Houston, TX, and the most expensive is $10.00 in New Orleans, LA. 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 50 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 42 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
OK$1.49163cheapest
TX$1.591068cheapest
NM$1.5964cheapest
AR$1.59131cheapest
ND$2.9916most expensive
AK$2.9919most expensive
MT$2.7517most expensive
WY$2.7410most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

950 of the 12,237 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +13.2%. A typical one now charges $1.89.

$1.74$1.84$1.952026-09-01 - $1.80 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-02 - $1.80 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-03 - $1.85 - median of 12,203 restaurants2026-09-04 - $1.85 - median of 12,211 restaurants2026-09-05 - $1.85 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-06 - $1.89 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-07 - $1.89 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-08 - $1.89 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-09 - $1.89 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-10 - $1.89 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-11 - $1.89 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-12 - $1.89 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-13 - $1.89 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-14 - $1.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-15 - $1.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-16 - $1.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-17 - $1.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-18 - $1.89 - median of 12,226 restaurants2026-09-19 - $1.89 - median of 12,226 restaurants2026-09-20 - $1.89 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-21 - $1.89 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-22 - $1.89 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-23 - $1.89 - median of 12,229 restaurants2026-09-24 - $1.89 - median of 12,229 restaurants2026-09-25 - $1.89 - median of 12,237 restaurants2026-09-26 - $1.89 - median of 12,237 restaurants2026-09-012026-09-26

2026-09-01 · $1.80 to 2026-09-26 · $1.89. 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 →

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Priced like this at McDonald's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Sausage Biscuit’s $1.89. 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
Sausage McMuffin®$1.8966%12,232
Apple Pie$1.8945%12,181
Sausage Gravy$1.89108%3,649
English McMuffin®$1.8054%12,234
2 Cookies$1.98100%7,739

Full nutrient panel

NutrientAmount
Added Sugars1 g
Calcium70 mg
Cholesterol35 mg
Dietary Fiber2 g
Iron2.5 mg
Potassium200 mg
Protein11 g
Saturated Fat13 g
Sodium1090 mg
Sugars2 g
Total Carbohydrate37 g
Total Fat30 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.