Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles®
Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® at McDonald's. 550 calories, $5.29, 19 g protein.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 550 calories it is heavier than 83% 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 43rd of 46 scored McDonald's items. It delivers 3.5 g of protein per 100 calories, 90th of 174 items with published protein. At 104 calories per dollar it is 85th of 184 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at McDonald's
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| BBQ Bacon Grilled Chicken Sandwich | 540 | −10 |
| McSpicy® | 540 | −10 |
| Orange Dream | 540 | −10 |
| Deluxe Spicy McCrispy™ | 530 | −20 |
| Spicy McCrispy™ | 530 | −20 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chick-fil-A | Sausage | 240 | — |
What a Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® costs across America
Priced at 12233 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $4.59 and $6.19, a spread of 35%.
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.
The cheapest Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® in the sample is $3.19 in Bogart, GA, and the most expensive is $8.99 in Brawley, CA. 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.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| NC | $4.49 | 433 | cheapest |
| GA | $4.79 | 403 | cheapest |
| ID | $4.79 | 49 | cheapest |
| SC | $4.89 | 216 | cheapest |
| HI | $6.59 | 61 | most expensive |
| VT | $6.29 | 13 | most expensive |
| ME | $6.19 | 49 | most expensive |
| NH | $6.19 | 49 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
498 of the 12,236 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +2.3%. A typical one now charges $5.29.
2026-09-01 · $5.40 to 2026-09-26 · $5.29. 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.
See every Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® we price on the map — 12,233 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles®’s $5.29. 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.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Piece McCrispy™ Strips | $5.29 | 29% | 12,234 |
| Spicy McCrispy™ | $5.29 | 37% | 12,232 |
| Steak & Egg McMuffin® | $5.29 | 39% | 10,171 |
| Quarter Pounder® Hamburger | $5.29 | 39% | 8,258 |
| Triple Cheeseburger | $5.19 | 34% | 11,733 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 13 g |
| Calcium | 190 mg |
| Cholesterol | 235 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Iron | 3 mg |
| Potassium | 270 mg |
| Protein | 19 g |
| Saturated Fat | 13 g |
| Sodium | 1290 mg |
| Sugars | 15 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 44 g |
| Total Fat | 33 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.