Vanilla Cone
Vanilla Cone at McDonald's. 200 calories, $2.29, 5 g protein.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 200 calories it is lighter than 66% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. It delivers 2.5 g of protein per 100 calories, 121st of 174 items with published protein. At 87 calories per dollar it is 121st of 184 priced items on value.
What a Vanilla Cone costs across America
Priced at 12222 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.49 and $3.19, a spread of 114%.
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 Vanilla Cone in the sample is $0.49 in Lomira, WI, and the most expensive is $4.69 in Kapolei, HI. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZ | $1.29 | 254 | cheapest |
| NV | $1.49 | 75 | cheapest |
| IL | $1.59 | 607 | cheapest |
| GA | $1.69 | 403 | cheapest |
| HI | $3.19 | 62 | most expensive |
| DE | $3.05 | 39 | most expensive |
| RI | $2.99 | 28 | most expensive |
| NE | $2.99 | 60 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
748 of the 12,225 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +46.2%. A typical one now charges $2.29.
See every Vanilla Cone we price on the map — 12,222 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Vanilla Cone’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.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scrambled Eggs | $2.29 | 58% | 12,235 |
| Hot 'N Spicy McChicken® | $2.29 | 58% | 9,031 |
| Fried Apple Pie | $2.29 | 58% | 1,022 |
| Hash Browns | $2.19 | 50% | 12,235 |
| Hamburger | $2.19 | 56% | 12,234 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 17 g |
| Calcium | 180 mg |
| Cholesterol | 20 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Iron | 0.5 mg |
| Potassium | 240 mg |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 80 mg |
| Sugars | 23 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 33 g |
| Total Fat | 5 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.