8 Piece 10 Inch Garlic Knots at Papa John's. 880 calories, $7.49, 16 g protein.

Photograph from Papa John's, as published on its own menu.
At 880 calories it is lighter than 60% of the 52 Papa John's items we track, against a menu median of 915. It delivers 1.8 g of protein per 100 calories, 41st of 41 items with published protein. At 117 calories per dollar it is 12th of 48 priced items on value.
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Steak & Mushroom Oven-Toasted Sandwich | 820 | −60 |
| Philly Cheesesteak Oven-Toasted Sandwich | 790 | −90 |
| 14" The Works Pizza, Original Crust | 366 | −514 |
| 14" Pepperoni Pizza, Original Crust | 338 | −542 |
| 14" Cheese Pizza, Original Crust | 305 | −575 |
Priced at 3071 Papa John's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $6.99 and $8.99, a spread of 29%.
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 8 Piece 10 Inch Garlic Knots in the sample is $5.00 in La Crosse, VA, and the most expensive is $11.49 in Eaton, OH. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NY | $5.99 | 91 | cheapest |
| AK | $5.99 | 8 | cheapest |
| OK | $6.49 | 33 | cheapest |
| AR | $6.49 | 26 | cheapest |
| HI | $10.49 | 15 | most expensive |
| FL | $9.49 | 292 | most expensive |
| OR | $8.99 | 15 | most expensive |
| CA | $8.99 | 157 | most expensive |
49 of the 3,072 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-09. Where it moved, the typical change was +7.7%. A typical one now charges $7.49.
2026-09-09 · $7.50 to 2026-09-26 · $7.49. 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.
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the 8 Piece 10 Inch Garlic Knots’s $7.49. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Piece 14 Inch Original Breadsticks | $7.99 | 29% | 3,077 |
| 10 Piece 14 Inch Garlic Parmesan Breadsticks | $8.49 | 28% | 3,071 |
| Cheesy Garlic Bread | $5.99 | 17% | 3,048 |
| 10 Inch Original Cheesesticks | $8.99 | 25% | 3,044 |
| 10 Piece BBQ Boneless Chicken Wings | $9.99 | 27% | 3,067 |
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cholesterol | 0.0 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0.0 g |
| Protein | 16.0 g |
| Saturated Fat | 8.0 g |
| Sodium | 2080.0 mg |
| Sugars | 8.0 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 112.0 g |
| Total Fat | 36.0 g |
| Trans Fat | 0.0 g |
Papa John’s publishes 110 calories per knot and 8 knots to an order, so this is the whole order.