Four chains, four signature sandwiches, one question: what does the famous one cost? Fast Food Index reads the price of each flagship at every store that lists it — 29,433 prices in all — and the answer is closer than the advertising suggests.
$5.25 to $6.79
The Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich is the cheapest flagship in America at a typical $5.25. The priciest is the Crunchwrap Supreme at $6.79. The whole spread between the four most famous sandwiches in fast food is $1.54.
The four flagships, priced
Sandwich
Chain
Typical price
Middle range
Stores priced
Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich
Chick-fil-A
$5.25
$4.95–$6.49
3,066
Big Mac
McDonald's
$6.09
$4.99–$7.49
12,252
Whopper
Burger King
$6.19
$5.29–$7.99
6,332
Crunchwrap Supreme
Taco Bell
$6.79
$5.89–$7.59
7,783
Prices as of November 5, 2026. "Middle range" runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile store — the band almost every customer actually pays.
Decades of burger wars, settled by 10 cents
The Big Mac and the Whopper have been aimed at each other for decades. Priced store by store today, the typical Whopper costs $6.19 and the typical Big Mac $6.09 — 10 cents apart, both under the Crunchwrap Supreme's $6.79 and both above the $5.25 Chick-fil-A charges for its chicken sandwich, the only flagship under $5.50.
Where you live moves these numbers more than the chain does — the state ranking shows the same order costing up to a third more in the most expensive state, and the price map shows it store by store.
How this was computed. The typical price is the median of the item's current price at every store that lists it, read from each chain's own ordering system and refreshed weekly. The middle range excludes the extreme 5% at each end. Where a chain lists the same sandwich two ways, the story counts the listing customers actually order — for the Big Mac, the sandwich listing priced at all 12,252 McDonald's stores, not the lower-priced deal add-on that also carries its name.
Citing this data: Source: Fast Food Index, prices checked November 5, 2026. You are welcome to quote any figure on this page.