Pintos n Cheese
Pintos n Cheese at Taco Bell. 170 calories, $2.79, 9 g protein.
Photograph from Taco Bell, as published on its own menu.
Taco Bell lists this item as available meatless.
How it compares on the Taco Bell menu
At 170 calories it is lighter than 81% of the 290 Taco Bell items we track, against a menu median of 283. It delivers 5.3 g of protein per 100 calories, 9th of 92 items with published protein. At 61 calories per dollar it is 87th of 113 priced items on value.
What a Pintos N Cheese costs across America
Priced at 7717 Taco Bell restaurants in 51 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $2.39 and $3.19, a spread of 33%.
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 Pintos N Cheese in the sample is $1.49 in Houston, TX, and the most expensive is $5.49 in Universal City, CA. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
The same map as the rest of the site. Each pin is one restaurant that sells a Pintos n Cheese. Green is cheap for the brand, red is expensive. Zoom, switch items, or tap Cheapest near me.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS | $1.99 | 80 | cheapest |
| NE | $2.19 | 44 | cheapest |
| NJ | $2.39 | 122 | cheapest |
| KS | $2.49 | 92 | cheapest |
| AK | $3.30 | 15 | most expensive |
| HI | $3.29 | 29 | most expensive |
| NH | $3.19 | 12 | most expensive |
| ME | $3.19 | 7 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
23 of the 760 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +3.6%. A typical one now charges $2.89.
2026-09-01 · $2.89 to 2026-09-26 · $2.89. 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.
See every Pintos n Cheese we price on the map — 7,717 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at Taco Bell
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Pintos n Cheese’s $2.79. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beefy Potato Loaded Griller | $2.79 | 7% | 7,406 |
| Nacho Fries | $2.79 | 15% | 7,349 |
| Beefy Crunch Burrito | $2.79 | 11% | 2,137 |
| Chipotle Chicken Loaded Griller | $2.79 | 0% | 30 |
| Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes | $2.80 | 20% | 7,516 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 0.82 g |
| Calcium | 124.81 mg |
| Cholesterol | 11.26 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 6.94 g |
| Iron | 1.39 mg |
| Potassium | 357.93 mg |
| Protein | 8.96 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2.86 g |
| Sodium | 682.02 mg |
| Sugars | 1.1 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 19.46 g |
| Total Fat | 6.23 g |
| Trans Fat | 0.05 g |
| Vitamin A | 3.49 mcg |
| Vitamin C | 1.13 mg |
| Vitamin D | 3.06 mcg |
The nutrition label as Taco Bell publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.