Chili
Chili at Wendy's. 280 calories, $3.39, 19 g protein.
Photograph from Wendy's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the Wendy's menu
At 280 calories it is lighter than 72% of the 184 Wendy's items we track, against a menu median of 420. Scored on Wendy's own printed label, it comes to +19 on the label score, 8th of 74 Wendy's items we can score that way. It delivers 6.8 g of protein per 100 calories, 8th of 151 items with published protein. At 83 calories per dollar it is 126th of 171 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at Wendy's
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Jr. Cheeseburger | 270 | −10 |
| Kids' Cheeseburger | 270 | −10 |
| Plain Baked Potato | 270 | −10 |
| Biggie Bites | 270 | −10 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taco Bell | Chili | 60 | — |
| Chick-fil-A | Chili Lime Pepitas | 80 | — |
| Taco Bell | Chili Cheese Burrito | 380 | — |
| Taco Bell | Chili Cheese Nacho Fries | 460 | — |
| McDonald's | 3 Piece McCrispy™ Seasoned Strips - Spicy Chili Garlic | 490 | — |
| Chipotle | Chili Lime Chips | 550 | — |
What a Chili costs across America
Priced at 3774 Wendy's restaurants in 45 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $2.89 and $3.99, a spread of 38%.
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 Chili in the sample is $2.39 in MOUNT POCONO, PA, and the most expensive is $4.99 in LEBEC, 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 Chili. 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 44 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 36 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| NH | $2.79 | 25 | cheapest |
| MS | $2.89 | 32 | cheapest |
| SC | $2.89 | 77 | cheapest |
| VT | $2.89 | 3 | cheapest |
| HI | $4.79 | 10 | most expensive |
| DC | $4.29 | 3 | most expensive |
| MD | $3.99 | 84 | most expensive |
| CA | $3.99 | 256 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
53 of the 4,044 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-08. Where it moved, the typical change was +3.1%. A typical one now charges $3.39.
2026-09-08 · $3.39 to 2026-09-26 · $3.39. 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 Chili we price on the map — 3,774 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at Wendy's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Chili’s $3.39. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger | $3.39 | 27% | 3,788 |
| Medium Natural-Cut Fries | $3.39 | 30% | 3,788 |
| 6 PC. Spicy Chicken Nuggets | $3.39 | 31% | 3,781 |
| 6 PC. Chicken Nuggets | $3.39 | 31% | 3,776 |
| Crispy Chicken BLT | $3.29 | 43% | 3,774 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Calcium | 4 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Iron | 15 mg |
| Potassium | 10 mg |
| Protein | 19 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4.5 g |
| Sodium | 1050 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Total Fat | 12 g |
| Trans Fat | 0.5 g |
| Vitamin A | 0 mcg |
| Vitamin C | 0 mg |
The nutrition label as Wendy's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.