Score breakdown
Strengths & weaknesses
- Searchable certificate archive on its own site: 85 records on 12 October 2026, newest dated 10 July 2026. The R-10 certificate we opened is a Kovera Labs report with batch, purity, content, endotoxin and sterility lines
- US-only shipping; the shipping policy states dispatch within 24 hours, 2 to 5 business days in transit and a flat $15 rate
- 41-product catalog on 12 October 2026, from BPC-157, TB-500 and GHK-Cu to GLP-1 class compounds
- Phone line and email with stated hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm CST)
- A vialaudit reader code (VIALAUDIT) is listed at 50% off at checkout; we have not tested it, and the vendor's partner page offers new referred customers 50% off through any partner
- GLP-1 class SKUs are listed under code names (R-10, R-30, T-10, T-30, S-5, C-10) on 12 October 2026, while its certificate archive names retatrutide, tirzepatide, semaglutide and cagrilintide
- The certificate we opened is from Kovera Labs, whose business we could not verify; Finnrick lists no tests for Ascension
- All sales final: the return policy accepts no returns or refunds, and the buyer carries loss or damage once a carrier has the parcel
- No legal entity is named; the mailing address is a Kansas City, MO unit number, and its Trustpilot profile read as removed on 12 October 2026
- Newer vendor with a short track record: the domain was registered on 26 September 2023, and a 2024 founding appears only on secondary review sites
- Scored on public records only; we have placed no test order
What it sells
4 PEPTIDES WE COVERShipping & payment
FROM PUBLISHED POLICY AND USER REPORTSAudit notes
FROM THE BENCHWhat we read
For this audit we read the shop's homepage, catalog, shipping and return policies and contact page (12 October 2026); its public certificate archive (85 records, newest dated 10 July 2026) and one certificate in full, the R-10 report from 21 May 2026; our own 64-record mirror of the archive (26 May 2026); the vendor page on Finnrick, which lists no tests; the domain registration record; and public Reddit and directory posts. Nothing here comes from an order we placed; we have placed none.
Why Ascension matters in 2026
Three of the top five US peptide vendors by traffic closed within twelve months: Amino Asylum (June 2025, FDA raid), Paradigm Peptides (December 2025, federal plea), and Peptide Sciences (March 2026, quality collapse). The displaced buyer population has gone looking for replacements, and Ascension Peptides is named on several third-party "alternatives" lists. We have no traffic data of our own for it.
The vendor profile that emerges from public data:
- US-only shipping: the shipping policy states a flat $15 rate, dispatch within 24 hours of the order and 2 to 5 business days in transit, by UPS or USPS. It also says the buyer carries loss or damage once a carrier has the parcel, and recommends paid shipping protection. We have no delivery of our own to compare.
- COA practices: the vendor publishes a searchable certificate archive, 85 records on 12 October 2026, newest dated 10 July 2026. The R-10 certificate we opened is a Kovera Labs report. Our Kovera record also lists 15 certificates from May 2026 for a client printed as "Ascension Peptides", on our Ascension Peptides Kovera page. We found no Janoshik report for Ascension, and Finnrick lists no tests for it. Our purity and fill study puts the archive's content results (26 with a figure) at a median 112.2% of label.
- Catalog breadth: 41 products on 12 October 2026, from BPC-157, TB-500 and GHK-Cu to GLP-1 class compounds. The GLP-1 class SKUs are sold under code names (next section).
- Pricing: we have not re-run our pricing index for this update. List prices on 12 October 2026 were marked down from regular prices, for example R-10 at $100 against $149.99 regular and BPC-157 10 mg at $49 against $74.99. A third-party index, PeptideScouter's August 2026 report, says Ascension more than doubled its tirzepatide price per mg that month; we have not checked that figure.
GLP-1 class SKUs under code names
On 12 October 2026 the shop catalog listed six GLP-1 class products by code only. The homepage's featured items are blends; the code-named products sit in the shop catalog and on their own product pages. Prices below are the listed sale prices that day.
| Storefront name | Price | Regular price | What the listing and archive point to |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-10 | $100.00 | $149.99 | retatrutide: the R-10 certificate prints the code with a CAS number that matches retatrutide, and the file is named "Retatrutide" |
| R-30 | $250.00 | $299.99 | retatrutide; the archive lists "Retatrutide 30mg" |
| T-10 | $90.00 | $124.99 | tirzepatide; the description reads as a 39-amino-acid GIP and GLP-1 dual agonist, and the archive lists "Tirzepatide 10mg" |
| T-30 | $180.00 | $249.99 | tirzepatide; the archive lists "Tirzepatide 30mg" |
| S-5 | $38.00 | $99.99 | semaglutide; the description gives a molecular formula that matches it, and the archive lists "Semaglutide 5mg" |
| C-10 | $100.00 | $199.99 | cagrilintide; the description reads as a long-acting amylin analogue, and the archive lists "Cagrilintide 10mg" |
The R-10 and R-30 pages carry no description beyond "For research use only". None of the real names appears on the shop page. FDA's August 2026 letters named code names beside the real compound, so a code name no longer keeps a product out of a letter; the pattern is covered in code-name catalogs and FDA evasion. Our methodology takes 0.5 off the composite for a vendor that sells under code names: the weighted subscores come to 8.4, so the composite is 7.9, or 79/100. We found no FDA warning letter naming Ascension as of 12 October 2026, and none of Lilly's 11 retatrutide suits names it. Our FDA search was run through the web, not the agency's letter database itself.
Payments, shipping and returns
| Topic | What the vendor states (12 October 2026) |
|---|---|
| Payment | Visa or ACH bank draft; no crypto mentioned |
| Dispatch | most orders within 24 hours; orders after 2 pm Central go out the next business day |
| Delivery | 2 to 5 business days in the US, by UPS or USPS; US customers only |
| Shipping cost | flat $15; the R-10 page says free shipping over $250 |
| Loss or damage | the buyer's risk once a carrier has the parcel; paid Route protection recommended |
| Returns | all sales final, no returns, exchanges or refunds for any reason; damaged or wrong items must be reported within 24 hours |
| Support | (303) 518-6550, sales@ascensionpeptides.com, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm CST |
| Company | no legal entity named; mailing address 1221 W. 103rd St, Unit 212, Kansas City, MO 64114 |
Two domain notes. ascensionpeptides.com was registered on 26 September 2023 (RDAP), earlier than the 2024 founding that secondary review sites give. And a similarly spelled domain, ascension-peptides.com with a hyphen, registered on 20 April 2026, redirected on 12 October 2026 through a tracking link to a coupon page for a different vendor, Oath Research. We do not know who runs it. The official shop is ascensionpeptides.com.
Community sentiment
We could not find independent buyer reports for Ascension. A Reddit search on 12 October 2026 turned up no complaint or praise threads from buyers. The posts that name Ascension are vendor-comparison lists, discount-code posts (one advertises 55% off through a personal referral link) and PeptideBenchmark's curated vendor list, which carries Ascension referral links. Directory lists rank it near the top for certificate access and at the high end on price. We found no lab test of an Ascension vial in any of them.
Other signals:
- Trustpilot: the ascensionpeptides.com profile read as removed ("goes against our guidelines") on 12 October 2026. We read it through a page summarizer and have not confirmed it in a browser.
- Finnrick: the vendor page exists, with no published tests and no rating.
- Third-party directories: peptidedecode (3 October 2026) reports the Kansas City mailing address and code-named GLP SKUs. We confirmed the code names ourselves; we did not check what kind of address it is.
The concern we weigh most is track record. The domain dates from September 2023, no legal entity is named, the only certificate we read is from a lab whose business we could not verify, and there is no independent test of a vial.
What a buyer can check
Public records leave these questions open. Each can be checked from the buyer's side:
- Certificate match. For the code-named retatrutide and tirzepatide SKUs (R-10, T-10), confirm the batch ID on the vial label matches a certificate in the vendor's archive, and look the report up on the issuing lab's own verification page.
- Dispatch and transit. Note the order, dispatch and delivery dates and compare them with the stated shipping policy.
- Support response. Send a pre-sale question and time the reply.
- Endotoxin and sterility. The Kovera certificates we read report both, but they are vendor-commissioned. Check that the certificate for the batch being bought lists them; if it does not, that test was not done.
FAQ
Is Ascension Peptides legit in 2026? On public records, partly. It publishes a searchable certificate archive (85 records on 12 October 2026), and we found no FDA warning letter or Lilly lawsuit naming it. Against that: its GLP-1 SKUs are sold under code names, the certificate we opened is from Kovera Labs (a lab whose business we could not verify), Finnrick lists no tests, no legal entity is named, all sales are final, and its Trustpilot profile read as removed. We have not ordered from it.
Which lab issues Ascension's COAs? The R-10 (retatrutide) certificate we opened on 12 October 2026 is a Kovera Labs report, KVR-2026-DSD6AE, certified 21 May 2026. The BPC-157 example above is an MZ Biolabs certificate. We found no Janoshik report for Ascension. Check the report code on Kovera's own verifier at koveralabs.com/verify and compare batch, product and date with your vial; our COA verifier covers Ascension's own archive records, not Kovera codes.
Does Ascension Peptides sell retatrutide under a code name? Yes. On 12 October 2026 the shop listed R-10 and R-30 with no real name on the storefront, while its certificate archive names retatrutide. It lists tirzepatide, semaglutide and cagrilintide the same way, as T-10, T-30, S-5 and C-10.
What's the shipping speed from Ascension Peptides? The shipping policy states 2 to 5 business days in the US, dispatch within 24 hours (orders after 2 pm Central go out the next business day), a flat $15 rate and UPS or USPS carriage. It ships to the US only. We have not timed a delivery.
Does the VIALAUDIT 50% off coupon stack with other promos? We have not tested the code at checkout, so we cannot confirm stacking terms. Ascension's partner page says new customers referred by any partner get 50% off, so the discount may not be unique to vialaudit. Shipping is a flat $15, and the R-10 page says free shipping over $250.
Related
- Three vendors closed in 12 months - the post-Amino-Asylum shake-out that Ascension is named alongside
- Is Kovera Labs legit?
- Retatrutide dosing protocols
Catalog COA record
VENDOR-PUBLISHED · MZ BIOLABS (HPLC-UV-MS)Aggregated from Ascension Peptides's published Certificates of Analysis. Lab work: MZ Biolabs (HPLC-UV-MS). Most recent test on file: MAY 2026. Click any compound row to expand the batch-level table.
5-Amino-1-MQ2 BATCHESMEDIAN 98.97%
5-Amino-MQ1 BATCHMEDIAN 99.66%
AOD-96041 BATCHMEDIAN 99.76%
ARA-2901 BATCHMEDIAN 99.93%
BPC-1576 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.79%
CJC-1295 no DAC2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.16%
Cagrilintide2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.94%
DSIP2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.36%
FOX04-DRI1 BATCHMEDIAN 99.97%
GHK-Cu5 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.78%
HCG1 BATCHMEDIAN 98.25%
Ipamorelin2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.78%
Ipamorelin + CJC-1295 no DAC1 BATCHMEDIAN 99.61%
KPV2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.78%
Kisspeptin-101 BATCHMEDIAN 99.00%
LL-371 BATCHMEDIAN 99.59%
MOTS-C2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.71%
Melanotan I1 BATCHMEDIAN 99.48%
Melanotan II2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.72%
Melanotan-I1 BATCHMEDIAN 99.50%
NAD+2 BATCHESMEDIAN 98.59%
PT-1412 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.57%
Retatrutide4 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.91%
SS-311 BATCHMEDIAN 99.53%
Selank2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.63%
Semaglutide2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.91%
Semax2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.52%
Sermorelin1 BATCHMEDIAN 99.79%
Tesamorelin2 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.87%
Thymosin alpha-12 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.37%
Thymosin beta-41 BATCHMEDIAN 99.97%
Thymosin beta41 BATCHMEDIAN 99.10%
Tirzepatide4 BATCHESMEDIAN 99.92%
VIP1 BATCHMEDIAN 99.05%
Sources
9 REFERENCES- Ascension Peptides homepage — vendor
- Ascension Peptides certificate archive — vendor
- R-10 certificate, Kovera Labs report KVR-2026-DSD6AE (batch 03-05260628) — Kovera Labs
- Ascension Peptides shipping policy — vendor
- Ascension Peptides return policy — vendor
- Finnrick vendor page, Ascension Peptides — Finnrick
- RDAP record, ascensionpeptides.com (registered 26 Sep 2023) — Verisign RDAP
- Is Kovera Labs legit? — vialaudit
- Post-Amino-Asylum vendor alternatives — The Peptide Catalog