TestWell vs Own Your Labs

When the lab partner is the same (Quest or Labcorp), the actual analysis is identical — same machines, same reference ranges, same CLIA-certified facility. The differences are price, ordering experience, and what's included.

Yes. Lab tests aren't subscriptions you have to cancel — each order stands alone. If you've already paid for a year of Own Your Labs, use what you've paid for, and order any additional tests through TestWell.

Yes. Your results are CLIA-certified lab results from Quest or Labcorp — the same labs your doctor uses. You can download a PDF and bring it to any provider.

The price on the test page — the Labcorp draw is included and there is no per-order fee, so a $10 lipid panel is $10 at checkout (or $9 with the optional 10% Citizen Science Discount). At TestWell the same lipid panel drawn at Labcorp is $24.99 plus a single $6 fee, $30.99 all-in. On specialty tests the order flips: vitamin K is $129 there and $42.99 all-in here.

It depends on the test. Routine tests — CBC, CMP, lipid panel, A1c, TSH, ferritin, PSA — are $15-$20 cheaper at Own Your Labs ($8.40-$17 vs $28-$46 all-in). Specialty assays are cheaper at TestWell by $40-$90: vitamin K $42.99 vs $129, biotin $65.99 vs $145, iodine $45.99 vs $101.70, ionized calcium $35.99 vs $84.29. Across the 78 tests both sell, TestWell is cheaper all-in on 31 (checked 2026-10-12).

An optional checkbox at checkout that takes 10% off the order in exchange for your consent to publish your de-identified demographics (age, sex, the lifestyle and diet form you fill in) and your full results to a public research data archive. It is off by default and you can uncheck it before placing the order. Your name, email, phone and address are not attached to the published data. TestWell has no equivalent: nothing you share changes the price and results are never published.

Yes — it is a physician-authorized ordering service that draws at Labcorp patient service centers (the same CLIA-certified lab TestWell uses for Labcorp orders), with a listed team, a phone line and a refund policy. The trade-offs are structural: Labcorp only (no New York; Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey and Rhode Island residents get at-home kits only), a printed order form, no named clinician on the site, and a data-sharing discount worth reading the terms on.

TestWell for specialty tests, Quest or Labcorp at checkout, New York and New Jersey through BioReference, an emailed requisition and physician-reviewed results pages; Labcorp OnDemand to buy directly from Labcorp at much higher prices; Jason Health or JustLabs for the same low-sticker model drawn at Quest. For a Labcorp cart of routine tests, Own Your Labs itself is usually the cheapest total.

New York residents cannot order from Own Your Labs at all, and New Jersey residents are limited to SiPhox at-home kits — Labcorp does not accept self-ordered draws in those states. TestWell routes New York and New Jersey orders to BioReference Laboratories patient service centers automatically.

For Labcorp orders, yes — both send you to the same Labcorp patient service centers and the matched tests carry the same Labcorp test numbers, so the assay and reference ranges are identical. TestWell also offers Quest at checkout and BioReference in New York and New Jersey; Own Your Labs is Labcorp-only.