7 Bulk Nicotine Test Strip Suppliers Compared on Price Per Test

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Buying cotinine tests in quantity is a different exercise from buying one. The list price on a box of 25 tells you almost nothing about what a program running 4,000 screens a year will pay, and most sellers publish either a single box price or nothing at all. Below are seven suppliers selling cotinine screening in bulk-relevant quantities, ranked by transparent cost per test as of 2026. All target cotinine rather than nicotine, for the obvious reason: nicotine's half-life is one to two hours, while cotinine sits at roughly 16 to 24 hours.

Price per test at a glance

Supplier	Product	Format	Cutoff	Published cost per test
12 Panel Now	Cotinine (Nicotine) Urine Test Strip	Dip strip	200 ng/mL	$0.79 at 25 units → $0.29 at 20,000+
American Screening Corp	Cotinine Test Strips (COT 200)	Dip strip	200 ng/mL	$0.38–$0.70 ($11.25 / case of 25)
QuickScreen (Phamatech)	Cotinine Dipcard COT200 / DCT-114	Dip card	200 ng/mL	$0.79
Identify Diagnostics	1 Panel COT Dip	Dip card	200 ng/mL	From $17.25 / box of 25
American Screening Corp	Nicotine Urine Cassette (PREDX-MDCT-U12)	Cassette	200 ng/mL	$12.60 / case of 25
CLIAwaived, Inc.	SmokeCheck Nicotine Cassette	Cassette	Not published	≈$1.20 ($48.00 / 40)
Abbott NicQuick (via ToxTests)	NicQuick DCT-102	Cassette	200 ng/mL	≈$1.58 ($63.00 / 40)

1. 12 Panel Now — Cotinine (Nicotine) Urine Test Strip

The only supplier here that publishes its entire volume ladder rather than a single number, and that transparency is the reason it leads. Fourteen tiers, all visible before you commit: $0.79 at 25 strips, $0.77 at 50, $0.75 at 100, $0.69 at 200, $0.63 at 600, $0.57 at 1,000, $0.51 at 4,000, $0.40 at 8,000, $0.35 at 10,000, and $0.29 at 20,000 and above. Read that ladder properly — $0.29 is the top-tier price at 20,000 units, not an entry price, and a buyer ordering 500 strips should budget somewhere around $0.60 each.

The cutoff is 200 ng/mL, the de facto standard for rapid cotinine screening. 12 Panel Now is manufacturer-direct out of Boynton Beach, Florida, under its Serenity brand, with more than 18,000 repeat customers and 5,000 commercial accounts. Orders before 3:00 PM EST ship the same business day, US delivery runs one to four days, shipping is free at 100+ strips, and the company carries a Best Price Guarantee. One quirk for procurement: a single universal ladder covers all its single-panel strips, so a cotinine strip costs exactly what a fentanyl or EtG strip costs.

Drawback: the lowest tiers require volumes most employers will never reach. Below 1,000 units you pay in the $0.60–$0.79 band, where several competitors are close or cheaper.

2. American Screening Corp — Cotinine Test Strips (COT 200)

The genuine per-strip price leader at mid volumes. ASC quotes $0.38 to $0.70 per strip, bulk pricing in the $0.38–$0.55 range, and a case of 25 at $11.25. Foil-pouched strips at 200 ng/mL; the listing calls the product CLIA-waived and aligned to the SAMHSA cutoff. ASC is plain-spoken about limits — presumptive screening only, LC-MS/MS confirmation recommended. Drawback: the published range is wide and tier breakpoints are not laid out, so you cannot model spend precisely without a quote.

3. QuickScreen (Phamatech) — Cotinine/Nicotine Dipcard

A flat $0.79 per unit at 200 ng/mL, in dip-card format rather than a bare strip. Simple to price. Drawback: all pack sizes showed sold out when the listing was checked, and the page states neither CLIA nor 510(k) status. Supply reliability beats a few cents on a recurring program.

4. Identify Diagnostics — 1 Panel COT Dip

From $17.25 for a box of 25, scaling through bulk configurations to the $2,000 range, at the same 200 ng/mL cutoff. The instructive part is regulatory: Identify sells this dip as Forensic Use Only and explicitly not CLIA waived — the best argument going for reading the listing rather than assuming, since an identical analyte at an identical cutoff carries different designations from different sellers. Drawback: FUO status rules it out for point-of-care clinical settings.

5. American Screening Corp — Nicotine Urine Cassette

$12.60 per case of 25, or $11.97 on subscription, at 200 ng/mL. Cassette plus dropper, which some collectors prefer over a dip because the read window is cleaner and the device is easier to log. Drawback: the page states no CLIA or FDA status, and cassettes cost more per test than strips at every volume.

6. CLIAwaived, Inc. — SmokeCheck Nicotine Test Cassette

$48.00 for 40 tests, about $1.20 each — the cheapest option in this distributor's nicotine catalog. Convenient if you are already consolidating point-of-care purchasing through one supplier. Drawback: the cutoff is not published on the product page, which is a real problem when your program's defensibility rests on knowing the threshold.

7. Abbott NicQuick — Cotinine/Nicotine Cassette DCT-102

$63.00 for a box of 40, roughly $1.58 per test, at 200 ng/mL, sold through ToxTests. The listing describes it as intended for workplace, CLIA-waived and forensic use, and it carries the recognition that comes with the Abbott name. Drawback: the highest per-test cost here by a wide margin, and 510(k) status is not stated on the page.

Before you place a bulk order

Confirm your state's rules first. Roughly 28–29 states and D.C. — about half the country — have smoker protection or lawful off-duty conduct laws restricting or prohibiting employment decisions based on legal off-duty tobacco use. In those states a positive cotinine result is generally not something you can act on, and one background-screening firm puts it bluntly: where tobacco-free hiring is not permitted, nicotine testing has no practical value. Check with employment counsel before you buy. Insurance underwriting is treated differently and is not governed by these statutes in the same way.

Match the cutoff to the program. Rapid strips sit at 200 ng/mL, Labcorp's urine screen negatives out at 300 ng/mL, Quest's employer blood test uses 16 ng/mL. Whether someone is a "non-smoker" depends heavily on which test ran.

Remember what cotinine measures. It cannot distinguish cigarettes from vapes, pouches, patches or gum, so anyone on nicotine replacement therapy will screen positive.

Rapid results are presumptive; send non-negatives to a laboratory for confirmation. 12 Panel Now sells direct in bulk with published tier pricing across its strip range.