There is no single Liraglutide dosage chart. Victoza and Saxenda contain the same molecule, but their FDA labels publish different schedules for different uses.
Start with the product name on the pen. The two schedules below come from their separate labels; the numbers are not pooled, averaged or treated as interchangeable. Whether either product suits a person is a clinician’s call.
Key dose facts
What matters first
First check
Use the product name on the pen or carton.
Why it matters
Victoza and Saxenda have different FDA-labeled schedules.
How this page handles it
Each product stays in its own table; the numbers are never pooled.
Victoza and Saxenda use different FDA-labeled schedules. They contain the same molecule, but their approved uses, doses to stay on and maximum doses do not match. Read the schedule for the name on the pen.
daily product
Victoza
Adults with type 2 diabetes, alongside diet and exercise, to improve blood sugar control
Once daily, at any time of day, with or without meals
Victoza labeled dosage schedule
When
Daily dose
Label note
Week 1
0.6 mg
Starting dosage. The label says plainly that it does not control blood sugar in adults
Week 2 onward
1.2 mg
The first dosage a person can stay on
After at least 1 week on 1.2 mg
1.8 mg
Maximum, and only where blood sugar needs more help
Dose to stay on
The label names 1.2 mg and 1.8 mg as the doses to stay on, and treats 0.6 mg as titration only. It is blunt about why the bottom rung exists. The 0.6 mg dose is there to lower the odds of a bad week in the stomach, and the label says it does not control blood sugar in adults.
Maximum
1.8 mg once daily is the maximum for adults and pediatric patients aged 10 years and older.
Adults with obesity, or adults with overweight and at least one weight-related condition, alongside a reduced-calorie diet and more physical activity, to cut excess body weight and hold the loss long term
Once daily, at any time of day, whenever meals fall
Saxenda labeled dosage schedule
When
Daily dose
Label note
Week 1
0.6 mg
Starting dosage
Week 2
1.2 mg
Titration step
Week 3
1.8 mg
Titration step
Week 4
2.4 mg
Titration only for adults. From age 12 the label allows this as the dose to stay on where 3 mg is not handled well
Week 5 and onward
3 mg
The dosage the label recommends, and the end of its printed table
Dose to stay on
3 mg a day, reached in four weekly steps. Saxenda is the only product here whose label sets a date to check whether you stay on it at all. At 16 weeks it says to stop unless at least 4% of starting body weight has gone. From age 12 the check comes at 12 weeks on the full dose and asks for a 1% drop in BMI.
Maximum
For adults, 3 mg once daily is the recommended dose; the label says to stop if it cannot be tolerated. Pediatric patients aged 12 years and older may use 2.4 mg daily if they cannot tolerate 3 mg. The label says to stop if they cannot tolerate 2.4 mg.
Victoza and Saxenda have different approved uses, maintenance doses and maximum doses, so the product must be named before its schedule is valid.
The shared molecule explains why both labels start at the same small daily amount. It does not erase where each label goes next, which doses count as maintenance, or where the maximum sits. Those are product facts, so HealthspanLedger keeps them on product records.