Pick the vial, the water you added and the dose. Get the exact draw in units for the syringe in your hand.
Draw to80.0units0.80 mL
Step 1 of 4
1How many mg are in your vial?
Vial strengthamount printed on the vial
2How many mL of water did you add?
Bacteriostatic water addedhow much water you added
3What dose do you want to convert?
Target doseenter the dose you want to convert
This vial holds 10 mg in total.
4Which syringe are you using?
Syringe typematch the label on your syringe
U-100 insulin syringe · 1 mL · lines every 2 units · 1 unit = 0.01 mL
Draw to
80.0units
0.80 mL · 5.00 mg/mL · 50 mcg per unit · 2 doses per vial
80.0 units on a U-100 insulin syringe · 1 mL · lines every 2 units, which is 0.80 milliliters. The draw lands on a syringe line.
Easy to read on this syringe. Draw to the 80-unit line. No rounding is needed.
10 mg ÷ 2 mL = 5.00 mg/mL → 50 mcg/unit · 4 mg = 0.800 mL =80.0 units
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Show the math and syringe details+
Can this syringe show the result clearly?
Easy to read on this syringe.80.0 u is exactly the 80-unit line on a U-100 — no rounding error at all.
Want an easier syringe number?
This setup is already easy to read. Changing the water between 0.5 and 3 mL would not put 4 mg closer to a line on this U-100 syringe.
Adding more water makes the mixture less concentrated, so the same dose uses more syringe units. It does not change how much peptide is in the vial.
This setup is in the address bar — every input is part of the link.
Educational math, not medical advice — dosing decisions belong to a licensed clinician. The tabs above also plan a schedule week by week and count how many doses one vial holds.
How to use the calculator
STEP 1
Enter the amount in the vial
Use the total amount printed on the vial, in mg.
STEP 2
Enter the water you added
Use the amount of water added to that vial, in mL.
STEP 3
Enter the dose you want to convert
Choose mg or mcg, then match the result to your syringe.
Mazdutide is a once-weekly injection that works on two hormone receptors at once, GLP-1 and glucagon. It is the same class idea as tirzepatide, with a different second target. In China it is prescribed for weight and for type 2 diabetes. Everywhere else it is sold online to people who want the newest weight-loss injection.
The trial program is large, and every trial in it was run in China. Two phase 3 trials compared it against placebo and reported substantial weight reduction. An independent review of nine trials says longer-term, multi-ethnic data is still needed. Nobody outside a Chinese pharmacy is getting the approved product.
Examples using a 10 mg Mazdutide vial
Each row starts with the same 10 mg vial and changes only the amount of water. More water makes the mixture less concentrated, so the same dose uses more syringe units.
◆ How the water amount changes the resultdose used: 4 mg
For a 10 milligram vial: bacteriostatic water added, resulting concentration, micrograms per U-100 unit, and the draw for a 4 mg dose.
Water added
Concentration
Per U-100 unit
Draw for 4 mg
Nearest syringe line
1 mL
10.00 mg/mL
100.0 mcg
40.0 u · 0.400 mL
exactly 40 u
2 mL
5.00 mg/mL
50.0 mcg
80.0 u · 0.800 mL
exactly 80 u
The vial, water and dose shown here are the calculator’s starting example for Mazdutide. Replace them with your own values. Every result in the table is calculated from those inputs.
Drawn from once a week at 4 mg, a 10 mg vial yields 2 doses — about 2.0 weeks of supply. No cited source says how long the mixed vial keeps, so no storage window is shown.
One vial, and the direction of caution reverses as the dose rises
Only one mazdutide vial is published here, because no source this project reached names a strength for it at all. At the amount the tool opens on, both water volumes work and both land on a syringe line. Above that amount, one of them stops fitting the barrel.
3Open the mixing details — 3 notes
Both volumes read cleanly at the opening amount
Each listed water volume gives a draw that lands on a syringe line, with nothing to judge between two lines. That comes from these exact numbers, not from the compound itself.
It stops holding the moment the amount changes. The trials went well above what the tool opens on, and the clean reading does not survive the climb.
The higher trial amounts run past the end of a barrel
Mix this vial into the larger listed volume and the upper studied amounts need more liquid than a U-100 syringe holds. The top one needs close to two barrels.
So the habit of adding water for an easier read works against you here as the amount rises. The stronger mix is the one that keeps an injection to a single draw.
The mistake: reading the vial strength as a product listing
Most vial ladders on this site come from what sellers converge on. This one does not, because nothing checkable names a strength for mazdutide.
The size here was chosen to cover every amount the trials used, and it is a worked example rather than a claim that such a vial is sold. Anyone holding a different strength should type it in.
The only figure on this site a pharmacy somewhere will actually dispense
Every other unapproved compound in this tool is unapproved everywhere. Mazdutide is not. It is licensed and dispensed in China, so the amount typed here has a standing nothing else in this registry shares. That standing stops at the border, and the rest of this page is about what it does and does not buy you.
4Read the supporting evidence — 4 supporting notes
Licensed there, unexamined here
An approval is a regulator reading a dossier and agreeing to a product, a use and a group of patients. China did that. The agency that governs an American pharmacy has not, and holds no document about this compound at all.
Nobody here has opened the label
An approved product comes with an approved schedule, and that schedule exists in Chinese. This project has not read it, cannot reach it at an address it could check, and will not transcribe a document nobody opened.
The milligrams are large enough to break the usual habit
Most of this tool rewards adding water. A weaker solution spreads a small mass across more barrel, and small amounts get easier to read that way.
One strength, because no source names one
Compounds here usually get their vial ladder from what sellers converge on, corroborated across catalogs. Nothing this project reached names a strength for this compound at all.
Units to dose at 5.00 mg/mL
Mix 10 mg into 2 mL and one U-100 unit carries 50.0 mcg. The table shows how much peptide is in each numbered syringe line. These are conversion examples, not suggested doses.
10Open the unit conversion table — 10 rows
Numbered U-100 syringe lines converted to volume and mass at 5.00 milligrams per milliliter.
U-100 line
Volume
Mass (mcg)
Mass (mg)
10 u
0.10 mL
500 mcg
0.5 mg
20 u
0.20 mL
1,000 mcg
1 mg
30 u
0.30 mL
1,500 mcg
1.5 mg
40 u
0.40 mL
2,000 mcg
2 mg
50 u
0.50 mL
2,500 mcg
2.5 mg
60 u
0.60 mL
3,000 mcg
3 mg
70 u
0.70 mL
3,500 mcg
3.5 mg
80 u
0.80 mL
4,000 mcg
4 mg
90 u
0.90 mL
4,500 mcg
4.5 mg
100 u
1.00 mL
5,000 mcg
5 mg
How the math works
Concentration — divide the amount in the vial by the water you added: mg ÷ mL = mg/mL. This tells you how many mg are in each mL.
Volume — the dose divided by that concentration: dose ÷ (mg/mL) = mL.
Units — on a U-100 syringe one unit is 0.01 mL, so mL × 100 = units. A U-40 unit is 0.025 mL, so the wrong barrel is a 2.5× error. That is why the calculator asks which one you have.
Rounding gap — the exact draw against the nearest syringe line: |exact − nearest line| ÷ exact × 100 = % difference.
Medically reviewed by Jennifer Montecillo, MD · non-practicing medical reviewer·Reviewed 2026-08-17·open the primary sources
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