$8.99 makes the Bacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese the priciest burger recorded here, at 630 Cal
At $8.99, the McDonald's Bacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese price is the highest recorded for any burger on this site, on checking done in August 2026. Bacon is what the money buys. A plain Quarter Pounder with Cheese is a typical $6.29 and the Deluxe $7.49, both on the same quarter pound of beef. Calories rise to 630, a figure the Deluxe matches for a dollar fifty less.
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What you need
6 itemsBacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese price and calories
| Item | Typical price | Price range | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese | $8.99 | — | 630 Cal |
| Bacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal | $11.19 | — | 1,220 Cal |
If something goes wrong
The price looks high for a Quarter Pounder
- Cause
- Nothing else on the menu adds as much: bacon lifts the plain Quarter Pounder with Cheese from $6.29 to $8.99, without adding a patty.
- Fix
- If bacon is not the point of the order, the Deluxe at $7.49 carries the same 630 calories for a dollar fifty less.
The app is charging more than $8.99
- Cause
- One reading was recorded in August 2026 and no range came with it, so the page cannot say how far your restaurant sits above or below that figure.
- Fix
- Set your restaurant in the app and take the figure it gives as final. Delivery menus are priced separately again, usually higher.
The meal price rests on a single reading
- Cause
- One meal figure was recorded for this sandwich, $11.19, with no range behind it, and the company publishes meal prices only within the Extra Value Meal line.
- Fix
- Add fries and a drink in the app and read the total. Check the offers tab on the same screen before committing to it.
The fat and sodium figures are missing
- Cause
- McDonald's builds its nutrition table through a script, so the panel could not be read from the product page. Calories appear in the page text and survived.
- Fix
- Ask at the counter for the printed nutrition guide; it carries the numbers the web page would not give up.
The top of the burger board
$8.99 is the highest typical price recorded for any McDonald's burger checked for this site. The Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese sits at $6.99, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe at $7.49, the plain Quarter Pounder with Cheese at $6.29, the Big Mac at $5.99. Bacon takes that plain sandwich and adds $2.70 to it.
None of the pricing comes from the company. Calorie counts are published item by item and, with one recent exception, no prices at all. That exception was the Extra Value Meal relaunch of September 2025, which named an $8.00 Big Mac Meal and attached the company's standard note about prices and participation varying. McDonald's reported 45,356 restaurants worldwide at the end of 2025 and put approximately 95% of them in franchisee hands, so the operator rather than the corporation decides what a bacon burger costs on any given street.
What's in it
Worth asking what the money is doing. Not weight: the beef is the same quarter pound across every Quarter Pounder build. Bacon on that patty is the whole of the difference from the plain sandwich, which arrives on the same beef and the same bun. Not calories either, or not by much. The company puts the bacon version at 630, which is 110 above the plain sandwich and 110 below the Double. Past that line the panel could not be read, because McDonald's writes its nutrition table into the product page by script.
Is it worth it
Set the three additions against each other and the ranking is stark. A second beef patty takes the plain Quarter Pounder with Cheese to $6.99, a rise of seventy cents. Salad toppings take it to $7.49. The bacon build lands at $8.99, so $2.70 buys the smallest physical addition of the three.
Two of the three premium builds land on exactly 630 calories. The Deluxe gets there with salad and this one gets there with bacon, and the gap between their typical prices is $1.50. Anyone choosing by calorie count is choosing between identical numbers. Anyone choosing by price has an easy decision and a duller sandwich. On calories for the money this is the weakest of the five burgers named here, and only a taste for bacon justifies the gap.
Two habits make the number less irritating. Check the app with your restaurant selected before ordering, then check the offers tab on the same screen, because a build sitting at the top of the price ladder is precisely the sort of item that turns up inside a bundle.
Bacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese at a glance
- McDonald's price
- not published
- Calories
- 630, from McDonald's
- Typical price
- $8.99
- Meal price
- $11.19
Questions people ask
Why is the Bacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese so expensive?
Bacon. The typical $8.99 sits $2.70 above the plain Quarter Pounder with Cheese, on the same beef and the same bun, for 110 extra calories.
How many calories are in a Bacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
630, published by McDonald's. Identical to the Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe, which is typically $1.50 cheaper, and 110 above the plain version at 520.
Is there a cheaper way to get a Quarter Pounder?
The plain one, at a typical $6.29. The Double is $6.99 and carries 740 calories, the most of any burger checked here.
Is this page an official McDonald's price list?
No. Only the 630 calorie figure belongs to McDonald's. The $8.99 was recorded from published US listings in August 2026, and the company publishes no price for the sandwich.
Can this site tell me the price at my local McDonald's?
No. Franchisees price their own restaurants, so the only reliable number is the one the app shows after you pick yours. Treat $8.99 as the top of the range to expect.