$4.39 typical for a Daily Double, 490 calories from McDonald's, and not on every board
The McDonald's Daily Double price recorded in August 2026 was $4.39, and 490 calories is the company's own count. Availability is the catch. Checking turned up one price reading for the Daily Double against several for the McDouble, which is what a burger carried by some restaurants and not others looks like in the data. No meal was recorded. A McDouble, by comparison, is a typical $3.89.
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What you need
5 itemsDaily Double price and calories
| Item | Typical price | Price range | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Double | $4.39 | — | 490 Cal |
If something goes wrong
The Daily Double is not on the ordering screen
- Cause
- Not every restaurant carries it. The sandwich has no guaranteed national listing, and the ordering screen shows only what that kitchen is set up to make.
- Fix
- Look at the app menu with your restaurant selected. If the sandwich is absent there, that kitchen is not making it, and asking at the counter will not change the answer.
It was on the menu last month and has gone
- Cause
- Value-tier burgers move on and off boards as local promotions change, and no national listing guarantees any of them a permanent slot.
- Fix
- Substitute by price. The McDouble at a typical $3.89 sits below it; the Double Cheeseburger has no typical price at all, its two readings running $3.74 and $6.19.
The price is different from $4.39
- Cause
- A single reading was recorded, so the page carries no range to describe how far restaurants vary from it. Franchisees set their own prices.
- Fix
- Read the app price for your restaurant. Use $4.39 only to judge whether that figure looks reasonable for a value burger.
There is no nutrition detail beyond calories
- Cause
- Nutrition tables on the company's product pages are drawn by a script in the browser, and the fat, sodium and protein figures could not be read.
- Fix
- Ask for the printed nutrition guide in the restaurant. The 490 calories quoted here came from McDonald's own page text.
A burger that comes and goes
Some items sit on every board in the country. The Daily Double is not one of them. Checking in August 2026 produced a single price reading for it, $4.39, where the McDouble produced several and the Big Mac produced more still. Thin coverage proves nothing on its own, but it is exactly what an item carried by some restaurants and skipped by others looks like from the outside.
The company publishes no price for any of them. Calories, yes, item by item. Prices belong to whoever owns the restaurant, and in the US that is a franchisee at the overwhelming majority of addresses, which is also why one town gets a Daily Double on the menu and the next town does not.
What's in it
No build description could be read for this sandwich. McDonald's keeps a product page for it and publishes 490 calories there, but the table beneath that line is drawn by a script in the browser, so the fat, sodium and protein rows came back empty. The calorie count still places it. At 490 it sits above the Double Cheeseburger at 440, the McDouble at 390, the Cheeseburger at 300 and the Hamburger at 250, which makes it the heaviest sandwich in the value tier before anything else about it is known.
Is it worth it
The price ladder refuses to run in step with that. The Double Cheeseburger carries fifty calories fewer and was recorded both under the Daily Double's $4.39, at $3.74, and far over it, at $6.19. Nothing in the value tier is priced by calorie count.
Two sandwiches sit next to this one in that tier. The McDouble was recorded at a typical $3.89, with readings from $3.49 to $4.59; the Double Cheeseburger produced two readings only, $3.74 and $6.19, with no typical figure between them. Both turned up more often than this sandwich did. Either works as a substitute when the Daily Double is missing.
Set the calories against the money and the verdict is narrow but real. At $4.39 for 490 calories it buys more per dollar than the McDouble at $3.89 for 390, so the extra fifty cents is working. Against the Double Cheeseburger the answer depends on which of those two readings a restaurant resembles: $3.74 for 440 calories beats it comfortably, $6.19 for the same sandwich does not come close. No meal was recorded for it either, which suits a sandwich that trades on being cheap by itself, and anyone who wants fries and a drink will be building that in the app and reading the total.
Check before travelling for one. The app menu, restaurant selected, is the only listing that reflects what a given kitchen makes today, and it costs nothing to look.
Daily Double at a glance
- McDonald's price
- not published
- Calories
- 490, from McDonald's
- Typical price
- $4.39
Questions people ask
Is the Daily Double still available?
At some restaurants. There is no national guarantee, and checking in August 2026 turned up only one price reading for it. The app menu for your restaurant answers the question for your restaurant.
How many calories are in a Daily Double?
490, McDonald's own figure. That is 100 more than a McDouble and 50 more than a Double Cheeseburger, which was nonetheless recorded as high as $6.19.
What is the closest thing to it if my restaurant does not sell one?
On price, the McDouble at a typical $3.89, or the Double Cheeseburger, recorded at $3.74 and $6.19 and given no typical price for that reason. Neither is the same sandwich, and both turn up far more consistently.
Is this page an official McDonald's price list?
No. McDonald's has never published a price for the Daily Double. The 490 calories are the company's; the $4.39 came from checking in August 2026.
Can this site tell me the price at my local McDonald's?
No, and for this item the better question is whether the restaurant sells it at all. Open the app, select the restaurant, and look for the sandwich before worrying about what it costs.