$6.99 typical, 740 calories: the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, checked August 2026
The McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese price recorded in August 2026 was $6.99, and the company publishes no price of its own for it. Calories it does publish: 740, the highest company figure of any burger checked for this site. A single Quarter Pounder with Cheese is a typical $6.29 at 520 calories. Seventy cents apart, 220 calories apart. No meal price was recorded.
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What you need
5 itemsDouble Quarter Pounder with Cheese price and calories
| Item | Typical price | Price range | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese | $6.99 | — | 740 Cal |
| Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal | not published | — | 1,330 Cal |
If something goes wrong
My restaurant charges more than $6.99
- Cause
- One price reading was recorded for this sandwich in August 2026, so there is no range on the page to place your restaurant inside. Franchisees price their own boards.
- Fix
- Open the McDonald's app, set your restaurant, and read the sandwich price there. That figure is the one the till will use.
There is no meal price for the Double Quarter Pounder
- Cause
- No meal figure surfaced during checking, and the company has put its name to prices only in the Extra Value Meal line.
- Fix
- Build the meal in the app with the fries and drink you actually want, then read the total. A guessed meal price would be worse than none at all.
The nutrition panel on the product page is blank
- Cause
- McDonald's draws its nutrition table with a script once the page has loaded. Total fat, sodium, carbohydrates and protein could not be read that way.
- Fix
- Ask in the restaurant for the printed nutrition leaflet. Calories also appear as plain text online, which is how 740 got onto this page.
I have seen a different calorie count for this burger
- Cause
- A calorie is a laboratory measurement and does not change between restaurants, so two conflicting figures mean one is wrong or describes a different build.
- Fix
- Use McDonald's own 740. Menu labelling in the US rounds anything above 50 calories to the nearest ten, so a count that does not end in zero did not come from the company.
What the second patty costs
Seventy cents. That is the distance between the Quarter Pounder with Cheese at a typical $6.29 and the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese at $6.99, on readings recorded in August 2026. A second quarter-pound patty is the whole of the difference.
Price is where the page has to be careful. One reading was recorded in August 2026, which is why the table prints a single figure and leaves the range column empty. Real spread exists all the same: McDonald's Form 10-K for 2025 puts roughly 95% of its restaurants in the US in franchisee hands, and each franchisee prices its own board, so two branches a mile apart can sit a dollar apart without either being wrong.
Corporate prices are rare enough to name when they appear. September 2025 brought the Extra Value Meal back with an $8.00 Big Mac Meal, published by the company and carrying its own rider that prices and participation may vary. Nothing comparable exists for the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, which is why the meal row above reads as unpublished.
What's in it
Two quarter-pound beef patties, two slices of American cheese, slivered onions, pickles, ketchup and mustard on a sesame seed bun. The patties are the whole story. Everything else on the bun matches the single Quarter Pounder with Cheese slice for slice, and the quarter-pound weight McDonald's quotes is taken before cooking. By the company's count the sandwich runs to 740 calories against 520 for the single, and the meal built round it, with medium fries and a medium Coca-Cola, comes to 1,330.
Macros and allergens could not be read here: the nutrition panel on the product page is drawn by a script rather than sitting in the page as text. Calorie counts escape that trap, which is how 740 arrived.
Is it worth it
By the calorie, plainly yes. Seventy cents buys 220 of them, and $6.99 spread over 740 calories works out cheaper per calorie than $6.29 over 520. That 740 is the ceiling of the burger board as well: nothing else checked for this site carries a higher company figure, with the Bacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese and the Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe at 630, the Big Mac at 580 and the Double Cheeseburger at 440.
By any other measure the case thins. That seventy cents is a tenth of the sandwich price and buys beef alone, while the meal piles another 590 calories on top with no published price to weigh them against. Anyone eating for the sandwich rather than the volume should take the single and keep the change.
Set the restaurant in the app and use $6.99 to judge whether that branch is dear or fair.
Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese at a glance
- McDonald's price
- not published
- Calories
- 740, from McDonald's
- Typical price
- $6.99
Questions people ask
How many calories are in a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
740, McDonald's own figure. That is 220 above the single Quarter Pounder with Cheese and 160 above the Big Mac. Macros could not be read, so this page leaves them out.
Is there a Double Quarter Pounder meal price?
None was recorded in August 2026, and the company publishes none. Build the meal in the app and read the total before paying.
Why does this page show no price range?
Because one reading was recorded. Where several exist the table prints the low and the high: the Double Cheeseburger runs from $3.74 to $6.19. Manufacturing a range out of a single figure is decoration, not data.
Is this page an official McDonald's price list?
No. McDonald's publishes the 740 calorie figure and no price at all for this sandwich. The $6.99 came from a published US listing and carries no authority at the counter.
Can this site tell me the price at my local McDonald's?
No, and neither can any other site. Whoever owns your restaurant sets its prices, and the app shows the result once you choose that address.