$3.59 or $3.79 is the typical McChicken price, on a band of $2.86 to $3.89, at 390 calories.
The typical McDonald's McChicken price is $3.59 or $3.79, two readings tying for the middle, inside a band of $2.86 to $3.89. That makes it the cheapest of the six chicken and fish sandwiches by $1.40. McDonald's puts it at 390 calories, second lightest in the section. No meal figure for it could be recorded. Prices here were checked on 19 August 2026 and no restaurant is bound by any of them.
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What you need
6 itemsMcChicken price and calories
| Item | Typical price | Price range | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| McChicken | $3.59 or $3.79 | $2.86 – $3.89 | 390 Cal |
| McChicken meal | not published | — | — |
If something goes wrong
I saw a McChicken for under $2
- Cause
- Deal pricing rather than board pricing. The McChicken appears inside McValue meal deals, and promotional builds are priced separately from the standalone sandwich.
- Fix
- Check whether the price came from a deal tile in the app. Board prices recorded for the sandwich alone started at $2.86.
Which calorie figure for the McChicken is correct
- Cause
- 390 is what McDonald's prints on its own product page for the standard build, and that is the figure used here. Counts above 50 calories are rounded to the nearest ten under US menu labelling, so this sandwich will never carry an odd number.
- Fix
- Take 390 unless something has been added or dropped at the counter, in which case the calculator on the product page gives the adjusted total.
There is no meal price on this page
- Cause
- No McChicken meal figure came back during the checking, unlike the McCrispy and Filet-O-Fish meals, which both did.
- Fix
- Build the estimate from parts if a rough number is needed. Elsewhere in this section the fries and drink added between $3.00 and $5.00 to a sandwich.
The spread on this sandwich looks enormous
- Cause
- $2.86 to $3.89 is a range of about a third on a sandwich costing under four dollars. The low end reflects the cheapest trading areas rather than any single board.
- Fix
- Read the typical column as the middle of the evidence and the range as its edges, then confirm the actual figure in the app.
A chicken sandwich priced like a small burger
Put the McChicken next to the burger section and the pricing logic of this menu becomes visible. At $3.59 it sits between a Cheeseburger at $3.19 and a McDouble at $3.89. Two slices of the same board, one beef and one chicken, priced within seventy cents of each other. Nothing about the protein is setting the figure here; position on the value ladder is.
That position also makes it the cheapest thing in the chicken and fish section by a wide margin. The next sandwich up, a Spicy McCrispy, was recorded at $4.99, so the gap to second place is $1.40. On calories the McChicken comes in at 390, which McDonald's publishes itself, against 470 for a McCrispy and 530 for the three builds above it.
What's in it
A crispy chicken patty on a toasted bun, with shredded lettuce and mayonnaise. That is the company's own description, and it is the whole sandwich. What could not be read is the ingredient statement and the allergen list: McDonald's puts both behind a script that runs in the browser, so the page source arrives carrying the nine-allergens boilerplate and an empty table. Calories are written into the page as a sentence, so that one figure survives.
The published numbers still say something about the build. At 390 calories this is the lightest chicken sandwich on the menu, 80 under a McCrispy and 140 under the three at the top of the section, which places it at the small end of the range rather than the large.
Is it worth it
On price against calories it wins this section outright. $3.59 for 390 calories works out cheaper per calorie than anything else here, and the nearest challenger, a Spicy McCrispy at $4.99 for 530, is more expensive on both counts of that ratio at typical prices.
Against the burgers the case is narrower. A McDouble at $3.89 carries the same 390 calories for thirty cents more, so the two are close enough that preference decides it. Below both sits the Cheeseburger at $3.19 for 300 calories, cheaper as a sandwich and dearer as calories, which is the trade the whole value end of this menu keeps offering.
So the verdict holds inside the section and softens outside it. Delivery platforms carry their own markup and are no part of the comparison. A restaurant's own listing, or the McDonald's app set to that restaurant, is the only binding price.
McChicken at a glance
- McDonald's price
- not published
- Calories
- 390, from McDonald's
- Typical price
- $3.59 or $3.79
- Lowest seen
- $2.86
- Highest seen
- $3.89
Questions people ask
How much is a McChicken?
$3.59 or $3.79 typical, since two readings tie for the middle, inside $2.86 to $3.89. It is the cheapest sandwich in the chicken and fish section, $1.40 under the next one up.
How many calories are in a McChicken?
390, taken from McDonald's own product page. That covers the standard build, so adding or dropping anything at the counter moves the number, and the calculator on that page handles the change.
Is the McChicken cheaper than a McCrispy?
By $2.20 at typical prices, yes: $3.59 against $5.79. The McCrispy carries 80 more calories at 470, so the extra money is buying a larger sandwich as well as a different one.
Is this page an official McDonald's price list?
No. HelpMeLogin is independent of McDonald's and publishes this as a guide. The 390-calorie count comes from the company; the prices came from published US listings, checked on 19 August 2026.
Can this site tell me the price at my local McDonald's?
No. Each franchisee prices its own menu, so a sandwich under four dollars still shows a band a dollar wide. The McDonald's app, set to a restaurant, gives that location's figure.