$2.00 is the middle McDonald's Sprite reading, on a band of $1.69 to $3.19, with 190 calories in a small.
Any McDonald's Sprite price quoted at $1 is out of date. Readings taken from published US listings in August 2026 ran from $1.69 to $3.19, with $2.00 in the middle, and the deals page carried no any-size dollar drink when it was checked. McDonald's gives the small cup 190 calories, ten fewer than a small Coca-Cola, which is the only column where the two drinks differ.
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What you need
5 itemsSprite (Small) price and calories
| Item | Typical price | Price range | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sprite (Small) | $1.69 | $1.69 – $3.19 | 190 Cal |
If something goes wrong
The $1 any size drink is gone from my McDonald's
- Cause
- No any-size dollar drink appeared anywhere on the company's deals page when it was read twice in August 2026. What sits there instead is McValue, split into an Under $3 group, $4 breakfast meal deals and lunch deals starting at $5.
- Fix
- Look in the deals tab of the app rather than at the board. Offers there rotate weekly and are tied to a rewards account, so the cheap drink now travels with an order instead of standing on its own.
Sprite costs the same as Coca-Cola even though it is a different brand
- Cause
- Fountain drinks are sold by the cup. One price covers the line, so the flavour selected at the dispenser makes no difference to what is rung up.
- Fix
- Choose on taste and on calories, since those are the only two things that actually change. Anyone counting the second should note the small Sprite at 190 against the small Coca-Cola at 200.
A large Sprite cost nearly double what this page shows
- Cause
- Every figure here is for the small cup. Sizes are priced separately at most restaurants, and the top of the recorded band belongs to captive sites where every drink runs high.
- Fix
- Read the small-cup band as the floor and add the restaurant's own size steps on top. The app shows the size ladder for the branch you have selected.
The nutrition panel on the product page is empty
- Cause
- Sugar, sodium, carbohydrate and the allergen list are written in by a script that runs in the browser, so those fields could not be read at all.
- Fix
- Take the calorie sentence, which loads as plain text, and treat the rest as unavailable rather than as zero. The in-restaurant nutrition sheet is the fallback.
The dollar drink, and what replaced it
People arrive at this drink expecting a dollar. Sprite was the poster child of the any-size soft drink offer for years, and the memory has outlived the promotion. Read twice in August 2026, the company's deals page carried no such thing. The strings that would prove it, a dollar-two-dollar-three-dollar menu among them, are simply absent from the page.
McValue is what stands there now. Three tiers, all named on the company's own page: an Under $3 group of about ten items, $4 breakfast meal deals and lunch to late-night meal deals starting at $5. The only dollar figure surviving near a drink is a $1 minimum purchase attached to app offers, valid once a week for anyone opted into the rewards programme. A minimum purchase is the opposite of a dollar drink.
Against that, the readings. $1.69 at the bottom, $3.19 at the top, $2.00 in the middle, all for a small cup taken from published US listings in August 2026. The bottom figure keeps reappearing at every size, which suggests it travels as a list price rather than as a measurement.
What's in it
Lemon-lime syrup and carbonated water, dosed at the same dispenser that pours the Coca-Cola line, over the same ice. A small is 190 calories on McDonald's own figure. The medium comes out at 250 on the company's arithmetic: its 3 Piece McCrispy Strips Meal totals 970, which resolves only as 400 for the strips, 320 for medium fries and 250 for the drink. Macros and allergens could not be read, because the panel holding them is drawn by a browser script rather than printed in the page.
Is it worth it
Ten calories separate a small Sprite from a small Coca-Cola and no money separates them at all, so the choice is taste and nothing else. Against the tea line the picture changes. Unsweetened Iced Tea is zero calories at roughly the same money, which makes it the swap with something behind it. Value at the bottom of the band is genuinely good: $1.69 buys a cup that costs the restaurant pennies. At $3.19 the same cup is dearer than a bottle of DASANI Water and pennies short of a medium orange juice, which is where a soft drink stops making sense on price alone.
Everything above was recorded from published US listings and checked on 19 August 2026. Calories are McDonald's own.
Sprite (Small) at a glance
- McDonald's price
- not published
- Calories
- 190, from McDonald's
- Typical price
- $1.69
Questions people ask
How much is a Sprite at McDonald's?
$2.00 sits in the middle of the August 2026 readings, which ran $1.69 to $3.19 for a small. No company price exists to check that against, so the restaurant's own board decides.
Does McDonald's still do $1 any size drinks?
Not on the company's deals page, read twice in August 2026. McValue replaced it, with an Under $3 group, $4 breakfast deals and meal deals from $5, plus app offers that need a $1 minimum purchase.
How many calories are in a small Sprite?
190, published by McDonald's, against 200 for a small Coca-Cola. A medium works out at 250 on the company's own meal arithmetic, where a 970-calorie strips meal only balances at that figure.
Is this page an official McDonald's price list?
No. Calories come from McDonald's; the prices do not, because none is published for a fountain drink. Every figure carries the month it was recorded in.
Can this site tell me the price at my local McDonald's?
It cannot. About 95% of US restaurants under the brand are franchised, and pricing sits with the operator. Check the app with your restaurant selected.