2 readings only, $2.00 and $3.79, so no typical price is claimed for this zero-calorie cup.
Two readings stand behind the McDonald's unsweetened iced tea price and they are $1.79 apart, at $2.00 and $3.79. Two figures do not make a middle, so the table says varies rather than inventing one. McDonald's describes the drink as zero-calorie and sugar-free, which is the whole nutritional story. Everything else about it matches the Sweet Tea beside it on the same counter.
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What you need
4 itemsUnsweetened Iced Tea (Small) price and calories
| Item | Typical price | Price range | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsweetened Iced Tea (Small) | varies | $2.00 – $3.79 | 0 Cal |
If something goes wrong
This page shows a price range but no typical figure
- Cause
- Only two readings came back for this cup during checking, $2.00 and $3.79. A median drawn from two numbers is the midpoint of a guess, so none is published here.
- Fix
- Read the two ends as the recorded extremes and nothing more. Sweet Tea, brewed in the same restaurant and priced on the same cup, carries seven readings and gives a better sense of the going rate.
Unsweetened tea costs the same as a sugary drink
- Cause
- Cup size drives the price on every non-bottled drink here. Ingredients barely register, so removing the sugar removes calories and nothing from the bill.
- Fix
- Take the saving in calories, which is 170 against a small Sweet Tea. Free water is the only route to a lower price, and it is not always offered in a cup this size.
The calorie count is written as words rather than a number
- Cause
- The product page carries no calorie sentence with a numeral in it. What it says is that the drink is zero-calorie and sugar-free, and that wording was read twice to be sure.
- Fix
- Treat zero as McDonald's own statement. Sodium, caffeine and the allergen list could not be read at all, because a browser script writes them in after the page loads.
One restaurant brews it fresh and another pours something stewed
- Cause
- Tea is brewed on site in batches through the day. A quiet restaurant runs through fewer batches, so a cup poured late in a slow afternoon has sat longer.
- Fix
- Order at a busy period, or ask when the tea was last brewed. Adding ice at the counter dilutes a strong batch faster than anything the crew can do.
Thin data, honestly labelled
Most pages in this section rest on five or six readings. This one rests on two. $2.00 came back at one end and $3.79 at the other, which is a 90% gap on a cup of tea, and there is nothing in between to anchor a typical figure. The table says varies for that reason. A median drawn from two numbers would look precise and mean nothing. Precision that has not been earned is worse than a blank cell.
Why so few? Unsweetened tea is the drink a price sweep passes over. Sweet Tea gets asked for by name, the fountain answers as one shared line, and the unsweetened urn sits quietly between the two. Seven readings came back for Sweet Tea in the same pass. Same restaurant, same cup, same brewer, less than a third of the coverage.
What's in it
Brewed black tea, chilled, poured over ice, with no sugar dissolved in and none available in the batch. McDonald's describes it as a zero-calorie, sugar-free iced tea, and that sentence is the entire published nutritional record for the drink. No numeral appears on the page at all. Below the calorie line nothing could be read: caffeine, sodium and the allergen list are drawn in by a script rather than printed, so the panel comes back empty on a plain read of the page.
Is it worth it
On calories this is the strongest drink in the section, tied with DASANI Water at zero and matched only by Diet Coke. Against a small Sweet Tea it saves 170 calories for the same cup, which is among the biggest free swaps in the drinks section. On money the picture is genuinely uncertain, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest: at $2.00 the cup is fair, at $3.79 it costs more than a bottle of water and nearly as much as a medium orange juice, and only two readings sit between those poles. Anyone who wants certainty should check the board. What can be said with confidence is that the tea will not cost less than the sweetened version, because both come out of identical cups at the same counter, and the sugar has never been what anyone was paying for.
Both readings were taken from published US listings on 19 August 2026. The zero-calorie description is McDonald's own wording.
Unsweetened Iced Tea (Small) at a glance
- McDonald's price
- not published
- Calories
- 0, from McDonald's
Questions people ask
How much is unsweetened iced tea at McDonald's?
Somewhere between $2.00 and $3.79 on the two readings taken in August 2026. No typical price is claimed here, because two readings that far apart do not support one.
How many calories are in McDonald's unsweetened iced tea?
Zero. McDonald's states it as a phrase rather than a figure, calling the drink zero-calorie and sugar-free, and the page was read twice to confirm that wording.
Is unsweetened tea cheaper than sweet tea at McDonald's?
Not usually, since both are poured into the same cup and priced on cup size. The saving lands in calories instead, at 170 for a small.
Is this page an official McDonald's price list?
No. The zero-calorie wording belongs to McDonald's, the two price readings do not, and both carry the date and market they were recorded in.
Can this site tell me the price at my local McDonald's?
It cannot, and on a drink with two readings behind it that caution matters more than usual. Roughly 95% of US restaurants under the brand are franchised, so each board is set locally.