$2.89 and 300 calories, which is 40 cents and 30 calories over the plain potato.
Forty cents buys the topping. The Wendy's Sour Cream and Chive Baked Potato price is $2.89 with 300 calories, against $2.49 and 270 for the plain version, which makes this the smallest step on the potato ladder. Across published US price lists the figures ran $2.89 to $3.99. It is the cheapest topped potato on the list and the second lightest hot item in the section. Checked 19 August 2026.
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What you need
4 itemsSour Cream and Chive Baked Potato price and calories
| Item | Typical price | Price range | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sour Cream and Chive Baked Potato | $2.89 official | $2.89 – $3.99 | 300 Cal |
If something goes wrong
The topping costs 40 cents and adds 30 calories
- Cause
- Wendy's prices the plain potato at $2.49 with 270 calories and this one at $2.89 with 300. Both figures come from the same company listing, read on the same day.
- Fix
- Treat it as the cheapest way onto the topped ladder. Every other topping costs at least $1.10 over plain.
It reached $3.99 at one restaurant
- Cause
- That was the higher of two figures recorded in published US listings in August 2026, against a company listing of $2.89. Franchisees run most Wendy's restaurants and price their own boards.
- Fix
- Check the Wendy's app with a restaurant selected. A $1.10 gap on a $2.89 side is ordinary for a chain this size.
There is no fat, sodium or protein figure
- Cause
- That panel is rendered by a script that runs after the page has loaded, and every read of it returned a placeholder. The allergen list behaves the same way.
- Fix
- Open the item on the Wendy's ordering site and let the panel fill in. No figure above has been substituted from another source.
The smallest step on the potato ladder
Thirty calories and forty cents separate this potato from the plain one, the narrowest gap between any two rows in Fries & Sides. Wendy's lists it at $2.89 with 300 calories, and every other topped version of the same potato costs at least $1.10 more than plain.
What's in it
A whole baked potato with sour cream and chives, counted at 300 calories. That is the second lowest count of any hot item in the section, behind the plain potato at 270 and ahead of everything fried. Beneath the calorie line the ordering site gives nothing: its fat, sodium and protein panel is drawn in by a script after the page has loaded and returned a placeholder on every read, so those figures could not be read, and the allergen list did the same.
Is it worth it
On the ladder, this is the rung that makes sense. Sour cream and chive adds 40 cents to the plain potato. Cheese adds $1.10 and 170 calories. Bacon with cheese adds $1.90 and, oddly, only 150 calories. Chili with cheese adds $1.90 and 220. Where the plain potato is too plain and the loaded builds are too much, nothing else sits in between.
Value against the rest of the section is a different question. 300 calories for $2.89 works out near 104 a dollar, the weakest rate of any potato here apart from the bacon cheese version at 96. Cheese Fries return 157 for ten cents more. Volume is not the reason to order this row.
Price moved $1.10 between the two figures recorded, the $2.89 listing and $3.99 somewhere else, both in August 2026. That is a 38 per cent rise on a side dish. Franchisees run most Wendy's restaurants in the United States and set their own prices, so the national figure is a starting point and nothing firmer.
One practical note about the section as a whole. Five of the thirteen rows are this same potato under different toppings, at $2.49, $2.89, $3.59 and $4.39 twice over. Reading them as one ladder rather than five separate products makes the pricing far easier to follow, and this is the second rung of it.
One further point about the count. The 300 is a company total for the built potato, and the panel that would show how much of it is the topping could not be read, so that 30-calorie step is the only measure of the sour cream available anywhere on this page.
Sour Cream and Chive Baked Potato at a glance
- Wendy's price
- $2.89
- Calories
- 300, from Wendy's
Questions people ask
How much is a sour cream and chive potato at Wendy's?
$2.89 on the company's own listing. Across published US price lists in August 2026 it was also recorded at $3.99.
How many calories does it carry?
300, printed beside the price by the company. The plain version is 270 and the cheese version 440.
Is it worth 40 cents over the plain potato?
That is the smallest step on the potato ladder and it buys 30 calories. Every other topping costs at least $1.10 over plain.
Is this page an official Wendy's price list?
No. HelpMeLogin has no connection to Wendy's. The $2.89 and the 300 calories were read from Wendy's own ordering site on 19 August 2026, and the range beside them comes from published US prices.
Can this site tell me the price at my local Wendy's?
No. Most Wendy's restaurants are franchised and price themselves, which is how a $2.89 listing turned into $3.99. The Wendy's app answers for one address once a restaurant is set.