McDonald’s Menu With Prices (Updated October 2026)

McDonald’s Menu Prices at a Glance

McDonald’s has spent the last two years trying to shake off a reputation for being expensive, and the McValue menu was the answer. The result is a board with two speeds: a value tier where a full meal lands around five dollars, and a premium tier where a Double Bacon Quarter Pounder meal passes fourteen. Knowing which side of that line you are ordering from is most of the game.

Prices below are national in-store averages taken from the McDonald’s app across several states. Roughly 95 percent of United States restaurants are franchise owned and set their own pricing, so the gap between a suburban store and a city center one is wider here than at almost any other chain. App prices are consistently lower than counter prices.

McValue Menu and Deals

McValue replaced the old Dollar Menu structure and works in three parts: a fixed price meal bundle, a buy one add one offer, and rotating deals that differ by market. The app is the only place the full set appears, and ordering the same food at the counter costs more.

McDonald’s Burgers Menu and Prices

Quarter Pounders are cooked from fresh beef, made to order, while the smaller patties are cooked from frozen in batches. That is the reason a Quarter Pounder takes longer at the window and tastes different from a McDouble even before you count the size.

The McDouble at $3.99 gives you two patties for less than two thirds the price of a Big Mac. If you are eating for value rather than for the sauce, it is the strongest order on the burger board.

Chicken Sandwiches and Filet-O-Fish

McCrispy replaced the old Crispy Chicken Sandwich and uses a thicker fillet on a potato roll. The McChicken sits below it at nearly two dollars less with a smaller patty. Filet-O-Fish has been on the menu since 1962 and still uses a steamed bun, which is why it arrives softer than everything else.

Chicken McNuggets

Nuggets are the clearest volume discount on the menu. A 4 piece works out at 97 cents each, a 20 piece at 51 cents each. If you are feeding more than one person, the 20 always beats two 10s.

Snack Wraps

Snack Wraps came back in 2025 after a decade off the menu and have stayed. They use a McCrispy strip rather than the old grilled chicken, wrapped in a flour tortilla with lettuce and cheese.

Fries and Sides

World Famous Fries are cooked in a canola blend with natural beef flavoring, which is why they are not vegetarian in the United States even though no beef appears in the ingredient list on the packet.

McDonald’s Breakfast Menu and Hours

Breakfast starts at 5:00am and ends at 10:30am on weekdays, 11:00am at weekends. All Day Breakfast was dropped in 2020 and has not returned, so the grill switches over completely at the cut-off. The Egg McMuffin uses a fresh cracked egg in a ring mould, which is the only sandwich on the menu that does.

Breakfast Sandwiches, Biscuits and McGriddles

Breakfast Platters and Sides

Breakfast Combos

The Sausage Burrito at $2.59 and 300 calories is the cheapest hot breakfast on the board, and the Egg McMuffin is the lowest calorie sandwich at 310. The Big Breakfast with Hotcakes is the highest calorie single item McDonald’s sells at any time of day.

McCafe Coffee and Drinks

McCafe undercuts the coffee chains by a wide margin and that is the entire strategy. A medium brewed coffee at $1.99 costs less than half what the same size does at a specialist chain, and the frappes sit two dollars under a comparable blended drink elsewhere.

Desserts, McFlurry and Shakes

The apple pie has been baked rather than fried since 1992 in most of the country, though a fried version returned as a limited item. McFlurry spoons are hollow because they were designed to attach to the mixer spindle, not to drink through.

Soft Drinks, Smoothies and Refreshers

Fountain drinks are where McDonald’s still runs promotional pricing hardest, and any size soft drink for a fixed low price appears in the app most months.

Extra Value Meals

A meal adds medium fries and a medium drink. The mark-up over the sandwich alone runs $4.20 to $4.30, which is more than buying a medium fries and a medium drink separately at some stores, so check before you upgrade.

Happy Meals

Every Happy Meal includes a main, a small side of fries or apple slices, a drink and a toy. Choosing apple slices and milk instead of fries and a soft drink takes roughly 250 calories off the box at no extra cost.

Dipping Sauces

Sauces are free with a nugget or strips order, usually one per four pieces. Extra cups cost around 35 cents. Sweet and Sour and Tangy Barbeque have been on the menu since 1983 and outsell everything else.

McDonald’s Opening Hours

A large share of United States locations run 24 hours, though many cut the dining room and keep only the drive-thru open overnight. Hours are set by the franchisee, so two stores a mile apart can differ.

How to Pay Less at McDonald’s

The counter price is the worst price at McDonald’s, more so than at any other chain on this site. Everything below is free to use:

• Order in the app. App exclusive prices sit below the board price on most items, and the daily deals rotate.
• Join MyMcDonald’s Rewards. Points build at 100 per dollar and redeem from 1,500 for a free item, rising to 6,000 for a Big Mac or a Quarter Pounder.
• Use the $5 Meal Deal rather than a combo. It is roughly half the price of the equivalent Extra Value Meal.
• Check the Buy One Add One for $1 tab before you finish the order. It applies to sandwiches most people were going to buy anyway.
• Order the 20 piece nuggets over two 10 piece. It saves about $2.50 for the same food.
• Skip the meal upgrade if you only want a drink. Adding a medium drink alone is often cheaper than the meal mark-up.

Nutrition and Allergen Notes

Calorie counts come from McDonald’s published nutrition data and cover items as they are normally built. Removing cheese saves about 50 calories, dropping the Big Mac sauce saves around 90, and swapping medium fries for apple slices cuts more than 300 from a meal. The fries contain natural beef flavoring in the United States, so they are not vegetarian here even though the same product is in other countries. Fries, nuggets, strips and Filet-O-Fish share fryer oil. To see how a McDonald’s meal fits your own daily needs, use our calorie calculator.

Current McDonald’s Deals and Offers

The $0.99 app coffee works on any size, including iced coffee, which makes it one of the cheapest coffee deals in fast food right now. It is the rare offer worth going out of your way for rather than one that quietly pushes you to spend more.

The $5 Sausage McMuffin with Egg Meal and the $8 Big Mac Meal are part of the returning Extra Value Meals. If you buy breakfast at McDonald’s more than once a week, scanning the app every time is worth more over a month than any single promotion on this list.

McDonald’s Menu FAQ

More About McDonald’s

Prices, calories, breakfast hours and the current deals are on this page. For everything else people ask, why the ice cream machine is genuinely broken so often, who actually founded the company, why McDonald’s is really a real estate business, what is in a McNugget, why the burgers do not rot, and the true story behind the hot coffee lawsuit and the Monopoly scandal, read McDonald’s Explained.

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