How the cheapest price in Amsterdam is found (and what it really means)

Looking for the cheapest line? Fair enough—but before you call it a bargain, check what you’re actually comparing. On this site “cheapest” means the biggest gap below the Amsterdam median for one fresh, like-for-like format and variant. That’s a price ranking, not a shop review.

What “cheapest” means on this site

It means one thing only: the largest gap below the Amsterdam median, measured on fresh menus, inside a single format and a single variant. It is a ranking of discounts, not a ranking of shops and not a judgement about any product.

The current ranking has a version per category. Every value is tied to a dated menu. A later capture can change the comparison without erasing what an earlier observation showed.

Like with like

The comparison rules are strict, and that’s not bureaucracy - it’s the whole method.

• Same format. A single gram is compared with single grams. A pack is compared with packs of the same format. A joint is compared with joints.
• Same variant. A Cali product and a Dutch product with the same name are two separate groups and are never placed against each other.
• Same category. Categories stay separate. Weed, hash and weighted extracts are compared per gram when a weight is printed. Joints and extras remain per-piece offers and do not enter a per-gram ranking.
• Fresh menus only. A price on an older menu stays in the archive as history, but it never counts as a current discount.

Break one rule and the ranking changes shape. A cheap pack sat next to a single gram gives you a number that looks like a bargain and describes nothing real.

Current price versus historical minimum

Product pages show the last record printed for each shop as the price, and keep the lowest price that shop ever printed on that line as a separate, older figure. The two are never merged.

That is why a page can show a current price while the lowest number visible on it belongs to an old menu. A historical minimum is a fact about the past. It is not an offer, and it is not a forecast.

The cheapest line is often a piece, not a gram

The lowest entry in the archive is frequently a joint or an extra sold per piece, not a gram. A per-piece price is not comparable with a per-gram price, and the archive treats it that way.

That is why the price pages list single grams and packs in two separate blocks, and why the cheapest page does the same. Reading the first row of a mixed table as “the cheapest weed in Amsterdam” is the most common mistake on a page like this.

Discounts are outliers

A line far below the median is an outlier by definition. The archive does not explain why and does not guess: the menu may be old, the line may have been a promotion on that day, or the reading may be uncertain.

What it does is keep the fact intact. The date travels with the price, the sample size is printed next to the median, and the discount is expressed as a difference against the city median rather than as a standalone number. Read it that way, and an outlier becomes a data point instead of a recommendation.

One menu does not fill the list

The ranking caps how many entries a single shop can hold, so one shop with one large recent menu cannot occupy the whole page. The list stays a picture of the city rather than a picture of one menu.

Two pages, two questions

• Cheapest answers: which fresh lines sit furthest below the Amsterdam median, per format and per variant.
• Middle-band listings answers: which fresh lines sit within 25% of the median, the site’s defined middle band. It exists per category as well.

Between them they cover the whole range. The third band, the lines above the median, is labelled as such on the same tables, so the distribution stays visible.

Save the evidence behind a ranking entry

Before treating an entry as a possible stop, open its source listing and keep the menu date with the price. Note whether the displayed figure is a pack rate or the total due for a single unit. The format guide explains why a low calculated rate does not create a loose-gram offer.

Then read the sample behind the benchmark. A discount against a median depends on the observations used to calculate that median. It is not necessarily a reduction from the shop’s own previous price. The median guide separates these meanings so a comparison badge does not become an invented sale announcement.

At the counter, check the selected line rather than asking for the archived ranking. A different current menu can change the offer, and availability is not part of the comparison. The useful outcome is a specific question about a dated line, not a claim that the shop owes you the lowest number seen online. This site is 18+ info only, no sales; verify on site.

The lowest price is not the best shop

This is where the archive ends. A cheap line says one thing: on one date, one menu printed one number for one line. It says nothing about the rest of that menu, about what changed afterwards, about what is in stock, or about the shop itself.

Last word on what this site is: it publishes menu prices and menu dates. It doesn’t rank shops, judge products or tell anyone where to go - that part is yours. Use the ranking to see how Amsterdam prices actually spread, and read every number with its date attached.

A low entry is a starting point for checking

Open the underlying shop record before treating a low number as useful. Confirm that the price belongs to the product category and quantity you had in mind, then read the observation date and whether it is fresh or last known. Compare the line with the same-format distribution rather than with a joint, a pack total or a different category. If those details do not match, the apparent saving is not an apples-to-apples comparison. A ranking can help you find an observation; it cannot tell you whether the offer is available now or whether the product suits you. Keep the result as a question to verify at the counter. The median guide explains why the lowest line is not a substitute for the middle of the sample.