Contact Lens Prices in Canada: All 4 Brands, 36 SKUs, Priced Per Day

Written by the Charm Optical Team • August 21, 2026

Contact lenses at Charm Optical cost $40 to $155 a box, which works out to $0.60 to $5.00 a day for two eyes. Monthly lenses run $0.60 to $0.98 a day. Daily disposables run $1.60 to $5.00 a day. Below is every one of our 36 contact lens products, priced per day, in one table.

Most contact lens pages quote a box price. A box price tells you almost nothing, because a $40 box and a $155 box can cover the same number of days. What you actually want to know is what the lens costs you per day, and what that adds up to over a year.

So we did the arithmetic on every product we sell. Four brands, 36 products, one method, one table. No ranges, no "starting from", no averages of things that are not comparable.

How much do contact lenses cost per day in Canada?

Between 60 cents and $5.00 a day for two eyes, depending almost entirely on two things: whether you wear a monthly lens or a daily disposable, and whether you have astigmatism.

That is an eight-fold spread inside one store, which is why "how much are contacts" has never had a clean answer. Here is where the numbers sit.

Every contact lens we sell, priced per day

This is the whole range in one place. Sort it by cost per day and the eight-fold spread becomes a ladder you can read in a second. Filter it to your brand, your replacement schedule and your prescription type, and you are looking at your actual shortlist.

Why do daily lenses cost three times what monthly lenses cost?

Because you throw away 730 lenses a year instead of 24.

That single sentence explains most of the price board. A daily disposable is a fresh pair every morning: 730 lenses over a year for two eyes. A monthly lens is one lens per eye, replaced every 30 days: 24 lenses over the same year. The manufacturing cost per lens is far lower for a daily, but you need thirty times as many of them.

The middle of each group tells the story cleanly. The median daily disposable on our shelf costs $2.70 a day. The median monthly costs $0.76 a day. That is a gap of about $708 a year.

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  Acuvue • Monthly

  Acuvue Vita 12 Pack

  Twelve lenses, so a full year for one eye or six months for two. The lowest cost per day of any lens we sell.

  $108 box $0.60/day
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  Alcon • Daily

  Dailies AquaComfort Plus 90 pack

  The lowest cost per day of any daily disposable here. Runner-up: Biotrue ONEday 90 Pack at $1.89 a day.

  $72 box $1.60/day

Before you switch to monthlies on price alone, two things belong on the other side of the ledger. Monthly lenses need solution and a case, every night, forever — a running cost dailies simply do not have. And a monthly lens has to survive 30 days of protein and lipid deposits on your eye, which is why comfort at day 28 is the thing manufacturers spend their research money on.

A daily disposable is not a more expensive lens. It is thirty times more lenses.

The right schedule is a clinical decision, not a budget one. Dry eyes, allergies, part-time wear and teenagers usually point to dailies. Full-time wear and a tolerant eye often point to monthlies. That is what a contact lens fitting is for.

How much more do astigmatism (toric) lenses cost?

About 29% more than the same lens in a sphere power, going by the median across every matched pair we sell. Fifteen of our 36 products are toric.

A toric lens has to do two jobs instead of one: correct the power and hold its rotational position on your eye so the cylinder axis stays where it was prescribed. That means ballasting or stabilisation zones built into the lens, more parameters to manufacture and stock, and a higher price.

Here is every case where we sell the same lens, in the same pack size, in both a sphere and a toric version. It is the only fair way to see what astigmatism actually costs.

Two rows go the wrong way, and we are leaving them in because they are true. Biotrue ONEday for Astigmatism 30 Pack is $47, three dollars less than the sphere version at $50. MyDay Toric 90 Pack is $110 against $115 for the sphere. If you have astigmatism and you are shopping on price, those two are worth knowing about.

The lowest-priced toric box in the store is Dailies AquaComfort Plus Toric 30 Pack at $45, with Biotrue ONEday for Astigmatism 30 Pack the runner-up at $47. On a per-day basis, though, the 30-packs are the expensive way to buy: that $45 box works out to $3.00 a day, while the 90-pack version costs $2.42 a day.

What does each contact lens brand cost?

Four manufacturers, four different shapes of range. Alcon is the broadest and reaches both the lowest box price and the highest cost per day. Acuvue holds the lowest cost per day in the store. CooperVision is the narrowest range and sits almost entirely in the middle.

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  Acuvue

  Acuvue Vita for Astigmatism 6 packs

  The lowest-cost-per-day toric lens in the store. Monthly replacement, six lenses per box.

  $72 box $0.80/day
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  Alcon

  Air Optix plus HydraGlyde

  Alcon's monthly workhorse, and the lowest box price of any monthly lens we list.

  $52 box Box count on request
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  Bausch + Lomb

  Biotrue ONEday 30 Pack

  $3.33 a day in the 30-pack, $1.89 in the 90 — the biggest pack-size saving in the range.

  $50 box $3.33/day
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  CooperVision

  MyDay 90 Pack

  CooperVision's daily disposable. The toric version is five dollars less, at $110.

  $115 box $2.56/day

Four live products at their real listed prices, one per brand. Browse the full range in contact lenses.

Acuvue — 7 products

Acuvue holds both ends of the value story. Acuvue Vita 12 Pack at $108 is the lowest cost per day in the whole store at $0.60, because twelve monthly lenses cover six months of two-eye wear. At the other end, Acuvue Oasys 1-Day for Astigmatism 30 pack at $65 works out to $4.33 a day. The seventh product is Acuvue Vita for Astigmatism, a 6-pack at $72 and the lowest-cost-per-day toric lens we sell.

Alcon — 16 products

The broadest range by a distance, and the one with both extremes of box price. Dailies AquaComfort Plus 30 pack at $40 is the lowest-priced box in the store, with Dailies Precision1 30 Pack the runner-up at $41. Alcon also covers Air Optix plus HydraGlyde at $52, TOTAL 30 6 Pack at $68 — $0.76 a day, the lowest per-day figure outside Acuvue — and the Precision 1 for Astigmatism pair at $58 and $119.

Bausch + Lomb — 8 products

Two daily families and one monthly. Biotrue ONEday 90 Pack at $85 is $1.89 a day, second only to Dailies AquaComfort Plus 90 among the dailies. Bausch+Lomb ULTRA 6 Pack at $69 is $0.77 a day. The Ultra Dailies pair covers $45 and $95.

CooperVision — 5 products

The tightest range on the board: every priced CooperVision lens sits between $2.44 and $2.56 a day. Biofinity at $60 and Biofinity Toric at $70 are the monthly staples, Biofinity XR at $75 extends the power range to −20.00 and +15.00, and MyDay covers the dailies at $115 and $110.

What does a year of contact lenses actually cost?

Multiply the per-day figure by 365 and the decision gets a lot easier to make. These are the real annual totals for two eyes, worn every day.

Two things fall out of that table. First, part-time wear changes everything: dailies at $2.70 a day are $986 a year if you wear them daily, but roughly $281 a year if you wear them twice a week. Monthlies do not work that way — the lens expires 30 days after you open it whether you wore it or not.

Second, the comparison people actually want. A complete pair of single-vision glasses at Charm is $99: frame, prescription lenses and a scratch-resistant coating. Keep them two years and that is about 14 cents a day. Contacts are a convenience purchase, and the convenience is priced accordingly. Most of our contact lens wearers own glasses too, because you need something to wear on a day your eyes have had enough.

What the box price does not include

Three costs sit outside the sticker, and only one of them is optional.

A valid prescription and a fitting

Contact lenses are not an off-the-shelf product in Canada. The Canadian Association of Optometrists states plainly that "contact lenses are Health Canada approved and FDA regulated medical devices", and that an optometrist selecting your lens is weighing "the prescription, material, curvature, diameter, fit, coating, oxygen permeability, deposit resistance, moisture content, cleaning solution, and lifespan of the lens" (Canadian Association of Optometrists).

A glasses prescription is not a contact lens prescription. It has no base curve, no diameter and no lens brand on it, and the power itself is often different because a contact lens sits on the eye rather than 12 mm in front of it.

Solution, if you wear monthlies

Every monthly lens needs a multipurpose solution and a case, replaced on schedule. That is a real running cost, and it narrows the gap between monthlies and dailies by a little. Solution is not something we sell, so there is no price for it on this page; budget for it as a drugstore line item alongside your lenses. Which system suits your lens is a question for your optometrist at the fitting — the answer depends on the lens material, not just the brand on the bottle.

The upgrade you did not plan for

If your eyes get dry on your current lens, the fix is usually a different material rather than more drops, and different materials sit at different prices. That is a conversation, not a line item. See the contact lenses page for what we carry.

Five ways to pay less without changing what you wear

1. Buy the 90-pack, not the 30. This is the single biggest lever on the board. Biotrue ONEday goes from $3.33 a day in the 30-pack to $1.89 in the 90 — a 43% cut for the identical lens. Dailies AquaComfort Plus is close behind at 40%. Across all eleven families that come in both sizes, the 90-pack is between 19% and 43% less per day.
2. Ask whether a monthly lens suits your eyes. Not everyone can wear one, and nobody should switch on price alone. But if your eyes tolerate a monthly, the median monthly costs $708 a year less than the median daily.
3. Use the online code. CHARMCONTACTS takes $5 off a contact lens order on charmoptical.ca.
4. Cross the free shipping line. Shipping is free on orders over $100, anywhere in Canada. A single 90-pack usually clears it on its own.
5. Spend your benefits before they reset. Most vision plans give you a contact lens allowance that expires on a fixed date and does not roll over. If you do not know what yours is, our benefits quiz will narrow it down, or call us and we will look your plan up.

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