For one product, see every substitutable generic side by side with dosage form, pack size, price and rebate contract status. The comparison is backed by the Transparency List AVWG and it reaches German and international preparations.
It is really laborious with the current solution. It is a lot of clicking until you get there. If it were faster, that would be great.
Head of Pharmaceutical Management, large mail-order pharmacy
The comparison itself is simple, but reaching it takes a path through screens that were never built to answer one question together. The cost never appears as a line item, it just sits inside every single lookup. So it is tolerated rather than fixed.
We struggle to compare dosage forms and pack sizes. We need a more precise calculation and display of equivalences, especially for complex conversions.
Market Access Manager, leading generics manufacturer
Substitution turns on details that a flat list does not surface: dosage form, pack size, strength and the conversions between salt and base. When those sit in different places, the person deciding has to hold them in their head. That is where a wrong call and a later correction enter.
Our current tools are incomplete for international comparisons. We need data mapping active ingredient, dosage form and country.
Manager, pharmaceutical wholesaler
When the affordable equivalent sits in another country, a domestic-only tool cannot see it, and the re-import saving stays invisible. The mapping of active ingredient, dosage form and country has to be built by hand each time. Opportunities that never surface are the ones nobody can price.
Start from one product and see the substitutable alternatives listed together instead of assembling them by hand across systems. The parallel search we call Eisbergsuche® runs across the connected databases, so the comparison is one step, not several.
Each alternative carries its official price and whether a rebate contract applies, so the economic reason to substitute is visible where the decision is made. The price comparison is backed by the Transparency List AVWG.
Enter an active ingredient and narrow the results by the criteria that actually decide a substitution, down to an excipient a patient cannot tolerate. That is how you reach a product that is not only equivalent on paper but usable for the case in front of you.
When the German market has no suitable or affordable option, the international equivalence search maps a product to its counterparts abroad. This opens the re-import route that a domestic-only tool cannot show.
pharmazie.com starts from one product and lists its substitutable alternatives together, with the official price and rebate contract status on each, so the economic reason to substitute is visible in one comparison instead of assembled by hand across systems. It is built for the moment a pharmacy or a payer has to choose a defensible substitute quickly, and it draws on the Transparency List AVWG behind the comparison.
Substitution law asks you to compare like with like: same active ingredient, strength, dosage form and pack size. Doing that across separate systems is where the clicking adds up. Here you begin with one product and see the alternatives listed together, so the comparison you are legally reasoning about sits in a single view rather than in half a dozen open tabs.
The decision rarely turns on the substance alone. Each alternative carries its official price and whether a rebate contract applies, so you can identify the lowest-priced option under the contracts rather than reading price and contract status from two places and hoping they line up. That is the part that makes a substitution both compliant and economic.
Enter an active ingredient and narrow the results by the criteria that actually decide a substitution, down to an excipient where that matters. When you are not certain of the exact strength or spelling, the Eisbergsuche®, our parallel search, works fuzzily and still returns the diverging entries. You can also filter by product type, for example to separate generics from re-imports, or restrict the list to medicines and hide other product types.
Sometimes no suitable or affordable German product exists, and the honest answer is that the case has to cross a border. The international equivalence search maps a product to its counterparts in 50+ countries, so the search does not stop where the German market does. One case we will not overpromise: complex salt or base conversions are among the hardest in substitution, and we would rather show you how the platform handles yours in a demo than claim a precision we cannot guarantee on a page.
The fastest way to judge fit is a 30-minute demo on your data. Bring an active ingredient or a substitution you are working through and we will run the comparison live.
More clarity, faster research, and faster decision-making.
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