The Farmer's Dog vs Ollie: $251 vs $311 a Month on One Owner's Bills

On one owner’s bills, Ollie cost about $2 a day more than The Farmer’s Dog: $310.80 a month against $251.04. Two dollars a day is easy to shrug off while you click through a quiz. You pay it every month, so see it by the week and the year before you sign up.

The figures come from a Life with Klee Kai comparison, as read in October 2026. The reviewer writes that “The Farmer’s Dog costs $8.36 a day or $251.04 a month” and that they paid “$10.36 a day or $310.80 a month” for Ollie. The bills are for the reviewer’s two Alaskan Klee Kai; their weights are not given. Treat these numbers as one household’s bills, not list prices.

The Farmer’s Dog was the cheaper bill; Ollie’s case is baked food and Petco

The same page sums up The Farmer’s Dog as “Better for personalization, portioned meal pouches, and overall value” (Life with Klee Kai) and Ollie as the pick for flexibility, “because you can choose fresh and baked dog food”. HelloBark adds that you can buy Ollie “at your local PetCo” as well as online.

• Pick The Farmer’s Dog if the monthly bill decides it and you want meals portioned and labeled for you.
• Pick Ollie if you want a baked option, or want to buy in a store.

Ollie cost $59.76 a month and $717.12 a year more on these bills

The daily and monthly figures are the reviewer’s own, from Life with Klee Kai; HelloBark gives no monthly bill of its own to set beside them. The year is the month × 12, and the week is the year ÷ 52. (Month × 12 counts about 360 days of the daily price, so a full 365-day year runs slightly higher.)

Period	The Farmer’s Dog	Ollie	Ollie costs more by
Per day (reviewer’s figure)	$8.36	$10.36	$2.00
Per week (year ÷ 52)	$57.93	$71.72	$13.79
Per month (reviewer’s figure)	$251.04	$310.80	$59.76
Per year (month × 12)	$3,012.48	$3,729.60	$717.12

A first-order offer cuts one bill, not the $59.76 monthly gap

HelloBark (updated December 4, 2025) links to “50% off your first order” at Ollie. If that discount covered one month at the reviewer’s $310.80, it would save $310.80 × 50% = $155.40, and the first-year gap would be $717.12 − $155.40 = $561.72. That assumes the first box holds a month of food and later months bill at the reviewer’s rate. Neither page states the first box’s size, so check it on your own quote.

Your own dog is the other missing piece. To order Ollie online you start with “their sign-up questionnaire”, per HelloBark, and the price follows from your dog’s details. The reviewer’s bills tell you the gap in one household, not your bill.

Both brands offer 4 to 6 recipes; the difference is format

The Customer Digest says The Farmer’s Dog, Ollie and Nom Nom “each offer 4-6 recipes depending on your dog’s needs”. So recipe count does not separate them.

Format does. Both ship fresh food in pouches (HelloBark shows “Some of Ollie’s fresh meal pouches”), and Ollie also sells baked recipes, per HelloBark. The Farmer’s Dog’s edge is the portioning: the reviewer says it “followed through on their pre-portion promise”, with pouches “individually labeled with a guide on how much food to feed per meal” (Life with Klee Kai).

Compare fresh food with kibble by cost per day, not per pound

The FDA says canned pet food is typically 75 to 78 percent moisture and dry food 10 to 12 percent, and that nutrient levels can only be compared directly between products with near-equal moisture.

The cost point that follows is our reasoning, not the FDA’s. Canned food is 22 to 25 percent solids and dry food 88 to 90 percent, so a pound of dry food carries roughly 3.5 to 4.1 times as much solid food (88 ÷ 25 and 90 ÷ 22). Any water-heavy food works the same way: price per pound flatters it against kibble. Compare cost per day for the amount your dog actually eats, and ask your vet before changing your dog’s diet.

How to get your own quote for a 20, 50 or 80 lb dog

1. Start each brand’s sign-up with your dog’s real weight.
2. Turn each quote into a price per day: box price ÷ days of food in the box.
3. Multiply the daily price by 7 for a week and by 365 for a year.
4. Note the first-order offer and the first box’s size, then rerun the year with the discount taken off once, as above.
5. Set the daily gap against what you’d use: baked food and in-store buying with Ollie, labeled portions with The Farmer’s Dog.

The Farmer’s Dog is the cheaper pick; choose Ollie only for baked food or Petco

Ollie’s weak spot is price: $717.12 more across a year on these bills, and even after a 50% first order, $561.72 of that gap stays. The Farmer’s Dog’s weak spot is format: it has no baked option, and none of these sources mentions a store that sells it. But it came with the lower bill, and the reviewer credits it with “overall value”. Pick The Farmer’s Dog if cost per day is top of your list.

Skip it and choose Ollie if baked food or buying at Petco matters more to you than a reported gap of about $2 a day.

How we evaluated

The prices are the reviewer’s reported bills on the Life with Klee Kai page, converted with month × 12 for the year and year ÷ 52 for the week. The first-order offer, where to buy Ollie, its baked range and how online ordering starts come from HelloBark. Portioning comes from Life with Klee Kai, recipe counts from The Customer Digest, and the moisture figures from the FDA.

FAQ

Will I pay $251 or $311 a month? Not necessarily. Those are one reviewer’s bills for two Alaskan Klee Kai whose weights are not given. Your quote depends on your own dog’s details.

Does a first-order discount close the gap? No. With HelloBark’s 50% off one month of Ollie, the first-year gap is still $561.72 on these bills.

Does Ollie have many more recipes? No. The Customer Digest puts both brands at 4 to 6 recipes. The clearer difference is that Ollie also sells baked food.