Blueprint Longevity Mix vs IM8: Breadth vs Printed Doses

Two daily drinks sit at the center of the longevity shelf, and they make opposite bets. One goes narrow and deep. The other goes as broad as a label allows.

Blueprint Longevity Mix holds 12 targeted actives in one scoop. IM8 Daily Ultimate Essentials, cofounded by David Beckham, holds 90 ingredients in one sachet. The brand says that sachet replaces 16 supplements.

This article compares the two labels and the two prices. It is label and pricing research, not a hands on review. I have not tested either product, and nothing here is sponsored.

The short version: IM8 is the broader product. One sachet covers a vitamin and mineral panel, greens, probiotics and electrolytes for $89 a month, about $2.97 a day. Blueprint Longevity Mix costs $49, about $1.63 a day, and spends that money on compounds IM8 does not carry, including creatine at 2,500 mg and CaAKG at 2,000 mg. Scoop for scoop, Blueprint costs less. Coverage for coverage, IM8 costs less. Prices are as of November 2026. New buyers can start through the Blueprint referral link before ordering.

The Biggest Trap: The Wrong IM8 Product, and a Label That Is Only Half Printed

The first trap is the name. IM8 sells two drinks with almost the same name. Daily Ultimate Essentials is the product in this article. Daily Ultimate Longevity is a separate product with its own ingredients and price. Some rankings compare Blueprint against the Longevity product and blur the two. Check which IM8 name sits on the page before you trust any number in it.

The second trap is subtler, and it is not the trap from my AG1 comparison. IM8 prints real doses for its headline actives. CoQ10 sits at 100 mg. Vitamin C sits at 900 mg. The probiotics sit at 10 billion CFU. A claim that IM8 hides everything in blends would be wrong, and I made that case against a different brand in Blueprint vs AG1: What the Labels Actually Show.

What IM8 does blend is the bulk of the sachet. The superfoods, greens, fruits and herbs are listed as one combined group. The enzymes, adaptogens and mushrooms are listed as another. You get a combined weight for each group, not a dose for each ingredient inside. Blueprint prints a dose for every one of its 12 actives. Read IM8 as a middle case. Headline doses are printed. The complexes are blended.

The Two Labels, Side by Side

Amounts are per serving, as printed on the current labels. IM8 figures are for the current Pro version of Essentials.

One omission is deliberate. IM8 calorie figures differ across panels now in circulation, so this article prints none rather than pick one. The full Blueprint panel, dose by dose, is in my Blueprint Longevity Mix ingredients breakdown.

The shape of the table is the whole story. Blueprint rows win on the longevity compounds. IM8 rows win on the daily basics. Neither label covers the other label’s ground.

The Cost Math, Both Ways

Per day, the gap looks simple. Blueprint costs $1.63. IM8 costs $3.73 one time, $2.97 on a monthly subscription, and $2.61 on a quarterly subscription. IM8 runs 1.6 to 2.3 times the price of Longevity Mix, depending on the plan.

That math flips once you price coverage instead of scoops. Longevity Mix has no multivitamin panel and no probiotics. Adding Blueprint Essential Capsules at $49 brings the pair to $98 a month. That is more than the IM8 monthly subscription at $89. The pair still has no greens and no probiotics. Those sit in a third Blueprint product.

So both claims are true at once. Blueprint is the cheaper scoop. IM8 is the cheaper full shelf. Which figure matters depends on how many other bottles you now own.

If the Blueprint route fits your shelf, test it on a first order. You can order through the Blueprint referral page and put the first order credit toward the pair above.

Breadth vs Depth: Where Each Label Honestly Wins

Breadth is a real IM8 win. One sachet covers the daily basics that most buyers would otherwise buy as three or four products. It adds a gut system with prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics and digestive enzymes. It adds electrolytes and CoQ10. It is also NSF Certified for Sport. Longevity Mix does none of those jobs.

Depth is the Blueprint win. Creatine at 2,500 mg, CaAKG at 2,000 mg, taurine at 1,500 mg and glycine at 1,200 mg are gram level doses of named compounds. IM8 Essentials carries none of them at a printed dose. Glutathione, glucosamine and hyaluronic acid are absent too. A buyer who wants those compounds still needs Blueprint or separate products on top of IM8.

One fairness note belongs here. IM8 puts its longevity compounds in its separate Longevity product, not in Essentials. Judging Essentials on longevity compounds alone stacks the deck. The honest read is simpler. Essentials is a broad daily base. Longevity Mix is a narrow longevity layer. They overlap far less than the shelf placement suggests.

Proof on Paper: A Trial Claim vs Batch Reports

Each brand offers a different kind of proof, and neither kind proves the other wrong.

IM8 points to testing of the finished product. The brand cites a 12 week randomized controlled trial of the finished Essentials formula, and the product carries NSF Certified for Sport status. That is evidence about the product as sold.

Blueprint points to verification of the label itself. Blueprint publishes a Certificate of Analysis for every batch. In one published batch, taurine measured 1,556 mg against a 1,500 mg label claim. I walked through how to read those reports in Blueprint Third Party Testing.

The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements probiotics fact sheet explains that probiotics are defined by genus, species and strain, and that benefits are strain specific. It also notes that CFU should hold through the end of shelf life, and that not every product labeled probiotic has proven benefits. Against that standard, IM8 earns credit. It prints 10 billion CFU and names its strains.

What to Look For on Any Broad Daily Drink Label

• Headline doses printed one by one, not only a total ingredient count.
• Which groups sit inside combined blends, and what share of the serving those groups carry.
• Whether the product covers vitamins and probiotics, or assumes you buy them apart.
• Cost per day at the plan you would really keep, not the cheapest plan on the page.
• The exact product name, checked twice when a brand sells two similar names.
• Proof you can open yourself, such as a batch report or a named certification.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is IM8 Daily Ultimate Essentials the same as IM8 Daily Ultimate Longevity?

No. They are two separate IM8 products with different ingredients and different prices. This article covers Essentials. Every IM8 price and dose here comes from the current Pro version of the Essentials page.

Does IM8 hide its doses in blends?

Only in part. IM8 prints its headline doses, including CoQ10 at 100 mg, vitamin C at 900 mg and probiotics at 10 billion CFU. Its greens and superfood group and its enzyme and mushroom group are combined blends, so the ingredients inside those groups carry no doses. Blueprint prints all 12 of its doses with no groups.

Which one costs less?

It depends on what you count. Longevity Mix alone costs $1.63 a day against $2.97 a day for IM8 on a monthly subscription, as of November 2026. Longevity Mix plus Essential Capsules costs $98 a month, which is more than the IM8 subscription at $89, and the pair still lacks greens and probiotics.

Does Blueprint Longevity Mix replace a multivitamin?

No. Vitamin C at 250 mg is the only vitamin on its panel. It has no vitamin D, no B vitamins, no greens and no probiotics. Blueprint sells that coverage in other products, starting with Essential Capsules.

Which one should a creatine buyer pick?

Blueprint, on these two labels. Longevity Mix prints creatine monohydrate at 2,500 mg per scoop. IM8 Essentials does not list creatine at a printed dose, so a creatine buyer using IM8 would add a separate creatine product.

The Bottom Line

These two drinks solve different problems. IM8 Daily Ultimate Essentials is the broad daily base, with the vitamin panel, greens and gut support that Longevity Mix never claims. Blueprint Longevity Mix is the targeted layer, with gram level doses of creatine, CaAKG, taurine and glycine that Essentials does not carry. The price winner changes with the question. IM8 wins on coverage per dollar. Blueprint wins on scoop price and on printed depth.

If the Blueprint layer is what your shelf is missing, you can get started through the Blueprint referral link and apply the first order credit to your first container.

Related reading:

• Blueprint Longevity Mix Ingredients: Every Dose on the Label
• Blueprint Third Party Testing
• Blueprint Stacks Explained