Mind Lab Pro discloses an exact dose for all 11 of its nootropics — no proprietary blend, nothing hidden behind a total weight. Cognitive Support lists 10 actives: two disclosed individually (niacin 8mg NE, vitamin B6 5mg), and eight more — GABA, L-tyrosine, caffeine, bacopa monnieri, phosphatidylserine, alpha GPC, L-theanine, huperzine A — folded into a 255mg proprietary blend, none carrying an individual figure. So the honest, label-to-label answer is that Mind Lab Pro is the more fully disclosed product, and not marginally. Mind Lab Pro is one of the better-labelled products in this category and deserves credit for it. What follows is both labels side by side, then the second question a disclosed dose lets you ask: whether the number is big enough to match the trials.
Evidence reviewed: September 2026.
What Mind Lab Pro actually discloses
Mind Lab Pro (made by Opti-Nutra) ships 2 capsules per serving, 30 servings per bottle, at $69 one-time — $62.10 on a monthly subscription, or $51.75 a bottle on its four-bottle plan. Every one of its 11 listed nootropics carries a stated amount. No blend, no umbrella ingredient group:
| Ingredient | Disclosed dose | How it compares to the trial range |
|---|---|---|
| Citicoline (as Cognizin®) | 250 mg | At the lower of the two doses commonly studied (250mg and 500mg) |
| Organic Lion's Mane Mushroom | 500 mg | Well below the ~3g/day used in the best-known human trial |
| Bacopa monnieri (24% bacosides) | 150 mg | About half the ~300mg/day standard in the trials |
| N-Acetyl L-Tyrosine | 175 mg | Far below the gram-level doses used in acute-stress studies |
| Phosphatidylserine (sunflower) | 100 mg | At the bottom of the 100–300mg/day studied range |
| L-Theanine | 100 mg | Inside the usual 100–200mg acute range |
| Maritime Pine Bark Extract (95% proanthocyanidins) | 75 mg | Below the 100–150mg used in most cognition studies |
| Rhodiola Rosea (3% rosavins, 1% salidrosides) | 50 mg | Well below the 200–600mg/day fatigue-trial range |
| Vitamin B6 (NutriGenesis®) | 2.5 mg | Above the daily reference intake, far below the upper limit |
| Vitamin B9 / folate (NutriGenesis®) | 100 mcg | A partial daily reference amount |
| Vitamin B12 (NutriGenesis®) | 7.5 mcg | Several times the daily reference intake |
No blend name appears anywhere on that list. Each ingredient is its own line with its own number, and that is a genuinely well-disclosed label. It is worth saying plainly rather than hedging for the sake of a cleaner competitive story.
Disclosure and dosing are two separate tests
The right-hand column above is the part most comparison pages skip, and it is the reason "no proprietary blend" is a floor rather than a finish line. Mind Lab Pro passes the disclosure test on all 11 ingredients. On the dosing test, several of those 11 sit below the ranges their own evidence was built on: bacopa at roughly half the usual 300mg, rhodiola at a fraction of the fatigue-trial range, lion's mane well short of the gram-level doses in the human work we cover in our lion's mane piece, and rhodiola in a range we were sceptical enough about to explain in why rhodiola isn't in our range yet. That is not a gotcha. It is the arithmetic consequence of putting 11 ingredients into two capsules: something has to give, and what gives is dose.
Crucially, this is a criticism you can only make because Mind Lab Pro printed the numbers. Nobody can run the same audit on Cognitive Support's blend, which is the point. A disclosed dose that falls short is a fact you can act on. An undisclosed one is a question you cannot answer.
Where Cognitive Support stands today, honestly
Cognitive Support ships 1 capsule per day, 30 capsules per bottle, at $29.90. Two actives are dosed individually; the other eight are inside a 255mg proprietary blend:
Cognitive Support — 10 active ingredients (8 in a 255mg proprietary blend, 2 dosed individually):
Niacin (as niacinamide) · Vitamin B6 (as pyridoxine HCl) · GABA · L-Tyrosine · Caffeine · Bacopa monnieri Extract (whole herb) · Phosphatidylserine 20% (sunflower) · Alpha GPC Powder · L-Theanine · Huperzine A 1% (whole herb)
Under 21 CFR 101.36 a blend must print its total weight and list its contents in descending order of predominance, but not the individual amounts. The total is the only hard information you get — and it cuts against us. Eight ingredients share 255mg, an average of roughly 32mg each, with 255mg the ceiling for any one. Mind Lab Pro's bacopa at 150mg is already below the ~300mg trial standard set out in our bacopa write-up. Our entire eight-ingredient blend is smaller than that 300mg figure, so the bacopa inside it cannot be at a trial dose. We asked for the breakdown anyway; it is not available to publish, and we have no timeline to offer.
Individually listed and fully dosed aren't the same thing — Mind Lab Pro does the first for all 11 ingredients and the second for some of them. Cognitive Support does the first for 2 of its 10, and the blend total rules out the second for at least one more.
Where the two formulas actually overlap
Four ingredients appear on both labels: bacopa monnieri, phosphatidylserine, L-theanine and vitamin B6. Mind Lab Pro states a number for all four (150mg, 100mg, 100mg and 2.5mg). Cognitive Support states one for vitamin B6 only, at 5mg — twice Mind Lab Pro's amount, and the one line on the panel where we give you more. Bacopa, phosphatidylserine and L-theanine all sit inside our blend. A fifth ingredient is related but not identical: we use plain L-tyrosine, Mind Lab Pro uses N-acetyl L-tyrosine, a more water-soluble form of the same amino acid.
Beyond the overlap, neither formula is a subset of the other. Cognitive Support includes five actives Mind Lab Pro doesn't: caffeine, alpha GPC, huperzine A, GABA and niacin. Mind Lab Pro includes five we don't: citicoline, lion's mane, rhodiola, maritime pine bark and the B9/B12 pair. The caffeine difference is the most consequential one for how the product feels on the day you take it — we get into that pairing in L-theanine and caffeine, and into the phosphatidylserine evidence in what the memory research actually shows.
Testing, capsules and cost per day
Three practical differences, none of them in our favour. Mind Lab Pro publishes a third-party certificate of analysis from Labdoor and states testing through ConsumerLab and the Clean Label Project; Proco provides batch certificates on request but carries no named third-party certification mark, which is a weaker position and we would rather name it than let the phrase "third-party tested" imply more than it does. Our guide to reading a certificate of analysis explains what the document can and can't prove. On capsules, Mind Lab Pro uses a pullulan shell and is vegan; Cognitive Support uses gelatin and is not, a point we had to correct in our vegan and gluten-free breakdown. On price, we win and it matters least: $1.00 a day against $2.30 one-time or $1.73 on their best subscription rate. Cost per day is the easiest number to compare and the least informative, because what you are buying is milligrams of something studied.
Recap: what's disclosed, side by side
| Mind Lab Pro | Proco Cognitive Support | |
|---|---|---|
| Ingredients listed | 11 | 10 |
| Proprietary blend? | No | Yes — 255mg, 8 of 10 ingredients |
| Ingredients with a disclosed dose | 11 of 11 | 2 of 10 |
| Named third-party certification | Publishes a Labdoor CoA | Batch COA on request; no certification mark |
| Capsule material / vegan | Pullulan — vegan | Gelatin — not vegan |
| Capsules per serving / cost per day | 2 / $2.30 ($1.73 subscribed) | 1 / $1.00 |
The straight answer: if per-ingredient dose disclosure is what you are screening for, Mind Lab Pro's label gives you more of it, and it is not close. Apply the second test — does the disclosed number match the trials — and several of their doses come up short, while ours cannot be tested at all. We are cheaper, simpler to take, and fully dosed on exactly one product: Sleep Formula, where all seven amounts are printed. That is one product, not a range-wide standard, and we will not describe it as one. If you would rather assemble the ingredients yourself at doses you can read, the trade-offs are in Cognitive Support vs. stacking your own and single-ingredient vs. blend. Our Onnit Alpha Brain comparison runs the same exercise on a label that does use blends.
This isn't medical advice — talk to your doctor before starting any new supplement.
This article is for informational purposes only and has not been evaluated by the FDA. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Ingredient and pricing data reflect each brand's publicly listed product information as of September 2026 and are subject to change.
See Cognitive Support's full ingredient list at procohq.com.
Related reading: Inside Cognitive Support: What's Actually in the Blend and How to Read a Supplement Label: A Practical Guide to Proprietary Blends and Underdosing.