Revealing Hubble Contacts Review – Quality, Price, Service

In this Hubble Contacts Review, I will discuss every aspect of Hubble Contacts, from the quality of their contact lenses, their price compared to other brands, and the services they provide. If you're thinking of buying Hubble Contacts, this review contains very important information that you need to know.

Hubble Contacts Price

When Hubble first launched, it advertised their contact lenses as being 'half the price' of other daily contact lenses.

But being such an obviously false claim, they eventually changed their slogan to 'The more affordable contact lens brand'.

Their YouTube and television commercial shows the owners Jesse and Ben saying that they 'started Hubble because contact lenses are too expensive'.

So with all of that you would think their prices are the lowest around, right? After all, it's the very reason they stated for starting the company.

The reality is that the prices at Hubble Contacts are not particularly low at all. They charge their customers $30/month in the United States and $40/month in Canada.

Compared to other contact lens websites which charge you per box instead of per month, it may seem like Hubble Contacts has great prices. But let's break it down.

Hubble Contacts sends you 2 boxes of 30 contact lenses every month. This means that every box (30 pack) of Hubble Contacts essentially costs $15.

Let's compare this to how much 30 lenses of other popular brands cost:

Brand	Cost of 30 Contact Lenses
Soflens Daily Disposable	$8.79
Focus Dailies	$8.97
Proclear 1-Day	$9.56
Dailies AquaComfort Plus	$9.98
Biotrue 1-Day	$11.64
Acuvue 1-Day Moist	$13.61
Hubble Contacts	$15.00
MyDay	$19.65
Dailies TOTAL1	$21.32
Acuvue Oasys 1-Day	$21.45

Note: The cost listed for all of the brands above except for Hubble is the cost of a 90-pack divided by 3.

As you can see from the chart above, not only is Hubble Contacts NOT the most affordable contact lens, it's actually among one of the least affordable. The only brands that are more expensive than Hubble Contacts are the top-of-the-line premium brands, made with the latest breakthroughs in contact lens materials and technology.

Hubble Contacts Quality

Hubble contact lenses are made in a Taiwanese contact lens manufacturing plant called St. Shine Optical Co., Ltd.

Hubble Contacts uses St. Shine's 55% Frequent Replacement Spherical Single Vision lenses and brands them as Hubble Contacts.

Material

The material of Hubble Contacts is called Methafilcon A. Hubble Contacts is certainly not the first company to use this material for their contacts, but they may very well be one of the last as most of the industry has moved on to more comfortable and breathable materials.

Here is a list of brands that use Methafilcon A — the exact same material as Hubble Contacts:

Brand	Status
Biocurve Advanced Aspheric	Active
Biocurve 1-Day	Active
C-Vue 1 Day ASV / C-Vue 55	Active
Edge III 55	Discontinued
Elite AC / Elite Daily / Elite AC Toric	Discontinued
Frequency 55 Sphere & Multifocal	Discontinued October 2016
Sauflon 55 UV / Sauflon 55 Asphere	Discontinued August 2014
Vertex Sphere / Vertex Toric	Discontinued October 2016
HD2 / HDX2 / Kontur / LL55 / New Horizons	Active

As you can see, the contact lenses from Hubble Contacts are nothing new. Many of the brands listed above have been around since 2008!

The stunning thing about this list is how many of them are now discontinued. When contact lenses are discontinued by big companies such as CooperVision, it's a sign that those contact lenses were not particularly good — usually completely outdated, and no longer considered good enough to sell to customers.

To my knowledge, there isn't a single doctor out there that is prescribing Hubble Contacts. Why would they? It would be like prescribing a discontinued line of contacts.

Breathability

The breathability of a contact lens is extremely important because the cornea of the eye gets most of the oxygen it needs directly from the air. If a contact lens that isn't breathable enough covers the cornea, over time it can starve the cornea of oxygen leading to corneal health issues.

The breathability of contact lenses is measured in DK/t units. The higher the DK/t, the more breathable a contact lens is.

Brand	DK/t
Hubble	19.5 @ −3.00
Soflens Daily Disposable	22 @ −3.00
Acuvue 1-Day Moist	25.5 @ −3.00
Focus Dailies	26 @ −3.00
Dailies AquaComfort Plus	26 @ −3.00
Proclear 1-Day	28 @ −3.00
Biotrue 1-Day	42 @ −3.00
MyDay	100 @ −3.00
Acuvue Oasys 1-Day	121 @ −3.00
Dailies TOTAL1	156 @ −3.00

Hubble Contacts have the worst breathability value (DK/t) out of any other daily contact lens. And recall from the price comparison chart above — many of the brands that are more breathable than Hubble (thus better for the health of your eyes) are actually less expensive than Hubble.

Do you really want to pay more for a contact lens that isn't as good for your eyes?

Hubble Contacts Service

The unique thing about Hubble Contacts (other than their cute packaging) is their subscription model.

The way that purchasing contact lenses online has traditionally worked is that you:

1. Locate the lowest price for your brand
2. Order a certain number of boxes based on your needs and budget
3. Repeat the process when you run out

Hubble Contacts offers to do things a little differently. They have contact lens subscriptions, meaning that instead of letting you run out of contact lenses and re-ordering more yourself, they automatically charge you and send you new contacts every month.

Pros of a Subscription Model

There's less hassle. You just set up your subscription with Hubble, and everything happens automatically. You don't have to remember to go online to put in your order, and you don't have to worry about running out of lenses.

Cons of a Subscription Model

You'll most likely be paying for more contact lenses than you need. Because they send you 30 pairs of lenses every month, unless you're someone who wears their contact lenses every single day of the month, you're going to end up with too many contact lenses.

Of course you could cancel/pause your subscription when you've accumulated too many lenses, and resume it once you've used them all up — but doing that pretty much throws the convenience of a subscription out the window.

Another con of subscribing to Hubble Contacts is that you're locked into their prices, which aren't great and never change. Other online contact lens retailers have different sales throughout the year which drastically drop their prices, allowing you to save more money.

You're also at the mercy of their customer support. As everyone knows, companies don't make it easy on you when you try to cancel their services.

The Bottom Line

Equipped with all the information in this Hubble Contacts review, you are now in a much better position to make an educated decision about ordering Hubble Contacts. They're not the cheapest, and they're not made from a very breathable material, but they do offer a pretty unique subscription model, which could be convenient for some people.

If you have experience with Hubble Contacts, good or bad, I'd love to hear about it. Let me know in the comments below!