Is Frontier Pets Worth It?
A straight answer on whether Frontier Pets is worth the money, based on its overall score, value score and real cost per serve, with better-value alternatives if it isn't the right fit.
Reviewed by Adam Lorimer
Contributing reviewer, brand and product sideIndependent scoringUpdated August 2026Not veterinary advice
Our score
Strong
Frontier Pets product photography
- Overall score
- 84/100
- Strong
- Value score
- 62/100
- Average
- From (per day)
- $6.40
- ~15kg dog
The short answer
Australian air-dried raw made from free-range, regeneratively farmed meat. The ingredients, ethics and transparency are about as good as it gets, and it is a complete diet that sits in the pantry rather than the freezer. The catch is the price per kg, which is steep, and availability that is mostly direct from the brand.
Where the points come from
The strongest pillar is ingredient quality at 95/100, worth 25 of the 100 points. The weakest is availability & convenience at 58/100. That pattern, rather than the headline number, is what decides whether the price is worth paying for your dog.
What the money buys
Value is scored at 62/100, which we rate average, and it carries 25 of the 100 points on its own. The cheapest way to feed it in our index is Frontier Pets Free-Range Chicken Air-Dried 1kg, at $6.40 a day for a ~15kg adult dog.
The field
Where 84 sits across every brand we score
One tick per brand. The shaded band is the middle half of the index and the heavy rule is the median, so the score reads as a position rather than a promise.
- MinMin
- 44
- Q1Lower quartile
- 58.5
- MedianMedian
- 69.5
- Q3Upper quartile
- 78.8
- MaxMax
- 87
| Brand | Overall score |
|---|---|
| Black & Gold | 44 |
| Baxter's | 46 |
| Julius | 48 |
| Woofin' Good! | 50 |
| ProBalance | 54 |
| Leaps & Bounds | 60 |
| The Nosh Project | 62 |
| Providore | 64 |
| Hill's Science Diet | 66 |
| Royal Canin | 68 |
| Ivory Coat | 71 |
| Meals for Mutts | 74 |
| SavourLife | 75 |
| Black Hawk | 76 |
| Prime100 | 78 |
| ZIWI Peak | 81 |
| Petzyo | 83 |
| Frontier Pets | 84 |
| Scratch | 86 |
| Lyka | 87 |
Dog Food Reviews scoring
The scorecard
How Frontier Pets scores
Scored against our published methodology. Where a brand earns its points is the whole worth-it question: two brands on the same overall score can be worth very different money.
Frontier Pets
84/100 overall · Strong
How the 100 points are split
- 25 Price & Value
- 25 Ingredient Quality
- 20 Nutrition & Suitability
- 15 Transparency
- 10 Availability & Convenience
- 5 Customer Sentiment
The checklist
When Frontier Pets is worth it, and when it is not
Both lists come straight from this brand's entry in our index. Neither is a verdict on the food, only on the fit.
When Frontier Pets is worth it
- Owners who want raw nutrition without freezer hassle
- Feeders who care about animal welfare and farming practices
- Dogs with sensitive stomachs that do well off lighter cooked food
When to compare carefully
- You are feeding on a tight budget
- You want something you can grab off any supermarket or big-box shelf
What it costs
What Frontier Pets costs to feed
Cost per day is the figure that decides this page. It assumes a ~15kg adult dog at the brand's own feeding guide, so it moves with your dog rather than with the sticker price.
Prices checked· Editorial estimates
Estimated cost per day
Every product on one scale
All 2 Frontier Pets products we hold, cheapest to feed first. Price per kilo sits under each label, because the bag price and the feed price are not the same question.
| Product | Est. cost per day | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Frontier Pets Free-Range Chicken Air-Dried 1kg | $6.40 | Air-dried · 1kg · $64/kg |
| Frontier Pets Free-Range Beef Air-Dried 1kg | $6.60 | Air-dried · 1kg · $66/kg |
Editorial estimates · ~15kg adult dog
Best per-serve value
Frontier Pets Free-Range Chicken Air-Dried 1kg
$64/kg
$6.40 a day for a ~15kg adult dog
- Pack size
- 1kg
- First ingredient
- Free-range chicken
- Format
- Air-dried
Frontier Pets product photography
The verdict
Is Frontier Pets worth it?
One of the best-sourced foods you can buy in Australia, and the welfare and transparency claims hold up to scrutiny. Just go in clear-eyed about cost: this is a premium you pay for ethics and convenience, not a value pick, so it suits owners who can afford to feed it properly rather than stretch it.
Scored out of 100 across 6 weighted pillars
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The detail
The daily maths: $6.40 a day, and what the same dog costs elsewhere
Frontier Pets Free-Range Chicken Air-Dried is a 1kg pack at $64.00 AUD, so $64.00 per kg and about $6.40 a day for a 15kg adult dog on our editorial estimates. The beef pack is $66.00 and $6.60 a day. At roughly a tenth of a pack a day, one pack covers about ten days, and both packs rate 90/100 in our index.
On the same editorial estimates, ZIWI Peak Air-Dried Beef 1kg sits at $75.00, or $7.50 a day, and the lamb at $79.00 and $7.90, so the Frontier chicken saves $1.10 to $1.50 a day, roughly $400 to $550 a year. Prime100's SK-D Single Protein Dry Kangaroo 8kg is estimated at $14.88 per kg yet costs only $3.20 a day, half the Frontier figure, so about $3.20 a day apart.
Where 95/100 ingredients and 95/100 transparency earn the premium
Ingredient quality at 95/100 is the highest ingredient score we publish, and transparency at 95/100 ties Scratch at the top of the index. Free-range chicken and free-range beef are the first ingredients listed on their own panels, protein is declared at 40% in the chicken pack and 38% in the beef, and it is air-dried, so it keeps in the pantry rather than the freezer.
Against ZIWI Peak, the other brand whose air-dried packs we price, Frontier is seven points ahead on ingredients, 95 against 88, and ten ahead on transparency, 95 against 85, while its beef pack costs about $0.90 a day less than ZIWI's beef on our editorial estimates. It is made in Australia where ZIWI is made in New Zealand, and nutrition reads 88 against 83. Ingredients and transparency together carry 40 of our 100 points.
When $6.40 a day is not worth it
Value scores 62/100, and availability at 58/100 is the lowest availability figure we publish for any brand in the index. Only two retailers we track carry it, Pet Circle, which is online-only, and PETO, whose store network is concentrated rather than national. There is no Petbarn shelf, no Petstock and no supermarket aisle, so for most shoppers this is a planned order rather than a pick-up on the way home. We tier the brand at the top of our four-band price scale.
On a fixed budget the annual figure is the one that hurts: on our editorial estimates that is roughly $2,336 a year for one 15kg dog on the chicken pack, against about $1,168 on Prime100's SK-D dry kangaroo, a brand scoring 72/100 on value where Frontier scores 62. Both Frontier packs are high in fat, at 28% and 30%, so portion to the on-pack guide. This is not veterinary advice.
How owners pay less: autoship, the price match and the cheaper recipe
There is no bulk size to step into: our index holds one 1kg pack of each recipe, so the levers are the retailer and the recipe. On our editorial estimates Pet Circle's autoship takes the chicken to $60.80 and the beef to $62.70, about $6.08 and $6.27 a day, and over a year of ten-day packs that is roughly $117 saved on the chicken.
On the same estimates PETO lists both packs $2.00 dearer, at $66.00 and $68.00, but it price-matches under a low-price guarantee, so the Pet Circle figure is the one to take to it. A single pack clears free shipping at both, $49 at Pet Circle and $59 at PETO. Choosing chicken over beef saves about $0.20 a day, and ZIWI's autoship beef at an estimated $68.00 narrows the gap to about $0.72 a day.
The alternatives
Better-value alternatives to Frontier Pets
Scored on the same 100-point model, so the comparison is like for like. Each card prints the two pillars a reader actually swaps a food on.
ZIWI Peak
Super-premium · Strong
The ingredients are excellent, but the price per kg is steep enough that value drags the whole score down: you're paying a hefty premium for the air-dried format and small bags. Work out the cost per day before committing; on anything bigger than a small dog it gets expensive fast.
- Value
- 64/100
- Ingredients
- 88/100
Best forOwners prioritising ingredient quality over cost
Prime100
Premium · Good
A capable single-protein option for elimination diets, and the labels are honest. But the rolls especially carry a steep price per kg for what is a deliberately simple recipe, and the range spread across formats muddies value: price the dry against the rolls per serve before you settle on one.
- Value
- 72/100
- Ingredients
- 83/100
Best forSensitive stomachs
Common questions
Is Frontier Pets worth it? FAQs
Short answers to the questions that decide it, using the same published figures as the sections above.
Answers checked
Scores and estimates from our index
Frontier Pets scores 84/100 overall and 62/100 on value in our index (average on value). One of the best-sourced foods you can buy in Australia, and the welfare and transparency claims hold up to scrutiny. Just go in clear-eyed about cost: this is a premium you pay for ethics and convenience, not a value pick, so it suits owners who can afford to feed it properly rather than stretch it.
For a ~15kg adult dog, Frontier Pets works out from about $6.40 per day on Frontier Pets Free-Range Chicken Air-Dried 1kg ($64/kg). Cost per serve is the figure that matters most: compare it against alternatives before deciding.
If value is your top priority and you're feeding a large dog on a tight budget, compare Frontier Pets carefully against ZIWI Peak and Prime100. The right pick is the one that fits your dog and budget.
Consider ZIWI Peak, Prime100. Compare them on price per kg and cost per day: a different brand may give you more for similar money.
The chicken pack is the cheaper of the two at $64.00 against $66.00, which is about $6.40 a day versus $6.60 for a 15kg adult dog on our editorial estimates, or roughly $73 a year apart. It also declares the higher protein, 40% against 38%, and the lower fat, 28% against 30%. Both rate 90/100, the highest product rating we publish, and both are listed for all life stages, so the choice is price and panel rather than quality. This is not veterinary advice.
On our editorial estimates a roughly 15kg adult dog feeds at about $6.40 a day on the Free-Range Chicken 1kg pack, so one pack covers around ten days and a year of feeding runs to about 36 packs. Smaller dogs stretch it further and larger dogs empty it faster. Because it is air-dried rather than frozen, stocking up costs pantry space rather than freezer room. Portion by the on-pack feeding guide; this is not veterinary advice.
Because ingredients carry 25 of the 100 points in our model, not all of them. Frontier Pets takes 95/100 on ingredients, 95/100 on transparency, 88 on nutrition and 88 on sentiment, but 62/100 on value, which is also weighted at 25 points, and 58/100 on availability, the lowest availability figure in our index. Two class-leading pillars cannot outrun an estimated $64.00 per kg and a two-retailer stockist list, which is the trade-off this page is about.
No. Dog Food Reviews is an independent value and comparison resource, not veterinary advice. Prices are illustrative and manually entered for v1, always confirm the live price with the retailer before buying.