Jack in the Box Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger: Calories & Price (2026)

The wording quoted by menujackinthebox.com is: “2x 100% beef seasoned as it grills, hickory smoked bacon, melty American & Swiss style cheeses, ketchup, mustard & mayo on a buttery bakery bun.” The same page lists the parts as Split Top Bun, Large Patty, Bacon, American Cheese, Swiss Style Cheese, Ketchup, Mayo, Mustard, and Butter. A newer delivery-app description says “2x 100% beef patties freshly seasoned, hickory smoked bacon, melty American & Swiss style cheeses, ketchup, mustard & mayo on an all-new buttery brioche bun. Better Ingredients. Better Burger.” We could not open the brand's own page, so these are quoted descriptions, not something we confirmed at the source. The brand's ingredient PDF lists components alphabetically and does not say which belong to which burger.

930 by the brand's 2026 nutrition PDF, in a 273 g serving. That is 47% of a 2,000-calorie day, a reference figure from US labels and not a target for you. The plain Ultimate Cheeseburger is 840. Ranked highest first it is #2 of the 15 burgers on this site, and the Bacon Double Smashed Jack tops the list at 1,120. A delivery app can show a different number, as the app-listing question below explains.

55 g of protein, 65 g of total fat (25 g saturated) and 1,960 mg of sodium, which is 85% of the FDA Daily Value of 2,300 mg. That is 5.9 g of protein per 100 calories. It has the most protein of the 15 burgers on this site and is #2 for sodium when ranked highest first.

90, by our arithmetic. The brand has no bacon row, so this is the Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger (930) minus the Ultimate Cheeseburger (840), which share their cheeses and sauces. The gap also holds 19 g of weight, 6 g of fat, 8 g of protein and 410 mg of sodium, or 18% of the Daily Value. It is a difference between two rows, not a label for bacon, and the PDF rounds each row.

The brand does not publish a number in the PDFs we read, so we cannot say. Other pages disagree: The Impulsive Buy says eight slices (late 1990s), The Impulsive Buy says three strips (2015), and Jack in the Box Wiki (Fandom) says four strips (no date). They describe different years, and one is an editable wiki. The brand's bacon statement lists a single ingredient line for bacon slices and gives no weight per strip. What the rows do show is 19 g of extra weight over the Ultimate, which is all the bacon plus anything else that differs.

Our estimate is $8.49 for app pickup, from 2,075 restaurants as of November 11, 2026, with a range of $6.99–$11.49. Outside pages show anything from $7.39 to $12.24 for the same burger because they cover different dates, places and ordering channels, and 3 of them show no date at all. Price varies by location, so treat ours as an estimate.

Among the 15 states with at least 10 restaurants in the sample, Oklahoma has the lowest typical price ($7.29) and Hawaii the highest ($10.99), a gap of $3.70 or 51%. California has the most restaurants sampled (914) at a typical $8.79. These are Drive Thru Index's figures as of November 11, 2026.

On our estimates, $0.70 more ($8.49 against $7.79, or 9%). For that you get 90 more calories and 8 g more protein, which works out to about $0.09 for each extra gram of protein. On the menu boards of one restaurant the gap was $0.50 in 2001 and $0.40 in 2020. Prices differ by restaurant, so check yours.

One restaurant's drive-thru board, photographed in July 2001 and again in 2020, priced it at $3.49 and then $6.39, up 83%. Our estimate today is $8.49, 33% above the 2020 board. That last step compares a menu board with an app-pickup estimate from another source, so read it as a rough guide. The board was one restaurant, not a national price.

We do not know. Uber Eats lists the Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger at 990 calories for the restaurant at 3235 W Tropicana Ave, Las Vegas, 60 above the brand's PDF, and 6 of the 8 burgers on that page carry the same 60 difference, while Bacon Double Smashed Jack is +40 and Sourdough Jack matches the PDF. The same listing describes a brioche bun, but nothing we read says the bun explains the calories, so we do not claim a cause. The brand's PDF is dated November 2026; ask the restaurant or check the brand's own app if the number matters to you.

The brand's nutrition PDF and its allergen guide agree: milk, egg, wheat, soy, and sesame. Each one traces to a component we matched to the burger, including sesame, which appears in one of the two printed versions of the split top bun statement. The PDF does not say which version your restaurant uses, so treat sesame as present. Two other sites we read list only four allergens and leave sesame out. If you have an allergy, ask the restaurant, because we have not tested any food and equipment may be shared.

We searched the ingredient statements we matched to the burger. They list sodium nitrite (bacon), sodium erythorbate (bacon), sodium phosphate (bacon) and smoke flavoring (bacon), and high fructose corn syrup (bun and ketchup). The bun statement says “or sugar” and the other printed bun version lists only sugar. The PDF does not map components to menu items, so this is a match on the burger's description, not a brand statement about the burger.

The brand has no meal rows, so these are the burger and one side added together. With french fries (medium) it is 1,360 calories and 2,740 mg of sodium; with seasoned curly fries (large) it is 1,410 and 3,020 mg. The range across the 5 sides we added is 1,360 to 1,480 calories, before any drink, which the brand does not list. Every pairing is above the 2,300 mg Daily Value for sodium.

Not by size or calories. The Bacon Double Smashed Jack has 1,120 calories against 930, and the Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger is #4 of 15 by weight at 273 g (3.41 calories per gram) and #2 for calories. It does have the most protein of any burger, at 55 g. The Bacon Double Smashed Jack lists 339 g and 45 g of protein.

Nobody we found gives a launch date. The earliest dated record is a UPI Archives report from September 29, 1993, about a hamburger called The Colossus. Retrospective pages say the Colossus lived on as the Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger in the late 1990s, and a company press release dated April 13, 2001 names the Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger, so the name dates to no later than 2001. The history section shows each source and how reliable it is. Whether today's burger matches the old recipe is something we cannot check, because no brand document we read gives a patty weight or a bacon count.

At one restaurant listed on Postmates, extra bacon was $1.86, extra american cheese $0.63, extra swiss style cheese $0.63, and extra jumbo patty $2.50. That is a delivery listing for one restaurant, so it shows the shape of the extras and not a price for yours. The brand publishes no nutrition row for bacon, so the builder above cannot add it. It does add the brand's own rows for cheese, sauces, onions and sides.