Jack in the Box Monster Taco: Calories, Price & Is It Back? (2026)

It is a limited-time, larger size of the brand's classic crunchy taco, sold as an order of two. The brand's own 2025 wording is: "Two of Jack's terrifyingly delicious Monster Tacos, topped off with melty American cheese, shredded lettuce & taco sauce. Monster sized and scary good." It has been brought back for Halloween again and again since 2021, but it is not a permanent item and it has no row in the brand's nutrition PDF effective November 2026. Everything we show about it is dated and sourced as the brand's own words or as a report by another site.

Reported, not brand-confirmed. 3 other sites report a $3.00 price for two this fall. A brand restaurant page we read on November 10, 2026 listed Monster Tacos, but a re-check later that day did not show them, so we do not count it. The brand's September 10, 2026 release is about The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror menu and does not mention them, and one of the sites that reports it says in another place that it could not confirm a 2026 return. We found no published end date, so check the Jack app or your restaurant before you go.

It depends on which report you trust, and we do not pick one. The figure reported for the current order is 470 calories for two tacos, about 235 each, in 3 reports, including one that read the brand's online ordering for a Los Angeles restaurant on October 12, 2026. An older brand PDF edition and two databases list 270 calories for one taco (118 g), which is 540 for two. For comparison, the brand's verified regular Taco is 170 calories (81 g) and 2 Regular Tacos are 340.

They are measuring different things. 470 is reported for an order of two tacos, and 270 is reported for one taco in an older edition, so the same food would be 540 calories for two, a gap of 70. The older row is internally sound: its printed macros add up to about 265 calories. One site prints a table headed per taco whose macros add up to about 482 calories, which fits an order of two (470) and not one taco, so we treat its heading as a mislabel. The recipe or size may also have changed between editions. We cannot tell which, so we show both.

The brand's releases give the promotional price as $3.00 for two in 2021, 2023, and 2025, which is about $1.50 a taco, and two sites report the same $3.00 this fall. That is a promotional price, not our estimate, and restaurants can charge differently, so for your own restaurant the answer is "Price varies by location". For comparison, our own estimate for 2 Regular Tacos is $1.99 (about $1.00 a taco), from Drive Thru Index pickup prices across about 2,069 restaurants as of November 11, 2026.

On the numbers, it is a bigger taco at a higher price per calorie. At $3.00 for two, a Monster order costs 1.51 times our $1.99 estimate for 2 Regular Tacos and gives 157 calories per dollar on the 470-calorie reading against 171 for the regular order, about 8% fewer. On the older 540-calorie reading it would be 180 per dollar, slightly more. These are prices and reports, not a verdict: you are mainly paying for size and for the limited run.

The brand says only that it is a larger size, with no weight. The older brand PDF edition lists 118 g for one Monster Taco against 81 g for the verified regular Taco in the brand's current PDF, about 1.46 times the weight. On calories it is 1.38 times a regular taco on the 470-per-order reading and 1.59 times on the older reading.

No current brand figure exists. The older edition and two databases list 630 mg for one taco, which would be 1,260 mg for an order of two, or 55% of the FDA Daily Value of 2,300 mg, against 720 mg (31%) for 2 Regular Tacos in the brand's PDF. If the current taco is smaller than the older one, as the 470-calorie figure suggests, the true number may be lower. Ask your restaurant if sodium matters to you.

A spicy alternative wrapped in a red shell, introduced in 2023 and priced two for $3 like the original. The brand's 2023 release introduced it alongside the original, and a 2023 launch report lists 460 calories for the Angry order against 470 for the original, a 10-calorie difference. The brand's 2025 release lists only the original Monster Taco, and we found no 2026 listing for the Angry version.

A Monster Taco wrapped in a warm flour tortilla with nacho cheese sauce and bacon, a 2024 limited-time item, starting at $3 according to Brand Eating. It was a 2024 item in the original taco's fourth year back, and the run was reported to end on November 10, 2024. It is not in the brand's 2025 release and we found no 2026 listing. We list no calories for it because we found no source for them.

Yes, in 2014. The brand's February 24, 2014 release introduced both at $1.69 each plus tax: the Bacon Ranch version with cool ranch sauce and hickory smoked bacon, and the Nacho version with nacho cheese sauce and jalapeños. A third-party copy of an older brand nutrition PDF, whose file metadata dates it to 2015, lists 340 calories (117 g) for the Bacon Ranch taco and 330 calories (136 g) for the Nacho taco. We treat those as reports, because we could not confirm which edition the copy is. We found no current listing for either.

Only for a Halloween window. The dated runs we can compute are 56 days in 2023 (September 25 to November 20, although the same release gives November 19 as the end in another paragraph) and 45 days in 2025 (September 18 to November 2). The brand's 2021 release said "while supplies last" and "through Halloween". The 2026 run has no published dates we could find.

The brand's September 10, 2026 release says the Munchie Meal of Horror comes with "two tacos" and does not call them Monster Tacos. In 2025 the brand sold the Monster Munchie Meal: two Monster Tacos, a Monster Mozzarella Stick, crispy chicken nuggets, curly fries and a drink, with a color-changing Halloween cup, September 18 to November 2, 2025. So do not assume the 2026 meal's tacos are Monster-sized. Ask when you order.

The brand's August 18, 2025 ingredient statement lists the shell as Ground corn, water and hydrated lime, cooked in canola blend frying oil, and the filling as Beef and ground dark chicken, water, textured vegetable protein (soy flour, caramel color), defatted soy grits, seasoning, salt, tomato paste and Worcestershire sauce. The brand's releases add American cheese, shredded lettuce and taco sauce. The statement lists the taco component and, separately, the American cheese. It does not map them to menu items, and it does not list the lettuce or taco sauce under the Monster Taco. The 2026 editions we read do not list the item, so this is the 2025 recipe, and one other site that describes a flour shell and cheddar disagrees with the brand.

The brand has no Monster Taco row in its 2026 allergen documents, so we cannot confirm today's recipe. Its August 18, 2025 ingredient statement lists soy and wheat for the Monster Taco component and milk and soy for American cheese, which together make soy, wheat, and milk. The verified regular Taco lists milk, wheat, and soy in both brand documents (they agree). Treat milk, wheat, and soy as the least you should assume, then confirm with your restaurant. Restaurants prepare food on shared equipment, so cross-contact is possible for every taco.

Because the brand does not publish one in its current documents, and we do not make one up. Our tables copy the brand's PDFs, and the Monster Taco is not in the nutrition PDF effective November 2026. The August 18, 2025 ingredient statement does list a "Taco, Monster" component, but it carries ingredients and allergens only, no nutrition. Instead of a label we show the reported figures side by side, with their sources and dates, next to the verified regular Taco.