How Much Does Egg Freezing and Embryo Freezing Cost?

Egg freezing runs roughly $11,000 to $21,000 for one cycle, all in. But the number a clinic quotes is usually just the procedure. Medications, storage, and the cost of eventually using what you froze are billed separately, and together they roughly double the figure most people start with.

No government agency or medical society publishes what any of this costs. Prices come from the minority of clinics that post their prices. What can be described accurately is the structure of the bill, which is the same everywhere.

What one cycle costs

1. The cycle. Clinic fee that covers about two weeks of monitoring appointments, bloodwork, the egg retrieval itself, anesthesia, and freezing. Some clinics bundle all of this into one price.
2. Medications. Paid to a separate pharmacy, almost never inside the clinic’s quote. Dose depends on age, ovarian reserve, and and how you respond, so this price varies more than any other.
3. Storage. The only recurring bill. It arrives every year for however long anything stays frozen. People most often forget about this in the math.

When comparing quotes, check whether monitoring, anesthesia, and the first year of storage are included.

Location matters and where you live changes the price more than anything else. In a major metro area like NYC, LA, or Boston, a typical cycle can be in the upper ranges around $20,000. Mid-size markets like Dallas or Denver can be half that around $10,000. Some budget clinics can be as low as $7,000. The national average from 330+ clinics surveyed is $14,364.

Egg freezing versus embryo freezing

The cycle and the upfront costs are the same. Same monitoring, same medications, same retrieval.

What differs is when you pay for fertilization. Freezing eggs stops at retrieval. The eggs go into the tank unfertilized, and the cost of turning them into embryos comes later, whenever you use them.

Freezing embryos means fertilizing first. That requires sperm (from a partner or a donor) and it adds fertilization fees and usually ICSI. You pay more now and know how many embryos you actually have, rather than finding out years later at the thaw.

Once frozen, embryos cost the same to store as eggs.

So embryo freezing costs more to create and the same to keep. The trade-off beyond cost, including what it means to have embryos rather than eggs, is covered in Egg Freezing vs Embryo Freezing.

Some need a second cycle

In the largest US dataset of 543 women who came back to thaw their eggs, 68% had done a single retrieval, 22% had two, and 9% three or more.

A cycle can also be cancelled before retrieval, if the ovaries respond poorly or the response is strong enough to risk OHSS. A cancelled cycle still costs $1,000 to $5,000, because the medications and monitoring have already happened.

Whether one cycle is enough depends on age and the number of mature eggs it produces. And that’s more about success-rate rather than price. We cover that in Egg Freezing Success Rates by Age.

Storage and later the thaw

Storage runs around $600 to $1,000 a year, with the first year often included in the cycle fee. Over a realistic storage period, storage can approach the cost of the retrieval itself.

And when you’re ready to use the frozen eggs, the cost of thawing, fertilizing, growing embryos, and a transfer can add roughly $5,000 to $10,000. Genetic testing, if you do it, adds $3,000 to $6,000 more.

Frozen embryos skip the fertilization step but still need the thaw and the transfer.

Summary

The cost of egg freezing is a cycle price, a pharmacy bill for medications, and a yearly storage fee. This typically ranges between $11,000 and $21,000 for one cycle. And then another $5,000 to $10,000 whenever you’re ready to use what you froze.

Embryo freezing is the same cycle at the same price, with fertilization moved to the front. You pay more now and less later, and the storage bill is identical either way.

When comparing clinics, a realistic budget covers medications, several years of storage, and the possibility of a second cycle.

Sources

• Fertility and Sterility, “Fifteen years of autologous oocyte thaw outcomes from a large university-based fertility center”
• American Society for Reproductive Medicine, “Planned Oocyte Cryopreservation to Preserve Future Reproductive Potential: an Ethics Committee Opinion” (2023)
• Price ranges are compiled from clinic-published fee schedules and industry cost surveys, including a 2025 survey of more than 330 US clinics. As noted above, no government agency or medical society publishes egg freezing prices.