About This Site

This is an independent reference for what egg freezing actually costs in 2026: by state, by age, by insurance scenario, and across the full lifecycle. It is not a clinic, a clinic-finder, a financial advisor, or a medical practice.

The purpose of this site

To compare options, patients spend hours assembling partial-truth pricing from FertilityIQ threads, clinic pages, GoodRx blog posts, and insurer policy PDFs. A procedure fee listed by clinic pricing pages excludes medications, monitoring, anesthesia, and storage. A single national average shown by aggregator content hides a three-to-one variance between metros. Fertility-platform marketing uses a “starting at” number that rarely matches the bill. The cost of egg freezing is one of the worst-documented figures in US healthcare.

A single read of this page resolves pricing confusion. The per-cycle range runs $12,000 to $20,000 all-in. Storage adds $500 to $1,000 per year. ASRM math on eggs needed drives the realistic expectation of 1, 2, or 3 cycles. In California, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Colorado, and Georgia, state mandates change the math meaningfully. The bill versus the quote matters. The lifecycle cost when you later use the eggs also matters.

Our editorial stance

No reseller arrangements, no lead generation, no paid placements. Figures come from primary references and named insurer policies rather than clinic marketing or sponsored content. Naming a clinic, manufacturer or platform is a matter of being specific about price and protocol, never an endorsement. Where sources disagree, we say so: the ASRM 2023 ethics opinion and optimistic clinic marketing on planned oocyte cryopreservation do not tell the same story, and we surface that rather than average it.

Scope of this site

Guiding editorial values

Primary sources only

Nothing here rests on an unnamed source. Behind every dollar figure, percentage, success rate and clinical claim sits a specific document, drawn from ASRM, SART, the CDC ART surveillance report, HFEA, RESOLVE, KFF, peer-reviewed journals, insurer policy documents, or a clinic's own published prices.

No clinic affiliate links

In this niche, clinic referral affiliates count as a structural conflict. No widget for 'get a quote near you' exists. No clinic-finder placements or sponsored content appear.

Not medical advice

This site provides only information. Key decision points carry callouts to consult a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist. The site never diagnoses, prescribes, or assesses suitability.

Cost figures as ranges

Every cost appears as a range. That is not hedging; metros, clinic tiers, protocols and individual response genuinely differ that much. Where a source gives one number instead of a range, it carries the date we checked it.

Single-source freshness

One value in the site data carries the review date. The footer, the share cards and every dateModified in the structured data read from it at build time rather than keeping their own copy. It currently reads August 2026.

Honest framing

The site presents ASRM 2023 ethics opinion on the no-guarantee framing, alongside cases where the math works and where it does not. Egg freezing is implicit fertility insurance with a non-zero premium.

Summary of methods

Where mandates are concerned we read the statute: California SB 729, Georgia HB 94, the Florida group-plan rule covering infertility caused by medical treatment, Minnesota HF 1758 while it remains proposed, Massachusetts MGL c.175 §47H, and New York Insurance Law §3221, with RESOLVE and KFF tracking as a cross-check. Cycle counts come from ASRM guidance on eggs needed at a given age, paired with CDC ART surveillance live-birth rates. For a national per-cycle figure we combine the FertilityIQ, GoodRx and Cofertility breakdowns and test them against what named US clinics publish. State figures then adjust that national range for metro cost of living and how many clinics compete locally. Every source and every calculation is set out on the methodology page.

Transparency and disclosures

Not affiliated with any fertility clinic, insurer, fertility platform, manufacturer of fertility medication, or fertility-financing lender.
No sponsored content, no paid placements, no “get a quote” lead-gen funnels.
No clinic affiliate links (treated as a structural conflict in this niche).
Where employer fertility benefit platforms or named fertility-specific lenders are referenced, the framing is honest comparison rather than affiliate-incentive ranking.
Cost ranges are estimates synthesized from named primary sources, not individual quotes for a specific patient or clinic.

Get in touch or report an error

This inbox is not for emergencies. If something is wrong medically, call your reproductive endocrinologist or another clinician. For a correction or a better source, write to corrections@eggfreezingfacts.org and include the page URL, the claim you are disputing, what you think the right source is, and when it was checked. Verified corrections go up with a date stamp and an updated citation, normally inside 5 working days.

Health information disclaimer

Treat this site as research rather than advice. It does not practice medicine and cannot tell you whether to freeze your eggs, when, or with whom. That decision belongs with a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist who knows your history. Prices are gathered from public sources and will not always match the quote a clinic puts in front of you.