Egg freezing cost in the UK: what you pay privately (2026)

Private egg freezing stimulates the ovaries, collects eggs and freezes them by vitrification for possible use later, for medical reasons such as cancer treatment or for people who want to preserve fertility for social reasons.

Some private hospitals post guide prices for common procedures. For egg freezing the entries we found ran from £350 to £3,900. Each row below is a published figure from the named provider, and the label shows the exact variant it priced.

Hospitals update these lists, and a guide price is not a quote. Treat the figures as a way to see the scale of the bill, then compare against a written estimate for your own case.

You inject hormones for around two weeks while scans monitor follicles, then eggs are collected under sedation and frozen using a rapid cooling method called vitrification.

Ask how many eggs are likely to be frozen at your age, what happens to them if you change your mind and what storage will cost over the long term.

Price differences for egg freezing usually come down to a handful of choices and circumstances, set out here.

• Package price: Guy and St Thomas Specialist Care lists egg freezing and storage at £3,900 including the first year of storage, excluding medication, with annual storage at £350 thereafter.

• Number of cycles: more than one cycle may be needed to freeze enough eggs.

• Storage: annual fees continue for as long as eggs are stored, and HFEA rules set storage limits.

• Medication: drugs are charged separately.

• Using the eggs later: thawing, fertilisation and embryo transfer are separate treatment costs.

The same label can mean different things at different hospitals. Use this table as a checklist when you read an estimate.

Insurers usually do not cover elective egg freezing, though medical freezing before cancer treatment may be funded by the NHS.

Policies differ on outpatient and inpatient cover, so the same procedure can be fully, partly or not covered. If you pay yourself, ask what is guaranteed in the price and whether instalment plans carry interest.

The NHS funds fertility preservation for people facing treatments that threaten fertility, such as chemotherapy, and not usually for social reasons.

The NHS pathway runs through your GP and a consultant-led service, with an 18-week referral-to-treatment standard for non-urgent care. If a wait looks likely to exceed that, you can ask your commissioner about alternatives.

You may feel bloated for a few days after collection and can usually resume normal activity quickly.

Most people have an uneventful experience, but it helps to know how a problem would be handled financially.

• Freezing eggs does not guarantee a baby later, and results depend heavily on age at freezing and the number of eggs stored.

• Stimulation carries a risk of ovarian hyperstimulation, and storage costs continue for years.

To compare like with like, request the same details from every provider. For this procedure the useful questions are below.

• What is the total cost including medication and the first years of storage?

• How many eggs are likely to be needed for my age?

• What are the later costs of using the eggs?

• What are storage limits and consent arrangements?

• Does the quote itemise the hospital, consultant and anaesthetic charges, and which of them could still change?