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The Egg Freezing PlaybookA planning tool · Research edition, September 2026
Before you freeze

Put the numbers
in context.

Estimate a cost range using your clinic quote, medication estimates and storage terms. Keep possible future treatment and time commitments separate.

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Your quote. Your schedule.

One cycle, one currency. Use your clinic's figures or clearly marked hypothetical inputs. Blank means unknown; enter zero only when confirmed zero or deliberately excluded.

1. Freezing cycle
2. Storage & possible future use
3. Time & income assumptions

Planning inputs, not recovery advice. Count each activity once; include retrieval among visits if appropriate. Recovery may take longer. Unpaid hours are a separate assumption, not automatically all hours shown.

Scenario summary

Unknowns belong
in the conversation.

Complete the inputs to see a range, the storage projection and your time commitment.

What the totals mean

Storage rounds up to whole billing periods after included months. Rates stay unchanged in this projection; actual contracts may use different start dates, partial-period rules or future increases. The horizon is an input, not a statement of legal storage limits.

The low–high range varies medication only. It excludes any fees you have not entered, future price rises, interest and benefit reimbursements. Possible future use and lost income remain separate. This tool does not estimate treatment suitability or recommend a number of cycles.

How we calculate this

Your prices. Transparent arithmetic.

This is not an estimate of average market prices. The calculator uses the amounts you enter. The sample is invented for demonstration, not taken from a clinic or presented as a typical US, UK or Australian cost.

Calculation and assumptions

One-cycle range: clinic package + other cycle charges + your low or high medication estimate. Only medication varies in this range.

Storage: subtract included months from the chosen years × 12, with a minimum of zero; divide by billing-period months and round up to a whole period; multiply by the fee per period. This assumes billing starts after the included months and every started period is charged in full. Check your contract for different rules.

Example: 5 years = 60 months. Less 12 included months leaves 48. At 12 months per billing period, that is 4 periods × $600 = $2,400. With the fictional $8,000 package, $1,200 extras and $3,000–$5,000 medication, the result is $14,600–$16,600.

Possible future treatment is added only as a separate scenario. Lost income is unpaid hours × entered hourly income. Time is visits × (visit hours + round-trip travel hours) + recovery days × hours set aside per day.

Long-term limitation: storage rates are held constant. Projections exclude inflation, fee increases, additional cycles, interest, reimbursements and any taxes, transfer or other charges you have not entered. A storage horizon is a planning input, not a legal entitlement or recommendation.

Sources behind the categories

These sources inform which costs to ask about. They do not endorse this calculator, validate its arithmetic or supply its example amounts. Checked 22 September 2026.

  • HFEA: Egg freezing — UK regulator guidance separates collection/freezing, medicines, storage and later use, and discusses ongoing storage arrangements. UK rules must not be generalised to other countries.
  • Extend Fertility: Pricing — one US provider’s published categories illustrate separate medication, storage and possible future-use costs. This is a provider example, not a national benchmark.

Use a current, itemised quote and written storage terms from your own provider. Do not substitute old published prices for a live quote.

What to ask about storage

Confirm the actual provider and location, billing start date, included period, unit of charging, price-change terms, renewal/consent dates, contact-update process, transfer/transport charges, missed-payment procedure and options if plans change. Ask for written terms and the right contact for legal or clinical questions.