Egg and oocyte storage
Freezing your eggs is the one-off cost. Keeping them is the one that repeats.
Almost everything written about egg freezing prices the procedure. Far less is written about the invoice that arrives every year afterwards, which is the cost most people are still paying a decade later. This page is about that second number: what facilities publish, what quietly moves it, and what happens to the fee when your eggs change hands.
What dedicated storage companies publish
We are not going to give you a national average. Averages in this category are built from a handful of clinic websites and they anchor you to someone else contract. Instead, here is what specific named facilities print on their own pages, with a link so you can check every figure yourself.
Note what is not different: eggs are frequently billed on exactly the same schedule as embryos. Family Fertility CryoBank publishes one table headed Embryo / Egg Storage, with identical pricing for both.
| Facility | 6 months | 1 year | 5 years | Longest published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Fertility CryoBank Eggs and embryos, standard tier | $340 | $475 | $1,650 | $4,995 “forever” |
| Family Fertility CryoBank Potentially infectious tier | $460 | $600 | $2,275 | Contact facility |
| Family Fertility CryoBank Military rate, standard tier | $272 | $380 | $1,320 | Contact facility |
| ReproTech Dedicated oocyte storage | Publishes a two-tier structure and sperm pricing, but releases the egg and embryo fee schedule only after you submit your email, clinic name and state. | |||
Read from each facility own published pages in October 2026: Family Fertility CryoBank pricing and ReproTech cryostorage services. Every one of these pages says fees change without notice. Treat this as the question to ask your own facility, not as a quote.
You can be put on the higher tier for paperwork, not for a result
This is the detail almost nobody is told, and it is published in plain language. ReproTech states that standard storage fees apply when the required tests, such as HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, come back non-reactive. It then says specimens can still be accepted under its Potentially Infectious storage programme if results are reactive or if testing is not complete, and that programme carries different fees.
So an unfinished test can cost you the difference between tiers for as long as it stays unfinished. At Family Fertility CryoBank that gap is $125 a year on a $475 bill, which is 26% more for a missing document. If your rate looks higher than the published standard figure, ask which tier you are on and why, before you assume it is just how your facility prices.
How we know about the tier
We move eggs and embryos between facilities, so we read a lot of storage agreements, usually at the moment somebody has decided to leave one facility for another. The screening tier is the single most common reason a bill is higher than the published number, and almost nobody is told about it when they freeze. It is the sort of thing you only notice after reading enough of these documents, which is the job rather than the research.
Three things move an egg storage bill more than the headline rate
The billing period, not the headline number
Read whether a figure is monthly, quarterly or annual before comparing anything. The same number can mean four very different bills, and quarterly pricing is common enough that it catches people out.
Your infectious disease screening status
ReproTech publishes two tiers: standard fees when HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C tests are non-reactive, and a Potentially Infectious programme with different fees when results are reactive or testing is simply not complete. Family Fertility CryoBank publishes $475 against $600 a year for the same distinction.
Who is actually holding the tank
Eggs sitting in your treating clinic tanks are usually priced as an extension of treatment. Eggs moved to a dedicated long-term storage company are priced as a product that has to compete. Those are different markets and the second is generally the cheaper one.
What happens when frozen eggs actually move
Most people meet this question twice: once when eggs leave the clinic that collected them, and again if they ever change storage facility or country. Two things are worth knowing before either happens.
Nothing moves until the account is clean
ReproTech sets out the sequence plainly: you need an account, the required infectious disease test results, and prepaid storage and transfer fees before specimens can be shipped. If you are planning a move around a treatment date, the paperwork is the long pole, not the flight.
You often get to choose the courier
For domestic transfers the facility usually arranges it: ReproTech says you do not need to arrange shipping yourself, and that it coordinates directly with your clinic. For international moves it says shipments are handled by specialised medical couriers and that it coordinates with the courier you choose, with an administration fee applying. If you care who carries your eggs across a border, that choice is usually yours to make rather than theirs.
Who we are in this picture
We are the courier, not the storage facility. When ReproTech says it coordinates with the courier you choose, we are one of the companies you can choose. Your eggs stay with one named person, in the aircraft cabin rather than the hold, handed to the receiving embryologist at the other end. Because we store nothing, we have no stake in which facility you pick, which is why this page names their prices instead of burying them.
The one document to ask for
Ask your clinic or storage facility for its current written fee schedule and a copy of the storage agreement you signed, by email so you have it in writing. Ask which tier you are on. Everything above is designed to be read with those two documents in front of you.
