The cost of egg donation with Cofertility
Summary of costs
We know IVF and egg donation are big expenses for families, and we want to help you financially plan for your donation journey. All of our pricing includes our Baby Guarantee, our promise that if for any reason outside your control your initial match does not lead to a live birth, we’ll re-match you for free until that happens.
Fresh egg donation
The total cost of a fresh egg donation journey with Cofertility includes a Match Initiation Fee, coordination fee, and third-party expenses. In addition to these costs, clinic-dependent medical expenses will vary based on your chosen clinic, and if your donor needs to travel for any part of the process, you will be responsible for those expenses. While we don’t control these costs, we can help you estimate them once your clinic and donor are selected.
Pricing breakdown
Secures your selected donor and removes their profile from the platform, officially kicking off your journey with Cofertility
Supports match management and the screening of qualified donors, including AMH (Anti-Mullerian Hormone) and genetic testing
Our egg-sharing model eliminates the cash compensation, as donors instead receive half of the eggs retrieved for their own future family-building
Covers essential services, including legal fees, background checks, egg storage, and insurance. These expenses are paid directly to service providers, with funds deposited into escrow upon match confirmation and any unused funds refunded
Additional factors that impact pricing
Beyond Cofertility’s fees, your clinic selection can greatly influence your total cost:
Covers the donor’s medical protocol, including medications, egg retrieval, and more. Actual costs will vary by clinic
Covers egg fertilization, embryo creation, embryo testing, and more. Actual costs will vary by clinic and cycle outcome
If your donor needs to travel for any part of the process, you will be responsible for associated expenses
Frozen egg donation
In a frozen egg donation journey with Cofertility, the donor completes her cycle prior to matching, with half of the retrieved eggs available for donation and the other half reserved for her own future family-building. Pricing follows a per-egg model.
Match cost & pricing
The match cost includes:
- All costs associated with the coordination of the cycle
- All costs associated with the donor’s screening, medication, and retrieval
This is the all-in cost of receiving frozen eggs—no hidden fees or extra charges.
Price per frozen egg
Additional factors that impact pricing
Beyond the cost of frozen eggs, your clinic selection can greatly influence your total cost:
Covers egg thaw, embryo creation, and embryo testing. Actual costs will vary by clinic and the amount of embryos tested
Covers the cost of shipping the frozen eggs to your clinic if you don’t choose to fertilize at the clinic where the retrieval took place
Covers any additional or single gene genetic testing your clinic may require depending on the carrier status of the sperm source and egg donor
We can help you estimate potential costs once you’ve selected your clinic.
Can you break down pricing for a fresh egg donation journey with Cofertility?
Match Initiation Fee: $500
Secures your selected donor and removes their profile from the platform, officially kicking off your journey with Cofertility.
Cofertility’s Coordination Fee: $10,000
The Cofertility Coordination Fee covers the cost of recruiting and pre-qualifying eligible donors, completing the donor’s AMH and genetic testing, facilitating a mutual match between you and the donor, overseeing the administrative process, and coordinating the donor’s screening, egg retrieval procedure, and storage. Upon matching, you’ll be matched with a Member Advocate who will be your guide throughout this process.
After you place a hold on a match, we'll reach out to both parties to kick off the process. The Cofertility Coordination Fee and signed agreement are both due within 7 days of your match hold.
Donor compensation: $0
Our egg sharing model eliminates the cash compensation, as donors receive half of the eggs retrieved for their own future family-building.
Note that with other fresh agencies, compensation is typically $10k+.
Third-party expenses: $5,900*
Covers essential services, including legal fees, background checks, egg storage, and insurance. These expenses are paid to third party service providers through an escrow account that will be set up after your agreement is signed. Any money left in escrow at the end of your journey will be returned to you.
These expenses includes:
- Legal fees for both you and the donor to create a legally-binding donation agreement. We ensure both parties have access to independent legal counsel that is familiar with our programs Donor’s background check run by a third party
- Donor’s background check run by a third party
- Donor’s psychological evaluation
- Donor’s cycle complication insurance
- Donor’s care package
- Donor’s long-term storage and shipping costs for her portion of the eggs
- Escrow management fee
*Estimate based on standard rates from Cofertility’s recommended service providers
Additional Costs & Factors That Impact Pricing
Beyond Cofertility’s fees, your clinic selection will factor into your total cost:
Clinic-dependent cycle expenses
Covers the donor’s medical protocol, including screening, medications, egg retrieval, and more. Medical expenses are often paid directly to your clinic and pharmacy but may be paid through escrow in certain cases. These expenses vary by clinic and geography.
So you know what to expect, these expenses will include:
- Donor’s screening
- Egg retrieval cycle fee
- Medications
Clinic-dependent embryo creation expenses
Embryo creation expenses including egg fertilization, embryo creation, testing, and more.
Donor travel
If your donor needs to travel for any part of the process, you will be responsible for associated expenses.
Can you break down pricing for frozen egg donation journey with Cofertility?
In a frozen egg donation journey with Cofertility, pricing is based on a per-egg pricing model and the total cost of each match in turn varies based on the number of frozen eggs available.
Price per frozen egg:
6-8 ----- $3,500
9-11 ----- $3,300
12+ ----- $3,100
The match cost is inclusive of all expenses associated with the coordination of the cycle and with the donor’s screening, retrieval, and medications. It’s the all-in cost of getting frozen eggs.
This includes the costs of:
- Recruiting and pre-qualifying eligible donors
- Coordinating the donor’s screening, egg retrieval procedure, and storage
- The donor’s genetic testing and consultation
- The donor’s psychological evaluation
- The donor’s background check
- The donor’s medical complication insurance
- The donor’s legal fees for reviewing the agreement
- FDA-required testing
- The donor’s retrieval cycle, including all monitoring appointments and anesthesia
- Donor’s medication
- Care package for the donor upon starting her cycle
- The donor’s 10 years of long-term storage for her portion of the eggs
- Donor travel to/from monitoring appointments and her retrieval
- Facilitating a mutual match between you and the donor
- Cofertility’s Baby Guarantee, which means that if the frozen eggs you receive do not lead to a live birth, we’ll rematch you with a new donor with an equivalent number of eggs at no additional cost.
To place a hold on a match, you’ll pay a $500 Match Initiation Fee. The price per egg will then be due within a week of your kickoff call with your Member Advocate, which takes place within the week following your match.
Expenses not covered:
Expenses not incorporated in your match fees could include:
- Legal expenses for you to review the agreement with the clinic (optional)
- Shipping eggs to your clinic (if applicable)
- Thawing, fertilizing, PGT-A testing, and transferring the embryo(s)
- Additional genetic testing requested by the clinic
How does donor travel work?
If you match with a donor in our fresh egg donation program who is out of state, we’ll work with all parties to determine the best places to conduct her testing, monitoring, and retrieval in order to minimize long-distance travel. You are responsible for covering travel expenses, including airfare, hotels, and meals for your donor and a companion.
If you match with a donor in our frozen egg donation program, the donor’s retrieval has already taken place. The frozen eggs can be shipped to your clinic, where they’ll be thawed and fertilized, or you can work with the clinic where the retrieval took place, thawing the eggs and creating embryos onsite.
What about donor compensation?
One thing that’s not here that you’ll see with other egg donation companies? Donor compensation. Our unique model allows donors in both our fresh and frozen egg donation program to freeze their eggs for free when they donate half of the eggs retrieved to your family.
Not only does the egg sharing model appeal to so many more donors, eliminating cash compensation cuts a considerable expense often associated with donor egg IVF as compensation typically starts at $10k. Plus, you’ll never pay extra based on the donor’s background, education, or heritage.
Do you offer any guarantees?
When you match with a donor in our fresh egg donation program, your Cofertility Coordination Fee comes with a Baby Guarantee. If anything outside of your control gets in the way of you bringing home your baby, we’ll re-match you with another donor for no additional Cofertility Coordination Fee. Note that cycle administrative and medical fees paid to third parties are non-refundable once incurred and you’ll be responsible for other costs associated with the new match.
When you match with a donor in our frozen egg donation program, the entire cost of your match comes with our Baby Guarantee. So, if for any reason outside your control the frozen eggs that you receive do not lead to a live birth, we’ll rematch you with a new donor with up to an equivalent number of eggs at no additional cost. If you rematch with a donor who has more frozen eggs available, you will be responsible for covering the difference in cost. If you choose to rematch with a donor in the fresh program, you would be responsible for the administrative and medical costs associated with her fresh donation cycle. Your Cofertility Coordination Fee will be waived, but the value of the Coordination Fee is non-refundable.
Click here for more information about Cofertility’s Baby Guarantee.
What if I want to do two cycles?
If you match with a donor in our fresh egg donation program and choose to do a second cycle with the same donor, the estimated cost is $5,900 plus any clinic expenses associated with the donor’s cycle and travel.
These costs include:
- Reduced Cofertility Coordination Fee: $5,000
- Reduced admin expenses: $900
The reduced costs reflect the fact that her screening will have already been completed and a second legal agreement may not be required.
Do you offer any financial assistance?
We know many of our members are already facing complicated journeys to parenthood, and strive to make our program as financially accessible as possible. We are honored to offer discounted rates for active military members and cancer survivors. If any of these apply to you, be sure to ask the team how to take advantage of these special rates.
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Once I match, when is payment due?
To place a hold on a match, you’ll pay a $500 Match Initiation Fee. Placing a hold removes a donor from the platform and prevents her from matching with any other intended parents for the next seven days.
Fresh donation: If you match with a donor in our fresh egg donation program, the Cofertility Coordination fee is due within seven days of holding your match. Additional match expenses will be estimated during your kickoff call and either funded to escrow or billed as they incur.
Frozen donation: If you match with a donor in our frozen egg donation program, the full match cost will be due within a week of your kickoff call with your Member Advocate, which must take place within seven days of placing your match.
What is the currency of your listed pricing?
All pricing information provided or shared on our website, contracts, and supplementary materials is exclusively denoted in United States Dollars (USD).