IVF and egg freezing prices in Australia: Full list of what each clinic charges in 2025
Some cheaper IVF clinics are outperforming more expensive ones. See the full list of what each centre charges for IVF, egg freezing and monthly storage fees.
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A number of more affordable IVF clinics are achieving above-average results, showing that paying the highest price doesn’t always increase success.
A News Corp investigation can reveal the price estimates for a standard IVF cycle and egg freezing, including monthly storage fees, at about 100 clinics across Australia in January 2025.
When analysed against data from the federal government’s Your IVF Success website, it reveals some of the best value clinics with strong results.
Nationally, on average, 48.1 per cent of egg retrieval cycles resulted in a baby for women aged under 35, and for those between 35 and 42 it was 25.7 per cent.
The results – from one success measure on Your IVF – come from the number of births that resulted from the eggs (fresh or frozen) collected from women in 2021 that were fertilised and implanted as embryos in 2021 and 2022.
In NSW, Fertility First in Hurstville stood out.
It had the eighth highest success rate nationally for older women and the sixth highest for the younger cohort.
It only quoted an out-of-pocket price of $3789 for IVF, although its elective egg freezing price was on the higher side.
Medical Director Anne Clark said they tried to keep costs down where possible so they could charge less.
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“We are cheaper because we don’t have big management structures and offices in the CBD, like some of the other places which have been corporatised,” she said.
Dr Clark said they also had a lot of clients who had been unsuccessful at other clinics.
“About 40 per cent of people we see have been somewhere else first and about 40 per cent of our patients are aged 40 and above,” she said, adding they did a lot of cases where women used donor sperm.
Meanwhile in Victoria, Ballarat IVF was a good value option that recorded above-average success rates in both the younger and older categories.
Medical Director Russell Dalton said it was a huge challenge to deliver affordable, high-quality fertility care in a regional setting.
“We see ourselves as an integral part of the regional community, and do our best to make our service accessible to everyone in our area,” he said.
“Our staff work really hard and share our goals in service provision.
“Achieving great results starts in the planning and preparation for IVF, where factors which impact on success, such a endometriosis, fibroids and lifestyle are addressed before money starts flying out of people’s wallets for IVF.”
In South Australia, Flinders Fertility in Glenelg achieved a 26.2 per cent success rate among older women and only quoted $3704 for an IVF cycle.
Genea Fertility in Adelaide also only quoted $3938 and had a 53.3 per cent success rate in younger women and 27.6 per cent in the older group.
And in Queensland, Care Fertility at Greenslopes Private Hospital appeared to be a more affordable choice that had the fifth highest success rate nationally in over 35s and also performed well in the younger category.
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Low-cost provider Adora Fertility’s Sydney centre – which bulk bills – had a success rate of 51.4 per cent for younger women, which was also above the average.
It also met the national average for older women at 25 per cent.
National Medical Director Dr Paul Atkinson said they saved on costs by streamlining certain services, like texting instead of calling.
“A lot of the things behind-the-scenes that don’t impact patient quality care or success rates, we try as much as we can to streamline those processes and try to minimise overheads,” he said.
“It’s no criticism of other clinics but it’s a different business model if you need to have overheads going towards quite large PR and marketing campaigns and infrastructure costs (like offices).”
When asked why Adora’s success rates were below-average in other clinics such as the one in Melbourne, Dr Atkinson said it could depend on the patients coming through.
“There could be lots of reasons, it can be differences in patient populations because there’s different reasons for the cause of infertility,” he said.
Connect IVF in Sydney charges just $900 for IVF and performed above the average for under 35s, but only achieved a 16.6 per cent success rate in the 35 to 42 category.
Many additional charges are not included in fees listed by clinics such as the anaesthetist cost (up to $700), hospital day procedure fee ($1200 without private health insurance), medication ($200 to $400) and frozen embryo transfer (up to $2000), meaning the real price is much higher.
Medication for an elective egg freeze is also not factored and costs about $2000 as it is not covered under the PBS.
Meanwhile, some clinics leave out the egg collection charge, meaning quotes can be inconsistent and it’s important to ask what’s included.
Tim Yeoh, the CEO at IVF giant Genea, said their costs were on the higher side as they provided a more premium service.
“For us technology and outcomes is really important,” he said.
He said that they also had “a lot more humans” to support patients as it was a highly stressful and anxious time.
“I believe that there are benefits that outweigh the costs of a more corporatised model,” he said.
“We are able to invest in world-class technology and in terms of how things are provided it is also much easier to maintain results and consistency across the network.”
When asked about Genea Heidelberg in Melbourne, which had the lowest success rate in younger women, he said it was a newer clinic that started about five years ago and they got a lot of patients who were after a second opinion.
A Monash IVF spokeswoman meanwhile said: “Our pricing allows us to offer a superior patient experience with the best-in-class technology, science and clinical expertise, all of which are evidenced by our category leading success rates.”
However Michael Chapman, the medical director of smaller clinic Life Fertility in Sydney – which was still too new for success rates – said he didn’t think the corporatisation of the industry benefited patients.
“Having been doing IVF for 35 years and watching what’s happened to the industry I don’t think it’s been to the benefit of patients,” Professor Chapman said.
“The corporatisation is about making money for somebody else.
“When you run a big organisation that appears to need a huge marketing department with three or four layers of management it loses sight of the people.”
‘It wasn’t as fancy … but I didn’t feel like I was getting a budget service’
It was a conversation at the hairdressers that led to Cassandra van der Sanden choosing a cheaper IVF clinic – and now she has two boys.
Unable to conceive naturally, she and her tradie husband Joshua, who live in Bungendore near Canberra, had initially tried Intrauterine insemination (IUI) over 12 months with no luck.
“We had been seeing a fertility specialist in Canberra for both female and male infertility issues, we started in 2019 and had been going through the process for 12 months,” she said.
“I was coincidentally getting my hair done in Canberra and my hairdresser mentioned ‘you should try this place in Sydney’.”
That place was low-cost provider Adora Fertility’s Sydney clinic.
Ms van der Sanden, who was 32 at the time, ended up seeing Adora’s National Medical Director Dr Paul Atkinson.
“I thought it was a scam to start with, I was wondering why are they so cheap? Is this going to be the dodgy brothers IVF?” she said.
“The clinic was still nice, it wasn’t as fancy as the ones I’d been to in Canberra, but it was still nice and there was a 24-hour nurse line I could still text, although I didn’t need to.
“It’s a different service, but I didn’t feel like we were getting a budget service.”
At the end of 2020 she did her first round with Adora and had just one surviving embryo from 11 eggs collected, five of which were mature.
But it worked and she later gave birth to her first child, Lincoln.
“We were lucky he was our only embryo and he stuck and now he’s a wild three-and-a-half year old boy,” Ms van der Sanden said.
Less than a year later they did another round with Adora, getting 18 eggs, but sadly none made it to day five to become embryos.
She then went for a third round with Adora in June 2023.
This time they got seven embryos and then she fell pregnant from the first one with her youngest son Cooper.
“It was around $2800 in total for all three rounds, so substantially cheaper, I think one of the higher costs was for the anaesthetist in hospital,” Ms van der Sanden said.
Originally published as IVF and egg freezing prices in Australia: Full list of what each clinic charges in 2025
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