How many eggs do you
actually need to freeze?
Egg freezing is sold on hope and priced on hope. This planner runs on numbers instead. Tell it your age and, if you know it, your AMH - it will show what one round is likely to collect, how many rounds it would take to reach a realistic chance of a baby, and what the whole thing costs.
The short answer
Freezing 15 to 20 mature eggs before the age of 35 gives most people a roughly 75 to 85 percent chance of at least one live birth from them later. The same chance at 38 to 40 takes about 25 to 30 eggs, which usually means two or three rounds. One round in Delhi NCR collects 12 to 17 mature eggs in the early thirties and costs ₹1,29,000 to ₹2,35,000 including medication and the first year of storage.
- Best age to freeze
- Before 35. Every year after that costs you both count and quality
- Biggest single cost
- Stimulation medication, ₹55,000 to ₹1,10,000 per round
- Time it takes
- About two weeks from cycle start to retrieval, one day off work
- What it is not
- A guarantee. It preserves an option, it does not buy an outcome
Build your plan
Three questions. Everything runs in your browser - nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is stored.
Age at freezing is what the odds hang on, not the age you use them.
Each additional child needs roughly 1.7× the eggs, not 2× - the odds compound.
AMH ng/mL, from a blood test. It predicts how many eggs a round yields. Age predicts quality.
Curve for your age band, from published age-stratified data. An estimate for counselling - not a prediction of your result.
These are population estimates, not your result. Yield figures are averages for a doctor-led clinic and the live-birth curve comes from published age-stratified data used in fertility counselling. Your own AMH, antral follicle count and medical history move both. Nothing on this page is a guarantee of a pregnancy.
Two weeks, start to finish
One round of egg freezing from the first consultation to eggs in storage. Most of it fits around a working life.
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Day 0
Consultation and testing
AMH bloods and an antral follicle scan tell us what your ovaries are likely to give. You leave knowing your own numbers, not an average.
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Day 1 to 2
Cycle start
We start on day two of a period. If the timing does not suit your life, we wait for the next one - nothing here is urgent to the day.
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Day 2 to 11
Stimulation injections
Ten or so days of injections you give yourself at home, most people in the evening. You keep working throughout.
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Day 5 to 11
Monitoring
Three to five short scans plus blood tests, so the dose is adjusted to your response rather than a protocol on paper.
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Day 11 to 12
Trigger injection
A single timed injection, exactly 35 to 36 hours before retrieval. This is the one appointment the clock actually matters for.
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Day 13 to 14
Egg retrieval
Twenty minutes under light sedation. You go home the same day and most people are back to normal within 24 to 48 hours.
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Same day
Vitrification
Mature eggs are flash-frozen within hours of collection. We tell you how many were mature, not just how many were collected.
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Onward
Storage
Eggs are held in liquid nitrogen. Quality does not decline with time in storage - the age they were frozen at is the age that counts.
What the numbers actually say
Chance of at least one live birth from eggs frozen at each age. Read down your age band, across to the number you could realistically bank.
| Age at freezing | 5 eggs | 10 eggs | 15 eggs | 20 eggs | 25 eggs | 30 eggs |
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| Under 35 | 30% | 60% | 75% | 85% | 90% | 94% |
| 35 to 37 | 23% | 48% | 63% | 73% | 80% | 85% |
| 38 to 40 | 13% | 30% | 42% | 52% | 60% | 66% |
| 41 to 42 | 7% | 17% | 25% | 31% | 37% | 42% |
| 43 and over | 3% | 8% | 12% | 16% | 19% | 22% |
Modelled on the age-stratified live-birth nomogram used in egg-freezing counselling: Goldman et al., Human Reproduction (2017). Figures are for mature eggs, which is fewer than the number collected. Reviewed August 2026.
What one round is likely to collect
Mature eggs per retrieval. The bar is the range; where you fall inside it is decided by your AMH and antral follicle count, not your birthday alone.
Who this is genuinely for
And who it is not. If freezing will not change your odds, we will say so rather than sell you a cycle.
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Not ready yet
You want children but not now - career, study, a move, or simply not having met the right person.
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Before medical treatment
Chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery that will affect the ovaries. Here timing is genuinely urgent and we prioritise it.
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Low ovarian reserve
A low AMH or a family history of early menopause. Freezing sooner rather than later changes the arithmetic more than anything else.
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Endometriosis or surgery
Conditions or operations that may reduce reserve, where banking before the next procedure is worth discussing.
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Before gender transition
Preserving fertility ahead of hormone therapy or surgery.
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Planning a second child
You have one child and want to protect the option of another without being rushed by age.
Every line, including the ones quotes leave out
Indicative Delhi NCR ranges, reviewed August 2026. Storage and later use are separate from the round itself, which is where most surprises come from.
- Consultation, AMH and antral follicle scanOnce, before you decide ₹4,000 - ₹9,000
- Ovarian stimulation medicationEvery round ₹55,000 - ₹1,10,000
- Monitoring scans and hormone bloodsEvery round ₹10,000 - ₹18,000
- Egg retrieval, anaesthesia and day careEvery round ₹38,000 - ₹60,000
- Vitrification and first year of storageEvery round ₹22,000 - ₹38,000
- Storage, each year after the firstEvery year ₹12,000 - ₹20,000
- Later: warming, ICSI, culture and transferOnly when you use them ₹95,000 - ₹1,50,000
- One complete roundConsultation, medication, monitoring, retrieval, freezing and year one of storage ₹1,29,000 - ₹2,35,000
Questions people ask before they book
Answered the way we would answer them in the room.
A planner works on averages. You are not one.
An AMH test and an antral follicle scan replace every estimate on this page with your own numbers. Dr. Kavita Manchanda will go through them with you and tell you plainly whether freezing is worth it in your case.