Find a sperm bank near you and book your freeze online. Below is every bank you can book through Hera, by state, with each bank's own published fees where we have them: the freeze visit, yearly storage, and what's included. The physician order is included, so there's no consult appointment just to get one.
67 banks across 28 states, each with its own fees below. We add banks as we confirm their fee sheets and that they'll take an outside physician order.
*Infectious-disease bloodwork and/or a semen analysis may be required before freezing.
Across the 9 banks whose fee sheets we hold, the first year — one freeze visit plus twelve months of storage — runs from $250 to $1490, plus the $60 Hera fee. After that you pay storage only, which is typically a few hundred dollars a year. The spread is real: it depends on the bank, on whether storage is billed per year or per term, and on whether the freeze fee already includes a semen analysis and post-thaw check.
For the full breakdown of freeze, storage, bloodwork and thaw fees, see our sperm freezing cost guide.
Choose a location below. A licensed physician on Hera's clinical team reviews and signs the order the bank needs, which is what usually forces a separate consult appointment elsewhere.
Your bank's screening panel has to be on file before or around your first freeze visit. Most banks accept recent outside results — if you've had the panel done lately, say so and you may not need it repeated.
Abstain from ejaculation for 2 to 5 days, produce the sample in a private room at the bank, and they handle evaluation, processing and freezing. If you want more than one sample banked, space the visits a few days apart.
Your vials stay frozen at the bank and you're billed for storage on the bank's cycle. Sperm frozen properly stays viable for decades — there's no shelf life you need to plan around.
Sperm banking is concentrated in a handful of cities, and we're adding banks as we confirm their fees and that they accept an outside physician order. Tell us where you are and we'll work on your area — and if you're freezing ahead of cancer treatment or surgery and need something fast, contact us directly and we'll help you find a bank that can take you this week.
Expect two costs: a freeze visit and ongoing storage. Across the 9 banks whose fee sheets we hold, the first year — one freeze plus twelve months of storage — runs from $250 to $1490, plus a $60 Hera fee for the physician order. After year one you pay storage only. Each bank's own figures are listed above, because the range between them is wide enough that an average would mislead you.
Decades. Sperm stored in liquid nitrogen at -196°C is biologically static, and there are healthy births from samples frozen more than twenty years earlier. Practically, the limit is how long you keep paying storage, not how long the sample lasts.
Most banks require a physician order, which is the usual reason men are told to book a consult first. Hera includes one: a licensed physician on our clinical team reviews and signs the order after you book, for a $60 fee.
Infectious-disease screening — typically HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis, with some banks adding HTLV, chlamydia and gonorrhea. Banks require it before they'll store a sample. It's billed separately from the freeze fee, and most banks accept recent results from another lab.
It depends on what the sample looks like and what you might use it for. One good sample can be enough for IUI attempts; IVF or ICSI needs less. Many men bank two or three across separate visits so there's a margin. Your semen analysis at the first visit is what makes that call answerable.
Some sperm don't survive thawing — that's normal and expected, and it's why the bank runs a post-thaw analysis to check how your sample handles it. The surviving sperm are not damaged by having been frozen, and frozen sperm has been used successfully in fertility treatment for over fifty years.
Chemotherapy and radiation can reduce or end sperm production, sometimes permanently, so banking before treatment starts is standard advice from oncology and reproductive medicine bodies. It's time-sensitive: if this is your situation, contact us directly rather than booking online and we'll help you get in quickly.
Usually not for elective banking, though the bloodwork often is, and some plans cover fertility preservation before medically necessary treatment such as cancer therapy. The fees on this page are cash-pay prices, which is what you'd pay without insurance.
Four things: how many of your sperm survive thawing (most banks run a post-thaw check and will tell you), how the storage tanks are monitored and what happens if one fails, exactly what the freeze fee includes, and how storage is billed and renewed. Get the fees in writing so there are no surprises in year two.
The samples stay frozen as long as storage is paid. If you stop paying or no longer want them, the bank asks for written instructions: most men have them discarded, and some banks accept samples for research. Using your sample for anyone other than you and your partner is a separate process with its own donor testing, so ask the bank first.
No. You produce the sample by masturbation in a private room at the bank. The only needle involved is the routine blood draw for the infectious-disease screening.
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