What IVF costs in Georgia
Most Tbilisi clinics quote after a consultation rather than publishing rates, so usable numbers are thin. European Fertility Clinic is one of the few with a public price list, showing a stimulated IVF cycle from 6,700 GEL and a first reproductive consultation at 150 GEL. Across the wider market a standard IVF or ICSI cycle generally lands between 6,500 and 12,000 GEL before drugs, with stimulation medication commonly adding 1,500 to 4,000 GEL depending on protocol and dose.
Donor egg programmes are sold as packages and typically fall between 5,500 and 14,000 USD. Surrogacy arrangements sit well above that, usually 25,000 to 50,000 USD across the whole programme. These are bands, not quotes.
Four things get left out of headline prices more often than anything else: medication, genetic testing charged per embryo, freezing and annual storage, and the frozen transfer cycle itself. Ask for all four in writing, in a single currency, before you commit to travel.
How to choose
Match the clinic to the programme you actually need
A clinic that is well set up for standard IVF is not automatically set up for donor cycles or surrogacy, which bring legal work, matching and timelines measured in months. Ask how many of your specific programme type they run in a year.
Check who does the laboratory work
The embryology lab is where most of the technical difference sits, and it is the part patients see least. Some Tbilisi clinics name their lab lead and their accrediting body. Innova In Vitro names AACI accreditation and an IVI-linked embryology head. ReproART names ESHRE and ASRM memberships for its founding clinicians. Named and checkable beats general reassurance.
Confirm the language chain goes all the way down
Ask which language your consent forms, protocol instructions and embryology reports will be issued in, not just which language the sales conversation happens in.
Take the legal position to a Georgian lawyer, not the clinic
Donation and gestational surrogacy have been permitted under Georgian law for years, and a proposed restriction on surrogacy for foreign patients has been debated since 2023 without passing. Confirm the current position independently before you pay, and again before transfer.
Red flags
- A single headline success rate with no age band, no denominator and no definition of what was counted.
- Guarantee or refund packages that are vague about exactly what triggers the refund.
- Refusal to put the full cost breakdown in writing before you travel.
- No named embryologist or laboratory director anywhere on the site.
- Pressure to decide on the first call, or a discount that expires.
- An intermediary agency that will not name the clinic actually performing the treatment.
When paying for a full programme is not the first step
If you have been trying for under a year and are under 35, the usual clinical sequence is investigation before treatment. A baseline workup of hormone panels, semen analysis and an ultrasound costs a small fraction of a cycle and regularly changes the plan. Most clinics on this list will run that testing without committing you to a programme, and InVitro Life and Chachava both keep the diagnostics in the same building.
Commit to the full programme once you have a diagnosis, a written protocol and, if the first plan surprised you, a second opinion. For anyone flying in, one extra consultation is cheap against a wasted cycle.
Nothing here is medical advice. Treatment decisions belong with a doctor who has seen your results.
