TREATMENT / ABROAD GUIDE BD
What a cycle involves, which destinations publish a price you can act on, and how to read a clinic offer without mistaking a co-funding cap for a price.
Reviewed by our clinical review panel · Cost data checked 20 October 2026 · Sources linked on the cost file
IVF — in vitro fertilisation — is a laboratory treatment for infertility. Eggs are collected from the ovaries, fertilised outside the body, and one embryo is placed in the uterus. The single word covers a family of techniques, and what a clinic charges for a “cycle” depends on which of them a case actually needs.
A standard fresh cycle runs in stages. Stimulation uses daily hormone injections for eight to twelve days, with scans and blood tests every few days. A trigger injection then matures the eggs and fixes collection 34 to 36 hours later. Collection is short and done under sedation: a needle guided by ultrasound passes through the vaginal wall and aspirates the follicles. Eggs are fertilised the same day — mixed with sperm, or injected one sperm per egg (ICSI) where sperm quality is poor. Embryos are cultured for three to five days, one is transferred through a fine catheter, and progesterone support follows for two weeks before a pregnancy test.
The variations are where quotes stop being comparable. A frozen transfer uses stored embryos and skips stimulation and collection entirely. Genetic testing of embryos (PGT) is priced per embryo and sits in no headline cycle price we have read. A quote that does not say which of these it describes is not yet a number you can compare.
IVF is usually reached after simpler treatment rather than first. The situations in which it is considered include:
Which of these applies is a judgement made from a fertility workup — hormone tests, an ovarian reserve count, a semen analysis and often an assessment of the tubes. This page cannot make it, and nothing here is a diagnosis. A clinic abroad will usually repeat part of the workup before quoting, because the protocol depends on the result.
IVF is priced in almost every destination, and almost none of it is published in a form a patient can compare. The table gives the published position as filed, in the currency the provider prints.
Destination
Published guide
What the figure covers
India
Published guide
From ₹1,00,000 for a basic cycle; from ₹1,80,000 for IVF/ICSI ≈ ৳1,30,150–2,34,270
What the figure covers
Indira IVF published “starts from” prices. Pre-cycle tests are published separately at ₹15,000–35,000 and sit outside the figure. Excludes medication beyond the protocol, frozen transfer and PGT.
Thailand
Published guide
Quoted per case
What the figure covers
Bumrungrad publishes a THB 103,200 fresh-cycle package, but its printed exclusions remove the embryo transfer, the IVF laboratory and the obstetrician fee. A partial-cycle price, so not shown as a cycle price here.
Malaysia
Published guide
Quoted per case
What the figure covers
KL Fertility’s RM18,188 package excludes the transfer; Alpha IVF’s RM33,888 is for local patients only. Neither is usable end to end for a Bangladeshi patient.
Turkey
Published guide
Quoted per case
What the figure covers
Acibadem publishes a guide titled “How much does IVF cost in Turkey?” containing no figure, and its 75-procedure index has no IVF line.
Singapore
Published guide
Quoted per case
What the figure covers
MOH publishes co-funding caps for citizen couples, not prices, and IVF is not in the bill-size dataset. A Bangladeshi patient pays the unsubsidised rate, which is not published. A cap has not been used as a price here.
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
Published guide
Quoted per case
What the figure covers
No private provider in either country publishes an IVF cycle price.
India is the only destination where a provider prints a number covering a whole cycle. Everywhere else the answer is a written quote, because published packages leave out the transfer, the lab or the eligibility. BDT equivalents use the dataset rate of 19 October 2026.
We name a hospital on a treatment page only where our own filed record lists that specialty. For IVF, exactly one hospital in the directory does.
The only hospital in our filed directory whose specialty list names IVF directly. JCI-accredited (IHCO 60008886); the international desk number is published on the hospital site.
Hospital websiteFertility units in Bangkok, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore publish IVF prices, but none of the hospitals we have filed lists IVF as a specialty, so none is named here. That is a gap in our data, not a judgement about those hospitals.
Browse the directorySend the fertility workup and we approach two or three clinics in the destinations that fit the budget, then bring back written cycle prices with inclusions spelled out line by line.
Request a shortlistWhat follows is a typical fresh cycle as clinics describe it. Dates shift with response to stimulation, and a cancelled cycle stops the sequence early.
Two consequences follow. The calendar is set by the body, not a flight schedule, so a package that fixes dates before stimulation has started is fixing something it does not control. And part of the monitoring can often be done in Dhaka, with results sent to the treating clinic — but that takes written agreement from both clinics, and not every clinic accepts shared care.
IVF is common but not minor; the risks divide into those of the drugs, the procedures and the outcome.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome is the most discussed drug risk: ovaries over-respond, fluid shifts into the abdomen and chest, and in a small proportion of cases the cycle is abandoned and the patient admitted. Clinics stratify that risk before stimulation, which is one reason a clinic wants your own workup rather than a summary. Collection carries small risks of bleeding, infection or injury to structures beside the ovary, and a small risk that no eggs are retrieved. Transfer is the least eventful step, though cramping and spotting are common.
Outcome risks are hardest to price. A cycle can end with no embryo to transfer. Two embryos transferred can mean a twin pregnancy and its additional maternal and neonatal risks. An embryo can implant outside the uterus, and a cycle that produces embryos can still not produce a pregnancy — which is why the number of cycles, not the price of one, governs the budget.
Before you compare prices, compare the failure terms. Ask what happens if the cycle is cancelled before collection, if no embryo is suitable for transfer, and whether any fee is refunded or carried forward. Those three answers change the real cost more than a few hundred dollars of headline difference.
Five questions that come up before a first consultation.
How long do I need to stay in the destination?
Two trips, or one long stay: the first for consultation, baseline scan and the start of stimulation, the second for collection and, three to five days later, transfer. A single stay for the whole sequence usually runs four to six weeks, because the calendar follows the response to stimulation. Get dates in writing before booking flights.
What is the live birth rate, and why does the denominator matter?
A live-birth rate only means something with a denominator and an age band. In the UK, where every licensed clinic reports, the regulator puts live birth per fresh embryo transfer at 35% for women aged 18–34, falling in older bands (HFEA, fertility treatment 2023: trends and figures, checked 22 October 2026). That is a national figure across all clinics — not a prediction for you, and not the record of any single centre, whose own rate may be higher or lower.It is also why the denominator has to travel with the number. Per cycle started, per egg collection, per transfer and per patient are four different figures for the same treatment, and comparing a per-cycle rate with a per-transfer rate misleads. Ask a shortlisted clinic for its own rate, with the denominator, the age band and the year.
Can I have the monitoring done in Dhaka?
Often, if both clinics agree in advance: scans and bloods in Dhaka, results sent on, dose adjusted remotely. It is shared care, and the treating clinic must accept it in writing — some refuse to adjust a protocol on results they did not produce.
What does a second cycle cost if the first fails?
Usually close to the price of the first, because drugs, laboratory work and the procedure repeat. The exception is a frozen transfer, which uses stored embryos, skips collection and is priced far lower wherever both are published. Ask for a fresh cycle, a frozen transfer and a year of storage as separate lines.
Singapore is expensive — why is there no number for it?
Because Singapore publishes co-funding, not prices. MOH caps what it will co-fund for citizen couples and permits MediSave withdrawals, and none of that is what a hospital bills. A Bangladeshi patient pays the unsubsidised rate, which we have not located published anywhere. The cell reads quoted per case because that is the honest answer.
Send the fertility workup and the destinations you are considering. We come back with written cycle prices, what each includes, and what each clinic does if the cycle is cancelled.
Request a written quoteNo name or number is needed to send reports.
