IVF Success Rates by Clinic

Success rate is the first number most people look at when choosing a clinic. It is also the one most likely to mislead them.

Age accounts for most of the variation you will see between clinics. Clinic quality accounts for some. Patient selection and counting methods account for more than anyone advertises. A clinic that treats complex cases, or one that supports patients banking embryos across back-to-back cycles, can post a lower published rate while delivering excellent care.

Here is how to read the numbers, where to find them for any US clinic, and what else belongs in the comparison.

Where to Find Success Rates for Any Clinic

Every US fertility clinic reports its outcomes to SART, and those reports are public. You can look up any clinic by name through SART's clinic search. The most recent complete year is 2023, and published clinic data always trails by a year or two.

Sunfish partner clinics publish their own reports the same way. If you want the figures for a specific clinic in the Sunfish network, the clinic's own page is the source to use: it will be current, and it will carry the context the clinic wants alongside the numbers. You can browse the network through our preferred provider network.

What the Published Rate Leaves Out

Who the clinic treats. A clinic that accepts patients with a complex diagnosis, low ovarian reserve, or prior unsuccessful cycles will report lower numbers than one with tight acceptance criteria. The second clinic is not necessarily better; it is treating an easier population.

How the outcome is counted. SART reports per transfer and per intended retrieval. If you know in advance that you will need more than one cycle, or you are banking embryos across cycles before transferring, per-cycle figures will understate what a clinic can do for you.

How many attempts it assumes. A 60% rate also means four retrievals in ten are unsuccessful. Patients with three chromosomally normal embryos have about a 95% chance of pregnancy across up to three single embryo transfers, per RMA research, so a single-cycle number was never the whole picture.

What it costs to get there. The HHS fact sheet on IVF use across the United States (March 2024) puts a single IVF cycle at $15,000 to $20,000, and most specialists plan for two to three rounds. Clinics bill each frozen embryo transfer separately. Our breakdown of the true cost of IVF shows where the money goes.

What to Compare Instead

Rather than ranking clinics by headline rate, weigh these together:

• Age-matched results over three years. One year at one clinic is a small sample. Three years in your own age band is a more honest signal than any ranking.
• Single embryo transfer rate. A high single embryo transfer rate suggests confidence in embryo quality and a lower-risk approach to multiples.
• Cycle volume. A clinic at or above the national rate for your age, with reasonable volume behind it, is doing well. A high rate on very few cycles tells you little.
• Lab standards and physician experience. Less visible than a percentage, and often more predictive of your result.
• What happens after attempt one. Ask what a second and third transfer would cost you at that clinic, because that is the number most people actually end up paying.

How Sunfish Can Help

Sunfish is a family-building platform whose IVF and egg freezing Success Programs combine an all-inclusive treatment package at a partner fertility clinic with a personal Planning Partner and member support that runs from planning through pregnancy.

When Sunfish evaluates a clinic for the network, it looks at IVF success rates, single embryo transfer rates, lab standards, and physician experience. Sunfish's medical advisory board is six double board certified reproductive endocrinologists, including Dr. Andy Huang, Dr. Amber Cooper at Kindbody, and Dr. Mark Leondires at Illume, with credentials listed on the medical advisors page.

Because the published rate assumes one attempt, the Sunfish IVF Success Program includes all single embryo transfers of your eligible embryos at one fixed price for up to a year. Membership runs until a year passes or all eligible embryos have been transferred, whichever comes first. There are no hidden costs, and a guaranteed refund of up to $15,000 applies if Sunfish's cost prediction proves inaccurate.¹

Sunfish forecasts a patient's cost of reaching a live birth through IVF with a predictive model that reads age, AMH, BMI, and prior cycle history from a partner clinic evaluation. The standard package price is the same for every patient; the forecast determines the refund available under the Gold package if it proves inaccurate. Model your own cost with the IVF cost calculator, or see local pricing for Seattle, Connecticut, and Charlotte.

Sunfish collaborates with a member's fertility clinic to support their care rather than replace it, and the member and their doctor make every medical decision. If your clinic is not in the network, fill out a short intake form and our team will reach out.

FAQ

What counts as a good clinic success rate?

Measure it against the national rate for your age. Under 35 with your own eggs, national is 49.7% per intended retrieval. A clinic at or above that for your age band, with reasonable cycle volume, is doing well.

Which clinic has the highest IVF success rate?

The highest published numbers usually belong to clinics with the tightest patient criteria or the biggest donor programs. An age-matched comparison across three years will tell you more than any ranking.

Where can I see success rates for a specific clinic?

Look the clinic up directly through SART's clinic search, or visit the clinic's own page. Both will be more current and more complete than any third-party summary.

How current is this data?

These are 2023 final reports, the most recent complete year. Published clinic data always trails by a year or two.

Will a high-performing clinic accept me?

Possibly. Some clinics and most IVF refund programs screen on age, ovarian reserve, or diagnosis. Sunfish accepts patients into its IVF Success Program at 100% eligibility, with no exclusions on age, diagnosis, or insurance, where many IVF programs screen applicants out by age or health data.

Do donor eggs change the numbers?

Considerably. Donor egg and donor embryo cycles run 42.2% to 52.0% per transfer across all recipient ages, per CDC ART national summary data. Sunfish supports donor pathways and prices donor costs into your package.

¹ As part of the Sunfish IVF Success Program, Sunfish provides a Custom Financial Plan using Sunfish's proprietary software that calculates the expected financial costs for each family to achieve a Live Birth based on a range of factors. If you fail to achieve a Live Birth within your custom financial plan budget and there are unexpected financial costs that were not accurately predicted by the Financial Planning Tool, our software Warranty may entitle you to receive a partial refund of your treatment package costs. Additional costs may be incurred outside of the Treatment Package Costs. See our Sunfish IVF Success Program Agreement for conditions and details.