Agency quote comparison
What you do here: type the amounts from your quote into nine fixed cost lines and see what each total still leaves out.
Two quotes differ less because one agency is cheaper than because one counts things the other left out. Start with the quote you have.
Nothing here is collected: no account, no upload, and nothing kept after this tab closes. The download saves the table as a file you can keep; that file is the only copy.
One currency for every quote. Convert a quote stated in another before you enter it, so the totals stay comparable.
Type an amount and that line counts as included in the total. Choose Not included where the quote excludes a line. Leave the amount blank where the quote does not mention it.
Quote A
0 of 9 filledQuote B
0 of 9 filledDifference between the two totals so far
A gap between two totals is not a cost difference until the scope matches. Check what each quote includes, what it excludes, when payments fall due and what happens on a refund, then compare again.
These nine lines cover what a quote usually names, not everything a program costs.
How to use it
- Fill against the document in front of you, one line at a time, rather than against the package total the agency named.
- Read a blank as "this quote did not name the line", not as "this line costs nothing".
- Add the second quote when it arrives; taking it away again leaves the first one untouched.
- Download the table and bring it to the agency. The lines still blank are the questions to ask.
What this tool will not do
- It does not judge whether a price is fair. That depends on the services behind it and the market it sits in.
- It does not read the contract for you. "Included" covers different scopes at different firms, which is what the downloaded table is for.
- It records only what a quote puts in writing. A figure you were told on a call has no place in this table until the document states it.
What usually sits outside the nine lines
A total can be complete on its own terms and still not be a budget. These are the costs that most often fall outside a package price, and each one has a payee you can name.
- 01
Medical scope that follows the treatment: a second transfer, donor eggs or sperm, pharmacy and monitoring, a repeated screening, prenatal care, delivery and neonatal care are often billed as they occur or by another provider.
- 02
Legal and administrative work: independent counsel for the carrier, court and filing costs, escrow administration, registration, translation and apostille each have their own payee.
- 03
Travel and reimbursable expenses: trips, length of stay, the carrier's reimbursable expenses and the receipts behind them sit outside a program fee, and in some countries a court must authorise anything beyond those expenses.
Reading a quote is one part of the decision
The cost guide explains what normally sits inside a surrogacy budget and what is commonly excluded from it.