Verified Oct 2026 · Bank · Email pay
Cryobio Sperm Donor Pay & Requirements
Commercial · FDA registered
At a glance
Where and travel
- Collection site: Columbus, OH — 4845 Knightsbridge Blvd, Suite 200, 43214 (email Oct 1 2026)
Pay
- Per donation: $85 per collection after acceptance
- Up to $115 per collection with baby and adult photo release opt-in
Requirements
- Age Between the ages of 18 and 39
- Height: Not published
- Education: Prior site: must have or be pursuing a college degree. Not restated in the Oct 1 2026 email
- Sexual partners: FDA-compliant; anonymous MSM excluded despite LGBTQ+ branding
- At least two days of abstinence from ejaculation for each collection (email Oct 1 2026). A prior page's five-day maximum was not restated
- Exclusivity: None published
Cadence
- Usually twice a week once accepted
Pay
- Advertised monthly max
- A monthly total is not published. Do not multiply the per-collection rate by visit cadence.
- Per donation
- $85 per collection after acceptance
- Walk-out pay
- No same-day amount published
- Six-month total
- Not publishedover six months
- Annual total
- Not publishedper year
- Referral
- Nonereferral bonus
- Exit bonus
- None
- Photo release
- Up to $115 per collection with baby and adult photo release opt-in
- Pay note
- Oct 1 2026 email from Info@cryobio.com (Colby Murphy). Base is $85 per collection. $115 is the baby + adult photo-release ceiling, labeled separately. Not a site-published monthly floor.
Compensation. Email-only pay. A monthly maximum is not published, and this figure is not a site-published monthly floor.
Where and when
Where
- Headquarters
- Columbus, OH
- Collection sites
- Columbus, OH — 4845 Knightsbridge Blvd, Suite 200, 43214 (email Oct 1 2026)
- Prior site
- Pittsburgh, PA — prior site; not reconfirmed in the Oct 1 2026 email
- Location note
- Wilmington, NC is a lab only, not donor collection. Pittsburgh stays as a prior-site collection city until contradicted.
Time
- Visits
- Usually twice a week once accepted
- Program length
- Not published in the Oct 1 2026 email. Prior site said about 6–9 months once accepted.
- Abstinence
- At least two days of abstinence from ejaculation for each collection (email Oct 1 2026). A prior page's five-day maximum was not restated.
- Lab hours
- Initial appointments Monday–Thursday 8:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. and Friday 8:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (email Oct 1 2026)
Do you qualify
Requirements
- Age
- Between the ages of 18 and 39
- Height
- Not published
- Also required
- Education: Prior site: must have or be pursuing a college degree. Not restated in the Oct 1 2026 email.
- Sexual partners: FDA-compliant; anonymous MSM excluded despite LGBTQ+ branding
- Acceptance rate: <1%
Acceptance rates are bank-claimed and typically count every web-form inquiry as an “applicant.” Treat them as marketing, not your real odds — the true denominator is never published.
How it works
Steps
- Screening
- Two unpaid freeze/thaw collections, then a genetic counselor, a physical, viral blood and urine, and a psych assessment
- Trial samples
- Yes — the first two freeze/thaw screening appointments are unpaid
- Trial samples
- The first two freeze/thaw screening appointments are unpaid. Later steps (genetic counselor, physical with the medical director, viral blood and urine, psych assessment) are paid; dollar amounts are not published.
Covered and limits
- Identity policy
- ID Release / ID Release Plus (Plus releases name, DOB, address, email, phone at 18)
- Family limit
- 25 family units + geographic restriction after 10 pregnancies in one location
- Parental rights
- Yes (standard anonymous donor contract)
- MSM policy
- LGBTQ+ branding is recipient-facing; as FDA-registered bank, anonymous MSM NOT accepted
- LGBTQ note
- "The LGBTQ+ community has always been a part of our family" — refers to recipients, not donor eligibility
- Partner network
- Pittsburgh Cryobank (MERGED), Wilmington Reproductive Labs (lab only), Canada Cryobank
- Phone
- 614-451-4375
- Info@cryobio.com
- Coordinator
- Colby Murphy, Communications Liaison (colby.murphy@cryobio.com)
- Exclusivity
- None published
Apply and contact
- Donor site
- becomingadonor.com
- Website
- cryobio.com
- Type
- Commercial
- FDA registered
- Yes
Frequently asked about Cryobio
How much do sperm donors make at Cryobio?
Cryobio pays $85. Per collection · up to $115 with baby + adult photo release. This is from the bank's Oct 1 2026 email, not a page on its site. A monthly maximum is not published, and the figure is not a site-published monthly floor.
What are the requirements to donate sperm at Cryobio?
Cryobio lists age as 18–39. The Oct 1 2026 email did not restate height, education, or citizenship.
Where can I donate sperm at Cryobio?
Cryobio has collection sites in Columbus, OH. Donation is in person, so proximity to a site is the real constraint.
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