Here is a distinction that quietly causes most of the confusion about what biostasis costs: there are two completely different bills, and people mentally add them together when they should keep them apart. One is the large, one-time preservation fee paid at the end and usually covered by insurance. The other is the membership fee, and it is the small, recurring one this article is about.
Membership is not a down payment on your cryopreservation. It does not chip away at the 200,000 EUR. It buys something different and, in a sense, more important. It keeps the machine warm. When you need it, there is no delay between the moment of death and the start of the response.
What you are actually paying for
The membership fee keeps standby teams trained and available 24/7. It maintains the standby equipment and the vehicles, including the biostasis ambulance. It funds the organizational support that handles your contracts, your insurance paperwork, and the logistics that would otherwise fall on your family at the worst possible moment. And it grants you access to the lower, member preservation prices.
Put plainly, you are paying for readiness. A preserved person is the output of a race against cellular decay that begins the instant the heart stops, and a team that is already trained, equipped, and on call is what wins that race. The membership fee is the cost of never having to start from cold.
Three ways to pay it
The fee can be paid however suits your situation:
- Monthly: 50 EUR per month
- Yearly: 500 EUR per year
- Lifetime: 15,000 EUR, paid once
The yearly option shaves a little off the monthly rate; the lifetime option is for people who would rather not think about a recurring charge for the next several decades. None of them touches the preservation fee, which is funded separately, almost always through life insurance. There are also reduced rates for students and lower-income individuals, because the goal is to make this legible and reachable, not exclusive.
What happens if you are not a member
Non-members can still be cryopreserved. But no prior readiness is in place, so the fees at the time of death are substantially higher. Whole-body costs 230,000 EUR against the member price of 200,000 EUR. Brain-only costs 115,000 EUR against 75,000 EUR. That gap is not a loyalty penalty. It is the real extra cost of asking the system to mobilize for someone it was not already standing by for.
Membership is also low-commitment by design. You can cancel at any time, and all your coverage details and membership data are accessible through the Tomorrow.bio Member Zone. The arrangement is meant to earn its keep month by month, not trap you.
Membership does not pre-pay your preservation. It keeps a medical team ready for you, which is the one thing that cannot be bought after the fact.
If you are weighing whether the recurring cost is worth it, think of it this way. The preservation fee buys the procedure. The membership fee buys the readiness that makes the procedure any good. One without the other is half a plan.