Overview
Financing is available on every Elithair booking through Doctours — the balance splits into monthly payments through our lending partners, for terms up to 36 months.
Elithair's all-inclusive Standard package is $3,799 with a flat $500 deposit and covers up to 2,000 grafts; additional grafts are $100 per 500, so your real total depends on your recommended graft count.
On a 36-month plan, the base package runs about $92 per month before interest — roughly $94 at 2,500 grafts, $97 at 3,000, and $100 at 3,500 once the per-graft add-on is included.
Every deposit and monthly installment runs through Doctours in US dollars on a US-domiciled checkout — no foreign wire transfers, no currency conversion margin, and no markup added for using a payment plan.
APR runs from 0% to 35.99%, set by our lending partners, not Doctours; the plan only needs to be live seven days before surgery, and you do not need to finish paying before flying to Istanbul.
You've priced it out already. You've read the Elithair page, looked at the $3,799 Standard package, maybe even started pricing flights to Istanbul. On paper it finally looks doable — a fraction of what the same work runs back home. What's still nagging at you isn't whether to do it — it's whether you pay in one check or spread it across a year, and, quieter than that, whether $3,799 is even your number. Am I financing the right figure? Fair question — it's the one this page is built around. Here's the honest version up front: $3,799 buys 2,000 grafts. At a Norwood 4 or 5 you'll likely need more, and your real total climbs before you ever open a payment plan. We'll show you how to land on that number, cap and all, before you sign a thing.
Elithair is one of the largest hair transplant providers in the world, founded in 2013 by Dr. Abdulaziz Balwi and run out of a roughly 18,000-square-meter flagship in Kağıthane, Istanbul. That scale is part of why the all-in price lands where it does. But scale doesn't finance the procedure — that layer arrives somewhere else. If you haven't yet, start with Hair Transplant Financing: Get the Look You Want, Now, the flagship guide that explains how the monthly plan actually works across the network. This page specializes it for Elithair.
Does Elithair Offer Hair Transplant Financing Directly?
Financing is available on every Elithair booking — it's simply arranged through Doctours rather than billed by the clinic. Elithair publishes a package: a $500 deposit to hold your date, then the balance settled before you're in the chair. That's the clinic side — the all-inclusive price, the deposit, the graft cap, and the line items the clinic bundles in. Doctours handles the monthly-payment piece: once the deposit clears, the remaining balance can split into monthly payments through our lending partners for terms up to 36 months.
Through Doctours, an Elithair booking becomes a partnership between the clinic and the platform — Elithair delivers the procedure and inclusions; Doctours coordinates the deposit and arranges the monthly plan. Elithair is one of Doctours' Istanbul partners alongside Heva Clinic, MetropolMED, and BlueMagic Group Clinic. The financing terms are identical across the network — choosing Elithair doesn't change the plan, just the package price you're spreading. Elithair operates under an International Health Tourism authorization (AK-1270) and a TÜRSAB travel-agency certification (13950).
How Does Elithair Financing Work Through Doctours?
Start to finish, the money never leaves the US banking system. You choose the Elithair package, put down the $500 deposit through Doctours to reserve your surgery date, then apply for a monthly payment plan through our lending partners on the remaining balance. Our lending partners approve eligible applicants in minutes — within that window you'll know whether you qualify, your rate, and your monthly payment.
Everything runs in dollars on US-domiciled checkout. No lira, no international wire, no envelope of cash to carry through customs at Istanbul Airport. Your monthly installment plan stays on the same checkout you used for the deposit, and you're not paying a premium to spread it out — the financed price is the same fair price you'd pay in one shot.
There's one deadline that genuinely matters: your plan has to be live at least seven days before your surgery date. You won't have paid it off by the time you board — and you don't have to. The operation goes ahead on schedule while the installments keep running behind it.
How Much Does a Monthly Elithair Hair Transplant Payment Cost?
Real numbers help more than ranges. Every Elithair package is reserved with the same $500 deposit; the all-in price for the Standard package is $3,799. The table shows the balance after that deposit split across each term.
Elithair Package | Pay in 4 | Monthly (12 mo)* | Monthly (24 mo)* | Monthly (36 mo)* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Standard (up to 2,000 grafts) | ~$825 | ~$275 | ~$137 | ~$92 |
*Pay in 4 and monthly estimates reflect the remaining balance ($3,299) divided evenly across four payments or each term, before any fees or interest from our lending partners.
Put simply, the all-inclusive Standard package lands near $92 a month on a 36-month plan once the $500 deposit is in. By way of comparison, the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery pegs a US transplant at $10,000 to $15,000 for the operation by itself — flights, hotel, and a year of follow-ups all still on your own tab. Setting $92 a month on an all-in Turkey package next to that is barely the same conversation, and the Turkey vs United States hair transplant cost comparison breaks down exactly where the gap comes from.
What Does the 2,000-Graft Cap Actually Mean for Your Payment?
Here's the part most quotes skip — and the part that matters most before you finance anything. The Elithair Standard package is capped at 2,000 grafts. Additional grafts are $100 per 500 grafts. That cap is honest and easy to plan around, but only if you do the math before you lock a plan, not after. Two thousand grafts suits earlier-stage hair loss well; if your case needs more, your real number is higher than the $3,799 headline, and financing the sticker instead of your actual total is exactly the trap the Doctours financing guide exists to prevent.
Here's how it works. A patient who needs 3,000 grafts is 1,000 grafts over the cap. That's two blocks of 500 at $100 each — $200 added — taking the total to $3,999. After the $500 deposit, that's $3,499 financed, or about $97 per month on 36 months instead of $92. Small on paper, but it's your number, not the brochure's. The table below runs the common graft counts so you can find yours before you apply.
Graft Count | Add-On Grafts | Added Cost | Total Price | Monthly (36 mo)* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2,000 (package cap) | 0 | $0 | $3,799 | ~$92 |
2,500 | 500 | +$100 | $3,899 | ~$94 |
3,000 | 1,000 | +$200 | $3,999 | ~$97 |
3,500 | 1,500 | +$300 | $4,099 | ~$100 |
*Total price is the $3,799 package plus $100 per additional 500 grafts. Monthly reflects total price minus the $500 deposit, divided across 36 months, before any interest from our lending partners. Your recommended graft count comes from your consultation — the Doctours intake confirms it before you finance.
What's Included in a Financed Elithair Package?
Spreading the payment out only helps if what you're paying for is the whole trip, not just the time in the chair. The Elithair Standard package quoted through Doctours bundles the procedure using the clinic's NEO FUE® and SDHI techniques, round-trip airport and clinic transfers, an interpreter, two hotel nights, sedation, a camera-based hair-loss analysis, post-op medication and a head wash, a safety head band, an aftercare kit, and twelve months of follow-up care; PRP and SMP are also among the techniques Elithair offers.
One inclusion worth calling out: sedation is bundled here by default. At a number of network clinics sedation is a paid add-on, so when you compare monthly numbers across Istanbul partners like Heva Clinic or MetropolMED, compare sedation-in to sedation-in. The one variable left for you to price is grafts.
How Does Financing an Elithair Package Compare to a US Hair Transplant Loan?
US clinics do finance procedures, usually through outside lenders. The machinery is identical — a credit check, a set number of months, a fixed payment — but the size of the loan is where the two roads split.
Put a $12,000 US procedure on a 36-month loan at, say, 12% APR and you're looking at roughly $399 a month with about $2,350 in interest riding along. The same 36 months on a $3,799 all-in Elithair package sits near $92 on principal — and even loaded up to 3,500 grafts, only around $100. That isn't the same purchase on gentler terms; it's a far smaller monthly obligation from the outset. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suggests weighing total repayment rather than the monthly figure when you size up any loan — and by that measure, the interest alone on the US plan can rival the entire Elithair package price. How the Doctours pricing model works explains why nothing is stacked on top of the clinic's number.
How Do You Get Pre-Approved Before Booking Elithair?
The quickest way to find out whether an Elithair plan actually fits is to get pre-approved through our lending partners before you settle on dates. Approval spells out your term, rate, and total repayment on the package — and graft count — you're weighing. The rate varies: APR runs from 0% to 35.99%, set by our lending partners from your profile, not by Doctours. Because the right lender depends on where you live, ask your Doctours patient coordinator to identify the local partner lender for your region and start the pre-approval. Pre-approval isn't a commitment; you're free to change your mind once the numbers are in front of you.
The obvious first step is a free Doctours assessment. It pins down your recommended graft count — the single biggest lever on your Elithair number, given the 2,000-graft cap — matches you with all-in pricing, and shows which monthly payment fits your year. For how Elithair stacks up against the other Istanbul partners, a side-by-side look at Turkey hair transplant financing options covers it.
What Should You Confirm Before Locking In Elithair Financing?
The right plan buys you room to breathe; it shouldn't curdle into a line item you're quietly resenting by month three. Get these pinned down in writing before you commit.
Your real graft count. The package covers 2,000 grafts; anything above adds $100 per 500. Confirm your recommended count at consultation and finance the total, not the $3,799 headline.
Total repayment, not just the monthly. Our lending partners publish the APR and full repayment across the term once you're approved. A slim monthly can sit on top of a total that dwarfs the sticker — and then the figure that sold you wasn't the figure you were shopping for.
Prepayment terms. Our lending partners generally allow early payoff without penalty, but confirm it on your specific plan.
Cancellation and rescheduling. Through Doctours, the US-based care team handles refund and rescheduling conversations with Elithair directly — so you're not untangling it with an Istanbul clinic and a lender at once.
The currency and payment channel. Both the deposit and every installment clear in dollars through US-based processors. Non-negotiable on the platform.
Run one geography check before you pencil in any monthly number. The partner-lender plans are open only to residents of the US and Canada, and a green light is never automatic — the lender weighs your credit history and a handful of other factors on every single application. Live somewhere else, or get turned down, and you've still got two clear paths: pay the balance in full, or lean on interest-free Doctours layaway.
The Bottom Line
Financing is available on every Elithair booking through Doctours. The clinic handles the $500 deposit and the all-in Standard price; the monthly installments come from a payment plan arranged through our lending partners. Through Doctours financing, that $3,799 Standard package breaks into monthly payments across as many as 36 months — roughly $92 a month after the deposit at the 2,000-graft cap, closer to $97 if your case wants 3,000. Every dollar of it clears on a US checkout, and paying monthly adds nothing to the price.
You already know you want this. What's kept the calendar frozen was never whether the procedure is worth it — it's whether the timing works without tearing up the budget, and whether the number on the screen is really your number. Now you have both: a plan that spreads the cost, and the graft math to size it before you sign. There's no flawless month coming where this quietly pays for itself — holding out for one only costs you the year.
You've turned this decision over long enough. The plan is here — and now so is the math to size it honestly.
Want your actual monthly Elithair figure — grafts included? A free Doctours assessment maps your pre-approval path, all-in pricing, and a surgery date that fits — no pressure, no commitment.
FAQs
Does Elithair offer hair transplant financing directly?
It doesn't. Elithair's own model is just a $500 deposit to book and the balance due by surgery day — no in-house lender, no multi-year terms. The monthly-payment option is layered on by Doctours, the platform Elithair books through, via monthly payment plans through our lending partners that stretch up to 36 months.
How much is a monthly Elithair hair transplant payment?
At the 2,000-graft cap, the $3,799 Standard package works out to about $92 a month over 36 months once the $500 deposit is down. Because extra grafts cost $100 per 500, a 2,500-graft plan is nearer $94, 3,000 grafts about $97, and 3,500 grafts roughly $100. Those are principal-only figures; any interest is separate, with APR ranging from 0% to 35.99% and set by our lending partners, not Doctours.
What is the deposit for an Elithair hair transplant?
It's $500, paid in dollars through Doctours to lock your surgery date. Whatever's left — including any grafts beyond the 2,000 the package covers — is the amount that gets divided into monthly payments through our lending partners.
Can I have my Elithair procedure before I finish paying?
You can. The only timing rule is that your monthly payment plan through our lending partners is set up at least seven days ahead of your procedure; there's no requirement to be paid in full first. Your surgery goes ahead on schedule while the balance keeps paying down month by month.
Are Elithair financing payments in US dollars or Turkish lira?
Dollars. Deposit and installments alike run in USD through our lending partners on US-domiciled checkout, so there's no lira conversion, no overseas wire, and nothing to hand over in cash once you land in Istanbul.
