Neutering a dog typically costs $65 to $487, with nonprofit and municipal clinics charging the least and a full-service private clinic or the national average running highest.

All 40 published clinic price-list rows across four clinics and one national industry study. Filter by procedure or species, or click a column to sort.

Dashes mark rows the source didn't price — full-service and low-cost/nonprofit figures almost never come from the same clinic for the same row. The last two rows are a national average from a secondary industry study, not a specific clinic.

Sources

• Price List – Houston SNAP (Spay Neuter Assistance Program), a Houston-based 501(c)(3) high-volume clinic · primary

  Full dog/cat spay/neuter price list by weight band, effective Dec 9, 2024. Verified by direct fetch.

• Price List – Pasadena SNAP (Spay Neuter Assistance Program) · primary

  Same format as Houston list, effective Dec 9, 2024. Verified by direct fetch.

• Spay/Neuter Clinic Humane Colorado (operates clinic at CSU Spur, Colorado State University's Denver campus) · primary

  Full dog/cat spay/neuter price list by weight band, with vaccine inclusion noted. Verified by direct fetch. This is the closest available university-affiliated fee schedule found.

• 2025 SCVC Spay/Neuter Pricing Sheet (PDF) Second Chances Vet Care, Virginia · primary

  Full-service private clinic's own itemized price sheet with 6 dog weight tiers, exact inclusions/exclusions. WebFetch could not parse the PDF; text was extracted locally with curl + Python pypdf and quoted directly.

• Cost of Spaying or Neutering a Dog: Full Price Breakdown (2025) SustainableVet (veterinary industry blog) · secondary

  Cites the 2025 Synchrony Average Procedural Cost Study ($455 avg spay, $487 avg neuter) 'via Spot Pet Insurance'; the original Synchrony study document was not directly located or fetched.

• Dog Spay & Neuter Costs 2025: Average Prices & How to Save Spot Pet Insurance (pet-insurance marketing blog) · secondary

  Repeats the Synchrony study figures and CareCredit database averages; also cites unverifiable state-level examples (Hawaii ~$874, Mississippi ~$390) which were NOT used in the dataset since they trace to aggregator estimates, not a primary source.

• Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Programs ASPCA · primary

  Checked directly: page names cities served (NYC, LA, Miami, Asheville) but publishes no dollar figures. Confirms absence rather than supplying a price.

• Spay and Neuter Packages Caring Hands Animal Hospital, Virginia/Maryland/DC · primary

  Full-service clinic; lists package inclusions (pre-anesthetic bloodwork, IV catheter, IV fluids, LVT monitoring) but no dollar figures — confirms bloodwork-inclusive packages exist but not a priced example.

• VMC Spay-Neuter Info Sheet (PDF) UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine · primary

  Fundraising sheet for a not-yet-operational Spay and Neuter Clinic; contains no pricing.

• Fee Listing Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine · primary

  Only publishes lab/necropsy/motor-pool fee PDFs; no small-animal spay/neuter fee schedule.

• Reports and Statistics American Veterinary Medical Association · primary

  Economic State of the Veterinary Profession reports are sold as paid products; no free spay/neuter dollar figure found on the page itself.

Method

Figures came from direct fetches of each clinic or organization's own price page. WebSearch's session budget was exhausted before any query returned, so search ran through the DuckDuckGo HTML endpoint via WebFetch instead (11 queries, ~14 page verifications). The Second Chances Vet Care price sheet is a PDF that WebFetch could not extract directly; it was downloaded with curl and parsed locally with Python's pypdf.

Gaps

We could not find a published fee schedule from any university veterinary TEACHING hospital itself (Cornell, UC Davis, Colorado State's own hospital, Purdue, Auburn, Texas A&M, Kansas State, Ohio State, Mississippi State all checked directly) — general/companion-animal pricing at these institutions is phone-quote only. The Humane Colorado clinic (CSU Spur) is the closest university-adjacent price list found. We could not access the original 2025 Synchrony/CareCredit Average Procedural Cost Study directly — its figures are sourced secondhand through a veterinary blog citing 'via Spot Pet Insurance.' We could not find an AVMA report with a free, specific spay/neuter dollar figure (their economic reports are sold as paid products). We could not find one source giving cost by state or metro in a systematic comparison table; aggregator sites (CostWhale, TheHowMuch) claim state-level averages but were excluded per instructions since they are unsourced aggregator guesses, not a primary table. We could not find any source that itemizes microchipping into a base spay/neuter price.