How much do dermal fillers cost in the UK? An honest 2026 price guide

TL;DR

• Dermal fillers in the UK usually run from about £150 to £600 per ml. Where you land depends on the area treated, the product used and who is holding the syringe.
• At CoLaz, dermal fillers start from £150 per 1ml, and every treatment begins with a free consultation and a written plan before you book.
• A price well below the market rate is the clearest warning sign there is. Fillers account for around 69 percent of the complaints Save Face receives about unregistered practitioners.
• Fillers are not prescription-only medicines in the UK, so anyone can legally inject them. The register a practitioner sits on matters more than the number on the poster.
• Budget for the possibility of correction, not just the treatment. Dissolving hyaluronic acid filler is a second appointment with a second cost.

Filler pricing in the UK looks chaotic from the outside. One clinic quotes £150 for 1ml, another quotes £550 for what sounds like the same treatment, and a salon two streets away is advertising lips for under £100. Patients reasonably ask us which of those numbers is the real one.

The honest answer is that all three can be real, but they are not buying the same thing. Some of the gap is legitimate and easy to explain. Some of it is the price of a corner being cut, and that corner is usually the one you would not choose to cut if anyone had told you about it.

How much do dermal fillers cost in the UK?

Most UK clinics charge between £150 and £600 per millilitre of hyaluronic acid dermal filler, with the bulk of honest pricing sitting between £200 and £400 for a straightforward first treatment. Lips sit at the lower end because they usually need less product. Structural work on the cheeks, chin and jawline sits higher because it needs more volume, a firmer product and a practitioner comfortable working at depth.

London pricing sits above the national average, often noticeably. That is partly rent and partly the concentration of prescriber-level injectors in central London postcodes.

Here are the ranges we typically see quoted across the UK, area by area, for hyaluronic acid filler:

Area	Typical UK range (per ml)	What usually drives it
Lips	£180 to £400	Most patients need 0.5 to 1ml, so the total is often below a full syringe price
Nasolabial or marionette lines	£200 to £450	Mid-firmness product, moderate volume
Cheeks and mid-face	£250 to £500	Firmer product, deeper placement, often 2ml or more
Chin and jawline	£250 to £550	Structural work, higher volume, longer appointment
Tear trough	£300 to £600	Technically demanding area, higher risk, senior injector

Treat those as orientation, not a quote. A price only means something once you know how much product it includes and who is delivering it.

Why does the price change so much between clinics?

The price changes because four separate things are being priced at once: the product, the practitioner, the volume and the aftercare. Two clinics can quote the same number and be selling very different treatments.

The product. Hyaluronic acid fillers vary in how heavily cross-linked they are, which changes how firm they feel and how long they hold. A soft lip product and a firm structural product are not interchangeable, and they do not cost the same to buy in. Filler brands that make a medical claim are regulated as medical devices, which means MHRA registration and either a UKCA or CE mark. That compliance is part of the price.

The practitioner. A treatment delivered by an experienced aesthetic nurse or doctor costs more than one delivered by a therapist working within their scope. Neither is automatically wrong. What matters is that you know which one you are booking.

The volume. “From £150” almost always means 1ml. A jawline that genuinely needs 3ml is a £450 to £900 treatment at that rate, and any clinic quoting you a single flat number without assessing your face first is guessing.

The aftercare. A two-week review, photographs, a documented plan and a clinic that will see you promptly if something is not settling all cost the clinic money. They are the parts patients never think to ask about and always want later.

What are you actually paying for beyond the syringe?

You are paying for assessment, product, technique, insurance and the clinic’s ability to manage a complication at 9pm on a Sunday. The syringe itself is a surprisingly small share of the total.

The NHS is direct about this. Its guidance on questions to ask before any cosmetic procedure tells patients to ask what the most common complications are, what aftercare is included, what happens if you are unhappy, how much it will cost, and whether further treatment costs extra. That last question is the one that separates a real quote from a headline number.

The NHS also says you should be offered a cooling-off period after a consultation, and that you can walk away. We build that in as standard: the written plan goes home with you and you decide in your own time.

Which prices should genuinely worry you?

A price far below the local market rate should worry you more than a price above it, because the money has to come out of something. Usually it comes out of the product, the training, or the insurance.

Save Face, the government-approved register, has documented complaints rising year on year, and reports that fillers made up around 69 percent of complaints about unregistered practitioners. In the same reporting, one practitioner boasted online that they could undercut every other clinic in the area, and treatments were being advertised at around £50 for three areas of anti-wrinkle injection, which is below what the licensed product alone costs a clinic to buy.

Save Face also warns that fake filler is freely available online from manufacturers operating outside any recognised standard. You cannot tell by looking at your face which product went into it. You find out months later, when it does not behave the way hyaluronic acid should.

Three quotes that should make you pause:

• A per-area price with no mention of how many millilitres it includes.
• A price that only exists “today” or “this week”. The ASA treats time-limited offers in cosmetic advertising as irresponsible precisely because they push people into decisions they have not had time to make.
• A quote given over Instagram DM by someone who has never seen your face in person.

Is a package or a free top-up a good deal?

Usually not, because a package prices the treatment before anyone has seen how your face responds to it. Fillers are not a fixed course like laser hair removal. One syringe placed well may be the whole answer.

Save Face’s guidance on lip volume is worth reading before you buy anything in bulk. It suggests around 0.5 to 1ml at a first treatment, then top-ups of roughly 0.3 to 0.7ml months later, and treats more than 1ml in a single session in inexperienced hands as a warning sign. A pre-paid three-session package quietly works against that kind of conservative, review-led approach.

There is also an advertising angle. Advertising rules allow a clinic to say filler can temporarily reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, but not that it will rejuvenate skin or remove lines for good. If a package is being sold on a claim the regulator does not allow, that tells you something about the clinic before you have even discussed price.

What dermal fillers cost at CoLaz

Dermal fillers at CoLaz start from £150 for 1ml, covering lips, jawline, chin, naso-labial and marionette lines at therapist tier. That figure is the lowest single-session price, not an average, and the final cost depends on how much product your treatment actually needs.

Here is what that includes as standard across all seven of our UK clinics:

• A free consultation covering medical history, medication, goals, contraindications and realistic outcomes.
• A written treatment plan you take home before you book anything.
• Topical numbing, a 30 to 60 minute appointment, and a settled result at around two weeks.
• Honest expectations on longevity. Hyaluronic acid fillers typically last 6 to 18 months, and we go into the detail on filler longevity separately.

You can see the full treatment page for dermal fillers, and the anchors for every other treatment on our pricing page. Anti-wrinkle injections start from £199 for one area, Profhilo from £225 and PDO thread lifts from £299, which matters because those are often the honest alternative to more filler.

What does it cost if something goes wrong?

Correction is a separate appointment with a separate cost, and it is the line item nobody budgets for. Dissolving hyaluronic acid filler needs an enzyme called hyaluronidase, delivered by someone qualified to prescribe and use it, sometimes across more than one visit.

The clinical literature is clear that this is real medicine, not a refund. A scoping review in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery found hyaluronidase effective at reversing uncomplicated filler nodules, with around 80 percent reduction in nodule size within a week in treated groups, while also noting how little controlled evidence exists for facial reversals specifically.

The serious complication is vascular occlusion, where filler blocks a blood vessel. A 2025 systematic review in Cureus found hyaluronic acid was involved in 61.3 percent of reported vascular occlusion cases, that the glabella, nose and nasolabial folds were the highest-risk sites, and that delays in treatment beyond five days were associated with lasting damage. Prompt hyaluronidase produced partial or full recovery in 84.2 percent of cases.

That is the real argument against booking on price. A practitioner who cannot recognise an occlusion, or cannot access hyaluronidase, cannot help you in the window where help works.

The times filler is not the right thing to spend on

The consultation is where that gets decided, and it is decided more often than patients expect. A patient came to our Reading clinic in her early fifties asking for filler in her cheeks because a colleague had had it. When we looked at what she was actually unhappy with, it was loose skin along the jawline and a tired look across the whole face. Cheek filler would not have given her that.

We planned two Profhilo sessions four weeks apart instead, which is a hyaluronic acid skin remodeller rather than a volumiser. By week eight her skin tone had improved and her jawline looked tighter without changing the shape of her face. She spent less than the filler plan would have cost and got the result she came in for.

I have also turned patients away entirely, for active acne, an active cold sore or certain medications. The best-value treatment a clinic can offer is sometimes the one it decides not to sell you.

Five questions that price-check a clinic

Ask these five, in this order, and the price will start to make sense on its own.

1. How many millilitres does that price include? If the answer is vague, the quote is not a quote.
2. Who is injecting, and what register are they on? Fillers are not prescription-only medicines in the UK, so there is no legal barrier to anyone injecting them. The JCCP register and the Save Face register are the two public checks worth doing.
3. What product are you using and is it MHRA registered? A clinic that cannot answer this quickly is a clinic to leave.
4. What happens if I have a complication, and who pays? The NHS guidance on choosing a practitioner specifically tells patients to check the practitioner holds insurance to correct anything that goes wrong.
5. Is a review appointment included? Two weeks is the point at which the result is real. That visit should not be an upsell.

Regulation is moving, slowly. In August 2025 the government set out plans to restrict the highest-risk procedures to CQC-regulated healthcare professionals, and to bring lower-risk treatments including fillers under local authority licensing, with a further public consultation from early 2026. Until that scheme is in force, the checks above are what you have.

If you want a straight answer on what your treatment would actually cost, book a free consultation at your nearest CoLaz clinic. We will assess the area, tell you how much product it genuinely needs, put the price and the plan in writing, and let you take it home to think about. If we think a different treatment would serve you better, we will say that too. Our guide to choosing a clinic covers what else to look for before you commit.