Thailand Rehab Price Index 2026

The short answer

The median published price for 28 days of residential addiction treatment in Thailand is US$11,834, based on the 8 centers that publish a current price on their own website (range US$8,500 to US$21,933).^[1] That is a small sample, because most centers we checked publish no price on their own website. Use it as a benchmark for comparing quotes, not as an average for the whole market.

How many rehab centers in Thailand publish their prices?

Only 8 of the 36 private centers we checked publish a current price for a 28 to 30 day residential addiction program on their own website.^[1]

We checked 43 treatment centers on 11 October 2026: 36 private centers and 7 government drug-treatment hospitals and institutes. Thirteen private centers publish a price of some kind on their own site. The rest of those prices are dated, give no program length, or cover mental-health care rather than addiction treatment, so they are not in the headline figure.^[1]

Sources: center websites, a rehab directory and government hospital websites, all accessed on 11 October 2026.^[1][2][3][4]

Centers without a price on their site mostly ask you to get in touch, or quote only a general range for Thailand.^[3] For a family, this means you usually can't compare centers on price from their websites alone.

Ask every center for an itemised quote in writing: the fee for the whole stay, the room type, medical detox, medication, doctor and psychiatrist time, tax, the deposit and the refund policy. Our guide to choosing a rehab in Thailand lists the other questions to ask.

What does 28 days of residential rehab cost?

The median published entry price for 28 days of residential addiction treatment is US$11,834, across 8 centers.^[1]

The entry price is the cheapest 28 to 30 day option a center publishes: usually its least expensive room, or the lower end of a price range. The top price is the most expensive 28 to 30 day option at the same center. Each center counts once, however many room types it lists.

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Prices for 30 days are scaled to 28 days. Baht prices are converted at THB 33.558 per US$1 (Bank of Thailand, 9 October 2026), and euro and Australian dollar prices at European Central Bank reference rates for the same day.^[5][6] Roughly a quarter of prices sit below Q1 and a quarter above Q3.

The top-price median is higher, at US$13,225, because some centers publish a price range or charge more for a more private room. Adding directory estimates for centers that publish no price of their own changes the median little, to US$11,667 across 15 centers, but lowers the minimum to US$5,000.^[2]

Eight centers is a small sample. The median describes the centers that publish prices; centers that keep their prices private may charge more or less.

Why these figures differ from our cost guide

Our cost guide shows wider price ranges, because it also uses directory listings and quotes prices per 28 to 30 days as centers publish them. This index is the stricter measure: one price per center, own-site prices only for the headline figure, every price scaled to 28 days, and dated or uncertain listings left out.

Which price tier do most centers fall into?

We sort centers into fixed price bands by their entry price per 28 days. The bands stay the same when centers are added, so later surveys can be compared with this one.

Most published prices are mid-market: 6 of the 8 own-site prices and 10 of the 15 once directory estimates are added. No center publishes a budget price on its own website; both budget figures are directory estimates.^[1][2]

Do prices differ by region?

We publish a regional median only where at least 3 centers have a price. Counting directory estimates, only Chiang Mai and Phuket reach that.^[1][2]

In the other regions so few centers publish prices that a median would simply be one or two centers' own prices. Even in Chiang Mai and Phuket the samples are small, so the gap between the two medians says little about which region is cheaper.

For local detail, see our guides to rehab in Chiang Mai and Phuket.

What does the price include?

Two centers with the same price can include very different things. This is what the 8 centers in the headline figure say their entry price covers.^[1]

"Partly included" means the center manages mild or moderate withdrawal on site but sends severe cases to hospital, or charges for detox medicines separately. With directory estimates added, detox is included at 6 of 15 centers, partly included at 5, not mentioned at 3 and not included at 1.^[1][2] All but one of the 8 entry prices are for a private room, suite or bungalow; the other is for a shared room.

Detox matters for safety as well as cost. The NHS warns that stopping drinking suddenly can be very dangerous for someone who is dependent on alcohol, and that benzodiazepines such as diazepam need to be reduced gradually with a doctor.^[7][8] Ask who supervises withdrawal and where; our guide to whether rehab in Thailand is safe explains what to look for.

Extras and payment terms

We also read the price pages of the 10 centers that publish a residential addiction price on their own site, including the dated page and the price with no program length. Many pages are silent on extras, so a missing item does not mean it is included.^[1]

Most pages don't say whether 7% tax is included, so ask before you compare one quote with another.

Are longer stays cheaper?

Per 28 days, yes, at the centers that publish several lengths of stay. At the 4 centers that do, the longest option (12 weeks or 90 days) works out 8.5% to 15.1% cheaper per 28 days than their 28 to 30 day price.^[1]

A longer stay still costs more in total. Ask for the price of the whole stay in writing rather than multiplying the monthly rate, and check what happens to the money if the stay ends early.

What does a Thai government hospital charge?

Only one of the 7 government drug-treatment institutions we checked publishes a fee schedule we could read: Thanyarak Khon Kaen Hospital, under the Department of Medical Services.^[4] It lists separate fees for nursing, beds and activities rather than a package, and it charges non-Thai nationals a higher nursing fee.^[9][10]

Nursing and activity fees from the hospital's notice of June 2026; room fees from its 2024 rate list.^[9][10] Daily fees are multiplied by 28 and the monthly fee is scaled from 30 days to 28.

The headline private median is about 8 times the non-Thai illustration, but the real gap is smaller because the hospital figures leave out medicines, tests and professional fees. Thai patients can also use public health entitlements such as Universal Coverage, which may reduce what they pay.^[9] These are different kinds of service, so treat this as a sense of scale, not a like-for-like choice.

How should you use these figures?

1. Convert every quote to 28 days. Divide the total by the number of days and multiply by 28, so a 30-day price and a 4-week price can be compared.
2. Compare it with the median and the tiers. A quote near US$11,834 sits in the middle of what centers publish. A quote below US$8,000 or above US$18,000 is not wrong in itself, but ask what explains it.
3. Compare like with like. Check whether detox, medication, doctor and psychiatrist time, the room type and 7% tax are included before you compare totals.
4. Get it itemised and in writing, with the deposit and refund policy, before you pay anything or book flights.

Our cost guide adds flights, visas and insurance to the picture, and how to choose a rehab in Thailand covers the other questions to ask a center.

How did we build the index?

On 11 October 2026 we checked 43 centers found through rehab directories, our earlier research and web searches in English and Thai, region by region. For each one we read the homepage and the pricing, fees, FAQ and admissions pages linked from it, and recorded 66 published price points, one for each program, length or room type.^[1][3][4]

• Public pages only. We did not log in, fill in forms, request quotes or phone centers, and we did not estimate any price ourselves.
• One price per center. The entry price is the lowest 28 to 30 day residential addiction price a center publishes. Prices for 30 days are scaled to 28 days.
• Headline set. Own-site prices only. We left out pages last changed before 2024 and centers whose operating status is uncertain; including them gives medians of US$11,667 (own-site, 9 centers) and US$10,000 (with directory estimates, 17 centers).
• Directory estimates are used only for centers that publish no price of their own, and are always shown separately.^[2]
• Left out of the index: mental-health, trauma and burnout programs, outpatient-only services, wellness resorts and spas, temple-based detox and closed centers.
• Currency. Baht at THB 33.558 per US$1, the Bank of Thailand's weighted-average interbank rate for 9 October 2026; euros and Australian dollars at European Central Bank reference rates for the same day. US dollar figures are rounded to whole dollars.^[5][6]
• Tax. Prices are recorded as shown, without adding tax.

The figures have limits. Prices are what centers say on their own websites, or what a directory estimates; we have not audited them, confirmed them by phone or visited the centers. Samples are small, inclusions differ, and published prices and exchange rates change.

We currently accept no payments, referral fees or commissions from treatment centers, and we describe private centers rather than name them (see our editorial policy). Thai law restricts advertising of drug-addiction treatment and of private medical facilities, and a list of named centers with prices could read as advertising, so the index reports aggregates only.^[11][12] We plan to repeat the survey.