Emerald Cut Lab Grown Diamond Engagement Rings

Pricing the Stone in an Emerald Lab Grown Diamond Engagement Ring

The first decision is the center stone, because it accounts for most of what an emerald lab grown diamond engagement ring costs. Each of the 500 or more designs on this page is built around one you pick from 110,806 lab emerald diamonds in stock today, 93,493 of them with 360 HD video. With the current savings applied a lab emerald is priced from $120 at the low end. Inside the 0.90 to 1.10 carat band, which is the size the designs are shown with, the lowest price is $320 and the median $568. Once the stone is settled the setting adds its own price. Shown today with a 1 carat lab emerald in 14K white gold, the Linda comfort fit solitaire comes to $1,005, the Bellora hidden halo to $1,790 and the Vivian solitaire to $1,335, stone included. All of these figures were taken from inventory on October 17, 2026 and get refreshed regularly.

Because an emerald cut is a step cut with a wide open table, you see into the stone. Any clarity feature shows, and the light returns as long flashes instead of sparkle. That makes the grade decision short in lab grown, where most emerald cuts are already VVS and D to F. The real choices for a lab grown emerald engagement ring become the length to width ratio and the setting.

Picking the Size: Lab Grown Emerald Stones by Carat

Size is worth settling before grade, and the table below sorts all 110,806 lab emeralds from our inventory into carat bands so the rows total the figure above. Medians sit at $568 for the 0.90 to 1.10 band, $1,531 for 1.90 to 2.10 and $2,846 for 2.90 to 3.10. The largest band, 4.11 ct and up, holds 17,557 stones. Whatever setting you choose from the grid is added to that stone price, and swapping in a different stone moves the ring price with it. Bands that have a ring page of their own for the same origin are linked in the table.

110,806 lab emerald center stones sorted by carat band, with today's prices, October 17, 2026

Then the Grade: Color and Clarity in a Lab Emerald

Once the size is set, grade is the next call, and in lab grown it is a small one. Within the 0.90 to 1.10 carat band, D to F accounts for 93 percent of the lab emeralds on the color ladder, so there is little to save by dropping color. At VS2 or better clarity a D starts at $445 and a G at $375. Read the clarity ladder with color fixed at D to F and the gap is smaller still, VS1 from $425 and VVS2 from $435. For most buyers the practical lab emerald center is D to F at VS1 or better. That leaves the money that grade would have cost for carat weight and for the setting.

Starting prices for 0.90 to 1.10 ct lab grown emeralds, first by color with clarity at VS2 or better (15,458 stones), then by clarity with color at D to F (15,020 stones)

Weighing a Natural Emerald Instead

Switching the center to a natural emerald puts the same ring in a different budget. At one carat in G color VS1 the lab stone is priced from $375 and the natural from $1,205. Medians for the full one carat band come to $568 lab against $2,028 natural. With natural you are paying for scarcity and, for 66,272 of the 70,739 natural emeralds, a GIA report. With lab grown the same amount gets you a bigger stone at a higher grade. The emerald natural diamond engagement rings page runs the same designs with a natural center, and the emerald diamonds grid shows stones of both origins side by side.

Lab against natural emerald at 0.90 to 1.10 ct, grade for grade

Choosing a Setting for an Emerald Cut

With the stone chosen, the setting comes next, and an emerald cut does best with a simple one. Prongs go on the four cropped corners, unseen from above, or a bezel runs a frame around the rectangle. Settings that stay out of the way suit it: a solitaire on a knife edge or flat band, a three stone flanked by tapered baguettes, or a hidden halo that leaves the top clean. Lab pricing puts long ratios and heavier stones within reach, so the typical emerald lab grown engagement ring ends up as a 1.40 to 1.50 ratio stone on a plain band.

At one carat a lab emerald runs about 6.5 by 4.5 mm. Each emerald lab grown diamond engagement ring design on this page is shown with a stone close to that size, in 14K white gold. Yellow gold, rose gold and platinum are available for every design, and the stone you select appears in the setting before you buy. To help with the comparison, each stone's AI price score measures it against similar lab grown emeralds currently in stock and warns when one is priced higher than its peers. The quality score runs out of 18 and combines cut, color and clarity into one number. Our gemologists are paid no commission, and if you narrow it to two or three emeralds they will put them side by side on video for you, by chat or phone.

Today's Prices for an Emerald Lab Grown Diamond Engagement Ring

Each ring in the grid is priced complete, with a default center that today is a 1 carat lab emerald in 14K white gold. The numbers in the table below are what you would pay for the finished ring with that stone and not the setting alone. Among the first designs shown they start at $1,005 for the Linda comfort fit solitaire and reach $1,790 for the Bellora hidden halo. The whole difference is the mounting, since a plain comfort fit band costs the least and pavé or a hidden halo costs the most. Pick any other stone from the 110,806 in stock and every emerald lab grown diamond engagement ring on the page is repriced around it.

Complete ring prices on this page, October 17, 2026: each emerald lab grown engagement ring in 14K white gold with its center stone

Checkout and After: Buying a Lab Grown Emerald Engagement Ring Here

Rare Carat sells the ring as the retailer and is the merchant of record on every order. There are more than 2 million diamonds, natural and lab grown, in stock to choose a center from. The setting carries a lifetime manufacturing warranty, and before anything ships our New York staff examine the diamond under a microscope and read its laser inscription against the grading report. Insured shipping is free on the way out, returns are free within 30 days, and if the fit is off the first resize is free for a year. The cost can be split at checkout through Afterpay, PayPal Pay Later, Katapult, Affirm or Klarna. On Google and on Trustpilot the rating stands at 5 out of 5 and Trustpilot lists Rare Carat as the highest rated jewelry brand in America.

Stone counts and prices in this section take in every lab emerald diamond Rare Carat had in inventory on October 17, 2026. The filters are the same ones the diamond grids use: GIA, IGI or GCAL graded, with or without video, D to K color, FL to SI2 clarity, Good cut or better. That comes to 110,806 lab grown stones, 93,493 of them with 360 HD video, plus 70,739 natural emeralds used for the comparison. Prices are what you pay today once the current savings are applied. Each product page shows the regular price struck through beside it. Where a row gives a starting price, that is its cheapest stone at any grade. Ring prices are the ones displayed on this page on October 17, 2026 for finished rings in 14K white gold with the stated center stone. The count of designs is taken from the page itself. Both grade ladders are restricted to the 0.90 to 1.10 carat band, so that the price movement reflects grade and not weight.