Artifact testing is a last resort, a true genealogy "brick wall" smasher.  If you can send your relative’s saliva in a tube to a company that tests 1,000 samples at a time, try that first.  Extracting DNA from artifacts must be done one at a time, and – to get the best results – requires equipment so advanced that most crime labs do not even have it.

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As noted elsewhere (Services), there are two general phases of artifact testing.  The pricing below is for Phase 1 Quantification, (determining whether there is enough usable DNA to perform) Phase 2 sequencing.  (This is sometimes called genotyping, but with the FGx is more correctly referred to as sequencing).