The best sweatshirts to customise: price, weight and fabric

The best sweatshirts to customise: price, weight and fabric

The best sweatshirt to customise depends on your budget and how it will be used: for 50 printed sweatshirts, allow from 11 EUR excluding VAT for an affordable crew neck to 30 EUR for a heavy organic cotton hoodie. In between, fabric weight, material and fit make the difference you can see and that lasts.

A sweatshirt with the team's logo gets worn for years, far longer than a t-shirt. To choose without spending the evening on it, I compared seven sweatshirts from our catalogue on the same criteria, with figures from the product pages.

The 7 sweatshirts compared in one table

Here are the seven sweatshirts, from the most affordable to the most premium, with their unit price excluding VAT for 50 sweatshirts and one print. Prices were taken from the product pages on 30 September 2026, for one position, in the most affordable colour and at the standard lead time: the final quote prevails.

Which sweatshirt should you choose to customise?

To choose a sweatshirt to customise, look at four things in this order: the type (hoodie or crew neck), the fleece weight, the material and the price at your quantity. The brand comes after: two sweatshirts from different brands with the same weight and material are more alike than people think.

Hoodie or crew neck is mostly a question of style and print area: our articles sweatshirt or hoodie for a team and crewneck or hoodie go through that choice.

The most affordable: B&C Id.222 Crew

The B&C Id.222 Crew is the cheapest sweatshirt in the selection: 11.01 EUR excluding VAT each for 50 sweatshirts with DTF transfer. It is a 280 g/m² crew neck in ringspun cotton and recycled polyester made from bottles, with a brushed inside and slightly dropped shoulders.

It suits a one-off event, a large team or a first merch drop whose reception you want to test without committing a big budget.

The classic hoodie: Just Hoods College Hoodie

The Just Hoods College Hoodie is the go-to hoodie at a sensible price: 16.38 EUR excluding VAT for 50 with DTF, 280 g/m², lined hood, kangaroo pocket and tone-on-tone drawcords. Its product page describes it as mostly cotton.

It is the safe choice for an association, a club or a student union that wants a real hoodie without going premium.

The organic cotton sweatshirts: Roller, Drummer 2.0, Changer 2.0 and Cruiser 2.0

Stanley/Stella offers two levels of organic cotton. The Roller (crew neck) and the Drummer 2.0 (hoodie) blend 85% organic cotton with 15% recycled polyester, at 280 g/m², and carry the OEKO-TEX label. The Changer 2.0 (crew neck) and the Cruiser 2.0 (hoodie) move up to 100% organic cotton, at 350 g/m², certified GOTS and OEKO-TEX.

If your community expects a responsible story, certified 100% organic is the strongest option: our page on GOTS certification explains what it guarantees.

What fabric weight for a custom sweatshirt?

Most sweatshirts in the catalogue weigh 280 g/m², a good thickness for everyday wear. Models at 320 and 350 g/m² give a heavier, more structured drape and a more premium feel.

Fabric weight does not explain most of the price, though: material and brand weigh more. At 280 g/m², prices range from 11.01 EUR excluding VAT (Id.222) to 24.81 EUR (Drummer 2.0), and the Changer 2.0, at 350 g/m² and 100% organic cotton, costs less than the 280 g/m² Drummer 2.0.

The oversize option: JHK Kangaroo Oversize

For a loose fit, the JHK Kangaroo Oversize weighs 320 g/m², a weight that holds the volume, at 24.46 EUR excluding VAT each for 50 with DTF. It is the sweatshirt for streetwear collections, the one a community wants to wear outside events too.

Embroidery or print: what price difference on a sweatshirt?

On the seven sweatshirts compared, an 8 × 10 cm embroidery costs about 1.80 EUR excluding VAT more per sweatshirt than an A6 DTF transfer, for 50 sweatshirts. The gap is the same whatever the model: on a sweatshirt, embroidery is a modest extra cost for a result that lasts. Our guide to the budget for a promo sweatshirt puts that choice into the overall budget.

Minimum quantity and lead time

On tknp.io, an order of custom sweatshirts starts from 10 pieces, sizes and colours mixed, each model having its own price tiers. You choose the production lead time when you order, and it affects the price: on the sweatshirt product pages, 2 weeks is the base price, 1 week costs 10% more and 4 weeks 5% less.

See these sweatshirts with your logo

Before deciding between two models from the table, place your logo on each one in the tknp.io designer and compare the result side by side, without paying anything; our guide to customising a t-shirt explains how it works. The whole range of customisable sweatshirts lends itself to it.

Key takeaways

• For 50 printed sweatshirts, allow from 11.01 EUR excluding VAT (B&C Id.222 Crew) to 30.15 EUR (Stanley/Stella Cruiser 2.0) with DTF transfer.
• Material and brand drive most of the price gap, more than fabric weight: 280 g/m² is enough for everyday wear, 320 to 350 g/m² for a heavy, premium sweatshirt.
• Embroidery costs about 1.80 EUR excluding VAT more per sweatshirt than DTF at 50 pieces, on every model compared.