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: across the seven sweatshirts compared, for 50 sweatshirts printed with an A6 DTF transfer, our prices range from €11.01 excluding VAT (affordable B&C Id.222 Crew crew neck) to €30.15 excluding VAT (heavy organic cotton Stanley/Stella Cruiser 2.0 hoodie). These indicative prices were recorded on 20 October 2026, for one print position, in the most affordable colour, excluding delivery. 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 our unit prices excluding VAT for 50 sweatshirts of the same model, printed with an A6 DTF transfer or embroidered at 8 × 10 cm. Prices were taken from the product pages on 20 October 2026 for a single print position, at the standard lead time and excluding delivery, in the most affordable colour. Given for guidance only, they may change: the final quote prevails.

Depending on the model, a surcharge applies to large sizes and to some colours: you see it on the product page when you select them. To choose the shade for a group order, our guide to sweatshirt colour goes through the safe bets.

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 excluding VAT each for 50 sweatshirts with an A6 DTF transfer as of 20 October 2026. 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: €16.08 excluding VAT each for 50 with an A6 DTF transfer as of 20 October 2026, 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 (80% organic and 20% recycled cotton in the Heather Haze colour), 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. To decide based on how your team will wear it, our guide to sweatshirt fabric weight puts 280 and 350 g/m² side by side.

Fabric weight does not explain most of the price, though: material and brand weigh more. In this selection, for 50 sweatshirts with an A6 DTF transfer and as of 20 October 2026, the 280 g/m² models range from €11.01 excluding VAT (Id.222) to €24.81 excluding VAT (Drummer 2.0), and the Changer 2.0, a 350 g/m² crew neck in 100% organic cotton, costs less than the Drummer 2.0, a 280 g/m² hoodie.

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 €24.00 excluding VAT each for 50 with an A6 DTF transfer as of 20 October 2026. 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 on tknp.io on 20 October 2026, an 8 × 10 cm embroidery costs €1.80 excluding VAT more per sweatshirt than an A6 DTF transfer, for 50 sweatshirts (for guidance). The gap is the same on all seven models: 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 sweatshirts per model, mixing sizes and colours: each model has its own price tiers. At the standard lead time, your branded sweatshirts leave within 10 working days, customisation included, and the estimated delivery date appears in your basket. 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

• Across the seven models compared, for 50 sweatshirts with an A6 DTF transfer, for one print position, in the most affordable colour, excluding delivery, our prices range from €11.01 excluding VAT (B&C Id.222 Crew) to €30.15 excluding VAT (Stanley/Stella Cruiser 2.0), recorded on 20 October 2026 for guidance.
• 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.
• An 8 × 10 cm embroidery costs €1.80 excluding VAT more per sweatshirt than an A6 DTF transfer for 50 sweatshirts, on all seven models compared.