01Cost model
What should it cost to make?
Pick a garment, a quantity, and a country. You get a price range and the arithmetic behind it, before you talk to anybody.
$11.11 to $16.77per unit, FOB
$5,555 to $8,385 for the run, within about 20%. Before freight and duty.
The same garment, other countries
What this assumes
- Fabric: 320gsm French terry, assumed.
- Cutting and sewing loss: 14%.
- Labor: Vietnam sewing rates.
- Sewing time: 30 standard minutes for a pullover hoodie.
- Quantity: small run at 500 units.
- Excludes sampling, tooling, freight, and duty. FOB at the factory door.
This is a model, not a quote. It is built from published cost averages, and it is roughly what a good sourcing manager would sketch on the back of an envelope.
Inside StitchGrid the same estimate learns from the quotes your own factories send back, so it gets closer to your real costs with every order.
Get quotes from real factories02How it works
No black box
A garment's cost is mostly four things, and none of them are secret.
Fabric
Finished garment weight times the mill price per kilo, plus what the cutting table wastes.
Cut, make, trim
Standard sewing minutes for the style, times what a minute of sewing costs in that country.
Trims and finishing
Labels, closures, packaging, and whatever printing, embroidery or washing the style needs.
Overhead and quantity
The factory's margin, and the loading a short run carries because setup costs the same either way.
Cost tables reviewed 2026-09. Ranges are honest about what the model does not know: name the fabric weight and the band narrows, leave the country open and it widens. Styles the model cannot price reliably, like insulated outerwear or leather, it refuses rather than guesses.
03Next
An estimate is where sourcing starts, not where it ends
The number above tells you whether a project is worth pursuing. Getting it made is the part we do.