RJ MTM vs Kutetailor vs Centi Sartoria: What Each Publishes, and What Each Leaves Out

A buyer emailed last month with a spreadsheet she had been building for two weeks. Three columns: RJ MTM, Kutetailor and us. The rows ran from minimum order down to construction type, delivery time and garment price. Most of the cells in the first two columns said the same thing: a dash, or "not on their site." She had been through every public page on rjmtm.com and kutetailor.com and still could not fill the table.

That is not a complaint about her research. It is a description of what three companies choose to publish and what they choose to leave off. A comparison only works when you know what you are actually comparing, so the most useful thing I can do here is fill in the table honestly, cite where each fact comes from, and write "not published" in the cells that are genuinely blank. If you are building your own shortlist, this is the starting grid.

What RJ MTM, Kutetailor and Centi Sartoria publish on their own sites

Every fact in this table comes from the company's own public pages, read on the dates listed below. Where a company does not publish a piece of information, the cell says so. I have not called any of them to ask what sits behind the login, because a buyer comparing factories before signing up should not have to either.

	RJ MTM	Kutetailor	Centi Sartoria
Minimum order	1 on Enterprise; no minimum on Express	No minimums	1 piece per style
Lead time	Fixed 14 day production cycle for core collections	7 days (home page); 7 to 10 days (company page)	14 days in production from a confirmed order, shipping extra
Garment price (two-piece)	From USD 165	Not published	CMT from USD 100; full make from USD 155; half canvas from USD 185, ex works Shanghai
Platform or onboarding fee	Enterprise: system kit USD 998 one-time. Express: USD 99/month	Jumpstart: free. Established: USD 59/month. Advanced: USD 169/month	None
Factory location	Not published	Qingdao, China	Shanghai, China
Mills named	Not published. Fabric books listed by composition	Not published. Described as top-tier worldwide	33 mills and cloth merchants, 26 of them in Europe. Each named on its own page
Constructions	Not published	Not published	Fused, half canvas, full canvas. Photographed with the front panel opened
CMT (your own cloth)	Not published	Not published	Yes, from USD 100 per two-piece
Measuring	Not published on pages read	Auto-measure: 22 body data points in 5 minutes	47 measurement fields, 31 required

Sources: RJ MTM: rjmtm.com and rjmtm.com/system-pricing, read 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-30. Kutetailor: kutetailor.com, kutetailor.com/company and kutetailor.com/becomemember, read 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-26. Centi Sartoria: this site, current as of today.

A full side-by-side of our specs against both platforms, with the source links for every line, sits on our Kutesmart alternative page. The table above is a summary. The detail lives there.

Where the blanks sit

Count the "not published" cells and the shape of the comparison changes. On constructions, mills and CMT, two of the three companies publish nothing. That does not mean they lack these things. It means a buyer cannot confirm them without creating an account or booking a call, and a buyer comparing three factories at once should not have to sign up for two of them to find out what the third one puts on a public page.

We publish our constructions because a tailor shop comparing fused against half canvas against full canvas needs to see the difference before placing an order, not after. We photograph our own front panels with the lining opened, both constructions side by side, on our full canvas vs half canvas vs fused guide. We name our mills because a buyer stocking Zegna or Vitale Barberis Canonico cloth needs to confirm which books are held in Shanghai and which are ordered in, and that information sits on each mill's own page under our suppliers.

RJ MTM and Kutetailor may carry comparable cloth and comparable constructions. What they publish does not let you check.

Three different fee models, one question

The pricing structures of these three platforms could not look more different, and that is worth pulling apart before you compare garment prices.

RJ MTM charges a system kit of USD 998 one-time on its Enterprise tier, which includes fitting jackets, trousers, waistcoats, shirts, fabric books, software accounts and point-of-sale material. Its Express tier runs USD 99 per month. Two-piece suiting starts from USD 165.

Kutetailor charges no garment price on its public pages but runs three membership tiers: Jumpstart is free, Established costs USD 59 per month, and Advanced costs USD 169 per month. The platform includes an order centre, website templates or API, a marketing centre and management modules.

We charge for garments. There is no kit fee, no membership, no monthly subscription. A two-piece suit at full make starts from USD 155 ex works Shanghai, or from USD 100 CMT if you send your own cloth, and half canvas starts from USD 185. The same price applies whether it is your first order or your five hundredth.

The question for the buyer is not which fee model is cheapest in isolation. It is what each model includes and what it costs per garment once you add the subscription or kit to the garment price over a realistic order volume. A USD 998 system kit amortised over fifty suits is less than USD 20 per suit. A USD 169 monthly subscription amortised over ten suits a month is USD 16.90. Amortised over two suits a month it is USD 84.50. The garment price only makes sense once you run it against how many pieces you actually expect to order.

Five questions to ask before the spreadsheet matters

The table gets you started. It does not get you to a decision. Before you commit to any of the three, or to any factory on a broader custom suit manufacturers shortlist, ask the same five questions in writing and compare the answers.

1. Where are the garments made? Not where the head office sits or the showroom is. Where is the cutting table, and whose hands are on it. We make everything in Shanghai with 200 house tailors. RJ MTM does not publish a country of production on the pages we read. Kutetailor names Qingdao, China.

2. Which mills supply the cloth, and can you name them? We publish every mill individually, from Zegna and Vitale Barberis Canonico to Loro Piana, Scabal and Holland and Sherry, with the collections and weights each one carries. The other two describe fabric libraries without naming a single mill.

3. What constructions do you offer, and can you photograph one? Fused, half canvas and full canvas each behave differently over the life of a jacket, and a buyer stocking all three needs to know which is available before ordering.

4. Can I send my own cloth? If a buyer already has a relationship with a mill or wants a cloth not in the factory's library, CMT is the answer. We price it separately from full make. Neither RJ MTM nor Kutetailor publishes whether they accept outside cloth.

5. What happens when something is wrong? We stand behind every piece: if something is not right, we make it right. RJ MTM's policy sits in a collapsed FAQ we could not fully read. Kutetailor does not publish a remake or return policy on the pages we checked.

Write the answers down next to the table and you have a comparison that is actually comparable. Note who answers directly and who redirects you to a membership signup, because that pattern tends to hold after the first order too.

A comparison table is not a shortlist

This post names three companies because a buyer searching for one of them often ends up looking at the other two. It is not a ranking. A comparison table is a tool for asking better questions, not a substitute for asking them.

What a table cannot tell you is what happens after the first order ships. Whether the factory holds its standard across fifty pieces. Whether the platform resolves a measurement error or routes you to a ticket queue. Whether the cloth that arrives matches the swatch that sold it. Those answers come from a sample, and if you are evaluating any factory for the first time, our sample checklist is where the real comparison starts.

Our numbers are on the table without a login wall: one piece minimum, 14 days in production from a confirmed order (shipping extra), CMT from USD 100 and full make from USD 155 per two-piece suit ex works Shanghai, no platform fee, no kit fee, no monthly subscription. See prices and your margin, 3 min. Or send us the spreadsheet and we will fill in every cell you could not find on our site.