Which costs more, hair system or PRP?

Custom Hair System: $600 – $1,800. PRP Therapy: $300 – $700 per session, 6–12 sessions a year. Comparing headline prices is misleading on its own — the number that matters is the twelve-month cost including servicing and replacement, and the two options are rarely on the same replacement cycle.

Can I switch from one to the other later?

In most cases yes, and plenty of clients do exactly that. Nothing here is a permanent commitment except surgery and micropigmentation, both of which are worth being certain about before you start.

Comparison

Custom Hair System vs PRP Therapy

The same British man shown with a receding hairline and thinning crown on one side, full natural hair on the other — What coverage looks like when it is specified correctly — the question underneath custom hair system versus prp therapy.

The short answer

PRP needs a living follicle; a patch does not

This is not really a competition, it is a question about what stage you are at. PRP can strengthen follicles that are miniaturising but still alive. It does nothing on skin where the follicle has gone.

If your crown still has fine hair on it, PRP is worth trying before you commit to a system, and we will say so at consultation. If the area is genuinely bare, PRP is money spent on nothing and a patch is what will actually change how you look.

Side by side

Custom Hair System compared with PRP Therapy
	Custom Hair System	PRP Therapy
Cost	$600 – $1,800	$300 – $700 per session, 6–12 sessions a year
Timeline	Turnaround: 12–15 days for a fully custom order, or same-day with a stock base	Time to result: 3–6 months for visible thickening, if it works
Best for	Men with crown or mid-scalp thinning who want density back without surgery or medication.	Early diffuse thinning where follicles are miniaturising but still present.
Wrong choice if	A crown or mid-scalp system is the wrong purchase if your loss has already reached the front hairline. Covering a crown while the temples keep receding creates a visible density mismatch that no amount of styling hides, and you will be paying to replace it with a full toupee within a year. If your recession is past the mid-scalp, order the toupee now.	Any area that is already bald. There is nothing there for PRP to act on.

The case for each

Custom Hair System

A made-to-order hair system cut to a mould of your own scalp, matched to your existing hair in colour, density, curl and hairline shape. Non-surgical, reversible and ready to wear the same day it is fitted.

In its favour

Scalp template taken by hand, so the system sits flat with no lifting at the edges
Hair matched from a cut sample of your own hair — colour, grey percentage, wave and shine
Choose skin, mono, lace or a hybrid base depending on how much you sweat
Fitted, cut and styled in one sitting so you walk out finished

Against it

A crown or mid-scalp system is the wrong purchase if your loss has already reached the front hairline. Covering a crown while the temples keep receding creates a visible density mismatch that no amount of styling hides, and you will be paying to replace it with a full toupee within a year. If your recession is past the mid-scalp, order the toupee now.
It is also the wrong purchase if you are in the early diffuse stage with hair still covering the area. A system bonded over living hair means bonding adhesive against follicles that are still working. In that situation we usually recommend waiting, or a clip-in topper if you want coverage without commitment.

PRP Therapy

Platelet-rich plasma drawn from your own blood and injected into the scalp to strengthen follicles that are miniaturising but still alive.

In its favour

Non-surgical and uses your own blood
Can genuinely thicken hair that is thinning but not gone
Combines with anything else you are doing

Against it

Does nothing on a bald area — it needs a living follicle to work with
Results vary widely between individuals and are hard to predict
Ongoing cost with no end point

How we would decide it with you

At a consultation this is settled by looking, not by discussing. We assess the loss area in daylight, check the hair around it, and ask how you actually live — how much you sweat, whether you ride, whether you swim, whether anyone sees you at conversation distance all day.

We sell hair systems, so read the verdict above with that in mind — but we turn away work regularly when the alternative is genuinely the better answer, and we would rather tell you that now than after you have paid us.

Still not sure which?

Tell us your stage of loss and we'll give you a straight recommendation between these two — including when the answer is neither.

Custom Hair System vs PRP Therapy — FAQs

Custom Hair System or PRP Therapy — which is better?: Neither is universally better. This is not really a competition, it is a question about what stage you are at. PRP can strengthen follicles that are miniaturising but still alive. It does nothing on skin where the follicle has gone.
Which costs more, hair system or PRP?: Custom Hair System: $600 – $1,800. PRP Therapy: $300 – $700 per session, 6–12 sessions a year. Comparing headline prices is misleading on its own — the number that matters is the twelve-month cost including servicing and replacement, and the two options are rarely on the same replacement cycle.
Can I switch from one to the other later?: In most cases yes, and plenty of clients do exactly that. Nothing here is a permanent commitment except surgery and micropigmentation, both of which are worth being certain about before you start.

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Every figure on this page comes from units we template, fit, service and repair ourselves across 36 cities in the UK, US and Australia — not from a manufacturer's brochure. Consultation, scalp template and hair match are free, whether you order or not.