This is a reference table of the pickleball paddles PaddleTestLab covers, with the specifications each manufacturer publishes for them, gathered in one place so you can compare frames without opening twelve browser tabs. It is deliberately not a list of every paddle on the market, and it is deliberately not a list of numbers we have measured ourselves.
What This Database Is — and What It Is Not
Being precise about this matters more than looking impressive, so here it is plainly.
What the table contains: manufacturer-published specifications — shape, core construction and thickness, face material, stated weight range, frame dimensions, handle length and grip circumference. These are facts the brands publish and anyone can verify on the product page.
What the table does not contain: spin RPM, swing weight or power figures produced by us. We do not operate a testing lab, and we do not publish measurements we have not taken. Where independent measured data exists, we point you to the people who actually measured it rather than reprinting their work as our own.
Why We Don’t Publish a Spin RPM Column
Because the numbers are not comparable, and a single column would imply they are.
Independent testers use genuinely different rigs. Pickleball Studio records spin with a Stalker Pro 3s radar gun off a real human swing. John Kew has moved to a ball cannon with the player removed from the equation entirely, firing at fixed speeds with the paddle clamped. Those two approaches produce numbers on completely different scales — the same paddle can read in the hundreds under one protocol and the low thousands under another.
Putting figures from different sources in one column, sorted, would create a ranking that looks authoritative and means nothing. If you want measured performance data, go to the source and compare within a single tester’s dataset:
- Pickleball Studio — 350+ paddles, spin RPM via Stalker Pro 3s radar, swing weight via Briffidi SW1
- Johnkew Pickleball — ball-cannon KewCOR power testing, spin durability under accelerated wear
- Matt’s Pickleball — measured specs and per-paddle breakdowns
Those three do work we cannot do, and they deserve the traffic for it.
2026 Paddle Specification Table
All figures below are as published by the manufacturer. Stated weight is a range because paddles vary unit to unit — the paddle that arrives will not necessarily match the average. Verify the current listing before buying, since brands revise specs between production runs without renaming the model.
| Paddle | Shape | Core | Face | Weight (oz, claimed) | Length × Width (in) | Handle (in) | Grip (in) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vatic Pro Prism Flash | Hybrid | 16mm polymer honeycomb, foam edge | Raw carbon fibre | 8.0–8.3 | 16.25–16.37 × 7.7 | 5.3 / 5.5 | 4.125 | Gen 1.5 build — edge foam, not fully thermoformed |
| Vatic Pro Prism V7 | Elongated | 16mm polymer honeycomb, foam edge | Raw carbon fibre | 8.2–8.5 | 16.5 × 7.5 | 5.5 | 4.125 | Longer, heavier sibling of the Flash |
| Vatic Pro Saga | Hybrid / Elongated | 16mm polymer, 10mm cell | Carbon + proprietary layer + carbon | 8.0–8.5 | 16.25–16.5 × 7.5–7.7 | 5.3 / 5.5 | 4.125 | Successor to the Prism series |
| Six Zero Double Black Diamond Control 16mm | Hybrid | 16mm honeycomb polymer, foam edgewalls | Toray T700 raw carbon | 7.9–8.3 (avg 8.1) | 16.3 × 7.7 | 5.5 | 4.25 | Balance point 9.38 in |
| Six Zero Coral 16mm | Hybrid | 16mm polymer, foam edgewalls | Raw carbon fibre | ≈8.0–8.3 | 16.3 × 7.7 | 5.5 | 4.25 | Positioned as the arm-friendly DBD evolution |
| JOOLA Perseus Pro IV 16mm | Elongated | 16mm honeycomb + hyper-foam edge wall | Textured carbon fibre | 7.9–8.3 (avg 8.1) | 16.5 × 7.5 | 5.5 | 4.25 | Ben Johns signature frame |
| JOOLA Agassi Edge 16mm | Elongated | 16mm response polymer honeycomb | Textured carbon fibre | 7.6–8.0 (avg 7.8) | 16.5 × 7.5 | 5.5 | 4.25 | Lighter, control-leaning; USAP + UPA-A listed |
| CRBN¹ TruFoam Genesis | Elongated | 14mm 100% TruFoam core | Raw carbon fibre | ≈7.9–8.2 | 16.5 × 7.35 | 5.5 | 4.25 | 14mm core reported to play closer to 16mm |
| CRBN² TruFoam Genesis | Widebody | 14mm 100% TruFoam core | Raw carbon fibre | ≈7.9–8.2 | 16.0 × 7.85 | 5.0 | 4.25 | Largest face of the Genesis line |
| CRBN³ TruFoam Genesis | Hybrid | 14mm 100% TruFoam core | Raw carbon fibre | ≈7.9–8.2 | 16.5 × 7.5 | 5.5 | 4.25 | Middle-ground shape |
| Ronbus Quanta R3.16 | Elongated | 16mm EPP core + EVA foam ring, TPE inserts | Raw carbon fibre | 7.8 ±0.2 | 16.5 × 7.5 | 5.5 | 4.25 | Swing weight 114, twist weight 6.05 (brand-published) |
| Selkirk SLK Halo XL Control | Elongated | 16mm polymer | Raw carbon fibre | ≈7.9–8.3 | 16.5 × 7.375 | 5.5 | 4.25 | Selkirk’s budget performance line |
12 paddles listed. This table is expanded as we publish new reviews — it covers the frames our content actually examines rather than padding the count with models we have never looked at.
How to Use It
Compare within a column rather than across paddles as a whole. Core thickness and face material tell you most of what you need about feel; shape tells you about reach versus sweet spot; handle length matters if you play a two-handed backhand; grip circumference is the spec most often bought wrong.
If you are not sure which combination suits you, work through how to choose a pickleball paddle, or read the specific explainers on 14mm versus 16mm cores, core construction types, shape trade-offs, swing weight and grip sizing.
Before buying for sanctioned play, confirm the exact model appears on the current approved list — see how USA Pickleball approval works. Warranty terms vary far more between brands than the paddles do; our warranty comparison covers who actually stands behind their frames.
Head-to-head comparisons
The table above covers the whole field. For paddle-versus-paddle decisions, these pages compare two models on both claimed and independently measured figures:
- CRBN TruFoam Genesis — Elongated vs Wide vs Hybrid
- Vatic Pro Prism Flash vs Prism V7
- Six Zero DBD Control 16mm vs Coral 16mm
Corrections
If a specification here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will fix it and note the change. We would rather be corrected than be confidently inaccurate. Our full method is set out in our review process.