Pickleball Paddle Brands Compared: Lineups, Prices and Shapes

Read the table left to right as a filter. If your budget is under $60, only Franklin, HEAD, the cheapest Selkirk SLK and JOOLA models, and the Amazon-only budget brands have anything in range. If you want an elongated paddle, every large brand has one; if you want a true wide body, look at JOOLA's Scorpeus, Selkirk's SLK Geo and OMNI widebodies, Six Zero's Coral Widebody, HEAD's Attitude CORE, Friday's Aura Pro Widebody or the 11SIX24 Pegasus models.

The counts are what we have catalogued, not each brand's full range. JOOLA, Selkirk and HEAD sell more models on their own stores than we list, and we say which ones on each brand page. Where a brand sells mainly through its own store, as 11SIX24 does, we link to that store.

The USA Pickleball approved paddle list had 5,400 paddles on 2026-11-08. We copied it and counted entries per brand, combining name variants that belong to the same maker (Selkirk registers under Selkirk Sport, SLK By Selkirk, Selkirk Sports and Selkirk; HEAD appears as both HEAD and Head). The chart shows the ten largest.

An entry count tells you how many models and versions a brand has registered since it began submitting paddles, including retired ones and separate 14 mm and 16 mm versions of the same shape. It is a measure of catalogue size and history, not of quality. Friday, for example, has 17 entries, all registered from September 2023 onward, while Selkirk's earliest dated entries are from 2014.

What the list does give you is a way to check a specific paddle before a sanctioned tournament. Our USA Pickleball approved paddles tool searches the same copy by brand and model.

Selkirk sells under three names. Its own site describes SLK by Selkirk as its more beginner-friendly line with a 1-year warranty, the Selkirk line with a limited lifetime warranty, and Selkirk LABS as its research and development branch. Our 24 Selkirk records run from SLK paddles under $60 to the Boomstik ST near $350. The Selkirk pickleball paddles page lays out the lineup and four picks by need.

JOOLA's catalogue in our tracker is built around the Pro IV family in four shapes (Perseus, Hyperion, Scorpeus and Magnus), several of them sold under player signature names such as Ben Johns and Collin Johns, plus the Agassi, the Pro V and the Perseus Power FX. Pro IV models cost around $150 and Pro V models around $300; the Graf Edge, two sets and two other models sit below $100. The JOOLA pickleball paddles page compares the shapes and the 14 mm and 16 mm versions.

Friday is a smaller, mostly direct-to-player brand whose Amazon listings in our catalogue run from a carbon fiber paddle near $70 to the foam-core Aura models near $150–$180. Its USA Pickleball entries use internal codes, which makes matching a model to an entry hard. The Friday pickleball paddles page explains this and covers the generations.

Franklin Sports has the most entries of any single registry name on the USA Pickleball list (112) and the widest price spread in our catalogue: the Pilot near $30, the fiberglass Signature Series, the FS Tour Dynasty in raw carbon and the C45 Dynasty Pro at the top. All six of our Franklin records are on the approved list. See the Franklin pickleball paddles page.

HEAD, better known for tennis, has six paddles in our catalogue, most of them fiberglass Radical and Extreme models under $50 plus the carbon Radical PRO EX15 (2026) near $120. Several older Radical models have more than one registry entry, so the exact version matters. The HEAD pickleball paddles page sorts them by player.

CRBN's 15 records are all carbon-faced (the TruFoam Genesis and Waves faces add a fiberglass layer), priced from about $150 to $230. The six sold on Amazon are all on the approved list; the nine from CRBN's own store show no status yet, because our automatic match found none. 11SIX24's eight records, seven of them bought from its own store, are 16 mm paddles from about $100 to $210, split into control-labelled Jelly Bean models and power-labelled Power 2 and Vapor models; the maker publishes swing weights for all of them and twist weights for most. Both have their own brand pages.

Nineteen brands in our catalogue sell only on Amazon and have one or two listings each, priced from under $20 to about $80. Thirteen of the 21 listings are sets of two or four paddles with balls, aimed at households and first-timers. Faces range from fiberglass and basswood to T700 carbon, and several single paddles advertise 16 mm raw-carbon builds at prices far below the large brands.

The catch is verification. On 2026-11-08 only one of these 21 listings (the PRO-SPIN Boost fiberglass set) matched an entry on the USA Pickleball list. For eight, the maker registers several similar models, so you would need to check the exact model on the official list. For the other twelve, we found no matching entry on the USA Pickleball list on 2026-11-08. That does not matter for backyard or open play, and it does matter if you plan to enter a sanctioned tournament.

The things a brand name reliably changes are warranty terms, how easy a model is to verify, and where you can try or return it. Selkirk's site states a limited lifetime warranty on Selkirk paddles and a 1-year warranty on SLK. Several JOOLA Amazon listings tie a 12-month warranty to registering the paddle's NFC chip. Friday sells used demo paddles on its own store, described as pre-loved paddles for letting people at your courts try the brand.

Player discussion on Reddit points the same way. In one thread a player advised trying 'a higher tier paddle brand that has a 30 day trial/play period' and named several; we have not checked those trial terms and you should read each brand's current policy before relying on one.

What a brand name does not reliably change is the spec sheet. A $45 fiberglass paddle from a famous maker and a $45 fiberglass paddle from a small one can have the same core thickness and similar weight. Compare the published numbers, then let warranty, approval status and returns break the tie.

This order keeps the brand decision from crowding out the decisions that affect how a paddle suits you. Most pickleball paddle brands now sell every common shape, so the brand is usually the last choice, not the first.