The 10 Best Trampolines in Australia (2026)
- By Steve Callahan
- Prices and availability last checked 5 August 2026
- 18 min read
Finding the best trampoline Australia has on sale right now comes down to one decision most buying guides skip: whether you want exposed coil springs in your backyard or not. Our top pick is the Springfree Compact Round — the springless design removes the frame and springs from the jumping area entirely, Springfree is one of only two brands here that publishes an AS 4989:2015 statement at all, and it is the range CHOICE's own lab testing has consistently rated at the top of the Australian field. If A$1,699 is not the conversation you want to have, the Vuly Thunder 2 is springless too and starts at A$1,399, and the Lifespan Kids 12ft HyperJump 3 is springless, four feet bigger and A$571.47.
Below you will find all ten trampolines compared in a single table, then a full assessment of each one — including who each should not buy. Everything here is measured against the same objective spine: AS 4989:2015, the Australian standard that governs trampoline structural strength, enclosure design and head-entrapment gaps. We say plainly where a manufacturer has not published enough for us to check something, rather than filling the gap with a guess.
Each review below covers who the trampoline is for, what is genuinely good about it, what is genuinely bad about it, and what we could and could not verify about its safety specification. Where we have no Australian retail link for a model we say so on the entry — several products on this page earn us nothing and are ranked here anyway.
The safest mainstream design in Australia, in the smallest footprint it comes in.
- Shape & size
- 2.5m round mat (5m² surface)
- Springless
- Yes — springless
- Max user weight
- 80 kg per user
- AS 4989:2015
- Compliance statement published
- Price
- A$2,086
Springfree's entire proposition is subtraction. A conventional trampoline surrounds the jumping mat with steel springs and rests it on a rigid steel frame, and those two components are responsible for a large share of the impact and pinch injuries the Australian standard spends most of its length trying to mitigate. Springfree removes both. The mat is held by flexible composite rods that sit below and outside the jumping surface, and the frame sits underneath and well out of the way. There is nothing hard at the edge to land on.
This is the Compact Round — a 2.5m round mat giving 5m² of jumping surface, at A$1,699 on Springfree's own price list — and it exists for a specific and very Australian reason: a lot of buyers want this design and do not have the yard for an 11ft oval. Springfree ask for 4.5m x 4.5m all up, which fits a townhouse block, a courtyard, or the strip of lawn left over after the pool and the shed. That is a real constraint and Springfree is one of the few premium brands taking it seriously rather than treating small sizes as an afterthought. (One correction we owe you: we previously called this model the R79. It is not — R79 is Springfree's Medium Round, a 3m mat at A$2,099.)
The enclosure follows the same logic. Instead of rigid steel uprights holding the net — which is a pole you can hit at speed — the net is tensioned on flexible rods that give when a jumper hits them. Combined with the springless mat, that means the two hard-object collisions that AS 4989:2015 is most concerned about are designed out rather than padded over.
Springfree also runs a genuine Australian operation rather than a distributor arrangement, which is why we rank it first rather than ranking a cheaper springless unit first. When a composite rod fails in year six you need a company that still exists and still stocks the part. That is worth money, and it is the part of the premium you cannot see in the specification sheet.
Springfree is one of only two brands on this page that names AS 4989:2015 at all, and they name it hardest: every product page carries a banner claiming they are "the only trampoline to continually meet the Australian standards" and "the only trampoline brand to pass all safety tests by independent bodies CHOICE and Consumer NZ every year tested". That is their claim rather than a test report we have seen — but on a page where five of ten trampolines come from brands that publish somebody else's standard or none at all, a manufacturer putting the Australian one on every page is doing something the rest are not.
One number needs unpicking, because we got it wrong ourselves and the correction matters. Springfree does not publish a maximum user weight. What they publish is a "Tested Max Weight Capacity" — 600kg for this model — and that is *static load*, not a per-jumper limit. The 80kg figure in our table comes from the Amazon listing and is a per-user recommendation. Both are true and they measure different things, so do not set either against the 150kg per-jumper ratings further down this page. We previously ran that comparison ourselves and it was misleading.
What CHOICE saysCHOICE lab-tests trampolines against AS 4989:2015 and its published trampoline reviews have consistently placed Springfree models at the top of the field. Read CHOICE's own testing rather than taking our word for it — their review section is paywalled but the safety-testing articles are not. choice.com.au
The catchAssembly is genuinely hard — the composite rods are under high tension, owners routinely report two people losing most of a day to it, and professional installation is an extra cost most buyers have not budgeted for.
Where to buy it⚠️ CHECK BEFORE YOU ORDER — WE NOW THINK THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS AN OVAL, NOT A ROUND. The Amazon listing contradicts itself: the title says "Compact ROUND Trampoline (2.5M)" and the shape field says Round, but the bundle contents in that same title read "Includes Compact OVAL Trampoline", and the stated product dimensions are 2.7m x 1.9m. We have now checked those dimensions against Springfree's own specifications, and they resolve it. Springfree's Compact ROUND has a 2.5m round mat with a 5m² jumping surface. Springfree's Compact OVAL has a mat of exactly 1.9m x 2.7m. The Amazon dimensions are the Oval's, to the decimal. Two of the three signals on that listing now point the same way. We have asked Springfree Australia to confirm and will update this page when they answer — but until they do, treat this as an A$2,086 bundle most likely built around the 6ft x 9ft Compact Oval, and do not buy it because you specifically wanted the round. Springfree's own recommended prices are A$1,699 for the Compact Round and A$1,799 for the Compact Oval. Separately: every Springfree sold on its own on Amazon Australia — including the bare Compact Round at A$1,699 — shows "no featured offers available", so only the accessory bundles can actually be added to a cart. That is why we have priced and linked the bundle. Springfree Australia sells every size direct from their own site.
Who should not buy thisDo not buy this if your budget is under about A$1,200, or if you want a trampoline assembled and jumping on the same afternoon without help.
VerdictThe best trampoline in Australia for a buyer who has a small yard, a real budget, and no appetite for exposed springs.
2Best for two or more jumpers The same design, in the shape that actually suits two or more jumpers.
- Shape & size
- 8ft x 11ft oval (2.4m x 3.4m)
- Springless
- Yes — springless
- Max user weight
- 700 kg static load
- AS 4989:2015
- Compliance statement published
- Price
- A$2,456
What CHOICE saysCHOICE's published trampoline testing covers the Springfree range and rates it highly. We link to their findings rather than restating them as our own. choice.com.au
The catchThe only version you can add to a cart on Amazon is the A$2,456 bundle, it needs a genuinely large clear area including overhead clearance, and bulky freight to regional Australia is slow enough that a late Christmas order will not arrive in time.
Where to buy itAs with the Compact Round, Amazon Australia lists the bare Medium Oval — at A$1,999 — with no direct purchase option, and only the accessory bundles can be added to a cart. We have priced and linked the Moving Bundle at A$2,456, which adds a basketball hoop, ladder and shifting wheels. The larger 8ft x 13ft Large Oval lists at A$2,299 but is in the same no-Buy-Box position, so buy that one direct from Springfree Australia if it is the size you want.
Who should not buy thisDo not buy this if your usable backyard space is under roughly 6 x 4 metres once you allow clearance, or if you need it delivered in under a fortnight.
VerdictThe one to buy if more than one child will be on it and you can accommodate the footprint and the price.
3Best Australian-designed Springless, weight-rated, and the only model here whose maker publishes an AS 4989 statement.
- Shape & size
- Round — four sizes, 3.49m to 5.34m
- Springless
- Yes — springless
- Max user weight
- 140–150 kg by size
- AS 4989:2015
- Compliance statement published
- Price
- From A$1,399
We had this entry marked as an open question until 5 August 2026. We knew Vuly mattered in the Australian market, we knew it was an Australian company, and we did not know what was holding the mat up — so we said so rather than guessing. Vuly's own specification has now answered it, and the answer moves this trampoline into a different conversation entirely.
The Thunder 2 is springless. It uses Vuly's patented Leafspring system: leaf springs mounted beneath the mat, with what Vuly calls a zero-contact edge and no spring padding, because there is no coil spring there to pad. That removes the pinch hazard and the hard, narrow object at the edge of the jumping surface — the two things AS 4989:2015 spends most of its padding and enclosure requirements managing. It is not the same engineering as Springfree's fibreglass composite rods, and it is not the elastic-strap approach the Lifespan below uses. Three genuinely different systems share the word "springless" and they age differently; that distinction is the whole reason this site exists.
Vuly also publishes an AS 4989:2015 compliance statement for this model, and no one else on this page does. Their product page carries an "Independently Certified" section stating the Thunder 2 is certified to AS4989:2015 and to EN 71-14:2018. That is the manufacturer's claim rather than our verification or an independent test result — the table says exactly that — but it is a published, checkable claim, and every other row on this page reads "not verified by us" because we went looking and found nothing. Given how much of this guide is built on the standard, a manufacturer that states it plainly deserves the credit.
The published weight rating is the third thing that changed, and it contains a trap. Vuly rates the M and L at 150kg and the XL and XXL at 140kg. The bigger trampoline is rated *lower*. That is the opposite of what any buyer would assume, and the XXL is exactly the size a family with teenagers gravitates toward. It is still a high rating for a springless trampoline under A$1,500 — but check it against the heaviest person who will actually use it, not against the size of your lawn.
Prices are Vuly's own, from their Australian storefront: A$1,399 for the M at 3.49m across, A$1,599 for the L, A$1,799 for the XL and A$1,999 for the XXL at 5.34m, with free standard delivery and professional installation a separate A$259. Vuly is not stocked on Amazon Australia — we re-checked on 4 August 2026 with an Australian delivery address set and the brand does not appear at all. So there is no link on this entry, no Amazon returns process behind the purchase, and we earn nothing whichever size you choose.
The warranty is where we would push back. Ten years on the frame tubes and joiner poles is strong, and half-price replacement parts for life is a genuinely good policy. But the safety net, the net poles and the leaf springs carry one year — and the leaf springs are the component the entire product is built around. Vuly will sell you a three-year extension on those parts for A$249, which is worth reading as a statement about expected service life. Springfree, roughly A$700 more, warrants every component for ten years.
The catchOne year of warranty on the leaf springs — the component the whole trampoline is built around — against ten on the frame, and the larger XL and XXL sizes are rated 140kg where the smaller M and L are rated 150kg.
Where to buy itVuly sells the Thunder 2 direct only. We re-checked Amazon Australia on 4 August 2026 with an Australian delivery address set and Vuly is not stocked there — no Vuly product appears in the results and the brand is absent from Amazon’s own filter. The prices above are Vuly’s own, taken from their Australian storefront on 5 August 2026: A$1,399 for the M (3.49m), A$1,599 for the L (4.09m), A$1,799 for the XL (4.69m) and A$1,999 for the XXL (5.34m), with free standard delivery. Professional installation is a separate A$259. Delivery is quoted at 1–6 business days into Queensland and New South Wales, 3–6 into the ACT and Victoria, 4–7 into South Australia, 7–12 into Tasmania, 9–13 into Western Australia and 10–14 into the Northern Territory — worth knowing if you are buying for Christmas from a remote postcode. We earn nothing from this recommendation.
Who should not buy thisDo not buy the XL or XXL assuming the bigger trampoline carries more weight — it is rated 140kg against the M and L’s 150kg, so check the size against the heaviest person who will actually use it. And do not buy any of them if you want a marketplace returns process behind the purchase, because Vuly sells direct only.
VerdictSpringless, weight-rated, AS 4989 stated by the manufacturer and A$1,399 — the strongest specification on this page that we cannot earn a cent from.
The best-built sprung trampoline here — and the one whose maker never mentions the Australian standard.
- Shape & size
- Round — four sizes, 10ft to 15ft
- Springless
- No — coil springs
- Max user weight
- 160 kg per jumper (250 kg total)
- AS 4989:2015
- Other standards stated, not AS 4989
- Price
- From A$1,049
Jumpflex holds the number one organic position on Google Australia for the main trampoline buying query, so a very large share of Australians researching this purchase end up on a Jumpflex page. That alone would earn it a place in an honest comparison. Having now gone through the specification for all four HERO sizes, it earns the place on merit as well — with one significant caveat we will get to.
Start with the good, because there is a lot of it. A published maximum individual user weight of 160kg — the highest figure anywhere on this page — alongside a separate 250kg total rating for everyone on the mat at once, stated identically across the 10ft, 12ft, 14ft and 15ft. A ten-year warranty on the frame, matching Springfree's frame term at roughly half the price. Metal galvanised inside and out under a six-layer rust-proofing process before the powder coat, which is the detail that decides whether a frame survives a decade near the coast and which almost nobody else specifies. And a zero-bolt, zero-weld design Jumpflex says goes together in about 20 minutes with two people — against a Springfree that owners describe as a full day's work.
The enclosure deserves its own paragraph, because it is specified the way we spend this whole page arguing enclosures should be. Jumpflex's SafeSeal net clips down to the jumping mat the entire way around, so there is no gap between mat and net, and the entrance is self-closing. Gaps at the mat edge and at the entry point are precisely what the head-entrapment provisions of the Australian standard exist to address, and this is a brand that has closed both. The netting is 100% polyester with a UV additive and carries Grade 6 Intertek UV testing — an independent test house, on the component that fails first in Australian sun.
Which makes the next thing genuinely odd. Every HERO product page states that Jumpflex trampolines are "built to global safety certification standards: ASTM & CE" — the American and European standards. We searched all four pages and AS 4989:2015 is not mentioned anywhere on any of them. This is the number one organic result in Australia, on an Australian domain, selling to Australian backyards, and it cites everyone's standard except ours. To be completely clear about what that is and is not: it is not evidence the trampoline fails AS 4989, ASTM F381 is a serious standard in its own right, and we have tested nothing. It is an absence in what they publish. But if you have read this far because the Australian standard is your yardstick, you should know that the brand most Australians land on does not name it, while the Vuly at rank three does.
The size range is smaller than we previously said, and we have corrected it. The HERO line is 10ft, 12ft, 14ft and 15ft — not the 12-to-19ft range this entry claimed before. Jumpflex do sell a larger MEGA line above it, but that is a different product and we have not specified it, so we are not going to describe it. At 15ft the HERO is 4.8m across and Jumpflex ask for a further metre of clearance all the way round, which is a clear circle nearly seven metres wide before you count overhead branches — and a wind surface that needs anchoring the sticker price does not include.
On price and buying: A$1,049 for the 10ft up to A$1,349 for the 15ft when we looked, with free shipping and 6–10 business day delivery. Those were sale prices. Jumpflex was running a time-limited Winter Sale at A$250 off the range, against a recommended price they date to 30 July 2026 of A$1,299 to A$1,599 — judge it on those, because that is what it will cost again shortly. And as with Vuly, Jumpflex is not stocked on Amazon Australia: we checked on 4 August 2026 with an Australian delivery address set and the brand does not appear. There is no affiliate link here and we make nothing from it.
The catchJumpflex publishes safety certifications — ASTM and CE — and AS 4989:2015 is not among them on any of the four HERO product pages, which is a conspicuous omission from the number one organic result in Australia.
Where to buy itJumpflex sells direct only. We checked Amazon Australia on 4 August 2026 with an Australian delivery address set and the brand is not stocked there. The prices above are Jumpflex’s own, captured 5 August 2026 during a time-limited Winter Sale: A$1,049 for the 10ft, A$1,149 for the 12ft, A$1,249 for the 14ft and A$1,349 for the 15ft, each A$250 below a recommended retail price Jumpflex dates to 30 July 2026 (A$1,299 / A$1,399 / A$1,499 / A$1,599). Shipping is free and delivery is quoted at 6–10 business days. Expect to pay the RRP rather than the sale price once the promotion ends. We earn nothing from this recommendation.
Who should not buy thisDo not buy this if a published AS 4989:2015 statement is what you are shopping on, because Jumpflex cites ASTM and CE instead and does not mention the Australian standard. And do not buy the 14ft or 15ft unless you can give up a clear circle nearly seven metres across once Jumpflex’s own one-metre clearance is allowed for.
VerdictThe best-engineered sprung trampoline on this page — 160kg per jumper, ten years on the frame, galvanised inside and out — bought direct, at full price once the sale ends, from a brand that cites the American standard rather than ours.
The rectangular option, and the shape nobody else on page one explains.
- Shape & size
- 8ft x 11ft rectangular
- Springless
- No — coil springs
- Max user weight
- 150 kg
- AS 4989:2015
- Not verified by us
- Price
- A$875
Google's own related searches name "best rectangular trampoline Australia" twice, and almost nothing published in this market takes the question seriously. Here is the honest answer to it.
A rectangular mat behaves differently to a round one, and the difference is not cosmetic. A round trampoline returns every jumper toward the centre — good for one child, actively unhelpful for two. A rectangle gives an even bounce across the whole surface, so two people can hold their own ends, and it delivers more height for the same effort. That is why competitive gymnastics uses rectangles and why nothing else does.
It is also why a rectangle is the wrong buy for a five-year-old. The higher, more consistent bounce that makes it excellent for a teenager practising flips is exactly what you do not want under a small child still learning to land. Match the shape to who is actually going to use it, not to the size of your lawn.
At 8ft x 11ft and around A$875 this is the largest rectangular we found on Amazon Australia with an ordinary Add to cart button, and Kahuna is stocked there in real depth — a Classic 10ft round at A$611, a Blizzard 14ft at A$789, a 6ft x 9ft rectangular at A$819, an 8ft x 14ft oval at A$892. Whatever else is true of the brand, it is genuinely available, with free delivery on most of the range.
The specification is better than we could tell you before. It is rated to 150kg — the top of Kahuna's entire range, equal to the 16ft Everfit, and Kahuna call it "one of our most heavy-duty" and say it suits adults. The entry is a zip-and-clip safety lock that closes completely rather than overlapping, which is the mechanism we praise the Everfit for and the one the Lifespan lacks. The net is fine mesh mounted to stop jumpers reaching the frame or springs. There are 76 springs on eight poles and eight legs, with angled corner tubes. And an anchor kit comes in the box, along with a spring tool and a ladder — anchoring is not optional in an Australian backyard and virtually nobody includes it.
Now the thing we would never have found without reading Kahuna's whole range side by side, and it is the reason this entry is worth your attention. Every other trampoline Kahuna sells has a galvanised steel frame. This one is powder-coated. Their 8ft, 10ft, 12ft and 14ft Classics and the 8ft x 14ft oval all say galvanised; the rectangular says "Powder Coated Steel". Further down this page we explain that galvanising is what decides whether a frame lasts a decade near the Australian coast, because powder coat over untreated steel rusts from the inside where you cannot see it. The one Kahuna we are recommending to you is the one that does not have it. That is a real trade against the 150kg rating and the rectangular shape, and you should make it knowingly.
Two more things about the brand. Kahuna publishes no safety standard whatsoever — we searched ten product pages, their homepage and five collection pages and found no AS 4989:2015, and no ASTM, CE or EN 71 either. Every other brand we have checked directly publishes something. And the warranty is one year, the shortest on this page; Jumpflex and Lifespan both give ten years on the frame at comparable money. Kahuna have also changed web address — kahunatrampolines.com.au no longer exists, and their live site is kahuna.com.au — which is worth knowing before you count on tracking down spare parts in year three.
One correction we owe you, because we nearly published the opposite. Kahuna markets a springless model called the Twister, and our earlier research had it in this slot at around A$775. It is not on Amazon Australia — we checked on 4 August 2026 with an Australian delivery address set, and the only "Twister" listing in the entire result set is a roof shade cover. It does still exist, sold direct from Kahuna in 8ft, 10ft, 12ft and 14ft. If you were hoping for springless at Kahuna money, one thing to know before you go looking: the Twister uses wide elastic straps, the same approach as the Lifespan at rank seven, not the composite rods of a Springfree or the leaf springs of a Vuly. This Kahuna is conventionally sprung and we are not going to imply otherwise.
The catchIt is conventionally sprung, so the spring pad is a UV consumable — and a rectangular mat's higher bounce makes it the wrong shape for young children however good the trampoline is.
Who should not buy thisDo not buy a rectangular trampoline for young children. The higher, more even bounce that makes it good for older kids and gymnastics is exactly what you do not want under a five-year-old — buy a round. And if a galvanised frame is what you are shopping for, note that this is the one model in Kahuna’s range that does not have one.
VerdictThe rectangular pick, and the right buy for older children, teenagers or anyone who actually wants height rather than a play surface.
8Best Australian retailer-backed An Australian specialist retailer with real premises and real local stock.
- Shape & size
- Multiple sizes
- Springless
- No — coil springs
- Max user weight
- Not published
- AS 4989:2015
- Not verified by us
- Price
- Price not checked
The catchIt is a retailer rather than a product, so there is no single specification to assess — the quality of your purchase depends entirely on which model you choose from their range.
Where to buy itWe checked Amazon Australia on 4 August 2026 with an Australian delivery address set. Oz Trampolines does not sell through Amazon — buy from their own site or their stores. We earn nothing from this recommendation.
Who should not buy thisDo not treat this as a single-product recommendation. If you buy here, assess the individual model you are ordering on the same criteria as everything else on this page.
VerdictA credible Australian supplier worth checking for local stock and local warranty, especially close to Christmas.
A properly mounted inside-frame net, in the size most families actually need.
- Shape & size
- 12ft round (3.66m)
- Springless
- No — coil springs
- Max user weight
- 150 kg
- AS 4989:2015
- Other standards stated, not AS 4989
- Price
- A$649
The single most useful thing about the Plum Deluxe Springsafe is a detail that is easy to skim past: the enclosure net mounts inside the frame and inside the springs. That means a jumper who reaches the edge of the mat hits netting, not the spring pad. A great many trampolines in this price band mount the net outside the frame, where a jumper lands on the padded springs first and the net only catches them afterwards.
We used to be inferring that from the product photography. Plum now say it themselves: the Springsafe design "separates jumpers from springs and frame." It is the difference between an enclosure that works and an enclosure that looks like it works, and it is not something you can change later — net mounting position is a frame design decision made at the factory, and you cannot convert an outside-mount trampoline by buying a better net. Finding it on a 12ft at A$649 is the reason this model is on the page. The entry point is an oversized zipped opening, which closes completely rather than overlapping.
The maximum user weight is 150kg, which we can now state rather than leave blank. That is the same rating as the 16ft Everfit at the bottom of this page, and higher than the Vuly Thunder 2 at nearly three times the money. On a sprung trampoline the rating is mostly a proxy for steel gauge and spring quality, so 150kg on a galvanised, powder-coated 12ft frame is a genuinely solid number.
Twelve feet is the size most Australian families end up needing once they measure their yard honestly rather than optimistically. A 10ft round is outgrown at around ten years old; a 12ft carries into the early teens. Assembled it is 3.66m square and 2.6m high, and Plum ask for roughly two metres of clearance overhead — measure the height as well as the ground. Minimum age is 6.
Two things we would ask Plum before buying. First, AS 4989:2015 is not mentioned anywhere on their product page; what they publish is "Safety certs: EN71-1/2/3/14", the European standards, of which EN 71-14 is the trampoline one. That is a real certification against a real trampoline standard — it is simply not ours. Second, and more surprising: Plum publish no warranty term for this trampoline at all. Their own in-ground rectangular lists twelve months in the same format on the same website. This page has no warranty field. At A$649 that is a question worth asking rather than a detail to skip.
It is a conventional sprung trampoline, and we would rather be straightforward about what that means over time in Australia. The spring pad is the component most exposed to ultraviolet light and it is the one that fails first — expect to replace it, and factor that into the cost rather than treating it as a fault when it happens. The frame will outlast the pad by a wide margin. One small piece of good news on the buying side: it is A$649 on Amazon Australia and A$649 on Plum's own storefront, so you can take the Amazon returns process without paying extra for it.
The catchPlum publish no warranty term for this model at all — while listing twelve months on their own in-ground rectangular in the same format on the same site — and the safety certification they do publish is the European EN71 series, not AS 4989:2015.
Who should not buy thisDo not buy this if your usable yard is under about 5 metres across once you allow clearance, or if the child it is for is under six — Plum set the minimum age at 6 and there is a Junior range for younger children.
VerdictThe best sprung trampoline here: the enclosure is mounted the right way round, the maker now says so in writing, it is rated to 150kg, and the size is the one you will not outgrow.
7Best springless under A$600 A springless 12ft for A$572 — the biggest value surprise on this page.
- Shape & size
- 12ft round (3.97m overall)
- Springless
- Yes — springless
- Max user weight
- 125 kg
- AS 4989:2015
- Other standards stated, not AS 4989
- Price
- A$571.47
This is the entry that changed our ranking. We went looking for Lifespan Kids expecting a competent budget sprung trampoline and found a 12ft springless one at A$571.47, sitting on Amazon Australia with free delivery. That is roughly A$200 below the next cheapest springless trampoline we found and about a third of the price of an entry-level Springfree.
Springless construction is the single most significant structural safety decision available in this category. Removing exposed coil springs from the edge of the jumping surface removes the pinch hazard and removes the hard, narrow object a jumper lands on. It is the thing AS 4989:2015 spends most of its padding and enclosure requirements trying to manage, designed out rather than covered over. Until recently it carried a A$1,700 entry price.
The 12ft size matters just as much. A 10ft round gets outgrown at about age ten; a 12ft stays useful into the early teens, which roughly doubles the years of use you get for the money. Finding 12ft and springless together under A$600 is genuinely unusual and it is why this sits sixth rather than ninth.
Lifespan Kids is an established Australian children's play equipment brand with local warranty support, which at this price point is not a given — a lot of what sells around A$500 comes from importers who will not be contactable in three years. They have showrooms and click-and-collect in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Being on Amazon Australia adds a second backstop, and it is also cheaper: Lifespan sell the identical SKU on their own site for A$639, so Amazon undercuts the manufacturer by about A$68.
We can now fill in the specification, and it is better than the price suggests. Maximum user weight 125kg — published on Lifespan's own page, though not on the Amazon listing, which is why we could not tell you for weeks. A steel frame double galvanised inside and out in 1.5mm tubing, powder-coated, with a ten-year guarantee against rust and ten years on the frame structure against warping. UV-stabilised components throughout, enclosure poles that arch away from the jumping area, a ladder included, and Lifespan's "Smart Feet" for uneven lawn. Minimum age three.
Now the caveats, and there are three. First, "springless" covers three different engineering approaches on this page alone and this is the cheapest of them — heavy-duty elastic straps, confirmed by both the Amazon listing and Lifespan's own page. Not Springfree's fibreglass composite rods, not Vuly's leaf springs. Elastic loses tension with age and Australian ultraviolet accelerates exactly that, and on a trampoline whose entire proposition is "no springs", how the tensioning element ages *is* the product. Note where it falls in the warranty: ten years on the frame, one year on the mat, twelve months on parts.
Second, the entry is an overlapping flap and we can now confirm it. Lifespan describe the Smart Zipless Entry as "a convenient zipless flap. The overlapping net is held tight and secure with tension." Everywhere else on this page we tell you an entry that closes completely beats one that overlaps — and the A$476 Everfit at the bottom has a double-lock zip-and-clip. Convenience won that decision.
Third, and we would rather hand you this than bury it: Lifespan's own product page shows 4.4 stars from 67 reviews and, directly beneath it, "1 out of 4 (25%) reviewers recommend this product." We cannot reconcile those two figures. We are not going to speculate about why they disagree, and we are not going to quietly quote the flattering one. Go and read them yourself before you order — and note that the feed pools the 8ft, 10ft, 12ft and 14ft models together, so some of it is about a different trampoline.
On the standard: Lifespan publish EN 71-1, EN 71-2 and EN 71-14 under a heading reading "Passes International Standards". AS 4989:2015 is not mentioned anywhere on the page. That is real certification against the European trampoline standard rather than nothing — but it is the fourth brand here, and the third Australian one, to certify to somebody else's standard.
The catchLifespan's own page reports 4.4 stars from 67 reviews alongside "1 out of 4 (25%) reviewers recommend this product" — and the entry is an overlapping flap rather than a zip that closes.
Who should not buy thisDo not buy this if you are paying the springless premium expecting Springfree-style composite rods — this uses elastic straps, and that is a different product at a different price for a reason. And do not buy it for a jumper near the 125kg limit when Plum’s sprung 12ft is rated 150kg for about A$78 more.
VerdictStill the best value on this page: 12ft, genuinely springless, rated to 125kg, A$571.47 on Amazon with free delivery and cheaper there than direct from Lifespan — provided you read those reviews first.
The one most Australians actually buy — and the only one here with a full published specification.
- Shape & size
- 16ft round
- Springless
- No — coil springs
- Max user weight
- 150 kg
- AS 4989:2015
- Not verified by us
- Price
- A$475.95
This is the trampoline most Australians are actually buying, and we can show you why we know that. When you start typing "trampoline" into Amazon Australia, the first suggestion the site offers is "trampoline everfit" — ahead of "trampoline indoor", "trampoline outdoor" and every size query. The listing carries 147 reviews at 4.3 stars and ranks seventh in Amazon's Lawn Games category. A roundup that ignored it would be describing a market that does not exist.
It is also the only trampoline on this page where the manufacturer publishes a complete specification, and the numbers are better than the price suggests: a 150kg maximum user weight, 108 triple-rate springs, a 20mm spring pad, an alloy steel frame, a mat rated to 5,000 hours of UV exposure, and a double-lock zip-and-clip entry that closes completely rather than overlapping. A basketball hoop, ball and pump are in the box. The warranty is one year overall and three years on the frame.
That 150kg figure is the most useful thing on this entry, and it comes with a warning. Everfit sells 8ft, 10ft, 12ft, 14ft and 16ft under closely related listings — and the smaller ones state a 50kg maximum user weight, not 150kg. Same brand, same product family, one third of the rating. A parent buying the 8ft for an eleven-year-old is already over the limit, and nothing in the search results tells them so. Check the rating on the exact size you are ordering.
Now the drawbacks, and these are not our opinion — they are Amazon's own summary of those 147 reviews, which flags three recurring problems: unclear instructions, mixed assembly experiences, and mixed durability, including a report of rods breaking after two weeks. We have not verified any individual review and neither should you, but a durability complaint surfacing in the aggregate summary of a listing this popular is worth reading before you order. Set expectations to match the price: this is a A$476 trampoline, not a A$2,000 one, and Everfit is a house brand rather than a specialist manufacturer. Spare parts availability years out is not reliable.
Size is the other thing to get right, and it is easy to underestimate. Sixteen feet is 4.88 metres across and 2.69 metres high, and it arrives as 101.6kg of boxed steel. That rules out a great many Australian backyards before price does — and it is worth thinking about how it gets from the driveway to the lawn.
The catchAmazon's own summary of 147 customer reviews flags unclear instructions, mixed assembly and mixed durability — including a report of rods breaking after two weeks.
Who should not buy thisDo not buy the 16ft unless you have measured nearly 5 metres of clear ground and 2.7 metres of clear height — and do not buy Everfit’s smaller sizes for a child over about ten, because those are rated to 50kg, not 150kg.
VerdictThe best-specified trampoline here for the money: 16ft, rated to 150kg, A$475.95 — provided you have five clear metres and realistic expectations.
The only design here that removes the fall hazard entirely.
- Shape & size
- 12ft x 8ft in-ground rectangular
- Springless
- No — coil springs
- Max user weight
- 120 kg
- AS 4989:2015
- Other standards stated, not AS 4989
- Price
- A$649
Every other trampoline on this page manages the risk of falling off. An in-ground trampoline removes it. When the mat sits flush with the lawn there is no height to fall from, and that is the largest single safety difference available in this category — larger, arguably, than the springless-versus-sprung question that dominates the rest of this page.
It also solves the two problems Australian backyards create. Wind cannot lift a trampoline that is level with the ground, so anchoring becomes unnecessary rather than essential. And an in-ground unit is close to invisible from the house and from the neighbours, which matters more than people admit on a small or overlooked block.
The reason we have put a Plum here rather than a specialist brand is price, and it is not a small difference. In-ground trampolines in Australia are normally a A$2,000-to-A$3,600 proposition, which is why almost nobody has one. This 12ft x 8ft rectangular lists at A$649 on Amazon Australia. That is the number that turns in-ground from a luxury into a decision you might actually make.
And here is something we did not expect to be able to tell you. Plum sell this same trampoline on their own website for A$849 — two hundred dollars more than Amazon. We earn a commission on the Amazon link and nothing on Plum's, so you are entitled to check whether we are steering you. We are not: the cheaper option happens to be the one we get paid for, Plum's own recommended price is A$1,099, and now you have both numbers and can verify them yourself in thirty seconds.
The one number that should give you pause is the weight rating: 120kg. That is the lowest on this page apart from the 8ft Springfree — and Plum's own 12ft round, at exactly the same A$649, is rated 150kg. Read that again, because the direction is wrong. The rectangular is the shape that returns the highest bounce, it sits at ground level where an adult is far more likely to step on for a turn, and it is rated 30kg *below* the round. Dynamic load during a jump is several times static weight. Check that figure against the heaviest person in your house before the excavator arrives, because this is not a decision you can reverse afterwards.
The rectangular mat is otherwise a genuine bonus at that price — an even bounce across the surface rather than everything returning to the middle — though it does mean the same caveat as any rectangle: the higher bounce suits older children better than toddlers. Plum set the minimum age at 6, the footprint is 3.66m x 2.44m, and the warranty is twelve months.
Now the honest arithmetic, because this is where in-ground trampolines lose most buyers. You have to dig a hole, and it has to drain. In much of Australia — clay soils, rock, established root systems — that means an excavator and a contractor, and the installation can easily cost more than the A$649 trampoline. You must also check for underground services before you dig, and that is a genuine step rather than a formality. The result is effectively permanent: if you move, it stays. Get the excavation quoted before you order anything; that number, not the trampoline price, decides whether this is realistic for your yard.
One thing an in-ground installation does not do is remove the spring and padding hazards. This model is conventionally sprung with PVC padding, so those risks are exactly where they were. An enclosure is still worth having even at ground level, for the same reason it is worth having anywhere else. Nor does it come certified to the Australian standard: as with Plum's other trampolines, the page states "Safety certs: EN71-1/2/3/14" and AS 4989:2015 is not mentioned.
Credit where it is due on the in-ground engineering specifically, because this is where a cheap in-ground trampoline usually gives itself away. The jumping mat is vented and UV-treated, which matters because a mat over a sealed pit is bouncing against trapped air rather than behaving like a trampoline. The frame is galvanised steel engineered for in-ground use, a retaining structure is included to hold the soil back and keep the pit clear of debris, and a weather cover is supplied. This is a trampoline designed to go in the ground, not an above-ground model sold with a shovel.
A note on BERG, since they are the brand most people find when they search for in-ground trampolines. They are a genuine in-ground specialist rather than a general brand with one in-ground model, and their frame corrosion protection and ventilation engineering are more developed than anything at this price. But buying one in Australia is awkward. We checked Amazon Australia on 4 August 2026 with an Australian delivery address set: BERG is listed, but the trampolines showed a single seller offer each — A$1,999 to A$3,630, one with no featured offer at all and one with a single unit in stock — while BERG covers were quoting free international delivery dated February 2027. If you want a BERG, go through an Australian dealer rather than a marketplace listing.
The catchIt is rated to 120kg — thirty kilos below Plum's own 12ft round at the same price — and the excavation and drainage can easily cost more than the A$649 trampoline.
Who should not buy thisDo not buy in-ground if you rent, if you are likely to move within a few years, or if you have not had the excavation quoted first — the hole, not the trampoline, is what decides whether this is affordable. And do not buy this one if an adult over 120kg will use it, because Plum’s own 12ft round is rated 150kg for the same money.
VerdictThe cheapest realistic route to the safest installation available — if you own the house, have priced the hole, and are not moving.
How to choose the best trampoline in Australia
Choosing the best trampoline Australia sells is a different exercise to choosing one anywhere else, and the reason is the weather. Ultraviolet radiation levels here are among the highest in the world, and the two components that fail first on any trampoline — the spring pad and the enclosure net — are both polymers sitting in direct sun for a decade. A trampoline engineered for a northern European summer is not the same product in a Queensland one, whatever the specification sheet says.
Wind is the second Australian variable. An above-ground trampoline is a large, light, curved surface, which is to say a sail. Storm seasons move unanchored trampolines across fences, and that is a property-damage and insurance problem as much as a safety one. Anchoring is a A$40 to A$90 accessory and it should be part of the purchase decision, not an afterthought.
The third is space. Australian suburban blocks are long and narrow, and the trampoline has to sit clear of fences, sheds, washing lines and — critically — overhanging branches. Measure the space you actually have with clearance included, and measure the height too, before you fall in love with a 14ft round.
What to look for when buying a trampoline
AS 4989:2015 — the Australian trampoline standard
AS 4989:2015 is the Australian standard covering trampoline structural strength, enclosure protection, head-entrapment gaps, padding colour contrast and weight ratings. It is the objective axis to judge a trampoline on, and it is the axis buyers actually care about even when they do not know the number.
Two things you should understand about it. First, compliance is generally manufacturer-stated rather than independently certified, so "complies with AS 4989" on a listing is a claim by the seller, not a verification by anyone else. Second, CHOICE physically lab-tests trampolines against it and publishes the results — including articles titled around how many trampolines are still failing those tests. That testing is the thing we cannot do, and we would rather point you at it than paraphrase it.
Throughout this page we mark AS 4989 status as unverified unless we have located a published compliance statement or an independent test result. That is not us being unhelpful. Guessing about a children's safety certification would be the worst thing this site could do.
Two brands clear that bar, and only two. Springfree carries an AS 4989:2015 banner on every product page, claiming to be the only trampoline that continually meets the Australian standards and the only brand to pass all independent CHOICE and Consumer NZ testing every year tested. Vuly states the Thunder 2 is certified to AS4989:2015 and to EN 71-14:2018. Between them that is three of the ten trampolines on this page — our first, second and third picks, which is not a coincidence.
Others are different again, which is why the table has a third answer. Jumpflex, Plum and Lifespan Kids all publish safety certifications, and AS 4989:2015 is not among them. Every Jumpflex HERO page cites "ASTM & CE" — the American and European standards. Every Plum page we checked cites "EN71-1/2/3/14". Lifespan cite EN 71-1, EN 71-2 and EN 71-14 under a heading reading "Passes International Standards". EN 71-14 is the European trampoline standard and ASTM F381 is the American one; these are real certifications against real standards, none of this is evidence of any failure, and a manufacturer certifying to them is doing considerably more than one certifying to nothing.
But add it up. Those three brands account for five of the ten trampolines on this page. Two of them are Australian companies. One of them is the number one organic result in this country for the search that brought you here. And not one of those five names the Australian standard anywhere on its product page. A sixth brand, Kahuna, publishes no safety standard of any kind — we read ten of their product pages, their homepage and five collection pages and found no AS 4989, and no ASTM, CE or EN 71 either. We think that is the single most useful thing we found while building this guide, and we did not expect it.
If you take one practical thing from this section, take this: the manufacturers who state the Australian standard plainly are a much shorter list than the ones who talk about safety, and you can check which is which yourself in about two minutes. Open the product page and search it for "4989". That is the whole technique. On Plum's pages the only hits were an image filename; on Jumpflex's, Lifespan's and Kahuna's there were none at all.
One caution, from our own mistake. When we first ran that search on Springfree we got nothing, and we nearly wrote them up as publishing no statement — which would have been badly wrong, because they publish the strongest one in the market. Their page separates "AS" and "4989" with a non-breaking space, so a search for the ordinary version misses it. If a brand you trust appears to say nothing, search for just the number and read the hits before you conclude anything.
Enclosure design and entrapment gaps
The enclosure is the component that does the most work and the one most often specified badly. The question that matters is where the net mounts. Inside the frame and inside the springs means a jumper who reaches the edge hits netting. Outside the frame means they land on the spring pad first, and the net only catches what is left. Inside-mount is meaningfully safer and it cannot be retrofitted, because it is a frame design decision.
Then look at the gaps. Head entrapment is a specific concern the standard addresses, and it comes from openings between the mat and the net, around the entry point, and where the net meets the poles. A zip-and-clip entry that closes completely is better than an overlapping flap. Check the bottom edge of the net is secured to the mat rather than merely hanging near it.
Finally, the poles. Rigid steel uprights holding a net are objects a jumper can hit at speed. Padded poles help. Flexible poles that give under impact — the approach Springfree uses — help more.
Weight rating, and why it is not about weight
The published maximum user weight is a structural figure, and it matters most as a proxy for how the trampoline is built rather than as a limit anyone deliberately exceeds. A trampoline rated for 150kg has heavier-gauge steel and stronger springs than one rated for 80kg, and that difference shows up in service life even when a 30kg child is the only user.
It matters directly in two cases: teenagers and adults using the trampoline, and multiple jumpers at once. Two children of 45kg landing together exceed a 80kg rating momentarily, and dynamic loads during a jump are several times static weight.
Do not assume the rating rises with the size, and never assume it carries across a brand. Kahuna publish a rating for every model and it scales exactly as you would expect: 80kg at 8ft, 100kg at 10ft, 125kg at 12ft, 150kg at 14ft. Everfit run the same direction — 50kg on the small sizes, 150kg on the 16ft. But Vuly go backwards: the Thunder 2 is rated 150kg in M and L and 140kg in the larger XL and XXL. Same model, more money, lower rating. And Plum rate their 12ft round at 150kg while rating their 12ft x 8ft in-ground rectangular — same brand, same A$649 — at just 120kg.
So the instruction is narrower than "buy a good brand". Check the published figure for the exact model and the exact size you are about to order, because four manufacturers on this page publish ratings that move in three different directions.
And check what the number is actually measuring, because not everyone is measuring the same thing. Springfree does not publish a maximum user weight at all. What they publish is a "Tested Max Weight Capacity" — 600kg on the Compact Round, 700kg from the Medium Oval up — and that is *static* load, the dead weight the structure holds, not a per-jumper limit. Jumpflex splits theirs two ways, quoting 160kg per jumper and 250kg total. A single column of numbers on any comparison table, including ours, flattens all of that. Ours labels the units for exactly that reason.
A number of manufacturers do not publish this figure at all. Where we could not find it, we have written "not published" rather than estimating. Treat an unpublished weight rating as a reason to ask the seller, not as a reason to assume it is fine.
Shape: round, oval, rectangular or square
Round trampolines return jumpers toward the centre. With one jumper that is a safety feature. With two it pushes them into each other, and simultaneous jumpers is the most common circumstance behind trampoline injuries.
Rectangular and oval mats give a more even bounce across the surface and let two people keep to their own areas. Rectangles give the highest, most consistent bounce, which is why gymnastics uses them — and that is also a reason to think carefully before putting one in a backyard with young children.
For most Australian families a round is the right answer for one child, and an oval or a rectangle earns its extra cost the moment there are two.
In-ground versus above-ground
In-ground removes the fall-from-height hazard completely and removes the wind problem with it. Those are large advantages and they are the reason it appears on this page at all.
The costs are equally real: excavation, drainage, a check for underground services, and permanence. In many Australian yards the installation costs as much as the trampoline. It is the right answer if you own the house, intend to stay, and have priced the hole before ordering the trampoline.
Galvanised frames and UV-degraded padding
The frame is the part that should outlast everything else, and galvanising is what makes that true — particularly within reach of the coast, which is where most Australians live. Powder-coated steel over untreated steel looks the same in the photograph and rusts from the inside.
The spring pad and the net are consumables. Plan on replacing them rather than treating their failure as a defect. A A$60 pad replacement on a A$1,700 trampoline is maintenance; the same failure on a A$300 trampoline where the part is no longer available is the end of the product. That asymmetry is a real part of what the premium tier is buying.
What about Kmart, Big W, Aldi and Bunnings trampolines?
These come up constantly and we are not going to dodge them just because there is no commission in the answer — there is no affiliate programme for any of those retailers, so we earn nothing whichever way we answer.
A A$200 to A$250 trampoline from a discount department store is not automatically unsafe, and we are not going to tell you it is. What it is, reliably, is thinner. Lighter frame gauge, thinner padding, lower-grade netting, and shorter expected service life. It will be perfectly serviceable for a couple of Australian summers and then the pad will go, then the net, and the spare parts will not be available because the model has been replaced.
The specific things to check if you are buying at that price: does it have an enclosure at all, is the net mounted inside the frame or outside it, and is a maximum user weight published anywhere on the box. If the answer to the first is no, walk away — that is the one that is genuinely not worth the saving. If the net is outside-mounted, understand what that means and decide with your eyes open.
The honest framing is this. If A$250 is your budget, a A$250 trampoline with a proper enclosure beats no trampoline, and it beats a A$250 trampoline without one by a distance. If you can reach A$300 to A$450, the brands on this page give you a better net, a better pad and someone to call. That is the whole difference, and it is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up.
Buying a trampoline as a Christmas present in Australia
Australian trampoline demand peaks in the third week of December, and that buyer has three problems the rest of the year does not.
The first is freight. Trampolines are bulky goods and bulky freight to regional Australia is slow. If you are ordering in December, delivery timeframe matters more than the last A$100 of price — check the estimated delivery date on the listing before you check anything else, and be aware that a premium unit shipped from a single Australian warehouse can be slower than a budget one held in a metropolitan fulfilment centre.
The second is assembly, and it is routinely underestimated. A conventional sprung trampoline is a two-person afternoon with a spring-pull tool. A Springfree is a two-person day, and owners consistently say so. If the plan is to build it in secret on Christmas Eve, choose accordingly — this is a real reason to prefer a simpler design even if it is not the better trampoline.
The third is that the buyer is often a grandparent rather than a parent, buying for children whose weight and age they are guessing at. If that is you, the figures to check are the published maximum user weight and the manufacturer's recommended minimum age — and it is worth asking the parents about the yard, because clearance around and above the trampoline is the constraint that most often makes a generous present unusable.