2026 Alliance RV Paradigm295MK

The 295MK is the shortest and lightest way into Alliance’s luxury Paradigm line, and the one built around a mid-ship ‘MK’ kitchen. The galley sits amidships between a rear living area and the front bedroom, a layout that keeps the coach to 33 feet 3 inches while still carrying the full Paradigm equipment list: a Lusso range with a 12,000-BTU burner and a 3.73-cubic-foot oven, a 19-cubic-foot 12-volt residential refrigerator, a king bed and three slide-outs. It rides the same Benchmark 101-inch wide-body drop-frame chassis as every Paradigm, on Curt 8,000-pound axles with self-adjusting brakes, six-point hydraulic leveling and an enclosed, heated underbelly.

Alliance publishes a 16,000-pound GVWR against the 12,567-pound dry weight, which leaves a 3,433-pound cargo capacity and a 2,350-pound dry pin — the lightest pin in the line. Three roof air conditioners totalling 40,500 BTU, a 40,000-BTU furnace, a 12-gallon gas/electric water heater, a walkable PVC roof and 98/106/53-gallon fresh/grey/black tanks are standard. At a starting MSRP just under $113,000 — street pricing runs well below placard — the 295MK is the Paradigm for buyers who want the luxury chassis and equipment in the shortest, most maneuverable full-profile body, towable behind a properly rated three-quarter-ton or one-ton truck.

Paradigm is Alliance RV's luxury full-profile fifth wheel — the company's flagship since 2019 and a cross-shop against Grand Design's Solitude, Keystone's Montana and Jayco's Pinnacle. The 2026 line runs to ten floorplans; the six profiled in full are linked below and the four catalogued plans are shown muted. The 295MK on this page is highlighted.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 98-gallon fresh tank is roughly 24% of the 3,433-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 295MK with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 2,350 pounds is 19% of this floorplan’s 12,567-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 16,000-pound GVWR the 295MK is towing 3,433 pounds more than its 12,567-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 98 gallons of fresh against 106 grey and 53 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 6 Paradigm floorplans profiled here, the 295MK is the lightest by GVWR at 16,000 pounds — the entry point to the line and the one most likely to suit a vehicle already at its limit.

Either side of it in the same line: Paradigm 310RL matches it exactly at 16,000 lb GVWR.

1 other Paradigm plan shares this floorplan’s 16,000 lb GVWR, so the ranking above separates plans that tow to the same ceiling. On a shared chassis the figure that actually differs between them is cargo capacity and where the weight sits, not the rating.

Against the 295MK: the Bighorn 31RL is 3 ft longer; the North Point 310RLTS is 3 ft longer; the Seismic 313T is 5 ft longer. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest fifth wheels from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Paradigm floorplans profiled here run 12,567 to 15,528 pounds dry and 33 to 42 feet of exterior length across 6 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Paradigm line hub.

Named sources publish 17 of the 18 specification fields this catalogue tracks for the 295MK (96% complete on the full field set).

Not published for this floorplan: interior height, tire size (a tire description is published, a size is not). Those rows are left blank rather than copied from a sibling floorplan.

Sourcing rules: methodology.