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40Race Shoe FinderEst. 2023 · London

Head to head

adidas Adizero Adios Pro 4vs
adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2

Adizero Adios Pro 4

£176

Typical street price · £230 RRP

39mm — road legal
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2

approx £296

Estimated street price · £450 RRP

39mm — road legal

Choose the Adizero Adios Pro 4 if…

  • You want something more forgiving. This is the steadier platform — useful if your form goes late, or if you are on your feet longer.
  • You want a conventional fit rather than a narrow or wide last.
  • Money matters: it is selling around £176 against £296, and the time difference between them is smaller than the price difference suggests.
  • You want more races out of one pair: about 260km of competitive life against 120km.
  • You are racing 10K — built for it, where the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2 is not.

Choose the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2 if…

  • You want the bigger return: 3.8–5% economy gain against 3.2–4.3%, and that gap widens the longer you are out there.
  • You want the lighter shoe: 138g against 210g, a 72g difference you will feel late in a race.
  • You race off a strong, repeatable stride and want the more aggressive ride rather than the safer one.
  • You have a narrow foot and want to be locked in.

What does this
mean for you?

Every figure below is recalculated from your race and your current time. The gap between two shoes is not fixed — it grows with how long you are on your feet.

Over marathon from 3:45:00

Time back
Adizero Adios Pro 4: 165s–240sAdizero Adios Pro Evo 2: 206s–286s
Cost per second saved
Adizero Adios Pro 4: £0.21Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2: £0.63

Ranges, not promises. Both figures are against a standard trainer, and the honest answer for most runners is that the difference between two shoes of this class is smaller than the difference a month of decent training makes.

Every number.

010203040503933
Adizero Adios Pro 4
010203040503936
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2

What you pay

Street price
Adizero Adios Pro 4£176■
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2~£296

A tilde marks an estimate: no shop we read is currently listing that shoe, so the figure is RRP less the discount comparable shoes are actually selling at.

RRP
Adizero Adios Pro 4£230
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2£450

List price. Almost nobody pays it for a race shoe.

Cost per race
Adizero Adios Pro 4£43■
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2£156

Street price divided by the races the foam stays fast for.

Cost per second saved
Adizero Adios Pro 4£0.21■
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2£0.63

The whole-life question: what each second of race time costs you.

What it does

Estimated saving
Adizero Adios Pro 4165s–240s
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2206s–286s■

Against a standard trainer, over the distance and time set above.

Economy gain
Adizero Adios Pro 43.2–4.3%
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 23.8–5%■
Built for
Adizero Adios Pro 410K · Half · Marathon
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2Half · Marathon
Best use case
Adizero Adios Pro 4The best value at the very top of the market. Within touching distance of the Evo 2 for performance at half the price and twice the life.
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2The lightest marathon shoe ever sold and, on the evidence, the fastest. At 138g it is closer to a track spike than a road shoe.

How it is built

Weight
Adizero Adios Pro 4210 g
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2138 g■

Manufacturer figure at men's US 9.

Stack (heel)
Adizero Adios Pro 439 mm
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 239 mm
Stack (forefoot)
Adizero Adios Pro 433 mm
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 236 mm
Drop
Adizero Adios Pro 46 mm
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 23 mm
Foam
Adizero Adios Pro 4Lightstrike Pro
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2Lightstrike Pro
Plate
Adizero Adios Pro 4carbon fibre
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2carbon fibre

Rules and fit

Road legal
Adizero Adios Pro 4Yes (39 mm)
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2Yes (39 mm)

World Athletics caps road racing shoes at 40 mm of stack.

Fit
Adizero Adios Pro 4standard
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2narrow
Stability
Adizero Adios Pro 4balanced
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2demanding

Neither is better in the abstract — it depends on your stride.

Race life
Adizero Adios Pro 4~260 km■
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2~120 km

How long the foam stays fast, not how long the shoe survives.

Data confidence
Adizero Adios Pro 4verified
Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2verified

■ marks the better figure where one is genuinely better. Fit, foam, drop and stability carry no mark — they depend on your foot and your stride, not on which shoe is superior.

In your size.

Where to buy

Your UK size

Best price today — some sizes£150at Runningbear — £80 under RRP

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Where to buy

No retailer we can read publishes a live price for this shoe, so we cannot check your size. The links below go to each retailer’s own search, where they show the current price and what they hold.

9 retailer checks failed on the last run, so their prices are missing rather than wrong.

Prices are captured when the site is built and stamped with the time of that check. We never rank a retailer by what it pays us; where a link earns a commission it is marked sponsored and the price you pay is unchanged.