Head to head
Mizuno Wave Rebellion Pro 4vs
On Cloudboom Strike
Choose the Wave Rebellion Pro 4 if…
- You race off a strong, repeatable stride and want the more aggressive ride rather than the safer one.
- Money matters: it is selling around £125 against £175, and the time difference between them is smaller than the price difference suggests.
Choose the Cloudboom Strike 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.
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
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4: 145s–219sCloudboom Strike: 152s–233s
- Cost per second saved
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4: £0.17Cloudboom Strike: £0.23
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.
What you pay
- Street price
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4£125■
- Cloudboom Strike£175
- RRP
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4£220
- Cloudboom Strike£270
- Cost per race
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4£30■
- Cloudboom Strike£44
- Cost per second saved
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4£0.17■
- Cloudboom Strike£0.23
What the shoe is actually selling for across the shops we read, not its RRP.
List price. Almost nobody pays it for a race shoe.
Street price divided by the races the foam stays fast for.
The whole-life question: what each second of race time costs you.
What it does
- Estimated saving
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4145s–219s
- Cloudboom Strike152s–233s■
- Economy gain
- Wave Rebellion Pro 42.9–4%
- Cloudboom Strike3–4.2%■
- Built for
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4Half · Marathon
- Cloudboom StrikeHalf · Marathon
- Best use case
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4The cut-away heel forces you onto your forefoot whether you meant to or not. Divisive, distinctive, and fast if it suits you.
- Cloudboom StrikeA genuinely competitive marathon racer and the first On shoe that belongs in this conversation on merit.
Against a standard trainer, over the distance and time set above.
How it is built
- Weight
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4185 g■
- Cloudboom Strike195 g
- Stack (heel)
- Wave Rebellion Pro 439 mm
- Cloudboom Strike39 mm
- Stack (forefoot)
- Wave Rebellion Pro 433 mm
- Cloudboom Strike33 mm
- Drop
- Wave Rebellion Pro 46 mm
- Cloudboom Strike6 mm
- Foam
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4Enerzy Lite+
- Cloudboom StrikeHelion HF
- Plate
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4carbon fibre
- Cloudboom Strikecarbon fibre
Manufacturer figure at men's US 9.
Rules and fit
- Road legal
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4Yes (39 mm)
- Cloudboom StrikeYes (39 mm)
- Fit
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4narrow
- Cloudboom Strikenarrow
- Stability
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4demanding
- Cloudboom Strikebalanced
- Race life
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4~260 km■
- Cloudboom Strike~250 km
- Data confidence
- Wave Rebellion Pro 4estimated
- Cloudboom Strikeestimated
World Athletics caps road racing shoes at 40 mm of stack.
Neither is better in the abstract — it depends on your stride.
How long the foam stays fast, not how long the shoe survives.
■ 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
Best price today — some sizes£124.99at Sportitfirst — £95.01 under RRP
- Sportitfirst£124.99Go to size at Sportitfirst ↗
- Alexandra SportsPrice not published hereSearch at Alexandra Sports ↗
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Where to buy
Best price today — some sizes£175at Fitstuff — £95 under RRP
- Fitstuff£175 was £260Go to size at Fitstuff ↗
- Alexandra SportsPrice not published hereSearch at Alexandra Sports ↗
- AmazonPrice not published hereSearch at Amazon ↗
- OnPrice not published hereSearch at On ↗
- SportsShoesPrice not published hereSearch at SportsShoes ↗
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.