What is the best price comparator for sports gear?

Typing "best running shoe price comparison" into a search engine is a bit like the start of a marathon: everyone sets off at once and nobody says the same thing. The generalists compare everything, from vacuum cleaners to carbon-plated racers. The running specialists know their drops by heart. And in the middle, there is you, in a UK 9 with a sincere wish to pay the right price.

So we did what almost nobody does: open every comparator, read what it actually does, and put it all in one table. No hunches, no "someone told us": every cell is read on the site itself, on a date we show.

Sports gear price comparison sites compared: the table

The verdict: Runometry, the comparator built for your sport

It is our comparator, so we ran it through the same criteria as the others, on the same date. The result: it is the only one in the table that brings everything together on one site.

• One site, your country. You choose where you want it delivered from 15 countries, from the UK and Ireland to Switzerland in CHF, and you only see the offers that reach you.
• Your size first. Price and stock in your size, shop by shop, and an email when your size is back in stock.
• The real price. Delivery worked out for your country, a price history (recorded since October 2026) and an alert at your target price.
• Spec sheets that speak runner, the Runometry Index out of 100 and side-by-side comparisons.
• Not only running. GPS watches, headphones, heart-rate sensors, headlamps, road, gravel and mountain bikes, football boots.
• Tools for your training: the pace table, the race-time predictor and the interval session builder, plus alerts for price and stock.

And the order of the offers is not for sale: the commission we earn on some links changes nothing about it. The comparator is free and needs no account.

Comparator by comparator

PriceSpy

One comparator for every product category, with separate UK and Irish sites. It shows price history, price alerts, an option to include delivery, a side-by-side compare and a barcode scanner in its app. Runometry goes further on sports gear: one site where you pick your delivery country among 15, and a score out of 100 for shoes and GPS watches, computed from the brands’ own data. PriceSpy or Runometry: the detailed comparison.

PriceRunner

A general comparator for the UK, Sweden and Denmark, with price history, alerts, a "price incl. delivery" button and a compare function. Each country has its own site; on Runometry it is one site and you pick the country. The top offer on its pages is labelled "Recommended / Promoted", whereas on Runometry the order of the offers cannot be bought. PriceRunner or Runometry: the detailed comparison.

RunRepeat

A lab-test site: measured weight, drop and stack, an own score, and shop prices alongside with a size selector and a price alert. On the price side, Runometry adds the price history and delivery worked out for your country. RunRepeat or Runometry: the detailed comparison.

The Running Collective

A French running specialist with a French and a Spanish site. Runometry covers all countries on one site and adds its score out of 100.

Runnea

A tests-and-advice site with a lab score, a price history and a comparator, and one site per country. Runometry puts every country on a single site and you pick your delivery country.

The others in the table

idealo, Geizhals and billiger.de (Germany and Austria), Kelkoo (France): strong generalists on their home markets, each with its own country sites. Their cells are in the table, with the site we read. On Kelkoo, the default order includes merchants who paid for their listing; on Runometry the order of the offers is not for sale.

And depending on your sport?

• Running shoes: price per size, delivery, stock alerts, spec sheets and the Runometry Index: this is where the gap is widest.
• GPS watches: price comparison, spec sheets and the watches Index.
• Bikes: road, gravel and mountain, with groupset and geometry in the sheet.

What we compared

A price comparator for sports gear has three simple questions to answer: what does my size cost, what do I pay delivered to my door, and is this the right moment to buy. Hence our criteria:

• Offers delivered to your country: one site where you pick your country, rather than one site per country.
• Price and stock per size, shop by shop, and an alert when your size is back.
• Delivery cost worked out for your country.
• Price alert and price history, to know whether a sale is really a sale.
• Runner-grade spec sheets (drop, stack, foam, plate, weight), a model comparison and an in-house score.
• Offer order: can a shop pay to be shown first?
• The little extras that help: promo codes, running tools, other sports than running.

One rule: a feature we could not check stays grey ("unconfirmed"). A red cross means we read the page and the feature is not there.

How we keep this page up to date

This table is alive. Each comparator is re-read regularly, the verification date is shown under the table, and a cell only turns green or red once the page has been read. Spotted a mistake? Write to us and we will fix it.

Log: 11 November 2026, first check.