Podiatrist Tested

Shoe Spec Database (2026): 43 Shoes, Every Published Number and Who Published It

Stack heights, drop, weight, toe-box width and price for 43 shoes, each with a named source. Every brand publishes the price. None publishes the toe-box width.

By Tom Biernacki, DPM, FACFASDouble board-certified foot & ankle surgeonUpdated 13 Sep 2026

On this page

The short answer
What gets published, and what does not
The database: 43 shoes, every published figure
Who published each number
Widths at the point of sale
What 31 measured toe boxes actually show
Where the arithmetic does not close
How to read a spec sheet after looking at this table
Questions people ask
What happens next on this page
Sources
Related charts & reference pages

Forty-three shoes, every published specification we could find for each one, and a named source for every single number. Read the list below from the top: the manufacturer publishes the price for 41 of the 43 shoes, the drop for 33, the weight for 31, the heel stack height for 17, the forefoot stack height for 15 — and the width of the toe box for none of them at all. The easier a number is to put on a box, the more reliably the brand publishes it. The more it decides whether the shoe actually fits your foot, the more likely you are to have to get it from someone else, or go without.

That last row is the one worth stopping on. Toe-box width — the internal measurement that decides whether a bunion, a bunionette or a neuroma has room — exists for 31 of these 43 shoes, and every single one of those 31 figures came from a laboratory that cut a retail pair open. Not one manufacturer on this page publishes it. Every gap below is printed as a gap rather than filled with an estimate.

Testing status: every shoe on this page is a spec analysis. The figures are transcribed from the manufacturer or from a named third party and checked against each other — none of them were measured by us. Nothing here carries a score or the Podiatrist Tested seal until Tom has weighed, measured and worn the shoe himself.

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The short answer

Price is the one number that is never missing. 41 of 43 shoes carry a manufacturer list price. The two that do not are builds sold only through a retailer.
Drop is the best-published measurement, and the least useful on its own. 38 of 43 have one, 33 of those from the brand. A drop figure tells you the difference between two heights without telling you either height.
Heel stack height is published by the brand for only 17 of 43. A third party — a retailer, a reviewer or a lab — supplied 16 more, and for 10 shoes there is no figure anywhere. The brand is the minority source for the number that decides how high off the ground you are standing.
Forefoot stack is worse: 15 from the brand. For 12 shoes there is no published forefoot height at all, which means their stated drop has only one of its two terms available to check.
Eight of these 43 shoes have no published weight anywhere. Of the 35 that do, 31 come from the brand — and across all 43 reviews only three say what size the shoe was weighed at.
No manufacturer publishes an internal toe-box width. None. All 31 figures we hold come from one laboratory, and 12 shoes have none at all.

What gets published, and what does not

This is the whole finding in one table, and the column to read is From the brand: 41, then 33, then 31, then 17, then 15, then zero. The rows are ordered by how often a figure exists at all, and that order happens to run from the number that sells a shoe to the number that fits one.

Measurement	Shoes with a figure	From the brand	From someone else	Not published
List price (MSRP)	41 of 43	41	0	2
Heel-to-toe drop	38 of 43	33	5	5
Weight	35 of 43	31	4	8
Heel stack height	33 of 43	17	16	10
Forefoot stack height	31 of 43	15	16	12
Toe-box width at the big toe	31 of 43	0	31	12

Counted on 13 September 2026 across all 43 shoes on this site, from the per-field source recorded on each review. “From the brand” includes a manufacturer figure we converted between units; it does not include a figure a retailer reproduces from a brand spec sheet, because a reproduction is not a publication and the retailers on this site disagree with each other more than once.

The further down the chart, the more the number decides whether a shoe fits — and the less of it the manufacturer publishes. The bottom row has no blue in it at all. Counted across all 43 shoes on this site on 13 September 2026.

The database: 43 shoes, every published figure

Alphabetical by brand, because that is how people look a shoe up. Each name links to our full analysis of that shoe, where the same figures appear with the exact wording of the source beside them. An em dash means no figure is published anywhere we could find — it does not mean zero, and it is not an invitation to assume the shoe resembles its stablemates.

Shoe	Heel stack	Forefoot stack	Drop	Weight	Toe box at the big toe	List price
Altra Paradigm 8	—	—	0 mm	278 g	82.3 mm	$170
Altra Torin 8	30 mm	30 mm	0 mm	288 g	83.6 mm	—
Altra Torin 9	28 mm	28 mm	0 mm	269 g	—	$160
ASICS GEL-CUMULUS 28	37.5 mm	29.5 mm	8 mm	259 g	74.4 mm	$145
ASICS Gel-Kayano 32	40 mm	32 mm	8 mm	304 g	73.9 mm	$165
ASICS GEL-NIMBUS 28	35.5 mm	27.5 mm	8 mm	281 g	72.5 mm	$170
ASICS GT-2000 15	40 mm	32 mm	8 mm	252 g	—	$150
Brooks Addiction Walker 2	35.7 mm	23.5 mm	12.2 mm	411 g	68.3 mm	$140
Brooks Adrenaline GTS 24	39 mm	27 mm	12 mm	283 g	73.7 mm	$140
Brooks Adrenaline GTS 25	—	—	10 mm	—	72.8 mm	$155
Brooks Beast GTS 26	38 mm	28 mm	12 mm	354 g	—	$170
Brooks Ghost 17	36.5 mm	26.5 mm	10 mm	286 g	69.6 mm	$150
Brooks Ghost 18	36 mm	26 mm	10 mm	289 g	70.6 mm	$150
Brooks Ghost Max 4	39 mm	33 mm	6 mm	289 g	71.3 mm	$165
Brooks Glycerin 23	37.2 mm	29 mm	8 mm	300.5 g	73.9 mm	$175
Dansko XP 2.0	43 mm	25 mm	18 mm	—	—	$165
HOKA Arahi 8	39 mm	31 mm	8 mm	278 g	73.6 mm	$150
HOKA Bondi 9	43 mm	38 mm	5 mm	297 g	72.5 mm	$170
HOKA Bondi SR	40 mm	33 mm	6 mm	397 g	81.2 mm	$180
HOKA Clifton 10	42 mm	34 mm	8 mm	277 g	73.1 mm	$150
HOKA Clifton 11	42 mm	34 mm	8 mm	283 g	70.9 mm	$155
HOKA Gaviota 6	39 mm	33 mm	6 mm	291 g	76.7 mm	$180
HOKA Mach 7	—	—	5 mm	237 g	72.9 mm	$145
HOKA Transport 2	38 mm	26.8 mm	5 mm	298 g	70.2 mm	$155
KURU ATOM 2	28 mm	—	10 mm	371 g	70.7 mm	$169
New Balance 928v3	—	—	—	—	—	$159.99
New Balance Fresh Foam X 1080v15	40 mm	34 mm	6 mm	261 g	73.2 mm	$169.99
New Balance Fresh Foam X 1540v4	—	—	4 mm	363 g	—	$199.99
New Balance Fresh Foam X 860v15	43 mm	35 mm	8 mm	331 g	75.1 mm	$149.99
New Balance Fresh Foam X 880v15	40.5 mm	34.5 mm	6 mm	299 g	74.6 mm	$149.99
New Balance Fresh Foam X More v6	42 mm	38 mm	4 mm	306 g	71.3 mm	$159.99
New Balance Made in USA 990v6	39.1 mm	23.8 mm	15.3 mm	366 g	67.3 mm	$199.99
On Cloudmonster 3	35 mm	29 mm	6 mm	295 g	71 mm	$190
On Cloudrunner 2	—	—	10 mm	277 g	72.4 mm	$160
OOFOS OOahh Slide	20 mm	—	—	—	—	$59.95
Orthofeet Coral	—	—	15.7 mm	—	—	$119
Saucony Guide 19	35 mm	29 mm	6 mm	275 g	72.8 mm	$150
Saucony Ride 19	36 mm	28 mm	8 mm	255 g	72.8 mm	$144.95
Saucony Triumph 24	43 mm	33 mm	10 mm	250 g	—	$170
Skechers Aero Burst	42 mm	36 mm	6 mm	309 g	70.7 mm	$155
Skechers GO WALK Arch Fit 2.0	—	—	—	—	—	—
Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins	—	—	—	—	—	$110
Vionic Walk Max	—	—	—	—	—	$175

All heights and widths in millimetres; weights in grams; prices are the manufacturer’s list price in US dollars, not a street price. Men’s figures where a brand publishes both; where a figure is stated at a women’s size instead, that shoe’s own page says so. Toe-box width is the internal width at the big toe — taken 28.3 mm back from the tip of the shoe, which is where the big toe ends — and not the widest point of the forefoot, which is a larger number and a different measurement. Altra’s 0 mm drops are Altra’s own published figure and the stack heights bear them out.

Who published each number

This is the table no other shoe site publishes, and it is the reason the one above can be trusted. Every figure on this site carries the name of whoever put it into the world. Where a cell names a retailer or a review site, the manufacturer published nothing and we went and found it; where it says the sources conflict, they genuinely do, and that shoe’s own page sets out the disagreement rather than picking a winner.

Show who published every figure, shoe by shoe (43 rows)

Shoe	Stack heights published by	Weight published by	Toe box measured by
Altra Paradigm 8	—	Altra, men’s US 9 — Altra’s unsized listings and REI give 10.9 oz / 308 g instead	RunRepeat lab
Altra Torin 8	Altra	Altra	RunRepeat lab
Altra Torin 9	Altra	manufacturer	—
ASICS GEL-CUMULUS 28	Marathon Sports	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab
ASICS Gel-Kayano 32	ASICS	ASICS	RunRepeat lab
ASICS GEL-NIMBUS 28	Fleet Feet, men’s — ASICS publishes no stack height. Running Warehouse lists 42 mm and RunRepeat measured 39.5 mm; the retailers conflict by 6.5 mm. · Fleet Feet, men’s — ASICS publishes no stack height. Running Warehouse lists 34 mm and RunRepeat measured 34.3 mm; Fleet Feet is the low outlier.	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab
ASICS GT-2000 15	Running Warehouse	manufacturer	—
Brooks Addiction Walker 2	RunRepeat lab	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab
Brooks Adrenaline GTS 24	Brooks	Brooks	RunRepeat lab
Brooks Adrenaline GTS 25	—	—	RunRepeat lab
Brooks Beast GTS 26	Running Warehouse	Brooks (published), size not stated	—
Brooks Ghost 17	Brooks	Brooks	RunRepeat lab
Brooks Ghost 18	manufacturer	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab
Brooks Ghost Max 4	Running Warehouse	Running Warehouse / Believe in the Run	RunRepeat lab
Brooks Glycerin 23	RunRepeat lab — Brooks publishes no stack height	Brooks (published, en_us and en_gb), size not stated	RunRepeat lab
Dansko XP 2.0	Dansko, converted from the 1.7 in heel height on its XP 2.0 product page · Dansko, converted from the 0.98 in platform height on its XP 2.0 product page	—	—
HOKA Arahi 8	Fleet Feet	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab
HOKA Bondi 9	HOKA	HOKA	RunRepeat lab
HOKA Bondi SR	OutdoorGearLab measured	HOKA, converted from 14.00 oz	RunRepeat lab
HOKA Clifton 10	HOKA	HOKA	RunRepeat lab
HOKA Clifton 11	HOKA	HOKA	RunRepeat lab
HOKA Gaviota 6	Doctors of Running	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab
HOKA Mach 7	—	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab
HOKA Transport 2	RunRepeat lab	RunRepeat lab	RunRepeat lab
KURU ATOM 2	KURU	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab, internal width at the big toe.
New Balance 928v3	—	—	—
New Balance Fresh Foam X 1080v15	New Balance (published), men’s — RunRepeat’s lab measured 37.0 mm on a retail pair · New Balance (published), men’s — RunRepeat’s lab measured 30.6 mm on a retail pair	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab
New Balance Fresh Foam X 1540v4	—	Holabird Sports (retailer), men’s US 9 — New Balance publishes no weight	—
New Balance Fresh Foam X 860v15	Running Warehouse	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab
New Balance Fresh Foam X 880v15	Retailers — conflicting	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab
New Balance Fresh Foam X More v6	Running Warehouse (retailer) — New Balance publishes no stack height	New Balance (published), size not stated	RunRepeat lab
New Balance Made in USA 990v6	RunRepeat lab, cut-in-half measurement of a retail pair at men’s US 9. New Balance publishes no stack height for this shoe.	RunRepeat lab, 12.9 oz weighed at men’s US 9.	RunRepeat lab, internal width at the big toe.
On Cloudmonster 3	Doctors of Running	On (published), size not stated	RunRepeat lab
On Cloudrunner 2	—	On	RunRepeat lab
OOFOS OOahh Slide	OOFOS	—	—
Orthofeet Coral	—	—	—
Saucony Guide 19	Saucony (published) — resolves the 35 vs 37 mm split in retailer listings · Saucony (published) — resolves the 29 vs 31 mm split	Saucony (published), size not stated	RunRepeat lab
Saucony Ride 19	Saucony (published, inside “Offset: 8mm (36/28mm)”)	Saucony (published), size not stated	RunRepeat lab
Saucony Triumph 24	Saucony	Saucony	—
Skechers Aero Burst	manufacturer	manufacturer	RunRepeat lab, internal width at the big toe.
Skechers GO WALK Arch Fit 2.0	—	—	—
Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins	—	—	—
Vionic Walk Max	—	—	—

“Manufacturer” is used where a brand publishes a figure on its own product page without our needing to name a regional site. The third parties named here are RunRepeat’s laboratory, OutdoorGearLab, Running Warehouse, Doctors of Running, Believe in the Run, Fleet Feet, Marathon Sports and REI. We do not treat a retailer reproducing a brand spec sheet as the brand publishing it, because on this site retailers have disagreed with each other about the same shoe more than once.

Widths at the point of sale

Stack heights and weights describe a shoe from the side. Width is the dimension that decides whether a bunion, a neuroma or a swollen forefoot can be accommodated at all, and it is the one specification where the honest answer is often a sentence rather than a number. These are the widths each shoe is actually sold in, as published at the point of sale.

Show the widths every shoe is sold in (43 rows)

Shoe	Widths offered at the point of sale
Altra Paradigm 8	M/W: Regular, Wide (2E)
Altra Torin 8	Regular; a wide (2E) option is listed at retail
Altra Torin 9	M/W: Regular, Wide (2E)
ASICS GEL-CUMULUS 28	M/W: Standard, 2E, 4E
ASICS Gel-Kayano 32	Medium, Wide, X-Wide (men)
ASICS GEL-NIMBUS 28	M: D/2E/4E · W: 2A/B/D
ASICS GT-2000 15	M: D/2E/4E · W: 2A/B/D
Brooks Addiction Walker 2	M: B/D/2E/4E · W: 2A/B/D/2E
Brooks Adrenaline GTS 24	Narrow, Medium, Wide, X-Wide
Brooks Adrenaline GTS 25	Narrow, Normal, Wide, X-Wide
Brooks Beast GTS 26	M: D/2E/4E · W: B/D/2E
Brooks Ghost 17	Narrow, Medium, Wide, X-Wide
Brooks Ghost 18	Narrow, Normal, Wide, X-Wide
Brooks Ghost Max 4	M: D/2E/4E · W: B/D/2E
Brooks Glycerin 23	M: D/2E
Dansko XP 2.0	Regular and Wide by style
HOKA Arahi 8	M/W: Regular, Wide, X-Wide
HOKA Bondi 9	Narrow, Medium, Wide, X-Wide
HOKA Bondi SR	Regular, Wide
HOKA Clifton 10	Narrow, Medium, Wide, X-Wide (men)
HOKA Clifton 11	Regular, Wide, X-Wide
HOKA Gaviota 6	M/W: Regular, Wide, X-Wide
HOKA Mach 7	Regular and Wide
HOKA Transport 2	Medium, Wide
KURU ATOM 2	M: D/2E/4E · W: B/D/2E
New Balance 928v3	Multiple widths offered; New Balance does not publish a single list
New Balance Fresh Foam X 1080v15	M: D/2E/4E · W: B/D/2E
New Balance Fresh Foam X 1540v4	M: D/EE/4E/6E
New Balance Fresh Foam X 860v15	M: B/D/2E/4E · W: 2A/B/D/2E
New Balance Fresh Foam X 880v15	M: B/D/2E/4E · W: 2A/B/D/2E
New Balance Fresh Foam X More v6	M: D/2E/4E · W: B/D/2E
New Balance Made in USA 990v6	M: B/D/2E/4E/6E
On Cloudmonster 3	M: D/2E · W: D
On Cloudrunner 2	Not published by On; one width (D) listed at retail
OOFOS OOahh Slide	One width only, whole sizes
Orthofeet Coral	W: A/B/D/2E
Saucony Guide 19	M/W: Regular, Wide, Extra Wide
Saucony Ride 19	M: D/2E · W: B/D
Saucony Triumph 24	Regular and Wide
Skechers Aero Burst	Medium only in the lace-up (style 246210); Medium and Wide in the Slip-ins build (style 246215)
Skechers GO WALK Arch Fit 2.0	Standard and Wide by style; X-Wide offered on some styles
Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins	Not published at point of sale
Vionic Walk Max	D, E (men’s 7-14)

Width letters are not standardised between brands. A 2E in one line is not a 2E in another, and one width letter is worth roughly three to four millimetres of forefoot girth — see our shoe width chart for what each letter means and how far apart the steps really are.

What 31 measured toe boxes actually show

These figures now have a page of their own, charted and sorted widest first, with the fittings each brand sells beside every measurement: the toe box width chart. It also carries the eight shoes for which the lab published both forefoot figures — the big toe and the widest point — which is where the two rankings stop agreeing.

Because no brand publishes this number, the 31 figures above are the only cross-brand comparison of internal forefoot width we know of, and they say something a spec sheet never could: 24 of the 31 sit inside a single six-millimetre band, between 70.0 and 76.0 mm at the big toe. Whatever the marketing on the box says about a roomy forefoot, most of these shoes are the same width where the big toe lives.

The shoes that escape the band are worth naming in both directions. The three widest are the Altra Torin 8 at 83.6 mm, the Altra Paradigm 8 at 82.3 and the HOKA Bondi SR at 81.2 — two zero-drop shoes built on a foot-shaped last, and a slip-resistant work shoe. The three narrowest are the New Balance Made in USA 990v6 at 67.3 mm, the Brooks Addiction Walker 2 at 68.3 and the Brooks Ghost 17 at 69.6. That second one is the finding that matters clinically: the Addiction Walker 2 is a motion-control walking shoe, the kind of shoe routinely put on a foot that needs support — and it is the second-narrowest forefoot we hold. Sixteen millimetres separate it from the Torin 8, which is more than four width letters’ worth of difference within one brand’s line.

None of that means a narrow toe box is a bad shoe. It means the number is not on the box, is not in any brand’s spec sheet, and cannot be guessed from the width letter — which is exactly why a laboratory has to cut the shoe open to get it.

Where the arithmetic does not close

Drop is heel stack minus forefoot stack. That makes it the one specification a reader can audit, and three shoes on this page fail the audit.

Shoe	Heel	Forefoot	That is a drop of	Stated drop	Who said what
HOKA Transport 2	38 mm	26.8 mm	11.2 mm	5 mm	Both stack figures are RunRepeat’s laboratory measurements of one retail pair; the 5 mm is HOKA’s own published figure.
Brooks Beast GTS 26	38 mm	28 mm	10 mm	12 mm	Both stacks are Running Warehouse’s listing; the 12 mm is Brooks’ published figure.
HOKA Bondi SR	40 mm	33 mm	7 mm	6 mm	Both stacks measured by OutdoorGearLab; the 6 mm is HOKA’s.

The Bondi SR’s single millimetre is the kind of gap rounding produces and is not worth a reader’s attention. The Beast’s two millimetres are borderline. The Transport 2’s 6.2 mm is not: a shoe sold as a 5 mm-drop platform measured, in a laboratory, as an 11 mm-drop platform — and if you chose it because of its low drop, you did not get the shoe you chose.

There is an honest caveat that cuts the other way and matters more than any individual discrepancy: you cannot subtract a laboratory forefoot from a brand heel and expect the brand’s drop to fall out. The two numbers were taken on different pairs, in different places, possibly with different insoles in the shoe. That is precisely why the source table above exists, and why the larger study of this question — every stated drop beside the same lab’s measurement of the same shoe, so the comparison is like for like — lives on our heel-to-toe drop chart.

How to read a spec sheet after looking at this table

A drop figure is a difference, not a height. An 8 mm drop describes a 42/34 platform and a 20/12 platform equally well, and those two shoes do not feel remotely alike underfoot. If a brand gives you drop and nothing else, it has told you the least informative of the three numbers it holds.

Nobody states whether a stack height includes the insole. Not one of the 43 shoes here says. A removable insole is typically three to five millimetres, which is larger than most of the drop differences that shoe marketing is built on.

A weight without a size is close to meaningless. A men’s US 9 and a men’s US 12 of the same shoe differ by a useful fraction of the figure on the box, and of the 35 published weights on this page only three name a size: the KURU ATOM 2 at a US 9, the Skechers Aero Burst at a men’s US 9 and the HOKA Clifton 11 at a UK 9.5 — which is not even the same scale. Our shoe weight chart sets out how wide the spread gets.

Width letters are brand-relative, and internal width is unpublished. A 2E is roughly three to four millimetres of forefoot girth more than a D within one brand’s line, and means something different in the next brand’s. What it is never paired with is an internal measurement in millimetres — the number a bunion or a neuroma actually needs. See the shoe width chart for the letters, and wide toe box shoes for what the measured widths mean in practice.

And if the question you are actually trying to answer is whether a custom orthotic will fit in the shoe, no published specification on this page answers it. That is what the orthotic volume rating exists to express.

Questions people ask

Why print an em dash instead of an estimate?

Because an estimate in a table is indistinguishable from a measurement, and a reader has no way to tell which they are looking at. A shoe with no published forefoot height is a shoe whose drop cannot be checked, and saying so is more useful than inventing a number that looks like the rest of the column.

Did you measure any of this yourselves?

No, and that is stated on every shoe page as well as this one. Every figure here was published by the manufacturer or by a named third party, and we transcribed it and checked it against the other sources we could find. When Tom has weighed, measured and worn a shoe, that shoe’s page changes from a spec analysis to a tested review, gets a score, and the measurements on it become ours. None of the 43 have reached that point yet.

Which of these numbers should I actually use?

For most feet, in this order: the toe-box width if we have it, then the widths the shoe is sold in, then the heel stack, then the weight. Width decides whether the shoe can fit at all; heel stack tells you how much material is under the part of the foot that takes the first impact, which is what matters in plantar fasciitis and Achilles problems; weight is what you notice by the end of a twelve-hour shift. Drop comes last, and it matters most in one specific situation — coming out of a boot after an Achilles repair — where it stops being a preference and becomes a rehabilitation decision.

Why does no brand publish a toe-box width?

Because obtaining it means destroying a shoe. Internal forefoot width is measured by cutting a retail pair open, which no brand is going to do to its own product in public and which costs a reviewer a pair of shoes per figure. Every one of the 31 we hold comes from one laboratory that does exactly that. It is the single largest hole in published footwear data, and it sits precisely where foot problems live.

How current is this page?

Every figure was re-read from its source, and this whole page rebuilt from the shoe pages themselves, on 13 September 2026. Brands revise specifications quietly between colourways and model years, so where a figure here disagrees with what you are reading on a brand’s site today, the brand’s site is the newer document — and we would like to know, because that disagreement is itself the sort of thing this page exists to record.

What happens next on this page

Three things, in this order. Shoes move off the spec-analysis tier as Tom benches them, and as each one does, its row here gains measurements that are ours rather than the brand’s — weighed on a scale, stacks cut and measured, internal forefoot width gauged at the big toe. The twelve empty toe-box cells are the priority, because that column is the one our patients ask about and the one no manufacturer will fill. And the table grows as reviews are added, so a shoe missing from it is a shoe we have not written up yet rather than one we have ruled out.

Sources

Manufacturer product pages and published specification sheets for each shoe listed, read through 13 September 2026. Regional sites differ: HOKA publishes stack heights on its UK site that do not appear on the US one, which is noted per shoe where it applies.
RunRepeat laboratory measurements, the source of all 31 internal toe-box widths and of several stack heights. Figures obtained by cutting a single retail pair of each shoe; toe-box width is taken 28.3 mm from the tip of the shoe, where the big toe ends.
OutdoorGearLab measured stack heights, used where the brand publishes none.
Retailer specification listings — Running Warehouse, Fleet Feet, Marathon Sports and REI — used only where the manufacturer publishes no figure, and labelled as such in the source table above.
Independent review measurements from Doctors of Running and Believe in the Run, used on the same basis.
Each shoe’s own page on this site, which carries the full wording of the source for every figure, including the cases where two sources disagree and we print both.

Measured, not guessed

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Individual shoe pages state their evidence tier, published measurements and who should skip them.

HOKA

HOKA Clifton 11

Spec Analysis

HOKA’s product page carries a podiatric seal claim the APMA database does not support for this version, and a women’s stack height that contradicts HOKA’s own drop. Not tested by us.

$155Not scoredRegular, Wide, X-Wide

Skechers

Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins

Spec Analysis

Untested. A heel panel engineered to stay open cannot also be a rigid heel counter, and Skechers publishes no stiffness figure for it — nor a drop, a weight or a width.

$110Not scoredNot published at point of sale

New Balance

New Balance Made in USA 990v6

Spec Analysis

New Balance publishes no weight, drop or stack height for the 990v6, but it does publish B through 6E widths — and that range is why it still matters. Not tested by…

$199.99Not scoredM: B/D/2E/4E/6E

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