Saucony Guide 6

Name: Saucony Guide 6
Brand: Saucony
Rating: 4.4 (27 reviews)

Daily trainer · Stability · Road · 10 oz

Variants of this shoe

ProGrid Guide 6 Edition

Some shoes have multiple versions of what is essentially the same shoe, with variations in style or materials. We try to group these together. Retailers sometimes list a version number wrong, and our system can treat those mislabeled names as variants.

Discontinued — we no longer see this shoe in stock. The Saucony Guide 10 replaced it

How it ranks

The Saucony Guide 6 trails most daily trainers in our data. Cushioning and value are its strongest sub-ratings. Looks scores well below its other sub-ratings. The rating rests on 27 runner reviews and 11 other rated shoes in the Guide product line.

Bottom-tier

55/100

Overall

Bottom-tier 55

Cushioning

Good 81

Value

Decent 79

Durability

Below average 63

Comfort

Bottom-tier 57

Appearance

Bottom-tier 55

Confidence

How settled the rating is against every other rated shoe. A shoe can rate high on confidence with relatively few reviews of its own when its product line has a long record and external ratings from retailer sites agree. Confidence will score low when we have few ratings or when runners disagree.

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Confidence

90/100

High 90

What runners say

“Reasonably priced, but still hold up for the standard 500 miles (and beyond).”

5/5 Full review 100 mpw training for a marathon

“Traction in wet or dusty conditions is horrible.”

4/5 Full review 55 mpw 1,075 miles in this shoe training for a marathon

“Developed a stress fracture when first wearing the Guide 6s.”

4/5 Full review 60 mpw training for a half marathon

“Great if you have wide feet/like a roomy toe-box.”

5/5 Full review 100 mpw training for a marathon

“Lightweight and comfortable, good for about 300 miles.”

5/5 Full review 35 mpw training for a half marathon

“Comfortable for long runs including marathon PR.”

4/5 Full review 55 mpw 1,075 miles in this shoe training for a marathon

“Light for a shoe with so much support.”

4/5 Full review 55 mpw 1,075 miles in this shoe training for a marathon

“Never been hurt wearing this shoe at relatively high mileage.”

5/5 Full review 75 mpw training for middle distance

“Very supportive, but heavy.”

4/5 Full review 60 mpw training for a half marathon

“Lightweight with snug fit on wide feet.”

4/5 Full review 20 mpw training for a marathon

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Prices updated daily. Last checked Sep 14.

Pros

Comfort and value both average 4.4 out of 5 across twenty-seven reviews.
Several reviewers call it light for the amount of support it gives.
One reviewer gets 500 miles or more from a pair, and another says it lasts longer than comparable models.

Cons

Durability averages 4.0 out of 5, and three reviewers say it reaches the end of its life sooner than they would like.
At 10 oz it is heavier than the 8.9 oz median for daily trainers on sale, and one reviewer calls it heavy.
Five of the twenty-six reviewers who answered report an injury while running in it.

Guide 6 rates 55. This shoe has high certainty. See how we rate shoes.

Better Shoes Rating of prior versions of the Saucony Guide

Each dot is one version of the Guide, placed by its rating and release year. The gold dot is this shoe.

Rating

40 60 80 100

55 2014 78 2014 51 2014 50 2017 63 2017 64 2019 57 2021 60 2022 55 2023 60 2024 56 2025 59 2026

Release year

We use the reviews of past versions to inform this shoe’s rating. See why.

Guide 19

2026 · 2 reviews

59 Bottom-tier

52 Confidence
Guide 18

2025 · 1 review

56 Bottom-tier

61 Confidence
Guide 17

2024 · 11 reviews

60 Bottom-tier

81 Confidence
Guide 16

2023 · 12 reviews

55 Bottom-tier

79 Confidence
Guide 15

2022 · 17 reviews

60 Below average

87 Confidence
Guide 14

2021 · 1 review

57 Bottom-tier

52 Confidence
Guide 13

2019 · 6 reviews

64 Below average

74 Confidence
Guide 10

2017 · 13 reviews

63 Below average

89 Confidence
Guide 9

2017 · 5 reviews

50 Bottom-tier

90 Confidence
Guide 8

2014 · 12 reviews

51 Bottom-tier

92 Confidence
Guide 7

2014 · 43 reviews

78 Decent

95 Confidence
Guide 6 This shoe

2014 · 27 reviews

55 Bottom-tier

90 Confidence

Reader Ratings

27 ratings

5/5 11

4/5 15

3/5 1

2/5 0

1/5 0

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Specs & fit

Sizing and ride details at a glance.

Weight: 10 oz
Release: 2014
MSRP: $100

Runner reviews

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Reader review

4/5

Overall

Pros Overall great shoe. Light for a shoe with so much support. Comfortable for long runs (including my marathon PR) Cons Fits a little big compared to previous Saucony shoes I have run in. Traction in wet or dusty conditions is horrible

Anonymous runner · Aug 28, 2014

55 mpw 1,075 miles in this shoe training for a marathon

Comfort: 4/5
Durability: 3/5
Appearance: 4/5
Value: 4/5

Reader review

4/5

Overall

I like its combination of flexibility and stability. I had been running in Nike Frees and after trying a lot of shoes on the treadmill at the running store, found that the Guide 6s felt like they had nearly as much flexibility for my foot with a lot more stability.

sanchobaile · Aug 28, 2014

25 mpw training for a half marathon

Comfort: 4/5
Durability: 4/5
Appearance: 3/5
Value: 4/5

Reader review

5/5

Overall

Love it. Perfect blend of cushion/responsiveness. I'm terribly disappointed that they made the 7s so much more firm.

ZachJ1995 · Aug 27, 2014

70 mpw training for middle distance

Comfort: 5/5
Durability: 4/5
Appearance: 5/5
Value: 5/5

Reader review

5/5

Overall

Best shoe I've run in. I love the lightweight and 8mm drop. I run short, long and speed workouts in them. I've been running in a version of the guides for about 3 years.

beedergeeder · Aug 27, 2014

30 mpw training for a half marathon