Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra vs 2 Pro: it took 10 minutes to spot the differences

The Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra is the Cheetah 2 Pro with more hardware, not more features. Here’s why, plus all the differences.

Most coverage of the Cheetah 2 Ultra will frame it as a different watch for a different runner. Trail watch versus road watch. Mountain miles versus marathon splits.

The £599.90 Ultra and the £449.90 Pro will be positioned as siblings serving separate buyers.

But Amazfit’s own spec sheets tell a different story. Here’s what it says

Pull the two product listings side by side on uk.amazfit.com.

The Cheetah 2 Pro’s advanced running support copies across in full: lactate threshold, running power, ground contact time, Track Run mode, smart trajectory correction, virtual pacer, and Zepp Coach plans. The peripheral support, third-party sync, sleep tracking, health alerts, BioCharge readiness, Zepp Pay, and Zepp Flow voice control all serve the same purpose. Nothing on the watch that runs a marathon has been left out of the watch that runs an ultra.

What does differ is the hardware.

	Cheetah 2 Pro	Cheetah 2 Ultra
Price (UK)	£449.90	£599.90
Display	1.32-inch AMOLED	1.5-inch AMOLED
Case width	48mm	47.4mm
Weight	45.6g	52g
Battery	540 mAh	780 mAh
GPS battery life	Up to 31 hours	Up to 33 hours in Trail Running mode
Storage	32GB	64GB
CPU	HS3	HS3s
Strap	20mm	22mm
Flashlight	White	White, red, SOS, Boost
Maps	Offline maps with turn-by-turn navigation	Adds full-colour contour layers and faster rendering
Trail Running mode	No	Yes, with gradient and terrain load factor
Elevation overview	No	Yes, colour-coded slope difficulty
Better for	Road marathon training	Trail and ultra racing

The Cheetah 2 Ultra has a larger display in essentially the same case width as the Pro. Battery, storage, and CPU all step up. The Ultra’s buttons appear slightly more proud, which matters when cold fingers and gloves are involved.

For the trail buyer the Ultra is designed for, the small spec differences earn their keep.

The Cheetah 2 Ultra’s 33-hour battery life in Trail Running mode means a 100-mile race finishes with battery in reserve for elite finishers and faster amateurs. The 1.5-inch display reads more clearly than the Pro’s 1.32-inch one on the move, particularly for maps. The 6 to 7g weight penalty over the Pro registers more in spec tables than on the wrist, though every gram matters somewhere on a long day. Map rendering that Amazfit claims is 2.5 times faster and 12 times faster to refresh means a glance, rather than a longer one and a stumble. Full-colour topographic and contour layers add much-needed context and richness to the offline navigation that the Pro already supports. The hardware is doing trail-specific work, not just sitting there bigger.

Beyond the spec differences, three software features sit on the Ultra that the Pro does not list:

• Trail Running mode with gradient and terrain load factor,
• The full-colour contour map system, and
• A colour-coded elevation overview tool.

Whether Amazfit ports any of these to the Pro via firmware is an open question. They may be CPU-gated, IDK. They may be commercially driven.

So what should a buyer make of this?

The conventional question is, “Which Cheetah is right for you?”

The real question is whether you need the bigger screen, the longer battery, and the trail-specific maps badly enough to pay £150 for them. Most marathon and half-marathon runners do not. The Pro covers the road job, and on the road, the Ultra does it no better. Trail and ultra runners have different sporting needs. They need a 33-hour GPS, offline topographic maps, and a watch that survives past hour 14. The £150 buys them hardware that does the job on the trail.

Is the Ultra expensive?

Yes and no.

The Cheetah 2 Pro is expensive for a watch that runs the £169.90 Active Max’s software. The Ultra is more expensive again, hardware upgraded, software unchanged. Against the Pro and Max, the Ultra is overpriced.

Against the trail-watch field, less so. AMOLED versus MIP historically drove the battery trade-off. That gap is closing, but the Ultra’s 33 hours of Trail Running mode covers elite UTMB finishers, not the 34 to 46-hour amateur median.

Battery is only half the question. Garmin’s pedigree of ultra-specific software, UltraRun aid-station timing, Up Ahead checkpoint awareness, PacePro, and ClimbPro, is not matched here. For an amateur mid-race, “how long to the next aid station” matters more than the screen size. Whether Amazfit closes this via firmware is an open question.

The Cheetah 2 Ultra is the AMOLED option for trail and marathon runners. The ultra specialist still buys Garmin.

Then there is the Pro question that the Ultra accidentally answers.

This site’s Cheetah 2 Pro review flagged the 1.32-inch display in a 48mm case as the watch’s strangest decision. Amazfit’s own Active Max, released months earlier, fits a 1.5-inch display in roughly the same case width. The Ultra now does the same: a 1.5-inch display, a 47.4mm case, and a near-identical wrist footprint to the Pro. Amazfit knew the Pro could have had a bigger display. The Pro shipped with the smaller one anyway.

The Ultra is therefore two products at once.

• For the trail-and-marathon runner, the Cheetah 2 Ultra is a Fenix 8 alternative at a significantly lower price.
• For everyone else, it is the bezel question answered, expensively.

The Cheetah 2 Ultra is not the next watch from Amazfit. It is the previous one, finished.

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FAQs

Are the Cheetah 2 Pro and Cheetah 2 Ultra features the same?

Yes, per Amazfit’s own published specifications. The advanced running support, peripheral support, third-party app sync, sleep tracking, health features, BioCharge readiness score, Zepp Pay contactless payments, and Zepp Flow voice control are identical word-for-word. The sensor (BioTracker 6.0) and the satellite positioning chipset (dual-band, six-constellation, with a circularly polarised antenna) are the same. The Ultra adds three trail-specific software items, Trail Running mode with load factor, full-colour contour maps, and a colour-coded elevation overview, plus larger hardware.

Is the Cheetah 2 Ultra worth £150 more than the Cheetah 2 Pro?

For trail and ultra runners who need a 33-hour GPS, offline topographic maps, and the elevation overview tool, yes. For road runners and marathon trainees, no. The Pro offers the same training workflow, metrics, and ecosystem integrations. The £150 premium buys hardware that does trail-specific work, not the capabilities the Pro lacks for road use.

Will the Cheetah 2 Pro get the Ultra’s Trail Running mode via a firmware update?

Unknown. Trail Running mode with load factor, the full-colour contour maps, and the faster map rendering claimed by Amazfit may be CPU-gated to the HS3s chip in the Ultra. They may instead be a commercial choice. Amazfit has not said either way.

Last Updated on 16 May 2026 by the5krunner