COROS has launched the Pace 4 Pro at GBP 389 / USD 449. It is the best-built watch in the Pace line: a titanium bezel, sapphire glass, and the largest, brightest screen COROS has made, a 1.47-inch AMOLED running at an impressive 3,500 nits. As hardware, it’s hard to argue with how good it is. What it does to the Pace line-up is another matter.
The ‘Pro’ here is the familiar formula. Across most brands, a Pro model is the standard watch with better materials and/or one better capability, and that is what this is: titanium replaces polymer, sapphire replaces mineral glass, the screen grows and brightens, and the notable new part appears to be a new multi-channel optical heart-rate sensor. The dual-frequency GNSS, offline maps, storage, and sport profiles carry over.
The Pace 4 Pro answers a question few Coros buyers will ask. These are people who could afford a Garmin but decided the extra money wasn’t worth it. At £229, it was an easy call. At £389, COROS changes the maths. The basic spec holds up on paper: a quality screen, good materials, solid battery. But Garmin’s edge has always been far more than the spec sheet; it’s the ecosystem, the payments, the app store, the training depth. Priced this close to Garmin for better hardware that will only be worn during sport, they start to matter, and COROS loses that argument.
As with the rest of the Pace line, it has no NFC contactless payment, no streaming music, and Bluetooth-only sensor support. The full Pace 4 Pro write-up covers the specification, the battery table and the feature list in depth. For prices and where to buy, see the Pace 4 Pro price section.
Coros Pace 4 Pro
Premium AMOLED running GPS watch with offline maps
Quick answers
What is new on the Coros Pace 4 Pro?
A titanium bezel, sapphire glass, a larger 1.47-inch 3,500-nit AMOLED, doubled RAM and a new optical heart-rate sensor over the standard Pace 4, at GBP 389 / USD 449.
Is the Pace 4 Pro a successor to the Pace 4?
Not exactly. It sits above the Pace 4 and takes the Pace Pro’s maps-and-AMOLED slot, so the Pace family now has three tiers rather than the Pro replacing the cheaper models.
Which Coros Pace watch should I buy?
All three now offer offline maps and an AMOLED screen, so the choice comes down to how much a titanium build, a bigger, brighter screen and more battery are worth over the two cheaper models.
For more, see our COROS coverage and the Release Radar for what is coming next.
Last Updated on 30 September 2026 by tfk the5krunner
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- Helmets: Specialized S-Works Evade 3 for road riding, and Rudy Project Wing for TT-style races. I use both.
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Home and indoor training
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Health, recovery and sleep
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- hDrop: Measures my sweat loss in summer and indoors.
- Fourth Frontier Zone: Checks my heart under load in hard sessions.
- Kineon MOVE+: Red and infrared light for sore knees, Achilles and other joints after hard training. I use it.
- Oura Ring 5: My partner’s recovery tracker of choice.
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Coros is geting better and better, it is catching up Garmin and on some level is even better. Garmin has year or two to put it together and stop fooling around or they will lose their share quickly.
I seriously doubt that they are a major threat to Garmin…they might be able to nibble…but they won’t hurt. Polar and Sunnto on the other hand are pretty much on the same level. Especially Polar seems to have lost the will to survive while Sunnto is churning out new watches on a regular basis. They might feel the heat and see their sales numbers dwindling. But good competition is always good for consumers…so Atta Coros!!!!
Well, is this an Apex 4 with amoled screen?
IMHO, Suunto Run 2 with 4 GB at 240€ is a better deal.
>IMHO, Suunto Run 2 with 4 GB at 240€ is a better deal
The Suunto Race 3S I guess will have the same OHR and GNSS chipset, but at a higher price (okay, longer battery life, etc., etc., etc.), so unless it has a few tricks up its sleeve, I too think the R2 is a great compromise for enjoying a run without having to spend any extra money. A friend of mine ran the CCC with the Run
On major Chinese e-commerce platforms, after applying China’s government consumer subsidies, the Garmin FR255 is priced at RMB 1,000, the FR265 at RMB 1,699, and the FR570 at RMB 3,480. The Suunto Run 2 is RMB 2,124 for the 4GB version and RMB 2,379 for the 64GB version. The COROS PACE 4 is RMB 1,444, the PACE 4 Pro is RMB 2,549, and the APEX 4 is RMB 2,378 for the 42mm version / RMB 2,633 for the 46mm version.
The Chinese version of the PACE 4 Pro supports music and podcast streaming, as well as offline Alipay codes for payments and public transit. Alipay QR codes are far more commonly used in China than NFC for these things, so this is actually a pretty useful feature here.
COROS has also integrated with the MCP platform, which means AI can now access your COROS training data. You can simply ask questions in natural language to analyze your workouts, identify training trends, and get training advice. It can also generate training plans based on your data and goals and import them directly into the COROS app. The official AI coach is scheduled to launch in the app in Q4 this year.
I placed my order for a PACE 4 Pro right after the launch event yesterday evening, and it should arrive tomorrow morning. Really looking forward to putting it through its paces!
At this price, it’s honestly hard to beat.