AI assistants most often recommend Brooks Ghost for sustainable running shoes in 🇺🇸 United States (English), naming it in 100% of the buyer questions we tested, followed by New Balance Fresh Foam and Nike Air Zoom Alphafly Next%. We asked an AI model the questions buyers ask about sustainable running shoes and tallied which brands it named most — "share of voice" in AI answers, who AI recommends when no human is watching.
| # | Brand | AI share of voice |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brooks Ghost | 6/6 (100%) |
| 2 | New Balance Fresh Foam | 5/6 (83%) |
| 3 | Nike Air Zoom Alphafly Next% | 4/6 (67%) |
| 4 | Hoka One One Bondi | 4/6 (67%) |
| 5 | Nike Air Zoom Alphafly Next Nature | 2/6 (33%) |
| 6 | ASICS Gel-Kayano | 1/6 (17%) |
| 7 | Saucony Guide | 1/6 (17%) |
| 8 | New Balance Fresh Foam 1080v12 | 1/6 (17%) |
| 9 | Adidas Ultraboost 22 | 1/6 (17%) |
| 10 | Reebok Floatride Energy | 1/6 (17%) |
Method: 6 representative buyer questions via a large language model, 🇺🇸 United States (English). Updated 10/22/2026. A proxy for how AI assistants describe this category.
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