Trail Running Shoes
Durable off-road running footwear with aggressive tread, protective features, and enhanced stability for varied terrain, sold by brands specializing in trail and outdoor performance running.
Trail Running Shoes is an emerging or highly fragmented category
No brand in Trail Running Shoes scored above 40 on overall AI visibility. That means AI assistants do not currently recommend specific brands for this category with any consistency. Either the category is too new or too regional for the models to have converged on a default set of answers, or the queries users ask don't lend themselves to brand-specific responses.
Brand Leaderboard All 30 Trail Running Shoes brands ranked
Ranked by overall AI Visibility Score (smoothed geometric mean of LBA, Authority, and TOM with an LBA-based floor on Authority and TOM, see methodology). Click any brand for the full report.
| # | Brand | LBA | Authority | TOM | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 HOKA
hoka.com
|
0 | 0 | 100 | 9 |
| 2 |
 Salomon
salomon.com
|
0 | 0 | 100 | 9 |
| 3 |
 Brooks
brooksrunning.com
|
0 | 0 | 90 | 8 |
| 4 |
 Altra
altrarunning.com
|
0 | 0 | 61 | 7 |
| 5 |
 La Sportiva
lasportiva.com
|
0 | 0 | 66 | 7 |
| 6 |
 Saucony
saucony.com
|
0 | 0 | 72 | 7 |
| 7 |
 Nike
nike.com
|
0 | 0 | 50 | 6 |
| 8 |
 ASICS
asics.com
|
0 | 0 | 32 | 5 |
| 9 |
 inov-8
inov8.com
|
0 | 0 | 25 | 4 |
| 10 |
 Topo Athletic
topoathletic.com
|
0 | 0 | 20 | 4 |
| 11 |
 adidas
adidas.com
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 12 |
 Merrell
merrell.com
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 13 |
 NNormal
nnormal.com
|
0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 14 |
 The North Face
thenorthface.com
|
0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 15 |
 Craft
craft.do
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 |
 Dynafit
dynafit.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 |
 Icebug
icebug.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 |
 Joma
joma-sport.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 |
 Kailas
kailasgear.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 |
 Mizuno
mizuno.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 |
 norda
norda.com
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 |
 On
on.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 |
 RaidLight
raidlight.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 |
 Scarpa
scarpa.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 |
 Scott
scott-sports.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 |
 Speedland
runspeedland.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 |
 Tecnica
tecnica.it
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 |
 Vivobarefoot
vivobarefoot.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 |
 VJ
vjshoes.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 |
 Xero Shoes
xeroshoes.com
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
How is this calculated? Methodology
Every brand in this leaderboard is scored against the same set of 245 shared Trail Running Shoes prompts. The same prompts, same model, same iterations. So differences in scores reflect actual differences in AI visibility, not differences in measurement.
Overall AI Visibility Score
composite = ((LBA + 5)(Authority + 5)(TOM + 5))^(1/3) - 5. The floor keeps brands the model clearly recognises but doesn't yet recommend from collapsing to zero, while a single genuinely weak metric still pulls the composite down. Full methodology.
Shared industry prompts
Latent Brand Association (LBA)
quality × meta × stability × share × recognition × 100. Read the full LBA methodology →