Puma Magmax
Puma Magmax: building consensus — a public grade is not available yet; synthesized so far from 3 reviews across 2 creators, freshest review Sep 20, 2026.
TL;DR
The Puma Magmax is a well-loved max-cushion cruiser with strong advocates — Yowana and kofuzi are especially enthusiastic — but it's heavy, tuned for slow/recovery paces, and its original fit can pinch the pinky toe for some. If you want a plush, stable, bounce-heavy shoe for easy days and don't mind the weight, it's a solid option, especially on discount. Speed-oriented runners or those with narrow feet should look elsewhere.
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2 of 3 creators and (3 of 10 primary mentions or 26 of 30 total mentions) so far
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freshest review · Sep 20, 2026
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2 of 3 creators and (3 of 10 primary mentions or 26 of 30 total mentions) so far. The attributed reviews and editorial remain available while the grade is withheld.
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What reviewers said
- Reviewers widely praise the Magmax for its plush, protective cushioning and stable platform.
- Yowana ranks it in his "Top 10 running shoe of all time" and calls it comfortable, bouncy, and stable (0ddd7f41-8256-4270-afdd-503b04fab6f6).
- Kofuzi highlights that it's "very tall, very wide, so there's stability there to it, but it's got a nice amount of bounce and it's much lighter than it looks" (caabea53-5d87-4a19-ab8e-361b21d7f7c3).
- The original Magmax has a fit that divides opinion.
- jogoncrago notes the "classic notorious puma fit, which kind of strangles your pinky on the outside edge of the shoe" (9893d57d-dd03-4136-adf6-1f3c6a568c38), though later revisions apparently offered more room through the midfoot and toe box (eb0e36e5-1340-4e74-8528-6b31eff9f544).
The reviews behind this verdict
The cited creator reviews, watchable — press play to jump to the moment each one informed the verdict.
jogoncrago
“But if you're someone who's always in a MagMax or a Bondi or a uh, Asex Nova Blast, you need something which is soft and squishy”
cited at 9:34
Yowana
“I'm not going to say it's better than the Magax. That was one of my favorite shoes of all time, but just different.”
cited at 13:29
Yowana
“the Mag Max still just it just has that no nonsense there's yeah there's less weirdness to it”
cited at 7:11
Yowana
“we got the Gizzy, we got the Mag Max, and we got the Glide Ride Max 2 coming soon”
cited at 20:35
Yowana
“very similar to the the Mag Max here, this is a shoe that just because it released last year, people aren't really checking for it”
cited at 20:17
jogoncrago
“Definitely a little bit of a step down, I'm not going to lie. This shoe doesn't have the same squish or rebound or pop. It's a little bit heavier, uh a little bit more muted, as well.”
cited at 9:00
Yowana
“Puma took the Mag Max and they actually made that more of a just normal running shoe.”
cited at 35:54
Road To Trail
“This definitely feels more like a daily trainer, but this is not like the Magnify or especially the Magmax from Puma, which really are easy day shoes only, real plodders.”
cited at 4:33
The Run Testers
“the magmax has a little bit more to it it's it's got a bit more foam bit more bounce in it it feels a bit softer um it's not it's I I'm not I think Mike's a bigger fan of the magmax than me... it's a very sturdy all round well balanced chunky shoe uh definitely nice and accessible”
cited at 21:42
The Run Testers
“or the Puma magmax shoe where it's fairly heavy shoe it's really comfortable and cushioned it's got a bit of Bounce there”
cited at 5:26
MidLife Runner
“You've got the Puma [04:35] Magnax.”
cited at 7:29
Ben Parkes
“such as the Velocity Nitro and the Magax”
cited at 0:00
MidLife Runner
“a Puma Mac max, a Glister Max”
cited at 2:00
jogoncrago
“It has the width under foot though of something like a Mag Max. I think maybe a blend of those two.”
cited at 7:06
FORDY RUNS
“We've got big stuff coming with the MagMax. So, we've got MagMax XL and the Magax coming. That's on a two-year cycle as well if you think about it.”
cited at 0:33
Runnertia
“this feels taller than the MagMax”
cited at 46:12
Yowana
“they also have the Magnamax, which is that max cushion shoe”
cited at 7:53
Yowana
“this is the Puma MagX. So, a ton of foam here. A ton of protection, but it is on the firmer side.”
cited at 24:25
Runnertia
“From what I understand about version one of the MagMax, it had more of that uptempo capability, but I never ran in that shoe.”
cited at 0:00
Runnertia
“even some of the nicer recovery oriented shoes that I have like the Neo Vista 3 or even the Puma Magnamax, I would have been running quicker than today than how I was running today in the winds.”
cited at 23:13
Runnertia
“like the Mega Blast and the Mag Max and the Rad UFO have a bit more robust of a foam”
cited at 0:00
jogoncrago
“Maybe the Magax. MagMax is probably on a similar tier to this”
cited at 3:24
Running Warehouse
“The cushion room, which is mag, and the speed room, which is deviate.”
cited at 0:00
EDDBUD
“You know, the Nitro 4 or the Magax, they toast the outsole on the Nimbus 27.”
cited at 6:48
RoadTrailRun
“the Glistian Max, uh Verro Plus, Romero 18, Puma Mag”
cited at 0:00
The Run Testers
“you know got things like the Brooks Glycerin Max came out this year the Puma mag Max the hoker skywood X came out I think at the start of this year”
cited at 2:56
MidLife Runner
“not the Puma Mag, not the super bouncy shoes, the more soft shoes”
cited at 8:12
jogoncrago
“A shoe which I have moved on recently was the Puma MagX. I do think there's a lot of similarities here”
cited at 11:49
Yowana
“I'm good with a Mag Max, right? The next level up.”
cited at 15:28
kofuzi
“the Mag Max would be a really fun option. Uh, really tall, very wide, so there's stability there to it, but it's got a nice amount of bounce and it's much lighter than it looks”
cited at 13:41
Runnertia
“this is definitely a little narrow of a fit. More narrow than the Magnamax.”
cited at 0:00
Runnertia
“Okay, we're back in the studio with the MagMax versus the World.”
cited at 11:01
jogoncrago
“We'll start with the original Mag Max. I've gone through a fair bit of it already. We've got more room through the end of the midfoot getting into the toe box.”
cited at 8:17
kofuzi
“I've been using it as a max cushion shoe in a Puma rotation. It's got a bunch of comfort to it. It's really squishy in the forefoot, but it's still also light and springy enough that you could wear it for a really long time and it's a lot of fun.”
cited at 6:56
Yowana
“It reminded me some of the Puma Magnamax. I would say it's in between the Magnamax OG and the two. It doesn't have the crazy bounce of the OG, but there's not as much of that stuck on the heel feeling of the two.”
cited at 55:27
Yowana
“Some of my favorite trainers over the past few years have been on the heavier side. Puma Mag”
cited at 8:10
EDDBUD
“Now, the original MagX was one I desperately wanted to like, but the extreme width and the weight of that initial model meant it was just one that fell to the wayside for me a little bit.”
cited at 0:00
jogoncrago
“it's also not as protective and comfortable and premium feeling as a Vimeo Plus or a Wave Sky 9 or a Mag Max”
cited at 2:54
Runnertia
“It's Puma Grip and it's the same grip in the Mag Max. It's the same like patterning. I don't know if it's the same rubber, but it's the same like pattern to the rubber.”
cited at 5:59
MidLife Runner
“The range of paces for this shoe remind me of shoes like the Glycerin Max, the Puma MagX, and the Neo Vista V2.”
cited at 3:47
Yowana
“I do think it's surpassed the Puma Mag max”
cited at 36:21
The Run Testers
“The shoes I really love things like the Romero Plus, the Hoka Clifton Pro, even the AS6 Nova Blast.”
cited at 0:00
The Run Testers
“I can't talk too much about but the the Puma magmax is in at the moment I'm testing and that is another of those kind of Max stack shoes but I think you know as well as much it's been pitched as an easy kind of recovery day shoe I think there's a little bit more about it um that it feels a little bit super blast”
cited at 19:22
MidLife Runner
“Brought out the Mag Max OG. Didn't run into two. All I heard was it was Valley of Mid”
cited at 0:00
jogoncrago
“Magmax from Puma, maybe the old Magmax, which was a bit heavier, a little bit firmer”
cited at 8:16
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