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Shokz's Canadian store sells the OpenRun Pro 2 at C$249.95: Black, Silver, Orange, Blue and Lunar White, a Chicago Marathon edition listed beside them, each in a Standard or a Mini band. Amazon.ca's Shokz Official storefront asks the same C$249.95 for the black Standard pair and showed it in stock on 5 November 2026. Neither channel marks the figure down; the Canadian store prints C$249.95 as both the regular and the sale price, with nothing struck through.
Where to buy does not need weighing up in Canada. Shokz's American site greets a Canadian visitor with a notice that it does not ship orders from the United States to Canada and offers to redirect them to the local store, so the pair arrives through ca.shokz.com or through an Amazon.ca listing sold by Shokz Official. The Canadian ladder runs C$229.95 for the first-generation OpenRun Pro, C$169.95 for the OpenRun, C$249.95 for this pair and C$299.95 for the OpenSwim Pro: C$20 above the older Pro, C$80 above the OpenRun.
A third channel exists at a premium, and it is the number to check before ordering. Several Amazon.ca listings from 100Things CA, a marketplace seller rather than Shokz, ask C$289.00 for the same black Standard pair, C$39 above both official prices, Those listings are sold and shipped by 100Things CA, not by Shokz Official.
Our verdict
At C$249.95 the OpenRun Pro 2 is a runner's pair: 12 hours a charge, IP55, a second driver for bass, the road still audible. Buy it from Shokz Canada or Shokz Official on Amazon.ca, not from the C$289 marketplace listings.
- A good fit for
- A Canadian runner, rider or hiker who wants music and traffic at once, sweats through rain and road grit, and will wear a band across the head instead of an earbud.
- We would skip it if
- You want quiet on a plane, a train or an open-plan floor: nothing here seals the ear canal, and no setting changes that.
Reasons to consider it
- C$249.95 from Shokz Canada and C$249.95 from Amazon.ca's Shokz Official offer for the black Standard pair, in stock on 2026-11-05, with the same Standard and Mini band sizes on both
- DualPitch puts a bone-conduction driver on the cheekbone and a separate air-conduction driver outside the ear for bass, and Classic mode switches the air driver off for the older bone-only sound
- 12 hours a charge, one hour to refill over USB-C, 30.3 g, IP55, six EQ presets and two custom slots in the Shokz app
- Shokz Canada prints 45-day free returns, a 45-day price-match promise and a two-year warranty against purchases on its own store
The compromises
- The C$80 step down to the C$169.95 OpenRun buys IP67 instead of IP55 and gives up four hours of battery; the C$20 step up from the C$229.95 first-generation Pro buys the second driver, two more hours and USB-C
- Nothing seals the canal, so traffic, wind and gym music arrive with the track, and raising the volume to beat them is what pushes the air driver's bass out to the person beside you
- Marketplace listings from sellers other than Shokz ask C$289.00 for the same band, C$39 above both official prices, and outside the wording of Shokz Canada's returns and warranty
What we have not verified: Shokz Canada's page gives no volume condition for the 12 hours (Shokz's UK page footnotes 75 percent volume), and no Shokz page gives a leakage figure, so how much bass leaves the head at street volume cannot be checked. The 23.5 cm size threshold is the only fit number it prints, and neither channel says whether the band clears a helmet or spectacle temples. Bluetooth 5.3 appears in Amazon.ca's attribute table and nowhere on the Canadian store page; the 96.5 percent noise-reduction and 15 mph wind figures are the Amazon.ca listing's own claims, with no method on either Canadian page. Every price here is a one-day reading, and the marketplace figure of C$289.00 may move independently of Shokz's C$249.95.
The things in this guide
A closer look at the products, who they may suit, and what to check before buying.
OpenRun Pro 2 Open-Ear Sport Headphones
C$249.95 at Shokz Canada and at Amazon.ca's Shokz Official listing buys the bone-conduction driver plus the air-conduction driver for bass, 12 hours from a one-hour USB-C fill, IP55, six EQ presets and two custom slots, in a 30.3 g band with a carrying case, 45-day returns and a two-year warranty.
Before you buy: IP55 where the C$169.95 OpenRun manages IP67; nothing seals the ear, so on a loud street the music competes with traffic, and Shokz publishes no leakage figure to settle how much escapes.
One price, two Canadian channels
C$249.95 is the number on both official shelves, and neither is a markdown. Shokz's Canadian store prints it as the regular price and again as the sale price, with an Add to Cart button and no struck-through figure; Amazon.ca's Shokz Official offer for the black Standard pair prints the same C$249.95 against an In Stock line. Five standard colours and a Chicago Marathon edition sit side by side on the store, and the band comes in Standard or Mini at that one price.
Shokz Canada lists headphones, a carrying case, a USB-C cable, a product box, a user guide, a legal statement, an app card and a warranty card. Amazon.ca's Shokz Official listing calls the same pouch a carrying bag and adds an after-sales service card. No charger is inside either carton, and Shokz's FAQ sends buyers to any DC 5 V supply.
Four service lines are printed on the product page rather than buried in a policy: fast free delivery, a 45-day price-match promise, 45-day free returns and a two-year warranty. Claims go through the Warranty Claim link in the store's footer.
What C$80 and C$20 buy in the Canadian line
The Canadian ladder is four models deep: OpenRun C$169.95, first-generation OpenRun Pro C$229.95, this pair C$249.95, OpenSwim Pro C$299.95. Going up from the OpenRun, C$80 buys four more hours of battery, the second driver and two generations of bone conduction, and adds 3.9 g; the OpenRun itself already comes with either a magnetic or a USB-C port. Going up from the older Pro, C$20 buys the second driver, two more hours and the USB-C port on an unchanged IP55 rating.
The water ratings run the other way, which is where the ladder stops being a straight line. The C$169.95 OpenRun carries IP67, a class above this pair's IP55, and the C$299.95 OpenSwim Pro carries IP68, rated for continuous immersion. Nothing in the OpenRun Pro 2 line is rated for a pool.
The boxes track the price. The OpenRun ships a carrying bag with a magnetic or a USB-C cable, depending on the version chosen; the first-generation Pro ships a carrying case and a magnetic cable; this pair ships a carrying case and a USB-C cable. For a buyer stepping up from the older Pro, the USB-C port is a small practical gain that the C$20 also buys.
The open ear is the feature and the bill
There is no noise cancelling and no transparency mode to switch between, because nothing seals the canal. A subway platform, a bike lane beside moving traffic and the gym's own speakers all stay in the mix, and that is the design working: the same opening that lets a bus be heard lets a podcast compete with it.
The bill arrives at volume. On a quiet path the 12-hour cell is the only limit; beside four lanes the ambient noise sets the level, and Shokz ships a Volume Boost mode for exactly that situation. The air driver sits outside the ear, so nothing holds in the bass it produces, and the louder the street, the more of it leaves the head. Amazon.ca's bullets call the result leak-free; no measurement on either channel's page supports the word.
Two band sizes and one number to measure
The band is a fixed loop with no adjuster in the specification, so the size is settled once at checkout. Shokz Canada prints the threshold: over 23.5 cm measured from the centre of one ear around the back of the head to the centre of the other takes the Standard, under it takes the Mini, and both cost C$249.95. Amazon.ca splits the two into separate listings rather than a size selector, with the black Mini at C$249.95 and the black Standard at the same figure.
Where the band lands is the whole acoustic coupling, because the bone driver has to sit on the cheekbone in front of the ear. Two fit cases go unaddressed by either page: spectacle temples, which share the space above the ear with the hooks, and a helmet's rear cradle and chin strap, which share the space behind the head. The return window, 45 days at Shokz Canada and Amazon's own policy on the Shokz Official listing, is the only trial a Canadian rider gets, which is the practical argument for buying from one of those two rather than from a marketplace seller.
IP55, a rubber flap and one hour
IP55 covers dust and low-pressure water jets: rain and sweat, not immersion. Shokz's FAQ says as much in its own words and rules out seawater, a sauna and a shower, adding that water exposure can clog the speaker mesh. Its care routine is to shake the band at different angles, wipe the mesh and let it air-dry for a few hours. Two models on the same Canadian shelf carry more: the OpenRun IP67 and the OpenSwim Pro IP68.
Charging is the cleaner half of the story. One hour refills the cell over USB-C, against 1.5 hours for the OpenRun, and the port sits under a rubber cover that Shokz's FAQ concedes sometimes needs a firmer push to seat. That cover is the one part of the water rating a buyer can get wrong on a wet day. Bluetooth 5.3 appears only in Amazon.ca's attribute table; the Canadian store page names no version at all.
Calls rest on two microphones plus an AI noise-reduction step that Amazon.ca's bullets say removes 96.5 percent of background noise, wind included, at speeds to 15 mph. Neither Canadian page explains how that was measured. The microphone also sits where sweat collects: Shokz's FAQ lists a muffled mic as a known symptom with the same dry-and-air routine as the speakers, so the first minutes of a wet session are the weak point for anyone taking calls mid-run.
When C$249.95 is the wrong shelf
Quiet is the one thing no setting here delivers. A plane cabin, a train carriage or an open-plan floor needs a sealed in-ear with noise cancelling, and that pair gives up the traffic awareness this one is bought for; covering both means owning two pairs, and no open band does the sealing half.
Inside Shokz's own Canadian shelf the alternatives are cheaper and more specific. The C$169.95 OpenRun is the better buy for anyone running in heavy rain or on wet trails who does not need bass, because IP67 outranks IP55 at two-thirds of the price. The C$299.95 OpenSwim Pro is the only one of the four rated for a pool and the only one with onboard storage for swimming. And a buyer who mostly listens indoors, where nothing competes with the music, is paying C$249.95 for an opening they will not use.
How we put this together
Built from the product pages and listings below, without test scores or results we have not measured. Specifications and prices change, so check the original page for the exact model, current price, delivery, and returns.
- Shokz Canada: OpenRun Pro 2 product page (ca.shokz.com) (opens in a new tab)
- Shokz Canada: OpenRun Pro product page (ca.shokz.com) (opens in a new tab)
- Shokz Canada: OpenRun product page (ca.shokz.com) (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon.ca: SHOKZ OpenRun Pro 2 Bone Conduction Bluetooth Sport Headphones, Black (B0D2HKCMBP) (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon.ca: SHOKZ OpenRun Pro 2 Mini Bone Conduction Bluetooth Sport Headphones, Black (B0D2HHDKTD) (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon.ca: SHOKZ OpenRun Pro 2, Black, S820-ST-BK, seller 100Things CA (B0DM27684P) (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon.ca: Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 Orange, S820-ST-OR, seller 100Things CA (B0DM232MPD) (opens in a new tab)
