Garmin Enduro 3 crashes to lowest ever price on Amazon — it's better value than the Fenix 8

The Garmin Enduro 3 is one of the newer models in Garmin’s range, having only been launched in August 2024, so to see it reduced on Amazon already is a welcome surprise.

You can get the Garmin Enduro 3 for $851 on Amazon right now, which is only a 5% saving, but a significant reduction on such a new — and expensive — watch. It’s one of the best sports watches you can get and offers better value than the Garmin Fenix 8 by virtue of having all of Garmin’s key sports features at a lower price.

The Garmin Enduro 3 impressed me greatly during testing thanks to its long battery life and impressive array of features, which include all the top Garmin sports tracking and navigation tools you can get.

Compared with the Fenix 8, which I do rate as the best Garmin watch overall, you miss out on the AMOLED screen plus the mic and speaker and diveproof design of the Fenix. However, for many people those won’t be big losses, and the memory-in-pixel display and solar panels on the Enduro 3 are key to its long battery life.

For a large watch with a durable titanium bezel, the Enduro 3 is also quite lightweight, especially as it comes packaged with a comfortable nylon strap. It has offline maps an a built-in flashlight to keep you on track even when you’re out and about after dark, and even with heavy use it lasted me 17-19 days on a charge during testing.

Garmin is not having the best week, with a major problem causing many watches to reset when you try to start a GPS activity. Fortunately, this problem seems to be fixed — my watches are working correctly at least and Garmin’s status page says everything is back online — so you can pick up this deal on the Enduro 3 without worrying about this problem.

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Nick Harris-Fry is an experienced health and fitness journalist, writing professionally since 2012. He spent nine years working on the Coach magazine and website before moving to the fitness team at Tom’s Guide in 2024. Nick is a keen runner and also the founder of YouTube channel The Run Testers, which specialises in reviewing running shoes, watches, headphones and other gear.

Nick ran his first marathon in 2016 and became obsessed with the sport. He now has PBs of 2hr 25min for the marathon and 15min 30sec for 5K. Nick is also a qualified Run Leader in the UK.

Nick is an established expert in the fitness area and along with writing for many publications, including Live Science, Expert Reviews, Wareable, Coach and Get Sweat Go, he has been quoted on The Guardian and The Independent.