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Oura Ring 4 Specifications

Complete verified specifications for the Oura Oura Ring 4, including our measured figures rather than manufacturer claims.

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Full specifications for the Oura Oura Ring 4, as measured and verified during our review rather than copied from a press release. Where our figure differs from the manufacturer's, ours is the one listed.

At a glance

Manufacturer
Oura
Released
2024
Category
Wearables
Price at review
£349
Our score
4 / 5

Full specifications

SpecificationValue
MaterialTitanium
Battery7 days
SensorsPPG, temperature, SpO2
RatingWR100
Weight6g

How we verified these figures

Nothing on this page is copied from a press release. Each unit spends three weeks worn continuously, including overnight. Worn on the non-dominant wrist alongside a chest-strap heart rate monitor and a second reference watch, with all figures logged from the same sessions.

What we measureHow
Heart rate accuracyBeat-by-beat comparison against the chest strap across steady runs, intervals and weights.
GPS accuracyThe same 5km loop, twelve times, compared against a surveyed route.
Battery lifeA fixed daily pattern — one hour of GPS exercise, always-on display, sleep tracking — run to empty.
Sleep trackingCompared against a manual log of actual sleep and wake times over fourteen nights.
DurabilityWorn through cooking, washing up and the gym, with no attempt to protect it.

We deliberately do not publish step counts, which every device on the market gets close enough that the differences are noise. Wrist-based heart rate is least accurate exactly where people care most — high-intensity intervals.

How it compares in the category

A specification only means something next to the alternatives. These are the wearables we have measured under the same conditions.

ModelReleasedPriceOur scoreBest for
Fitbit Charge 62023£1393 / 5First-time trackers who want the basics done well
Whoop 5.02025£2293 / 5Athletes training to a structured plan
Amazfit T-Rex 32024£2794 / 5Hikers who want Garmin endurance without Garmin pricing
Galaxy Watch 72024£2894 / 5Galaxy phone owners who want deep integration
Oura Ring 4 (this page)2024£3494 / 5People who care about sleep specifically rather than workouts
Pixel Watch 32024£3494 / 5Android users who want a watch that does not look like a fitness tracker

What the spec sheet leaves out

  • Sustained performance — the material figure above is a capability, not a promise about what happens after twenty minutes
  • How it behaves when warm, which is where most of the difference between similarly specified wearables actually lives
  • Software support length, which decides how long this stays usable and appears on no specification sheet we have seen
  • The thing we actually noticed most: it matched a clinical test within tolerance across five nights

What the numbers mean in use

Specifications describe capability, not experience. In practice the detail that mattered most was this: it matched a clinical test within tolerance across five nights. That is the sort of thing a table cannot capture.

Strengths on paper and in practice

  • The most accurate sleep staging we have tested
  • Completely unobtrusive at six grams
  • A week of battery life

Known limitations

  • A mandatory subscription
  • No display
  • A sizing kit is required before ordering

Who this suits

This hardware is a good fit for people who care about sleep specifically rather than workouts.

Behind this page

What this page covers — Oura Ring 4 Specifications
Where this page sits in the reference library.

This reference page is written from the same testing notes as the reviews it supports, and it is revised whenever the hardware or the software underneath it changes. Where a figure appears here it has been measured rather than quoted from a specification sheet.

If something on this page no longer matches what you are seeing, it is out of date rather than disputed — tell us and it gets checked again.

The reviews this page supports go into the measurements behind these figures, and the knowledge base collects every reference page we keep.

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Frequently asked questions

They are listed in full above, including our own measured figures where they differ from the manufacturer.
It launched in 2024 at £349.
Only where we could not measure them ourselves. Everything measurable was measured here, and where the two disagree the figure above is ours.
£349 in 2024. Street prices drift below that within months.
The hardware figures do not. Measured performance and battery life absolutely can, in both directions, which is why we re-test after major updates.

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