How much do Air Max 97s cost on resale? $136, and rising
A typical pair of Air Max 97s resold for $136 over the last 90 days. The same shoes sell for about 16% more than a year ago, the biggest rise of any Air Max line we track, while the Air Max 95 went the other way.
The Air Max 97 is almost thirty years old, it restocks constantly, and the white pair is on shelves at every mall in the country. So what does one actually cost if you buy it second-hand, and is it one of those sneakers that only loses value?
A typical pair resold for $136 over the last 90 days, across 3,121 sales on GOAT and StockX. Half of all pairs sold between $115 and $192.
And the Air Max 97 is doing something most of the resale market is not: the same shoes sell for about 16% more than they did a year ago. That is the biggest rise of any Air Max line we track.
What a pair costs, colorway by colorway
The $136 figure mixes cheap everyday pairs with a few expensive ones. These are the most traded Air Max 97s over the last 90 days, both marketplaces combined:
| Colorway | Sales | Median resale price |
|---|---|---|
| Triple White (White/Wolf Grey) | 760 | $160.50 |
| Black/White-Anthracite | 693 | $125 |
| OG Silver Bullet (2022) | 144 | $249 |
| Undefeated 'Militia Green' (2020) | 104 | $106.50 |
| OG 'Metallic Gold' (2023) | 98 | $130 |
| Triple Black | 83 | $98 |
| Black/White | 83 | $139 |
| Undefeated 'Black Volt' | 42 | $95 |
The Silver Bullet is the one pair that commands a real premium: $249 for the 2022 release, the colorway the shoe launched in back in 1997. The Undefeated collabs, once the hyped pairs, now sell for under $110.
Women's pairs went for a median of $129 (254 sales) and kids' sizes for $100 (103 sales). On GOAT, which records the size, every men's size from 7 to 12 had a median between $110 and $150, with no clear pattern by size once you allow for the different colorways each size sells.
The same pairs cost more than last year
A rising average price can be an illusion: if more expensive colorways happen to be selling this year, the average goes up even when no single shoe changed. So we compared each Air Max 97 listing with itself, its median price over the last 90 days against the same 90 days of 2025.
Of 74 listings that sold at least five times in both periods and changed price, 53 went up and 21 went down (72%, 95% interval 60% to 81%). The typical listing rose 16.5% (interval 9.6% to 21.7%). With 26 sneaker models tested the same way, the result survives correction for testing them all at once (q = 0.0007).
The same Air Max 97 that sold for $100 this time last year typically sells for about $116 now.
The two pairs that sell most tell a split story, though. The Triple White on StockX went from $147 to $166, but the Black/White-Anthracite dropped from $151 to $124. Much of the rise comes from lower-volume pairs: the Undefeated 'Militia Green' on GOAT went from $64 to $115, and the women's 2022 Silver Bullet from $108 to $170.
The Air Max 95 went the other way
The 97's older sibling is the counterpoint. The same Air Max 95s sell for 9.1% less than a year ago (interval -13.1% to -1.6%; 56 rose, 85 fell, q = 0.03). The Air Max Plus (+14.0%), Air Max 1 (+10.1%) and Air Max 90 (+8.8%) all rose. The Air Max 270 looks lower (-8.2%), but its interval includes no change at all, so we can't call it.
We can't tell from sales alone why. Higher store prices pull resale up, and so does a shoe coming back into fashion; both could be at work. What the data does show is that this is not a mix effect: the same shoes cost more.
What it means if you are buying or selling
If you want a pair to wear, the everyday colorways are cheap on resale: Triple Black and the Undefeated pairs sold for under $110. If you are selling, the Triple White and the Silver Bullet are the pairs buyers pay up for. None of this says where prices go next.
Check any pair's current median on our price checker, see the Air Max 97 page for the full range, or compare the Air Max 95.
How we measured this
Methodology: completed sales on GOAT and StockX recorded by SneakerPulse. The headline median, range and same-shoe figures are from the /models/ export of September 26, 2026, covering the 90 days to that date (3,121 sales, 312 listings; footwear only, sales between $0 and $30,000). The colorway table covers June 29 to September 26, 2026 (3,100 sales), with GOAT and StockX listings of the same shoe merged by style code; the kids' and women's split uses the product name. Size figures are GOAT only, men's sizes 6 to 14, because StockX sales carry no size. Same-shoe change compares each listing's median in the last 90 days with its median in the same 90 days a year earlier, listings with 5+ sales in both; a shoe sold on both GOAT and StockX counts once per marketplace. The interval is a 1,000-draw bootstrap of the median change; the rose/fell split is an exact binomial test against 50%, with Wilson intervals, and Benjamini-Hochberg correction across the 26 models on our /models/ pages. StockX sells new pairs only; GOAT also sells used pairs, and the data does not separate them.