How Much Do Vapes Cost in 2024?

How much do vapes cost?

A beginner vape can be pretty cheap nowadays. They are simple devices to learn, and they range in style and performance. These vapes are known as disposables, pod systems, cigalikes, AIOs (all in ones), vape pens, and MTL tanks with small box mods (starter kits). The common price ranges:

Disposable vapes: $5-$10

Pod systems: $10 - $30

Vape pens: $15 - $35

MTL starter kits: $30 - $60

Those price ranges are typical, but there are devices that cost more. More expensive vapes often have a higher quality manufacturing, more innovation in design, and rugged durability... but not necessarily better performance.

Replacement coils

All vapes have a heating element (a coil) that needs to get replaced. Because of that, you have to include the cost of coils in your calculations. The coils—which can come in pods, cartridges, or little metal housings—usually cost in the $1-5 range per. They need to be replaced about once a week (but sometimes longer in between).

You can expect to vape between one to ten milliliters of e-liquid per day, although most people would fall in the bottom half of that range. Consumption will vary depending on the device’s vapor production, your desired nicotine uptake, and the strength of your juice.

How much does vape juice cost?

In a prefilled device

By the bottle

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Summing it up

An affordable vape pen, replacement coils, and juice, may cost you as little as $50 for the first month. A full-featured box mod paired with an MTL tank, coils, and juice, may go up to $120. After that, you should expect an average of $30-60 per month for coils and juice. If you have been spending around $6 on cigarettes per day, in both scenarios you will start saving before the end of the first month.

Disposable vapes and prefilled pods will come with a very low-cost upfront but will probably raise the monthly costs depending on consumption. But if you don’t want separate purchases and don’t wish to go through trial and error, they are an excellent and very practical solution—and by far the easiest way to vape.

What about advanced vapers?

Most vapers will be happy with their initial purchases and not graduate to these categories. But some will want to spice things up a bit.

Most of the vapes for intermediate vapers belong to one main product category: high-wattage mods paired with sub ohm tanks. A standard dual-battery mod will cost anywhere between $30 and $90, and a sub ohm tank will generally cost around $30-50. Buying these in a kit will shave the price a bit, bringing it to between $40-100. There are, of course, more expensive options, but in most cases, these can be considered hobbyist items.

Hobbyists are vapers that use multi-battery mods, rebuildable atomizers, mechanical mods, and high-end items. While there are ways to save money when going down that route (more on that in the following section), most hobbyists will generally end up spending much more on their vape gear than the average vaper.

While advanced vapers will generally vape more, the price they pay for e-liquid can vary. Sub ohm tanks and large rebuildable atomizers can go through e-liquid at impressive rates, but high-end MTL atomizers will consume a similar amount of juice to beginner vapes. On top of that, many vapers make their own juice, while others may go through many bottles of premium juice per week.

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