Vape Pod Kits

What Is a Pod Vape?

A pod vape, or vape pod kit, is a two-part device: a rechargeable battery base, and a clip-in pod that holds the e-liquid and the coil together in one piece. Charge it over USB-C, fill the pod from a bottle, click it back in and inhale. Some fire automatically when you draw, some have a button.

Three things separate a pod kit from a bigger vape kit. The pod caps at 2ml under UK law, the device works at roughly 10W to 35W rather than the 60W and up of a sub-ohm kit, and the coil sits inside the pod rather than screwing into a tank. Nicotine caps at 20mg, which is why UK nic salts come in 10mg and 20mg rather than the 50mg sold elsewhere.

Every device here is MHRA notified before it reaches the shelf, which is why some ranges launched in 2026 take a few months to arrive in the UK. If you have never filled one, our guide to refilling a pod and choosing your first kit is the place to start.

Refillable and Prefilled Pod Vapes

Both are pod vape kits. The difference is only the pod. A refillable pod you fill yourself from any bottle, which is every device on this page. A prefilled pod arrives sealed, clicks into the same kind of rechargeable device, and gets swapped rather than topped up. The battery, the draw and the charging are the same on either.

This split decides your flavour choice, your nicotine choice and what you spend each week. The plainest answer: brand new to this, start prefilled and move to refillable once you have found your feet. Already sure you want your own flavours and strengths, go refillable now. Coming off bars, our guide to switching from disposables walks through both routes.

Either beats a bar on waste. One device charged over and over, with a coil the size of a thumbnail every week or two, instead of a whole unit binned every few days.

Everything on this page is refillable, and every one of them comes with a free 10ml nic salt. Staying refillable, the part you buy again is a replacement pod or coil.

If you would rather not fill anything, the prefilled pod kits range covers Elf Bar, Lost Mary, IVG and Hayati, so the flavours you had in a bar are mostly still there in a sealed pod.

Which Pod Vape Should You Buy?

If you want one answer rather than six: the Uwell Caliburn G5 Lite or the OXVA Xlim GO 2, both £9.99, both auto-draw, both taking the same 10mg or 20mg nic salt as your old bar. If you would rather choose properly, here are six series across pod kit, pod mod and pod system formats. We link the series rather than one model, because a series outlives a model and the pods carry across it.

Step up from those two when you want wattage control, airflow or a screen, not before.

Pod Kits, Pod Mods and Pod Systems

Three names for the same family, in rising order of power. A pod kit is the small auto-draw device most people start on. A pod system is any of them, the phrase the industry uses for the battery-plus-clip-in-pod design. A pod mod is the top of the range: more wattage, a bigger battery and a screen, in a body still small enough to pocket.

The most common mistake is over-specifying. A 30W adjustable pod mod sounds better than an 18W auto-draw device, but the simpler one usually makes for a better first month. If the draw styles are new to you, MTL, DTL and RDL explained is the short version.

Coming off cigarettes, start at the top row with a 20mg nic salt. A beginner does not need wattage control in the first month. The full beginner range is on the beginner kits page.

Small and Pocket Pod Vapes

The smallest vape pod kits are barely bigger than a car key, and they are the reason this format took over. Auto-draw with no buttons, a 2ml pod, and USB-C on the bottom.

The Xlim GO Lite is the lightest of them at 41.5g and the cheapest at £6.99. The Aspire GoteK range is the simplest, with no screen, no wattage modes and no airflow to set. The XROS Mini Retro is the smallest XROS at 18W and 1000mAh, and the Caliburn Mini and Koko bodies are the flattest shapes in that family.

Small means a smaller battery. As a rule a compact pod kit sits at 500 to 1000mAh and gives a day of normal vaping, a 1500mAh device covers a day and a half, and a 3000mAh pod mod lasts two to three days. The trade is pocket space against how often you are near a cable.

Nic Salt E-Liquid for MTL Pod Vapes

A 10ml nic salt at 10mg or 20mg is the standard pairing for an MTL pod vape. MTL means mouth to lung: you draw the vapour into your mouth first and then breathe it in, the same action as a cigarette, which is why it suits people coming off one. Pod coils sit at 0.6 ohm and above and work at low wattage, so they need a thinner, higher-PG liquid than a sub-ohm tank would.

Coming off a bar, the bar salt range bottles the same flavours from the same manufacturers. A 50/50 freebase works too. High-VG shortfill does not: it is too thick for a pod coil and floods it.

Not sure which strength to start on, the nic salt strengths guide covers which suits which smoking background.

Pods, Coils and What They Cost

Two patterns, and which one your device uses decides the ongoing cost. On an integrated pod the coil is sealed in and you replace the whole pod. On a removable-coil pod the pod stays for months and you push out the coil every one to three weeks. Removable works out cheaper over a year.

Either way, burnt taste, gurgling or a flat drop in flavour is the signal. How long one lasts depends entirely on how much you vape, so treat any week count as a rough guide rather than a promise. Our answer to how long a vape lasts breaks it down by part.

The kit itself is a one-off from £6.99 and lasts a year or more, and the first 10ml nic salt comes free with it. After that it is liquid and replacement coils, and one 10ml bottle fills a 2ml pod five times. Our guide to vape coils covers resistances and when to swap.

Pod Vape Brands and Series

Buy into a series with coils you can still get in a year. That matters more at the cheap end than any spec on the box.

• Vaporesso covers the XROS pod vapes and the Armour pod mods, plus the Eco Nano entry devices.
• OXVA is the Xlim family, from the GO Lite through to the Pro 3, with the NeXlim alongside it.
• Uwell is Caliburn, the range most people start on.
• VooPoo, Lost Vape, Aspire and Geekvape cover Argus, Ursa, GoteK and Sonder.

Which series to buy into is a question in itself, and which XROS model to buy is the one people ask most. Filter by brand in the menu above, or step across the range:

• Every vape kit we stock, all formats in one place.
• Refillable vape kits if you want the wider refillable range, sub-ohm and pen shapes included.
• Vape pens for the slim pen shape, from £6.99.
• Sub-ohm kits if you want clouds rather than a cigarette draw.