30-Second Verdict
The Venty wins — 9.0 to 8.7 — on vapour, airflow, heat-up and battery. The Mighty+ wins on track record, simplicity and price, and it's still the one I'd hand to someone who's never owned a vape. Same factory in Tuttlingen, same PEEK plastic, same dosing capsules. What separates them is twenty litres of air a minute, forty seconds of waiting, and how much you mind the idea of a warranty claim.
Venty: 9.0/10
Mighty+: 8.7/10
Buy the Venty if:
- Vapour quality and airflow are the reason you're buying: 20 lpm, adjustable from "sip" to "wide open"
- You hate waiting: about 20 seconds to temperature against about a minute
- You're a heavy user: 10–14 bowls per charge against 6–8
- You already own a backup vape, or you're happy to rely on an authorised dealer's warranty
Buy the Mighty+ if:
- You want the safest money in portable vaping: twenty years of S&B refinement, the fewest surprises
- This is your first serious vaporiser and you want zero decisions
- You'd rather keep the difference in price than chase the last half-point of vapour
- You want a device you can drop on tile, lend to your mum and forget about
Quick Specs Face-Off:
| Venty | Mighty+ | |
|---|---|---|
| Heat-up | ~20 seconds | ~60 seconds |
| Heating | Hybrid, convection-led, draw-sensing | Hybrid (convection + conduction) |
| Airflow | Up to 20 lpm, adjustable dial | ~10 lpm, fixed |
| Battery | 2× 18650 sealed, 10–14 bowls, no pass-through | 2× 18650 sealed, 6–8 bowls, limited pass-through |
| Charging | USB-C; ~80% in 40 min with Supercharger, 3–4 hrs without | USB-C; ~80% in 40 min with Supercharger, ~4 hrs on a phone charger |
| Temperature | 40–210°C, display + app option | 40–210°C, display, no app needed |
| Size / weight | 157 × 47 × 37mm, 254g | 140 × 84 × 30mm, ~230g |
| Warranty | 2 years, 3 with registration | 2 years, 3 with registration |
| Price | Check current price | Check current price |
The Hook
London has spent sixty years arguing about a bus.
The Routemaster went into service in the 1950s and never really left. Boxy, red, a bit loud, an open platform at the back and an engine you could fix with a spanner and a strong opinion. It wasn't the fastest thing on the road and it never pretended to be. It just turned up, every day, for decades, and when they finally tried to retire it people wrote letters to the papers.
Then came the new one. Sleeker, quicker, more doors, more technology, a design that looked like it had been drawn in a wind tunnel — and a first few summers where the upper deck got so hot that Londoners renamed it after an oven. The engineers sorted it. Nobody who rode it in 2013 has entirely forgotten, though, and the old one still runs on the heritage routes because some people simply trust it more.
The Mighty+ is the Routemaster. The Venty is the new one.
I called them the Land Rover Defender and the Range Rover Sport in their own reviews, and set those aside for a minute, because the bus is the better picture of this particular choice: same operator, same city, one design that's been doing the job forever and one that does it faster and better but spent its first couple of years with a reputation it's still living down.
This is personal, too. My first vaporiser was the original Mighty, back in 2018 — the barrel-charger one, the one I nearly returned in week one because I was convinced vaporisers were a scam. The Mighty+ is the refinement of that device. The Venty is what S&B built when they stopped refining and started again. Having lived with all three, I can tell you the family resemblance is real, and so is the gap.
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Vapour Quality
Winner: Venty — 9.5/10 against 9.0/10 — and airflow is the whole story.
The Mighty+ is the consistency benchmark. Its review is honest about the missing point: if the category were Vapour Consistency, it'd be a 10. Convection for flavour, conduction for consistency, and an oversized cooling unit that makes everything smooth and cool. It's a sipper — 5–12 draws over 10–15 minutes, more joint than bong — and it has never once asked me for technique.
The Venty moves double the air — up to 20 litres a minute against roughly 10 — and adds draw-sensing: pull harder and the heater compensates, so every draw lands the same whatever your lungs are doing. Its review put it plainly: the Mighty+ is warmer vapour and a more restricted draw at the same temperature; the Venty is cooler, smoother and more open. If the Mighty+ is a controlled session, the Venty is letting the handbrake off.
There's one honest catch, and the strain test makes it obvious: wide-open airflow means more air per unit of vapour, so the Venty can taste thinner in the body than the Mighty+ at the same setting. The fix is the dial. Close it a third of the way and the body comes back without losing definition. That dial is the single most important control S&B have put on a portable in years, and the Mighty+ simply doesn't have one.
Heat-up belongs here too, because it changes how you use the thing. Around 20 seconds on the Venty means quick sessions between other things become practical. About a minute on the Mighty+ means you commit — which, for an evening session on the sofa, is no hardship at all.
The Strain Test, Side by Side
Same jars, same grinder, same weights logged, cooling units stripped between strains. Both devices ran the full two-strain protocol in their reviews, so this is two lap charts laid on top of each other.
Jack Herer is where airflow earns its keep. The Mighty+ took 0.18g, cold load, no capsule: pine on draw one, but softened — warm pine rather than fresh pine, the cooling unit sanding the needle-point off before it reaches you, lemon peel faint but still there on draw four. Pepper arrives properly defined at 190°C, and by 200°C it's earth, leather and light fuel over an even mid-brown ABV. Twelve draws, every one identical to last Tuesday's. The Venty took 0.25g loose with the dial wide open, and the pine landed clean — no warm-up smear, lemon peel half a second behind, and that cooling menthol edge the Mighty+ usually rounds off. Five draws at 175°C and the citrus was legible on all five. At 190°C a tart haze echo hung on through draw four, a stage longer than on the Mighty+. The cost was mouthfeel: noticeably thinner than the Mighty+ at the same temperature. The Venty keeps Jack's fragile top end alive two or three draws longer; the Mighty+ gives it more weight and less sparkle.
Wedding Cake is where the dial stops being a headline and becomes a control. The Mighty+ took 0.2g in a dosing capsule and produced the best passage of its whole review: vanilla and sweet cream thick enough to feel on the tongue, butter staying a separate thing at 190°C, four distinct notes rather than one sweet lump. The Venty, dial wide open, came through rich but diluted — all the notes, less substance. Half-closed, it thickened into what its review called the best dessert-strain rendering I've had from a portable: the Venty behaving like a Mighty+ that went to the gym. Both machines passed the test that matters — at the top stage, Jack and Wedding Cake still read as two different plants.
The call: the Venty is the better flavour instrument if you're willing to drive the dial. The Mighty+ gets you 90% of the way without touching anything. That's the whole comparison in two strains.
Design & Build
Winner: Mighty+, on track record — both scored 9/10.
Both bodies are PEEK plastic, both survive floors. My Mighty+ went off a kitchen counter onto tile while I was making tea and came back on without a scratch; two years of daily use and the only wear is heat discolouration on the chamber rim. The Venty got swatted off the coffee table by Kevin, Sarah's cat, and survived that too. It also has a couple of design wins the Mighty+ doesn't: IP X4 splash resistance, it stands upright on its base, and the display is a proper upgrade.
The difference is history. Early Venty batches (2023 into early 2024) had documented problems — button failures, USB-C ports pushing into the body, E04 errors. My mate Tom's first unit threw an E04 and was replaced without argument; the replacement's charging port pushed in at six months and was sorted under warranty inside a week. My own late-2024 unit has been flawless. Current production looks sorted, but the Mighty+ has had years longer to prove itself, and it has.
The Mighty+ has its own asterisk, and I won't hide it: Dave went through five Mighty+ units in two years on the error-code lottery, every one replaced under warranty inside a week. Neither device is immune. Both are backed by the same warranty machine — two years, three if you register within 30 days — and that's the real safety net. Buy from an authorised UK dealer and register on day one.
Battery & Charging
Winner: Venty — both score 8/10, but the Venty's number hides nearly double the capacity.
The Venty runs two 18650 cells pushing up to 130 watts and gets 10–14 bowls per charge at around 185°C. Eight months of tracking in my spreadsheet (cheers, ADHD) showed only mild degradation. The Mighty+ manages 6–8 bowls at 180–190°C, 4–5 if you hammer it at 210°C, maybe 10 if you sip at 175°C.
Both have the same irritating footnote: they want the S&B Supercharger, sold separately. With it, both hit about 80% in 40 minutes. Without it, the Mighty+ takes around four hours on a phone charger and the Venty three to four hours — both slower than the barrel-port charger on the original Mighty, which I still find faintly insulting. Budget for the Supercharger, or check you already own a proper USB-C PD brick.
One practical difference: the Mighty+ has limited pass-through (don't rely on it), while S&B confirm the Venty has none. A flat Venty is a dead Venty until it's charged. Neither battery is user-swappable, so both will eventually be an RMA job rather than a thirty-second cell swap.
Ease of Use
Winner: Mighty+ — both 9/10, but "nothing to learn" beats "one thing to learn."
The Mighty+ is two buttons. Turn it on, set a temperature, wait a minute, draw. It vibrates when it's ready. Double-tap for Boost (+15°C for 90 seconds), triple-tap for Superbooster (+30°C). No app needed. It's the vape I hand to first-timers and the one I'd give my mum for her arthritis.
The Venty is nearly as simple — on, temperature, twenty seconds, pull — with the same double-tap Boost and triple-tap Superboost, and a funnel-shaped chamber that makes loading easier than the Mighty+. The extra layer is the airflow dial, and if you want it, Bluetooth to the S&B Web App for fine-tuning and firmware. None of that is hard. But the Mighty+ has no settings to get wrong, and on a bad pain day that matters more than it sounds.
Packing for both: medium grind, loose fill, don't tamp. The Mighty+ performs best at 0.15–0.2g (the chamber holds 0.25g); the Venty takes 0.25–0.3g, and I pack slightly under. Both take S&B dosing capsules.
Cleaning & Maintenance
Winner: Venty — 7/10 against 5/10.
The Mighty+ cooling unit is a gunk magnet. By 15–20 bowls you feel the draw resistance and taste the weight; push past 30 and you're doing a teardown whether you like it or not — separating the pieces, soaking in isopropyl, excavating corners with swabs and toothpicks, and trying not to lose an O-ring down the sink. I have. The hot Q-tip trick (swab the cooling unit while it's still warm) halves the deep-clean frequency, and rotating two cooling units makes it bearable.
The Venty's double-walled cooling unit splits into two halves with wider channels, and the full teardown comes round every 30–50 bowls instead. Screens want a cotton-bud wipe every 10–15 bowls; the chamber gets a brush every session. It's still S&B maintenance — budget about 20 minutes when it's due — but it's noticeably kinder than wrestling the Mighty+.
Capsules help both ovens stay clean. They don't help either cooling unit; that's where the vapour condenses, whatever the herb sat in.
Portability
Winner: Venty, narrowly — 7/10 against 6.5/10.
On paper the Venty is bigger: 157mm tall against 140mm. In a pocket it's the easier carry, because it's 47mm wide against the Mighty+'s 84mm. Taller and narrower slides into a jacket pocket; the brick doesn't. Neither goes in jeans, neither has any stealth, and both produce visible vapour. If you want a pocket S&B, that's the Crafty+ or the Veazy, and there are comparisons for both below.
The Venty's 20-second heat-up also makes it the more practical device away from home — a quick session in the garden or on a walk is realistic in a way that a minute of waiting isn't.
Value for Money
Winner: Mighty+ — 8/10 against 7/10.
The Venty is the most expensive S&B portable, and the Mighty+ does roughly 90% of what it does for noticeably less. What the Venty's premium buys is specific and real: double the airflow, a third of the heat-up time, nearly double the battery, draw-sensing, and easier cleaning. What it asks you to accept is a shorter track record and a battery you can't vape on the cable.
The Mighty+'s value case isn't the spec sheet. It's twenty years of S&B making medical-grade machines, a mature accessory range, warranty support that works, resale value that holds, and a knowledge base where every trick has already been worked out. Four friends tried mine and bought their own. That's the value argument.
Score Comparison
| Category | Venty | Mighty+ |
|---|---|---|
| Vapour Quality | 9.5/10 | 9/10 |
| Design & Build | 9/10 | 9/10 |
| Battery & Charging | 8/10 | 8/10 |
| Ease of Use | 9/10 | 9/10 |
| Cleaning & Maintenance | 7/10 | 5/10 |
| Portability | 7/10 | 6.5/10 |
| Value for Money | 7/10 | 8/10 |
| Overall | 9.0/10 | 8.7/10 |
Three categories to the Venty, one to the Mighty+, three level on the card — and I've called the three draws above on what the scores don't show. Both overalls sit above their category averages (8.1 and 7.8) for the same stated reason: vapour quality and everyday usability matter more than portability on a session device that mostly lives indoors.
Who Should Buy Which
Buy the Venty if you want the best session vapour Storz & Bickel have put in a portable, full stop. You're a heavy user who hates charging, a cloud chaser who wants the draw to feel like breathing rather than sipping, or a medical user who needs fast extraction and draw-sensing repeatability at high temperatures. You'll buy the Supercharger, register the warranty, and ideally keep a backup vape — the Venty's own review is firm that a backup is sensible medical planning for any premium device.
Buy the Mighty+ if you want to stop thinking about vaporisers. It's the right answer for first-timers, for medical users who need identical dosing on good days and bad, for households where other people will pick it up, and for anyone who'd rather have the proven machine and keep the difference in their pocket.
The wrong buyer for the Venty is someone who'll lie awake over a warranty claim. The wrong buyer for the Mighty+ is someone who's already tried a Venty's airflow — because you can't un-feel it.
How I Actually Choose
Both live in my house, and the split is clearer than I expected.
The Mighty+ lives on the kitchen counter — Sarah still calls it the brick — and handles the lazy evenings, the bad pain days and anyone else who picks up a vape in our house. It was 60% of my total usage before the Solo 3 v2 arrived; it's about 30% now.
The Venty comes out several times a week when I want an S&B session with time to enjoy it: weekday evenings, high-temperature sessions when pain is flaring, and any time someone asks whether the airflow hype is real. Dial wide open for Jack, half-closed for anything dessert-heavy.
I was publicly sceptical about the Venty at launch. Eight months later it's the S&B portable I reach for when I'm choosing, and the Mighty+ is the one I reach for when I'm not. Sarah, who's heard me talk about both for longer than any reasonable person should, summed it up while stepping over Kevin: "So the new one's better and you still use the old one." Pretty much, yeah.
Pro Tips for Both
Mighty+:
- Cruise at 180°C, step to 190°C halfway, then Boost to 200°C for the last couple of draws. The first half of the bowl is where the flavour lives.
- Swab the cooling unit with dry cotton buds straight after a session while it's warm — the reclaim wipes off like butter.
- Keep a second cooling unit in rotation so you're never doing a teardown on a night you need a session.
Venty:
- Start with the airflow wide open for fragile, terpy strains; close it about a third for dense or dessert strains to bring the body back.
- Close the airflow dial fully when you're not using it — it helps contain the smell.
- Buy the Supercharger with the device. Without it, charging is the one slow thing about the Venty.
Both: register within 30 days for the third warranty year, brush the chamber after every bowl, and don't overpack.
Common Problems and Fixes
| Problem | Likely cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mighty+ draw feels tight and tastes heavy | Cooling unit full of reclaim (usually 15–20+ bowls) | Strip and soak the cooling unit; swab it warm after sessions to delay the next deep clean |
| Mighty+ vapour thin at the end of a bowl | Load spent or packed too tight | Pack 0.15–0.2g loosely; use Boost for the last draws |
| Venty tastes thin | Airflow wide open on a dense strain | Close the dial by about a third |
| Venty E04 error | Known early-batch fault | Contact your authorised dealer — warranty covers it |
| Venty charging port loose or pushed in | Known early-batch fault | Warranty claim through your dealer |
| Either charges painfully slowly | Standard phone charger | Use the S&B Supercharger or a proper USB-C PD brick |
The Verdict (The Bookend)
The new bus is better. Faster, smoother, cooler inside now they've fixed the upper deck, and it gets you across town quicker. The Venty is the better vaporiser: 9.0 against 8.7, double the airflow, a third of the wait, nearly twice the battery and an easier clean. If you're buying on merit and you've got the warranty covered, that's the answer.
But the Routemaster still runs, and the people who ride it aren't wrong. The Mighty+ is the proven machine: the fewest surprises, nothing to learn, and noticeably cheaper. It's the grown-up version of the first vaporiser I ever owned, and it's still the one I recommend first to anyone who's never owned one.
Take the new bus if you want to get there faster. Take the old one if you just want to get there. Either way, you're on the right route.
FAQ
Mighty+ vs Venty — which should I buy?
The Venty if you want the best S&B portable vapour, fast heat-up and big battery life, and you're comfortable relying on the warranty. The Mighty+ if you want the most proven, simplest S&B portable for less money. The Venty scores 9.0, the Mighty+ 8.7.
Is the Venty worth it over the Mighty+?
For heavy users and airflow fans, yes: about 20 seconds to heat instead of about a minute, up to 20 lpm of adjustable airflow instead of roughly 10, and 10–14 bowls per charge instead of 6–8. For a first vape or a set-and-forget home device, the Mighty+ does roughly 90% of the job for less.
Which has better battery life?
The Venty: 10–14 bowls per charge against the Mighty+'s 6–8. Both have sealed dual 18650 cells and both charge to about 80% in 40 minutes with the S&B Supercharger. The Mighty+ has limited pass-through; the Venty has none.
Is the Venty reliable now?
Early 2023–early 2024 batches had button, USB-C port and E04 issues. My late-2024 unit has been flawless for eight months of daily use, and current production looks sorted. Buy from an authorised UK dealer and register for the three-year warranty.
Can I use the same dosing capsules in both?
Yes. Both take standard S&B dosing capsules, which keep the oven clean and make pre-loading easy. Cooling units are not interchangeable between the two.
Which is easier to clean?
The Venty. Its cooling unit splits into two halves and needs a full teardown every 30–50 bowls. The Mighty+ cooling unit wants one every 20–30 bowls and is the fiddliest part of owning it.
About Dennis M.
Dennis M. has been vaping daily for the best part of a decade — since an original Mighty in 2018 — and has tested 50+ devices for this site. He works in IT, has ADHD, and uses cannabis for chronic pain management. He lives in Manchester with his partner Sarah, who has called the Mighty+ "the brick" for years and has watched the kitchen counter slowly fill with its relatives.
Dennis was sceptical about the Venty's launch and said so publicly. He has since made peace with the U-turn, if not with the price of the Supercharger.
A note on spelling: 'vaporizer' is the de facto international spelling, but I've stuck with the British 'vaporiser' throughout this blog.
Questions, corrections, or a device you want tested? dennis@herbvape.co.uk
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Storz & Bickel Venty — the new bus: faster, cooler, bigger battery.
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Worth grabbing with it: USB-C Supercharger for Mighty+ & Venty — without it, charging is the one slow thing about the Venty.
Storz & Bickel Mighty+ — the Routemaster: proven, simple, still running.
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Worth grabbing with it: Mighty Cooling Unit — a second one in rotation means you're never doing a teardown on a night you need a session.
Just one more bowl.
Last updated: 25 September 2026.
Review Policy: I buy or borrow the devices I review. HerbVape.co.uk is my employer, but my opinions are my own — they pay me to be honest, not to sell you shite. Affiliate links and discount codes exist because running a site costs money, not because they influence scores. This comparison reflects two years of daily use with the Mighty+ and eight months with the Venty.
Strains Used: Jack Herer — sativa (Haze × Northern Lights #5 × Shiva Skunk), ~20% THC, terpinolene/caryophyllene/pinene-dominant, pine-citrus-pepper profile with fragile top notes. Wedding Cake — indica-leaning hybrid (Triangle Kush × Animal Mints, via Triangle Mints #23), ~24% THC, caryophyllene/limonene/myrcene-dominant, vanilla-cream-dough dessert profile over peppery earth. Same two strains, same jars, across every vaporiser reviewed on this site — the strain is the control, the device is the variable. Strain effects vary by individual, batch and consumption method.
Medical & Legal Disclaimer: Nothing in this comparison constitutes medical advice, and I am not a medical professional. Cannabis is a controlled substance in the UK; medical cannabis is legal only on prescription from a registered specialist clinic — Sapphire, Cantourage and Zerenia are three of the larger ones. HerbVape.co.uk sells vaporiser hardware only: we do not sell, prescribe, or recommend cannabis or cannabis products. Vaporisers are sold for use with legal dry herbs and legally prescribed medical cannabis. You must be 18 or over to buy one, and cannabis law varies by jurisdiction — check yours.