30-Second Verdict
The Mighty+ wins — 8.7 to 8.0 — and it costs £69 more, which is the least surprising sentence on this page. These two came out of the same workshop with the same training. One took the desk in the family firm and has been dependable ever since. The other went freelance, does identical work, and cannot do it all day. Buy for where you'll be standing, not for which one is better, because on vapour they are the same device.
Mighty+: 8.7/10 | £255.99 | DENNIS5 → £243.19 Crafty+: 8.0/10 | £186.99 | DENNIS5 → £177.64
Buy the Mighty+ if: - You vape mostly at home and 6–8 bowls per charge is the number that decides it - You want the temperature on a screen rather than on your phone - You register the device and want the third warranty year — the Mighty+ gets it - You'd rather never think about the device again after the first week
Buy the Crafty+ if: - Genuine jacket-pocket carry is the reason you're buying at all - You're a light-to-moderate user: two to four bowls a day, not eight - You want single-degree temperature control and will actually use it - You already own something bigger and want the same vapour out of the house
Quick Specs Face-Off:
| Mighty+ | Crafty+ | |
|---|---|---|
| Heat-up | ~60 seconds to 180°C | ~60 seconds to 180°C |
| Battery | 2× 18650 sealed, 6–8 bowls | Sealed, 4–5 bowls, no pass-through |
| Chamber | 0.25g (1.4cm³) | 0.25g (1.4cm³) |
| Weight / size | 227g, 140 × 84 × 30mm | 135g, 110 × 57 × 33mm |
| Controls | OLED screen, two buttons | One button + app for full precision |
| Warranty | 2 years, 3 with registration | 2 years — excluded from the extension |
| Price | £255.99 | £186.99 |
The Hook
Two of them, same parents, same apprenticeship, same twenty years of house method drilled into them before either was let near a customer.
The elder one stayed. Took the desk by the window, learned the filing, and has been in the same building ever since. Nobody describes him as exciting. He does the same standard of work on a Tuesday in February as he does the week before Christmas, he is on the payroll, he gets the pension, and when something goes wrong there is a department for it. The firm's reputation is partly just him turning up.
The younger one went freelance. Same training, same hands, genuinely the same quality of work — and free of the building, which is the entire point. She takes jobs the firm can't reach. She also invoices you every four bowls, has no sick pay, and when the day runs out it runs out; there is no working through it on the company card.
The Mighty+ stayed in the family firm. The Crafty+ went freelance. Same heater, same cooling-unit design, same medical-grade PEEK, same 0.25g chamber, same sixty seconds to 180°C. What separates them is not skill. It's terms of employment.
I called the Mighty+ the Land Rover Defender in its review, and the Crafty+ got Brighton & Hove Albion in its own. Set both aside — this pairing is narrower than either. On vapour these two are, to a rounding error, the same machine, and I've said so in both reviews. Everything that decides this comparison happens either side of the actual vaping.
One of them scores higher. Here's what the other one is for.
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Vapour Quality
Both reviews landed on 9 for vapour, and for once that's not two different arguments arriving at the same number — it's the same heater.
Identical hybrid heating, convection for flavour and conduction for consistency. Identical cooling-unit architecture. Identical 10 L/min airflow. The Mighty+ review's 9.0 is docked from a 10 because on-demand devices extract harder from those first low-temp draws and the Venty moves more air; the Crafty+ review's 9 is docked from a 9.5 because the smaller cooling unit runs vapour slightly warmer on extended draws. Different reasons, same landing spot, and I have done blind tests on mates with these two specifically — most cannot pick which is which.
The one honest difference in the vapour itself is heat management on long draws. The Mighty+'s oversized cooling unit has more mass to give away, so draw eight is as cool as draw two. The Crafty+ gets warmer as the bowl goes on. It's the difference between an office with air conditioning and a spare room with the window open, and on a nine-draw bowl you notice it once, near the end.
Winner: nobody, and I'd distrust anyone who told you otherwise. These are the same vapour. The bigger cooling unit is a comfort feature, not a quality one.
The Strain Test, Side by Side
Same jars, same grinder, same running order — both devices have run the full circuit in their reviews, so this is two identical CVs read next to each other.
Jack Herer is where the employment terms show up in the flavour. The Mighty+ took 0.18g loose into a bare chamber and gave twelve draws: five at 180°C with the citrus lift still legible on the fourth, four at 190°C where black pepper arrives properly defined and the citrus finally dies around draw six overall, three at 200°C into leather and light fuel with no scorch anywhere. Its own verdict was that Jack survives the Defender rather than shining in it — the same rounding that makes the vapour smooth sands the point off the terpinolene. The Crafty+ took 0.2g in a capsule and gave nine. Four at 180°C, and the first two are the good ones — plus a cooling menthol edge on the exhale of draw two I genuinely didn't expect from a chamber that size — then the citrus thins to a suggestion by draw four. Three at 191°C (the single-degree app control earning its living), pepper well defined, citrus echo gone earlier than the Mighty+ manages. Two at 200°C and it's finished. Same notes, in the same order, with three fewer draws to put them in. Its review's line is the right one and I'm not improving on it: the Crafty+ isn't being outplayed on quality, it's being outlasted. Twelve draws versus nine is not a flavour gap. It's a runway gap, and Jack is the strain that needs runway.
Wedding Cake is where the freelancer's small desk stops being a handicap. Both took 0.2g in a capsule. The Mighty+ ran eleven draws — five at 180°C of vanilla and sweet cream thick enough to feel on the tongue, four at 190°C where butter arrives as a separate item from the vanilla and warm cake and black pepper make four nameable things rather than one smear, two at 200°C into caramelised sugar. The Crafty+ ran nine and lost nothing, because dessert genetics don't need the extra runway: the same 0.2g in the smaller chamber arrives concentrated rather than spread thin, and its low-temp stage is, draw for draw, the denser of the two. It passes the same resolution test — cake and dairy tasted apart, pepper turning up on the third mid-temp draw without stamping on either. Both machines still read Jack and Wedding Cake as two obviously different plants at 200°C, which is the whole test, and both pass it. One comparative observation that follows from both reviews: on the fragile strain the bigger chamber is worth real money, and on the heavy one the smaller chamber is quietly better. The freelancer does the short jobs better. Nobody expects that and it's true.
The call: a draw on Wedding Cake, with the Crafty+ arguably ahead on the opening stage; a clear Mighty+ win on Jack Herer purely on duration. If your jar is mostly bright sativa, that's a real reason to buy the bigger one. If it's mostly dessert indica, it isn't.
Design & Build
Winner: Mighty+ — 9/10 versus 8.5/10, and the gap is almost entirely the screen.
Both are medical-grade PEEK, both feel like tools rather than gadgets, and neither makes a single concession to being attractive. Sarah calls the Mighty+ the brick, which is accurate. The Crafty+ is the same brick at two-thirds the size in matte black, and it is not available in coral or teal, which I mention because everything else at this price is.
The Mighty+ takes the point for the OLED screen — current and target temperature, readable in any light, no phone required — and for two years of daily use in which nothing has degraded: no mushy buttons, no dead pixels, no loose cooling-unit latch. I knocked mine off a kitchen counter onto tile and it did not care. The Crafty+ earns its 8.5 on details the bigger one doesn't have: a ribbed exterior that works as a heat sink, a swivel mouthpiece that protects the unit in a pocket, a stir tool hidden in the base, and a chamber that stands upright for loading, which sounds trivial until you've loaded a vape on a wall outside a pub.
The elder sibling has the better office. The younger one has better kit in the bag.
Battery & Charging
Winner: Mighty+, and this is the category that decides the article — 8/10 versus 6.5/10.
6–8 bowls per charge versus 4–5. That's the headline, and it's real-world in both reviews: fewer if you're running 210°C, more if you're gentle. But the number isn't the whole gap. The Mighty+ has limited pass-through — don't build a life around it, but it's there — and with the S&B Supercharger it's at 80% in about forty minutes. The Crafty+ has no pass-through at all. None. When it's flat you are not vaping through a cable, you are waiting roughly two hours, and that is the single most misunderstood fact about this device.
Both batteries are sealed, so neither offers you a way out. But the freelancer's cash-flow problem is worse in every direction: smaller cell, drained faster, degrading sooner. My mate Tom's Crafty+ was noticeably down after around 200 hours — roughly eighteen months of regular use — which is classic Tom luck with electronics but also just what a small sealed cell does.
And here's the bit that belongs to the metaphor rather than the spec sheet: the firm's pension doesn't extend to freelancers, and neither does S&B's third year. Register a Mighty+ and you get two years extended to three. The Crafty+ is one of the devices excluded from that extension. On the device with the shorter-lived battery, you get the shorter warranty. That is genuinely annoying and worth £69 of anyone's thinking.
Sarah, watching me top the Crafty+ up for the second time in a day while the Mighty+ sat on the counter untouched since Tuesday: "That one's always got its hand out."
Ease of Use
Winner: a tie, 9/10 apiece — but they're not the same nine.
The Mighty+ is two buttons and a screen. Set a temperature, wait for the buzz, draw. There is no technique, no learning curve, no way to combust anything. This is the vape I hand to first-timers and the one I'd give my mum for her arthritis, and its nine is a nine for nobody needing anything explained.
The Crafty+ is one button, three lights and a phone. Click on, long-press to heat, double-click for Booster, triple-click for Superbooster, and if you want an actual number rather than a preset you open the app — where you get all 170 degrees between 40°C and 210°C, one at a time. That's the 191°C in the strain test above, and it's a genuine capability the Mighty+ doesn't offer at that resolution. Its nine is a nine for doing exactly what you asked. If you have opinions about the difference between 185°C and 190°C — some of us do, and our temperature guide exists for those people — the Crafty+ is the more precise instrument of the two.
Both vibrate when they're ready. Both take the same dosing capsules. The honest split: the Mighty+ is better to hand to someone else, the Crafty+ is better to be particular with.
Cleaning & Maintenance
Winner: Crafty+, of all things — 6/10 versus 5/10.
Same cooling unit design, same sticky brown maze, same hot-Q-tip trick that halves your deep-clean frequency if you actually do it while everything's warm. The difference is arithmetic: the Crafty+'s cooling unit has eight O-rings and the Mighty+'s has more surface to excavate, and a smaller unit is simply a shorter job. The Mighty+ scores lowest of any category on either card here — a 5 — because a full teardown every two to three weeks is a chore nobody applied for, and I've lost an O-ring down the sink drain to prove it. So has the Crafty+, twice.
Neither of these is a clean-in-thirty-seconds device and I won't pretend either is. Budget twenty minutes every twenty to thirty bowls on both, keep a spare cooling unit and rotate them, and accept that this is the tax you pay for how smooth the vapour is. The freelancer's smaller desk is quicker to tidy. That is the entire margin.
Portability
Winner: Crafty+, comfortably — 8/10 versus 6.5/10.
135g against 227g, and 110mm tall against 140mm. The Crafty+ goes in a jacket pocket and stops being a decision. Jeans are tighter — it works, but you know it's there.
The Mighty+ goes in a jacket pocket the way a paperback goes in a jacket pocket: technically, obviously, and with the pocket in a different shape afterwards. I once tried pocketing it in skinny jeans before going out and left the house looking like I was smuggling medical equipment, which it also somewhat resembles. That's not a joke at the device's expense — it's medical-adjacent by design — but stealth is not on the menu and the vapour lingers regardless of the pocket.
This is the only category where the two devices are doing genuinely different jobs, and it is the reason the Crafty+ still exists in my rotation. If you never leave the house, this category is worth nothing to you and the article is already over.
Value for Money
Winner: Mighty+ — 8/10 versus 6.5/10, and the £69 gap runs the same direction as the score.
Here's the uncomfortable maths that the Crafty+ review made itself: at £186.99 the Crafty+ is squeezed from both sides. £69 more buys the Mighty+ and its dramatically better battery, its screen, its third warranty year and identical vapour. Rather less than that buys other people's devices with better battery life than either. The Crafty+ is not badly priced for what it is; it's badly positioned for who's left.
The Mighty+ at £255.99 isn't cheap and its own review says plainly that it isn't the best value in vaporisers — you can spend a third of it and get 85% of the job done. What you're buying is twenty years of a company that makes medical-grade devices that work, a mature accessory ecosystem, warranty support that actually turns replacements around, and a resale value that holds. Safe money in a market full of gambles.
The Crafty+'s value case survives exactly one sentence: if pocket carry is the reason you're buying, the Mighty+ cannot do the job at any price, and £69 saved is £69 saved.
Score Comparison
| Category | Mighty+ | Crafty+ |
|---|---|---|
| Vapour Quality | 9.0/10 | 9/10 |
| Design & Build | 9/10 | 8.5/10 |
| Battery & Charging | 8/10 | 6.5/10 |
| Ease of Use | 9/10 | 9/10 |
| Cleaning & Maintenance | 5/10 | 6/10 |
| Portability | 6.5/10 | 8/10 |
| Value for Money | 8/10 | 6.5/10 |
| Overall | 8.7/10 | 8.0/10 |
Read that honestly and it's a closer card than the overall suggests: two draws, two Crafty+ wins, three Mighty+ wins. But the three the Mighty+ takes are battery, build and value — the ones you feel every day for years — and the two the Crafty+ takes are cleaning, where it wins by a single point on a job neither device is good at, and portability, which is worth everything or nothing depending on your front door.
Who Should Buy Which
Buy the Mighty+ if you'd rather stop thinking about the device. You vape mostly at home, or you carry a bag anyway. You want the number on a screen. You want a first-timer to be able to pick it up without a tutorial. You're a medical user for whom a flat battery isn't an inconvenience but a failed dose — and with no pass-through on the Crafty+, that's not a theoretical distinction. You will register it within the four-week window and take the third year, because that year exists for you and not for the other one.
Buy the Crafty+ if the pocket is the whole brief. You're light-to-moderate — two to four bowls a day — and you leave the house with them. You want S&B vapour at appointments, on errands, in a back garden somewhere, without carrying a brick. You want single-degree control and you'll actually set 191°C rather than pressing a preset. Ideally you already own something bigger for evenings, which is exactly how it sits in my house.
The wrong buyer for the Mighty+ is anyone who needs to disappear. The wrong buyer for the Crafty+ is a heavy user, a first-time buyer, or anyone who — hello, fellow ADHD brains — cannot be relied upon to charge things. The Crafty+ asks for discipline every single day. The Mighty+ asks for it on Sundays.
How I Actually Choose
The rotation data doesn't lie, and I keep rotation data, because ADHD.
The Mighty+ has been on the kitchen counter for two years and takes about 30% of everything I vape — down from 60% before the Solo 3 v2 arrived, and it has not budged since. Eight o'clock, two or three bowls, pain-management sessions, left out for the morning. It is the device that gets used when it matters rather than the one that gets rotated in for novelty.
The Crafty+ gets two or three sessions a week, eighteen months in, and every one of them is a session where I'm leaving the house. That's not damning with faint praise — it's the job. It goes in the jacket, it does four or five bowls of exactly the same vapour, and it comes home to a cable. Below 20% I don't bother; those last two draws aren't worth the stress.
The decision is made at the front door, every time, and I have never once made it on flavour. That's the finding, really. Two devices from the same workshop, one comparison, and the vapour never entered into it.
There is one bit of self-knowledge in here I'd rather not have. In the Crafty+ review I admitted I'd probably stretch to something with a better battery if I were buying again — and I've kept using it anyway, for a year and a half, because the jacket pocket keeps winning arguments the spec sheet lost. The freelancer keeps getting rehired. Not because she's cheaper. Because she'll go where the office can't.
The Verdict (The Bookend)
Nobody in a family firm thinks the one who went freelance was the lesser apprentice.
The elder one is on the payroll: same standard every day, pension, department to ring, twenty years of institutional memory sitting behind him. That's the Mighty+, and it's why it wins 8.7 to 8.0 — better battery, better build, better value, and the third warranty year the other one doesn't get. If you're buying one S&B portable and you're not buying it specifically for a pocket, buy the Mighty+ and stop reading comparisons.
But the younger one took the jobs the building couldn't reach, and she did them to the same standard, which is the part people forget. The Crafty+ makes vapour indistinguishable from a device £69 dearer, in something that fits in a jacket pocket, with finer temperature control than its older sibling offers. Four or five bowls, then it's done, and it will not work through a cable while it recovers. Know that going in and it never disappoints you.
The firm for the week. The freelancer for the day out. If you can only hire one and you own a front door you use — hire the firm, and be honest that you'll be leaving it behind.
FAQ
Mighty+ vs Crafty+ — which should I buy? The Mighty+ for most people: it scores higher (8.7 vs 8.0), does 6–8 bowls per charge against 4–5, has an on-device screen, and gets the third warranty year with registration. Buy the Crafty+ only if genuine jacket-pocket carry is the specific thing you're paying £186.99 for.
Is the vapour actually the same? Effectively, yes — same hybrid heater, same cooling-unit design, same 0.25g chamber, same 10 L/min airflow, and both reviews scored vapour a 9. The only real difference is that the Mighty+'s larger cooling unit keeps late draws cooler; the Crafty+ warms up slightly by the end of a bowl. In blind tests with mates, most people can't pick which is which.
How much worse is the Crafty+ battery, really? 4–5 bowls versus 6–8, about two hours to recharge, and — the bit people miss — no pass-through at all. A flat Crafty+ is out of action, not slowed down. The Mighty+ has limited pass-through and does 80% in roughly forty minutes with the S&B Supercharger, which is sold separately at this price, which is a cheek.
Do both get the three-year warranty? No, and this is the one spec that catches people out. Both ship with two years; the Mighty+ extends to three if you register it within the four-week window. The Crafty+ is one of the devices excluded from that extension. Shorter-lived battery, shorter warranty.
Which is easier to clean? The Crafty+, marginally — 6 against 5 — purely because there's less cooling unit to excavate. Both share the same design and the same eight-O-rings-down-the-sink problem. Hot Q-tip method after sessions on either one, spare cooling unit on rotation, twenty minutes every twenty to thirty bowls. Neither is a strong point.
Can I use the same accessories and capsules for both? Yes — full S&B ecosystem compatibility. The same dosing capsules, filling aids and cleaning tools work across both, which is one of the genuine advantages of owning two devices from the same firm. Cooling units are model-specific.
Does the Crafty+ need the app to work? No. On the device you get preset temperatures, Booster with a double-click and Superbooster with a triple-click, which covers most sessions. The app is what unlocks single-degree control across the full 40–210°C range — the reason to buy a Crafty+ over something simpler, but not a requirement to use one.
About Dennis M.
Dennis M. has been reviewing vaporisers and vaping daily for the best part of a decade. He works in IT, has ADHD, and uses cannabis for chronic pain management. He lives in Manchester with his partner Sarah, who has accepted that the Mighty+ lives on the kitchen counter and has stopped asking why the smaller version of it also needed to exist.
Dennis has never worked in a family firm and has never been freelance, which he accepts weakens his authority on the subject considerably. He does, however, own a USB-C cable in every room of the house, and can tell you exactly which device is responsible.
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
How I test: methodology.
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Mighty+ — £255.99 | DENNIS5 → £243.19 Buy the Mighty+ → Worth grabbing with it: Mighty Cooling Unit — a second unit on rotation is the only thing that makes a 5-out-of-10 cleaning job bearable.
Crafty+ — £186.99 | DENNIS5 → £177.64 Buy the Crafty+ → Worth grabbing with it: Crafty Plus Case — it ships without one, which for a pocket device is an odd decision.
Just one more bowl.
Last updated: 26 August 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 with the Mighty+ and eighteen months with the Crafty+.
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.
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