30-Second Verdict
The TinyMight 2 wins — 9.0 to 8.3 — but the value story belongs entirely to the V4 Pro, which delivers 80-85% of the flavour experience for less than a third of the money. Marcus told me I didn't need to spend three hundred quid on the TinyMight. This article is me testing whether he was right. Short answer: he was almost right, and "almost" costs a couple of hundred quid.
XMAX V4 Pro: 8.3/10
TinyMight 2: 9.0/10
Buy the V4 Pro if:
- You want pure convection flavour on a sub-£100 budget — nothing else touches it at the price
- You use a water piece: the magnetic glass mouthpiece is a 14mm/18mm WPA out of the box
- You want a swappable 18650 with pass-through charging
- You're happy to learn the slow firm draw and don't need premium build
Buy the TinyMight 2 if:
- You want the ceiling — the best flavour from any portable, full stop
- True three-second on-demand is the point: microdosing, instant hits, zero waiting
- Artisan build matters: walnut, steel and glass instead of ABS plastic
- The last 15% of flavour is worth more to you than the price gap
Quick Specs Face-Off:
| XMAX V4 Pro | TinyMight 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Heat-up | ~11 seconds | ~3 seconds |
| Battery | Removable 18650, 6–8 bowls, pass-through | Removable 18650, 5–8 bowls, no pass-through |
| Bowl | ~0.15g | ~0.15g (adjustable screen) |
| Weight | ~130g | 207g (with 55mm stem + battery) |
| Warranty | Not published; retailer terms | 3 years (limited) |
| Price | Check current price | Check current price |
The Hook
Every couple of years, a broadsheet wine critic runs the same stunt and it never stops being funny: a blind tasting where an £8 supermarket red gets slipped in among the serious bottles. And every time, some £8 Portuguese blend beats a £40 Burgundy in front of a panel of people with letters after their names. The headlines write themselves. The comment section declares wine a con. Somebody's uncle shares it on Facebook with "ALWAYS KNEW IT."
Here's what the headline never tells you. Run the same tasting again, slower, with food, over an evening — and the Burgundy pulls away. The £8 bottle leads with everything it has in the first sip. The Burgundy has a first sip, and a different second glass, and something happening at the finish that the cheap bottle physically doesn't contain. The blind test isn't lying. It's just measuring one moment, and wine — like vapour — is more than one moment.
The XMAX V4 Pro is the £8 bottle that wins blind tastings. The TinyMight 2 is the £40 Burgundy. And the price gap between them is the most interesting gap in my collection.
The reason this comparison exists at all is Marcus. Sound engineer, Harlesden, ears calibrated like lab equipment — the full story's in the V4 Pro review, but the short version is that he clocked the V4 Pro's airflow engineering in three draws in my garden, moved the slider through its detents, and said, without looking up: "You didn't need to spend three hundred quid on the TinyMight."
That sentence has been sitting in my head for weeks, because Marcus doesn't get excited about devices, he gets excited about sessions — and he's not a man who confuses cheap with bad or dear with good. Both devices are pure convection. Both run removable 18650s. Both demand technique. Both, on their day, produce vapour that makes conduction hardware taste like it's apologising.
So: was he right? Let's do the tasting properly. Slowly. With food.
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Vapour Quality
Winner: TinyMight 2 — 9.5/10 against 8.5/10 — but read the fine print, because the fine print is where the budget device lives.
Both machines heat with hot air alone, and it shows in the same way: first draws with the top notes intact, nothing pre-cooked on a hot wall, terpene clarity that hybrids can't quite reach. The V4 Pro's review said its flavour "genuinely competes with devices three times the price," and named the device it meant. This one.
The gap is real, though, and it's threefold. Thermal mass: the TinyMight's 70-watt element through quartz glass has headroom the V4 Pro's budget chamber doesn't — draw hard on the TinyMight and it keeps up; draw hard on the V4 Pro and you've thinned the vapour. Speed: three seconds against eleven. Eleven is genuinely quick — nearly Go SRT quick — but three is a different category of instant. Forgiveness across variance: neither device forgives a bad draw, but the TinyMight's window is wider; the V4 Pro wants the slow firm 7–8 second pull and accepts no substitutes.
At the peak, both bottles taste expensive. The difference is how often you're at the peak, and what happens either side of it.
The Strain Test, Side by Side
Same jars, same grinder, same scales — the whole point of the control is that I can put these two lap-charts next to each other and the differences are the machines, not the flower.
Jack Herer is the blind-tasting round, and it's closer than the price tags have any right to allow. The V4 Pro at 180°C on Stage-1 airflow opened "almost embarrassingly bright" — pine needles and lemon peel with the cooling mint edge sitting on top rather than buried, top notes reaching the mouthpiece intact. The TinyMight 2 at dial 4 produced the best Jack Herer on the site — pine and fresh resin, then lemon peel sharp enough to make you check the jar. Put those two first draws side by side and the difference is weight, not detail: both devices name every note in the jar; the TinyMight says them with more air moving and more body behind them. That's the £8-bottle trick in full — sip one, and Marcus's point stands. Where the Burgundy pulls away is the middle of the bowl. The TinyMight's mid stage keeps resin behind the pepper and lets you draw against it; the V4 Pro's pepper stays defined only on Stage-1, dilutes to general warmth on Stage-3, and by 205°C the V4 Pro needs the bubbler — its own review is blunt that the bare mouthpiece up there "is a mistake I have already made on your behalf" — while the TinyMight finishes its two top-temp draws dry, earth and leather, no rescue required. Both bowls ran eight draws. One of them needed water wings for the deep end.
Wedding Cake tells the same story in dessert form. Both devices pass the resolution test — vanilla, cream, dough and cherry arriving as separate things, not one lump of sweet — and both bite the greedy. The V4 Pro punished one hard fast pull at 195°C with a scorched edge that took a draw to clear; the TinyMight let me scorch a test bowl on the mid stage of Jack the same way. Neither machine has traction control; the difference is what obedience buys you. On the TinyMight, the mid stage is the richest passage of vapour I've had from a portable — butter over baked cake, run twice because I couldn't leave it alone. On the V4 Pro, the mid stage is very good and slightly narrower, dense on Stage-2, and its high-temp finish only stays drinkable through water. One comparative observation that follows from both reviews: the V4 Pro's airflow slider is a genuine control the TinyMight doesn't have — three detents that reshape the draw — but the TinyMight's adjustable screen and dial give it a deeper bag of the adjustments that matter, and more margin when you get one wrong.
The call: both are flavour devices — the site's verdicts already say so. The V4 Pro is the flavour device for budget money. The TinyMight 2 is the flavour device, at any price. At the top stage, both still rendered the two strains as two different plants. The Burgundy just does it without water, without the slider, and with about 15% more of everything.
Design & Build
Winner: TinyMight 2, by the width of a wine cellar. 9/10 versus 7.5/10.
This is the least subtle category. The TinyMight 2 is American walnut, stainless steel and quartz glass, hand-built in Finland, each unit unique, with the cleverest integrated stir tool in the business. The V4 Pro is ABS plastic with metal accents and a budget OLED, and its review was blunt on the subject: it feels exactly like what it costs.
But it's well-made budget — no flex, proper detents on the slider, a battery door that improves on the V3 Pro's weak point — and it carries none of the TinyMight's anxieties. No glass body-stem to crack (ask the glass stem incident of 2024), no early-batch button folklore to reassure yourself about, and if the worst happens, you're out budget money, not premium money. The Burgundy comes in the nicer bottle; it's also the one you're afraid to drop. One warning unique to the V4 Pro: counterfeits circulate on marketplaces — authorised retailers only, no exceptions.
Battery & Charging
Winner: V4 Pro, narrowly — the rare category the budget device takes outright. 8/10 versus 7.5/10.
Rare common ground first: both run removable 18650s, which means neither becomes landfill when the cell fades — Dave's entire purchasing philosophy, and the single feature that made him order a V4 Pro the Monday after a weekend loan (four spare cells and all; the man preps for battery apocalypse). Bowl counts are nearly identical: 6–8 for the V4 Pro, 5–8 for the TinyMight.
The V4 Pro wins on two details. It takes any 18650 economics without the TinyMight's 20A-continuous requirement fuss, and — the clincher — it supports pass-through charging and the TinyMight doesn't. A flat V4 Pro vapes on the cable; a flat TinyMight waits or swaps. Small thing, real thing.
Ease of Use
Winner: TinyMight 2, just — 7.5 against 7 — and this is the only comparison on the site where the TinyMight gets to play the accessible one.
Both charge tuition. The TinyMight's lesson is the button: hold too long and you've combusted — my first week ran roughly a one-in-seven ruin rate before the release timing went automatic. The V4 Pro's lesson is the lungs: the slow firm 7–8 second draw, which took me four days of thin harsh vapour to find and Dave one sentence to diagnose — "You're drawing like it's an Arizer. This wants a bong pull." Different syllabus, same week of frustration, and neither device is anyone's first vape.
Why the TinyMight edges it: once learned, three-second on-demand with no draw ceremony is simply less to think about per session than the V4 Pro's mandatory long pull. And it's worth the ledger note: Dave — who mastered Henrietta the sourdough starter, so patience isn't the issue — gave the TinyMight a month a while back and handed it back with "too much faff." He then bought the V4 Pro after one weekend. Same technique tax, a couple of hundred quid less resentment. Make of that what you will; I've made an article of it.
Cleaning & Maintenance
Winner: TinyMight 2. 9/10 versus 7.5/10.
The TinyMight is absurdly easy: the glass stem takes 90% of the residue, ISO soak, done, chamber pristine because convection bakes nothing on. The V4 Pro is easy for the money: the magnetic glass mouthpiece drops into ISO and clicks back on, but the ceramic chamber wants a brush every session and a soak every 20 bowls, and the chamber screen is a consumable — a cheap replacement every couple of months. Neither is a chore. One is nearly the absence of one.
Portability
Draw on score — both 8/10 — split on temperament.
The V4 Pro is the one you don't think about: ~130g of plastic, jeans-pocket sized, mouthpiece off and it's a smooth block that disappears. Trains, gigs, pub gardens, rucksacks — unremarked everywhere, and if it gets sat on, see "budget" above. The TinyMight is jacket-pocket portable with a case and a code of conduct — walnut and glass travel like nice crockery. The honest split: the V4 Pro leaves the house more; the TinyMight arrives in better condition. If your portability is "chuck it in a bag," the V4 Pro wins this category in practice, whatever the scores say.
Value for Money
Winner: V4 Pro, and it's the biggest single-category gap on the card. 9.5/10 versus 8.5/10.
The V4 Pro's price buys pure convection, a swappable 18650 with pass-through, a three-stage airflow slider, an 11-second heat-up, and a glass mouthpiece that's secretly a 14mm/18mm water pipe adapter — no accessory required, where the TinyMight needs a separate WPA for its (admittedly brilliant) glass work. The V4 Pro's review scored value 9.5 and meant it.
The TinyMight's 8.5 is also honest — for the flavour chaser, the premium buys the actual ceiling, plus three years of warranty against the V4 Pro's unpublished terms. But per pound, this is a rout. The £8 bottle isn't just good for the money. It's good.
Score Comparison
| Category | XMAX V4 Pro | TinyMight 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Vapour Quality | 8.5/10 | 9.5/10 |
| Design & Build | 7.5/10 | 9/10 |
| Battery & Charging | 8/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Ease of Use | 7/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Cleaning & Maintenance | 7.5/10 | 9/10 |
| Portability | 8/10 | 8/10 |
| Value for Money | 9.5/10 | 8.5/10 |
| Overall | 8.3/10 | 9.0/10 |
The shape of the table is the shape of the argument: the TinyMight wins where craft costs money; the V4 Pro wins where money is the point.
Who Should Buy Which
Buy the V4 Pro if you're spending your own first serious flavour money. It's the correct call for V3 Pro graduates, for water-piece users (the built-in WPA makes it the best sub-£100 bong companion I've tested), for anyone who liked the sound of pure convection but not the sound of premium money, and for TinyMight owners who want a lending-and-rucksack understudy — the V4 Pro's own review suggested exactly that role. It is not for beginners who won't read the manual, and not for anyone who resents technique.
Buy the TinyMight 2 if flavour chasing is, as its review put it, part of your identity. You want the best draw a portable can produce, true three-second on-demand for microdosing, heirloom build, and a device that three years of warranty and cheap cells will keep alive indefinitely. You're not paying the gap for 15% more flavour, exactly — you're paying for the top 15%, which in wine, hi-fi and vapour is always where the money goes.
When Tom asked me which one he should get, I told him the cheap one — because when it breaks, Tom, and with you it will, it's the cheap one. He took it surprisingly well.
How I Actually Choose
Six weeks of both in the rotation, and they've sorted themselves without my help.
The V4 Pro lives at home next to the bubbler, mouthpiece slotted into the 14mm joint — technique-first evening sessions through water, plus morning micro-sessions and any day trip where the hardware might get treated like luggage. Daily use since it arrived; permanent spot earned.
The TinyMight 2 keeps its five-or-six-bowls-a-week: the weekend flavour sessions, the daytime microdoses, and — same ritual I keep everywhere — the first bowl of every new prescription jar, because I want the loudest, truest reading before anything else touches it.
Here's the finding I didn't expect: they overlap almost completely on paper — pure convection, 18650s, ~0.15g bowls, technique-dependent — and almost never in practice. The V4 Pro is the one that gets used carelessly, lent to Marcus-grade mates, and pulled through water at temperatures where I'd never take the TinyMight bare. The TinyMight is the one that gets used deliberately. The £8 bottle is what's open on a Tuesday. The Burgundy is what you decant. Owning both is not a contradiction; it's a wine rack.
The Verdict (The Bookend)
So: was Marcus right? Did I need to spend three hundred quid on the TinyMight?
Need? No. And that's the honest headline, the one the blind-tasting stunt earns fairly: if you handed a stranger one perfect first draw from each device, plenty of them would pick the cheap bottle, and none of them would guess how big the price gap was. For most budgets and most buyers, the V4 Pro is the right purchase, and its 9.5 value score is the truest number in either review.
But run the tasting the long way — the whole bowl, the top temps, the bad-technique days, the third year of ownership — and the Burgundy does what Burgundy does. More weight at the peak, more margin around your mistakes, no bubbler required at the summit, walnut instead of ABS, three seconds instead of eleven, three years of paper behind it. The TinyMight 2 wins, 9.0 to 8.3, and deserves to.
Marcus, for the record, bought the V4 Pro and texted that the airflow was exactly what he thought it was. I kept both. One of us is more sensible with money. Neither of us is wrong.
The £8 bottle wins the sip. The £40 bottle wins the evening. Decide which one you're buying for.
FAQ
V4 Pro vs TinyMight 2 — which should I buy?
For most people: the V4 Pro — it delivers 80-85% of the TinyMight's flavour for less than a third of the price, with a swappable 18650 and a built-in water pipe adapter. Buy the TinyMight 2 if peak flavour, three-second on-demand and artisan build are specifically what you're paying for.
Is the flavour gap really only 15%?
At the first low-temp draw, the gap is embarrassingly small — that's the V4 Pro's party trick. The gap widens with heat, draw speed and carelessness: the TinyMight has more thermal headroom, finishes bowls dry at temperatures where the V4 Pro needs water, and holds body when you draw hard.
Which is harder to learn?
Different lessons, similar tuition. The TinyMight punishes holding the button too long (combustion); the V4 Pro punishes short lazy draws (thin, harsh vapour) and wants a slow firm 7–8 second pull. Budget a frustrating first week on either. Neither is a first vape.
Which battery setup is better?
Both use removable 18650s — the good news. The V4 Pro takes standard cells and supports pass-through charging; the TinyMight requires 20A-continuous cells and has no pass-through. Bowl counts are near-identical (6–8 vs 5–8). Slight edge: V4 Pro.
Can I use them with a bong or water piece?
Both — and it's the V4 Pro's signature move: the magnetic glass mouthpiece IS a 14mm/18mm WPA, no purchase needed, and high-temp sessions genuinely require it. The TinyMight works brilliantly through glass too, but the adapter is a separate buy.
Are V4 Pro counterfeits really a problem?
Yes. Fake units circulate on marketplaces with inferior heaters and no warranty. Buy from authorised UK retailers only — HerbVape.co.uk is an authorised XMAX/TopGreen stockist.
How do I clean each one?
V4 Pro: brush the ceramic chamber after sessions, ISO-soak the glass mouthpiece every 15–20 bowls, replace the chamber screen every 2–3 months (they're cheap). TinyMight 2: ISO-soak the glass stem every 10–15 bowls, cooling unit clean every 20–25 — about ten minutes, mostly waiting. The TinyMight is the easier keeper.
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.
Dennis maintains that keeping both devices in this article is a considered editorial necessity, and that the price gap is a perfectly reasonable amount to pay in order to prove a mate almost right. He has filed the receipt under "research."
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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Last updated: 25 September 2026.
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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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