30-Second Verdict
The Veazy wins this one, and the Crafty+ review already admitted it. When I scored the Crafty+ I wrote, in black and white, "for everyone else, the Veazy is the better buy" — and eighteen months of living with both hasn't changed a word of that sentence. The Veazy gives you 7-8 sessions per charge against 4-5, a 40-second heat-up against 60, and a slimmer body, for a little more money. The Crafty+ keeps exactly two crowns: better vapour from its solid metal heater (9/10 vs 8/10), and 170 individual temperature degrees against three presets. If those two things describe you, buy the Crafty+. If you had to read that sentence twice, buy the Veazy.
Veazy: 8.3/10
Crafty+: 8.0/10
Buy the Veazy if:
- You want the battery to be somebody else's problem — 7-8 sessions covers a normal day
- Simplicity matters more than precision (one button, one light, three temps)
- You want the slimmest S&B ever made, in a colour that isn't German industrial black
- You're buying your first S&B, or sharing with people who aren't enthusiasts
Buy the Crafty+ if:
- You genuinely temperature step in single degrees — the app gives you 170 of them
- Flavour outranks convenience: the solid metal heater beats the Veazy's mesh
- You want the proven design — the Crafty+ has years of reliability data behind it
- Saving a few quid matters and you're disciplined about overnight charging
Quick Specs Face-Off:
| Veazy | Crafty+ | |
|---|---|---|
| Heat-up | ~40s | ~60s |
| Battery | 7-8 sessions, sealed | 4-5 bowls, sealed |
| Bowl | 0.25-0.3g | 0.25g |
| Weight | 134g (134 × 37 × 35mm) | 135g (110 × 57 × 33mm) |
| Warranty | 2 years, no registration extension | 2 years, no registration extension |
| Price | Check current price | Check current price |
The Hook
You're house-hunting, and the estate agent has two viewings booked for the same afternoon.
The first is a Victorian terrace. Proper bones. Original features. Solid brick, high ceilings, the sort of craftsmanship nobody does any more because nobody can afford to. You walk in and you can feel the quality in the walls. You can also feel the draught. The boiler is temperamental — the previous owner left a laminated sheet of instructions for it — and the survey mentions, delicately, that the electrics "would benefit from attention." You'd love living there. You'd also spend every other Saturday maintaining it.
The second viewing is a new build on the estate up the road. Nothing about it will appear in an architecture magazine. But the boiler works from an app, everything is under warranty, the insulation actually insulates, and you could move in tomorrow with a kettle and a mattress and just... live.
That's the Crafty+ and the Veazy. Same developer — Storz & Bickel built both, the way half the new estates in Manchester sit on land the Victorians built first. In its own review I called the Crafty+ Brighton & Hove Albion — brilliant for 75 minutes, then the legs go — and I called the Veazy the Great British Bake Off, the vape your nan loves. Put them next to each other and the football and the baking fall away, and what you're actually choosing between is character with maintenance or comfort without it.
The awkward part, which we'll keep coming back to, is that the new build costs a little more than the terrace and the terrace's own survey — my Crafty+ review — already told you which one to buy.
We stock both at HerbVape.co.uk — details and pricing below.
Vapour Quality
The terrace wins this room, and it isn't close on paper: Crafty+ 9/10, Veazy 8/10.
The Crafty+ runs the same solid metal hybrid heater as the Mighty+ — I've done blind tests with mates and most couldn't split the Crafty+ from its bigger sibling. The Veazy runs a stainless steel mesh heater instead, and that's the single biggest fact in this whole comparison. The mesh puts the Veazy at about 85-90% of the flagship S&B experience. Most people I've handed it to couldn't taste the gap. I could, after direct comparison, and if you're a flavour purist you will too.
Airflow tilts the same way. The Crafty+ pulls the classic 10 L/min S&B draw through the proven Mighty-family cooling unit; the Veazy is slightly more restricted through its smaller three-piece unit, and vapour runs a touch warmer for it. Neither is choked — but the Crafty+ is doing the cooling with more hardware.
Winner: Crafty+. The whole rest of this article is about whether that one victory is worth living in the terrace.
The Strain Test, Side by Side
Same jars, same grinder, both devices — the flower is the control, the machine is the variable. Both these tests are in the full reviews; here's what happens when you lay them next to each other.
Jack Herer is where the heater gap stops being theoretical. On the Crafty+ at 180°C, pine needles and lemon peel arrive rounded but real, with an unexpected cooling menthol edge on the second draw; the citrus lift survives to about draw four. On the Veazy at 180°C you get pine too — but pine through a tea towel, softened by the forty seconds the chamber's been sitting hot and by the shortened cooling unit. Both devices hold the fragile top end for one stage. The difference is what the mid-temps do next. The Crafty+ at 191°C renders black pepper "without argument" over woody haze — genuinely defined; the Veazy at 190°C does its best work here too, pepper well forward, but the bright end isn't fading, it's gone. By the top of the range both are into earth and toasted herb, and the Crafty+'s bowl runs out before its resolution does — nine draws total against the Veazy's eleven. The Crafty+ isn't outplayed on Jack; it's outlasted. The Veazy isn't outlasted; it just stops trying earlier. Two different failures, and the Crafty+'s is the more honourable one.
Wedding Cake flatters them both, which is exactly what dessert genetics are for. The Crafty+ concentrates 0.2g into a small chamber and at 180°C delivers vanilla and cream thick off the first draw; by 191°C it passes the resolution test — butter tastes separate from vanilla, which is the whole exam on this strain. The Veazy at 180°C is just as happy — vanilla, cream, dough, cherry on the exhale, no work required — but at 190°C it fails precisely where the Crafty+ passes: vanilla and dough merge into one warm sweet thing by the third draw. Lovely, but merged. And by 200°C on the Veazy, Jack and Wedding Cake were reading as the same brown warmth — the two-plants test failed — where the Crafty+ kept them apart to the end.
The call: the Crafty+ is a flavour device with a stamina problem; the Veazy is a delivery device with good manners. If you read strain tests for fun, that sentence just chose your device for you.
Design & Build
Crafty+ 8.5, Veazy 7.5 — and this is the terrace's period features against the new build's plasterboard.
The Crafty+ is Mighty+ DNA shrunk down: medical-grade PEEK, ribbed heat-sink exterior, swivel mouthpiece, a built-in stir tool hidden in the base, a chamber that stands upright for loading. It's a serious black tool that isn't trying to be liked. The Veazy is PEEK too, and it survives drops — but the plastic is thinner and more flexible, the fit-and-finish is a notch below, and the logo is comically large. Bake Off bunting, not load-bearing brick.
What the Veazy has that no S&B ever had before is colour — black, blue, orange, pink — and a mouthpiece-as-unlock-key party trick on its three-piece cooling unit. Sarah walked past the pair of them lined up on the kitchen counter last week, looked at the squat black Crafty+ next to the pink Veazy, and asked, "Is that one the before photo?" Which is harsh on a device with better build quality, and also exactly how the market sees it.
They weigh within a gram of each other — 134g vs 135g — but wear completely differently: the Crafty+ is short and wide (110 × 57 × 33mm), the Veazy tall and slim (134 × 37 × 35mm).
Winner: Crafty+, on materials and engineering density. The Veazy wins the glance test.
Battery & Charging
Veazy 8, Crafty+ 6.5 — and here the terrace's temperamental boiler finally costs it the sale.
The numbers: 7-8 sessions per charge on the Veazy, 4-5 bowls on the Crafty+. Both sealed. Neither has pass-through, so flat means waiting — roughly 60-80 minutes to full on the Veazy (80% in about 40 minutes), around two hours on the Crafty+. The Veazy heats in about 40 seconds; the Crafty+ takes 60, and you feel every one of the extra twenty.
I called the Crafty+ a Tamagotchi in its review — feed it regularly or it dies at the worst possible moment — and I stand by it. The Sunday roast where it flashed red and died in front of everyone is in that review too, along with Sarah's entirely correct text about it. My mate Tom's cell noticeably degraded after about 200 hours across eighteen months, classic Tom luck with electronics, though sealed-battery ageing eventually comes for everyone.
The Veazy doesn't make battery anxiety vanish — it's no Venty — but 7-8 sessions moves charging from "constant low-grade dread" to "thing you do overnight." One honest asterisk on the new build's insulation, though: the Veazy's 36W ceiling means it struggles below 10°C — heat-up stretches 15-20 seconds longer and the battery drains faster. The Crafty+ has no such documented cold-weather complex. Fair-weather friend versus draughty terrace: pick your season.
Winner: Veazy, comfortably.
Ease of Use
Both score 9/10, for opposite reasons — the estate agent's "both properties are very liveable" line, and for once it's true.
The Veazy is one button, one light, three presets (180/195/210°C), and my mum's thirty-second mastery is on record. The one genuine trap is temperature reversion — it drops back to 180°C after 90 seconds unless you enable Permanent Boost via the web app. Do that once, on day one, and the device is as simple as anything I've reviewed.
The Crafty+ is nearly as easy at the surface — click on, wait for the buzz, draw; haptic feedback means you can pocket it during heat-up — but its 9 is earned at the other end of the curve: full 40-210°C control in single degrees via the app, programmable boosts, session stats, even find-my-vape. If you're the kind of person who has opinions about 185 versus 190, the Crafty+ is the only device at this size that will listen to them.
Both take S&B dosing capsules, both load the same way, both share the full ecosystem.
Winner: draw — Veazy for the first week of ownership, Crafty+ for the fifth year.
Cleaning & Maintenance
Veazy 8, Crafty+ 6. The terrace's original features need repointing.
The Crafty+ cooling unit is the Mighty-family design, which means the Mighty-family cleaning reality: a resin-trap maze, a proper teardown every 20-30 bowls, and eight O-rings, of which I have personally lost three down the sink — they remain my nemesis, and that's a matter of published record. Budget 20 minutes and buy spares.
The Veazy's smaller three-piece cooling unit has fewer parts, fewer O-rings, less surface area, and comes apart with the mouthpiece as the key. A proper clean is about 10 minutes; a post-session brush-out is 90 seconds. It's fiddly the first time and easy ever after — the easiest S&B portable to maintain, full stop.
The hot Q-tip trick works on both: swab the unit while it's warm and the reclaim wipes off like butter.
Winner: Veazy.
Portability
Veazy 8.5, Crafty+ 8 — close, but the geometry decides it.
The Crafty+ was the most pocketable S&B ever made, right up until the Veazy arrived. It's a jacket-pocket device: short, wide, fine in an inside pocket, a known bulge in jeans. The Veazy is taller but dramatically slimmer — 37mm wide against 57 — and it genuinely disappears into front jeans pockets, which no S&B has ever done before.
Stealth is the quiet second win. The matte-black Crafty+ reads as "tech gadget, possibly vape" to anyone paying attention. A blue or pink Veazy reads as nothing at all.
Winner: Veazy — the most pocketable S&B ever, by their own family's measure.
Value for Money
Veazy 9, Crafty+ 6.5, and this is where the comparison stops being polite.
A small price gap separates them. For that, the Veazy gives you three extra sessions per charge, twenty seconds off every heat-up, a slimmer body, four colours, and an easier cleaning routine. The Crafty+ gives you back a genuinely better heater and 170 temperature degrees. That's the entire trade, and the Crafty+ review already published the verdict on it: the Veazy has narrowed the Crafty+'s audience to the precision crowd — the 10% who genuinely temperature step. Both, take note, are excluded from S&B's registration extension: two years each, no bonus third year for filling in the form.
Neither is the value pick of the whole market — that argument belongs to the XMAX V3 Pro — but within the S&B gate, the Veazy is the sensible door in.
Winner: Veazy.
Score Comparison
| Category | Veazy | Crafty+ |
|---|---|---|
| Vapour Quality | 8/10 | 9/10 |
| Design & Build | 7.5/10 | 8.5/10 |
| Battery & Charging | 8/10 | 6.5/10 |
| Ease of Use | 9/10 | 9/10 |
| Cleaning & Maintenance | 8/10 | 6/10 |
| Portability | 8.5/10 | 8/10 |
| Value for Money | 9/10 | 6.5/10 |
| Overall | 8.3/10 | 8.0/10 |
The shape of the table tells the story better than the totals: the Crafty+ wins the two categories enthusiasts read first, and the Veazy wins the four categories that decide whether you're still happily using the thing in a year.
Who Should Buy Which
The Crafty+ buyer knows exactly who they are, which is the point. They step temperatures in single degrees because they've noticed — actually noticed, not theoretically — what five degrees does to a terpene profile. They'll take a solid metal heater over a mesh one on principle and taste. They charge devices overnight without being reminded, which rules me and my fellow ADHD brains out immediately. For that person the Crafty+ remains the smallest device on the market with genuine flagship-adjacent S&B vapour and 170-degree precision, and its price is fair for it.
The Veazy buyer is everyone else, and I mean that with respect rather than as a dismissal, because everyone else includes most of the people reading this. First S&B. Shared households. People with arthritis, or tremors, or simply no interest in an app. People who want the battery question to go away for a working day at a time. People who'd like their vaporiser in a colour. If your reaction to "170 temperature degrees" was a shrug, the Veazy does more of what you'll actually notice, for a little more.
And if you read all of that and thought "honestly, I want the better heater AND the better battery" — that's neither of these. That's the Mighty+, and there's a comparison for that too.
How I Actually Choose
Both live in my house, and they've drifted into completely different jobs.
The Crafty+ is my leaving-the-house device — jacket pocket, 2-3 times a week, app-stepped from 180°C upwards, and never when the battery's under 20%, because those last hits aren't worth the stress. Eighteen months in, that role hasn't changed. When I know a day out needs more than 4-5 bowls, it stays home — that lesson was learned at a Sunday roast, in public.
The Veazy is my casual-mornings device: 195°C, Permanent Boost on, 0.2-0.25g loose, no temperature stepping, no thinking. It's what comes out before work, when mates who aren't vape people are round, and — monthly, without fail — when my mum visits, because it's the one S&B she can run herself.
Notice what happened there: the Crafty+ kept its job on precision grounds, and the Veazy took every job where precision doesn't matter. That's the whole article in two paragraphs.
The Verdict (The Bookend)
Back at the estate agent's, then.
The Victorian terrace is the better house. Better bones, better materials, craftsmanship the new build can't touch — the Crafty+ makes vapour the Veazy simply cannot make, from a heater the Veazy doesn't have, with a precision the Veazy doesn't offer. If you're the buyer who'll love the maintenance because it's part of loving the house, buy the terrace and don't let anyone talk you out of it.
But most people don't want a project. Most people want to move in, and the Veazy is move-in ready: better battery, faster heat-up, slimmer, easier to clean, a little more money. The Crafty+ review said it first and this article says it again: for the precision 10%, the Crafty+; for everyone else, the Veazy is the better buy. 8.3 beats 8.0, and for once the scores and the common sense agree.
The new build wins. The terrace keeps its dignity.
FAQ
Veazy vs Crafty+ — which should I buy?
The Veazy, unless you specifically want single-degree temperature control (170 degrees via app vs 3 presets) and the slightly better vapour of the Crafty+'s solid metal heater. The Veazy has better battery (7-8 sessions vs 4-5 bowls), faster heat-up (40s vs 60s), a slimmer body, and easier cleaning, for a little more money.
Is the Crafty+'s vapour really better?
Yes — 9/10 against 8/10. The Crafty+ uses the same solid metal heater as the Mighty+; the Veazy's stainless steel mesh puts it at roughly 85-90% of that. Most people won't notice in casual use. Flavour purists will, especially on fragile sativas like Jack Herer.
Which is easier to live with battery-wise?
The Veazy, clearly: 7-8 sessions per charge against 4-5 bowls, and 80% back in about 40 minutes. Neither has pass-through — flat means waiting — and both batteries are sealed, so neither offers a field swap.
Which is easier to clean?
The Veazy. Its smaller three-piece cooling unit takes about 10 minutes for a proper clean and has fewer O-rings. The Crafty+ shares the Mighty-family unit: eight O-rings and a teardown every 20-30 bowls.
Do they share accessories?
Yes — both take S&B dosing capsules and sit in the same ecosystem as the Mighty+, Venty and Volcano capsule adapters. Cooling units are model-specific.
Can I use either with a bong or water piece?
Neither is designed for it out of the box — no glass adapter ships with either, unlike the big desktop setups. Third-party water piece adapters exist for the Mighty/Crafty cooling unit family if you're determined, but if water filtration is your priority, you're shopping in the wrong aisle here.
Do either get the third-year warranty extension?
No — both the Veazy and the Crafty+ are excluded from S&B's registration extension. Two years each, and registering quickly doesn't change that. The Mighty+ and Venty are the ones that get the bonus year.
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 looked at the Crafty+ and the Veazy side by side on the counter and asked if the black one was the before photo.
Dennis wrote "for everyone else, the Veazy is the better buy" in his Crafty+ review and then spent a fortnight waiting for a precision temperature stepper to email in and argue. One did. Dennis conceded every technical point and changed nothing.
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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