Hayati Pro Max Plus Pods

What a Hayati Pro Max Plus pod is

A Pro Max Plus pod is the refill. It contains the e-liquid, the coil and the wicking, and nothing else. There is no battery, no charging port and no electronics inside it. On its own it will not produce vapour; it needs a Pro Max Plus device to plug into. Every pod in this collection is £5.49 and carries 12ml of liquid rated at 6000 puffs.

If you do not already own a Pro Max Plus device, this is not the page you want. Start with a complete Pro Max Plus kit at £7.99, which includes the device, a charging cable and a pod already fitted, then come back here to restock. If you do own the device, this page is where you should be buying from every time, because the £2.50 difference between a kit and a pod is entirely the price of a duplicate battery.

Everything on this page is sold to adults aged 18 and over in the UK only.

Pod specification

• Type: prefilled replacement pod, no battery included
• Liquid volume: 12ml total — a 2ml vaping chamber plus a 10ml sealed reserve
• Rated output: 6000 puffs (manufacturer test figure)
• Nicotine: 20mg/ml nicotine salt as standard; 10mg, 5mg and zero-nicotine pods listed separately
• Coil: integrated mesh, sealed, non-serviceable, non-refillable
• Compatibility: Hayati Pro Max Plus devices only
• Price: £5.49 per pod across the flavour range
• Cost per ml: 45.8p

Will it fit? Compatibility in plain terms

This is the question that generates the most pre-sales messages, and the answer is refreshingly simple: Pro Max Plus pods fit Pro Max Plus devices, and nothing else.

How to check which device you own

The range name is printed on the device body, usually on the front face below the pod or on the base. If the printing has worn, three physical tells will identify it. A Pro Max Plus has no screen — if your device shows a battery percentage or a liquid bar on a small display, you have a Pro Ultra Plus and you need Pro Ultra Plus pods. If the body is squared-off and distinctly cubic rather than a rounded rectangle, you have a Rubik. If the device is noticeably smaller than a standard pod vape and the pod looks short, you have a Mini Ultra.

Why the ranges are not cross-compatible

Three things differ between ranges and any one of them is enough to prevent a pod working. The footprint is different, so a pod from another range either will not enter the bay or will sit loose in it. The contact placement is different, so even a pod that physically fits may not complete the circuit. And the retention mechanism — the friction ribs or magnets that hold a pod in place — is dimensioned to its own range. Forcing a pod from one range into a device from another risks bending contacts and damaging seals, and no combination of the two will produce a working vape.

The 4000 variant

One exception worth naming: Hayati also lists a Pro Max Plus 4000 pod carrying 7ml rated at 4000 puffs, also at £5.49, to go with the 4000 kit. Check which one your device is before ordering. On value the 6000 pod is the clear pick, carrying 12ml for the same price.

Inside the pod: what you are actually buying

A prefilled pod looks like a plastic shell with liquid in it. There is more going on than that, and knowing the internals explains most of the behaviour people find puzzling.

The mesh coil

At the base of the pod sits a perforated metal strip — the mesh coil — rather than the wound wire used in older designs. Mesh presents a large, flat, uniform surface to the cotton wrapped around it. That geometry matters in a sealed pod for one reason above all: you cannot service it. You cannot rinse it, dry-burn it, re-wick it or replace it. The coil has to vaporise the entire 12ml without developing hot spots that scorch the wick. Even heat across a large area is how that is achieved, and it is why a well-treated pod tastes broadly consistent from first draw to last.

The cotton and the feed slots

Organic cotton surrounds the mesh and draws liquid in through feed slots cut into the pod body. The slot dimensions are a compromise. Cut them larger and liquid arrives faster, but the pod floods — liquid weeps past the cotton into the airflow path and ends up in your mouth. Cut them smaller and the pod stops flooding but cannot resupply the coil during a fast run of draws, producing a dry, harsh taste. Hayati has sized them for a moderate mouth-to-lung rhythm, which is why pacing your draws is not fussiness but the way the hardware is meant to be used.

The two compartments and the transfer valve

The 12ml inside the pod is divided. A 2ml vaping chamber holds the coil and cotton and is the only part connected to the airflow path. A 10ml sealed reserve sits behind it with no route to the mouthpiece, no fill port and no way to draw from it directly. Between them is a one-way transfer arrangement: as liquid in the chamber is consumed, the pressure differential allows a measured amount through from the reserve, and the path closes again once the chamber is back to 2ml.

This is what makes a 12ml product compliant with the UK cap of 2ml on the chamber you vape from. It is also why pods should be stored and carried upright — the transfer is designed with gravity assisting it — and why an occasional very slight change in intensity as a top-up happens is normal rather than a fault.

What the liquid itself is made of

The e-liquid in a Pro Max Plus pod is a nicotine salt formulation built from four things: propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine, flavourings and nicotine. Propylene glycol is the thinner of the two carriers; it wicks readily through narrow feed slots and carries flavour compounds well. Vegetable glycerine is thicker and sweeter and is what produces visible vapour. The balance between them determines how a liquid behaves in a given device, which is why pod systems use PG-forward blends and big sub-ohm tanks use VG-forward ones.

The nicotine is in salt form rather than freebase. In practical terms that means the nicotine has been combined with an acid, which lowers the pH of the finished liquid and makes it markedly smoother on the throat at a given concentration. That smoothness is the enabling factor for a 20mg pod device: the same concentration as freebase would be unpleasantly harsh in a small restricted mouthpiece. Every UK-compliant pod carries an ingredients list and nicotine content on the packaging, along with the required warning and an information leaflet, and it is worth reading the one in the box the first time you buy a range.

The seals and the plug

A new pod arrives with a mouthpiece plug and usually a base sticker over the contacts and the vent. Both are there to stop liquid escaping in transit and to keep air off the coil. Remove both before fitting. Keep the mouthpiece plug if you intend to store a part-used pod, because refitting it stops dust entering the airflow path and reduces evaporation from the chamber.

Fitting a pod properly

The routine takes two minutes and determines how the pod tastes for the next several days. It is worth doing the same way every time.

• Remove the old pod by pulling it straight out. Do not twist — the fit is friction and contact, and twisting stresses the seal on the way out.
• Wipe the device contacts and the inside of the pod bay with a dry cotton bud. A pod that has been in for a week almost always leaves a faint film of condensate, and that film is the commonest cause of a new pod appearing not to fire.
• Take the mouthpiece plug and base sticker off the new pod.
• Press the new pod in until it sits flush with no gap at the join.
• Stand the device upright and leave it alone for two to three minutes so the cotton saturates around the mesh.
• Take the first five or six draws short and gentle, with a few seconds between each.

The rest period applies to every pod change, not just the first one out of the box. Firing dry cotton scorches the fibres and scorched cotton does not recover — there is no fix, only a replacement pod. Two minutes of patience is the cheapest insurance in vaping.

Switching between very different flavours

Residue from the previous pod lingers in the device airflow path, so going from Double Menthol to Mango Peach Pineapple will carry a trace of mint into the first few draws. Wiping the pod bay helps. Otherwise it clears on its own within a pod or two of draws. If you want to avoid it entirely, keep a second device for your mint or menthol flavours — a second kit at £7.99 is a reasonable way to do that.

The full Pro Max Plus pod flavour list

Eighty-nine listings, all £5.49, all 12ml, all 20mg/ml unless the listing says otherwise. Grouped into families so you can find your corner quickly.

Blue, sour and sweet-shop

Blue Razz GB, Blue Razz Cherry, Blue Razz Blackcurrant, Blue Razz Lemonade, Blue Razz Pineapple, Blue Razz Mojito, Blue Razz Fruit Twist, Blue Sour Raspberry, Blue Fusion, Blue Frozen, Mad Blue, Mr Blue, Red Sour Raspberry, Cherry Sour Raspberry, Tropical Sour Juice, Hubba Bubba, Blueberry B'Gum and Strawberry H'Bubba. These sell faster than anything else in the range. Blue Razz GB is the plain reference point; everything else is a variation. See the same profile across the whole catalogue at blueberry raspberry, Mr Blue and sweet vapes.

Strawberry, cherry and berry

Smooth Strawberry Ice, Strawberry Raspberry Mojito, Strawberry Guava, Strawberry GB, Strawberry Kiwi, Strawberry Watermelon, Strawberry Cherry Cranberry, Strawberry Raspberry Blueberry, Strawberry Raspberry Cherry, Strawberry Raspberry Ice, Mixed Berries, Dragon Berries, Cherry Berry, Fizzy Cherry, Cherry Cola, Cherry Peach Lemon, Blackberry Ice, Blackberry Raspberry, Blueberry Raspberry, Blueberry Raspberry Cherry, Blueberry Cherry Cranberry and Blueberry Pomegranate. Related collections: strawberry, cherry, berry and Strawberry Raspberry Ice.

Tropical, stone fruit and melon

Mango Peach Pineapple, Mango Banana, Triple Mango, Blackcurrant Mango, Guava Kiwi Passion Fruit, Kiwi Cooler, Pipeline Punch, Caribb Crush, Lychee Ice, Juicy Peach, Peach Aura, Peach Green Tea, White Peach Raspberry, Pineapple Ice, Pineapple Lemon Burst, Lemon Pineapple, Banana Ice, Triple Melon and Watermelon Ice. Cross-reference at exotic, mango and juicy peach.

Citrus, lemonade and fizzy drinks

Berry Lemonade, Blackcurrant Lemonade, Pink Lemonade, Lemon Lime, Cola Ice, Cola Lime, Ice Pop, Vim Ice and Rocky Candy Orange. This is the gentler end of the range. If the blue candy flavours are too sharp for you, start here. See also lemonade, cola and lemon.

Mint, menthol and tobacco

Fresh Mint, Spearmint, Double Menthol and Smooth Tobacco. Four distinct options rather than four variations. Fresh Mint is the standard cool mint, Spearmint is softer and sweeter, Double Menthol is the coldest profile in the range with no fruit at all, and Smooth Tobacco is the only non-fruit, non-mint pod Hayati lists for this device. Compare at mint and menthol.

Grape, apple, dark fruit and house blends

Grape GB, Grape Berry, Sakura Grape, Blackcurrant Juice, Double Apple, Red Apple Ice, Fruit Twist, Summer Dream, Black Mamba, Midnight Dream, Galaxy Aura, Sunset Aura and T-Misu. The last five are house blends whose names tell you little: Sunset Aura and Peach Aura sit in soft stone fruit, Galaxy Aura and Midnight Dream in dark berry, Black Mamba is a sharp mixed berry, and T-Misu is the only dessert-leaning profile here. Related: grape, apple, blackcurrant and Summer Dream.

Flavour shorthand worth knowing

Hayati's naming uses a few abbreviations consistently. "GB" after a fruit means a gummy-bear style sweet take on it, so Blue Razz GB, Grape GB and Strawberry GB are the confectionery versions rather than the fruit alone. "B'Gum" and "H'Bubba" both indicate bubblegum. "Razz" is raspberry, and "Blue Razz" specifically is the blue raspberry sweet-shop profile rather than the actual berry. "Vim" points at a blackcurrant-and-mixed-fruit soft drink profile. Once you know those four, the grid becomes much faster to read.

Choosing without tasting first

You want	Safest pick	Next step up in intensity
Sweet and sour candy	Blue Razz GB	Blue Sour Raspberry, Red Sour Raspberry
Soft, sweet red fruit	Smooth Strawberry Ice	Strawberry Guava, Mixed Berries
Cold, clean, no fruit	Fresh Mint	Double Menthol
Juicy tropical	Mango Peach Pineapple	Pipeline Punch, Guava Kiwi Passion Fruit
Fizzy drink	Cola Ice	Cherry Cola, Vim Ice
Dark and sharp	Blackcurrant Juice	Black Mamba, Midnight Dream
An everyday pod you will not tire of	Fruit Twist	Summer Dream, Blue Razz GB
No fruit, no mint	Smooth Tobacco	T-Misu

Nicotine strengths in pod form

20mg/ml nicotine salt is the standard across the flavour range and the UK legal maximum. Three lower-strength pods are listed separately, all in Banana Ice and all at the same £5.49: a 10mg pod, a 5mg pod and a zero-nicotine pod.

Why salt rather than freebase

Nicotine salt is formulated to be noticeably smoother on the throat than freebase nicotine at the same concentration. That is what makes 20mg workable in a small restricted mouth-to-lung device, where 20mg freebase would be unpleasantly harsh. The corollary is worth stating plainly: because a 20mg salt pod does not announce its strength the way freebase would, it is easy to use more than you intended without noticing. If a pod feels sharper than you want, the 10mg and 5mg listings exist for exactly that reason.

Stepping down, practically

Your device does not care what strength is in the pod, so you can change strength between pods freely. A common pattern is to alternate a 20mg pod with a 10mg pod rather than dropping in one move. The lower-strength listings are only available in Banana Ice, so if you want a lower strength in a specific fruit profile you would be looking at the bottled 10mg nic salts and a refillable kit instead. Nicotine is addictive and these products are for adults aged 18 and over.

Working out how many pods you actually get through

Every pod listing carries a 6000-puff rating, and every customer wants to know what that means in days. The honest answer is that the rating cannot tell you, but ten minutes of paying attention can.

Where the number comes from

Puff ratings are produced by a standardised machine test: a fixed-duration puff taken at fixed intervals until the liquid is exhausted. The figure is genuinely useful for comparing two products built the same way — it is why a 22ml Pro Ultra Plus pod rates far above a 12ml Pro Max Plus pod — and it is genuinely useless as a prediction, because no person vapes at a constant rate with identical draws.

The three variables that move it

Draw length is the big one. A two-second draw vaporises roughly twice the liquid of a one-second draw, so somebody who takes long pulls will see far fewer puffs from the same 12ml than the rating suggests. Draw strength matters less than people assume, because the board regulates power rather than scaling it to how hard you pull, but a harder draw does move more vapour away from the coil per second. Frequency is the third: the difference between reaching for a device twenty times a day and eighty times a day dwarfs everything else.

Measuring your own rate

Write the date on the box when you fit a pod and write the date again when you change it. Do that for three pods and take the average. That number — days per pod — is the only figure that will ever help you plan an order, and it will be stable as long as your habits are. Once you have it, the ordering maths is simple: four pods covers four times that many days, and free UK delivery over £20 means four is the natural order size anyway.

What the rating does tell you reliably

Relative scale. Whatever your personal rate turns out to be, a 12ml Pro Max Plus pod will always carry three times the liquid of a 4ml Mini Ultra pod and a little over half of a 22ml Pro Ultra Plus pod. Those ratios hold regardless of how you vape, and they are the right basis for comparing ranges.

Why buying pods rather than kits is the whole point

Here is the arithmetic that justifies this collection existing as a separate page.

What you buy	Price	Liquid	Cost per ml	Annual cost at one a week
Pro Max Plus pod	£5.49	12ml	45.8p	£285
Pro Max Plus kit	£7.99	12ml	66.6p	£415
What the difference buys you	£2.50	0ml	20.8p	£130 of duplicate batteries

At a pod a week, buying kits instead of pods costs £130 a year and leaves you with fifty-two devices that legally need recycling rather than binning. Even at a pod a fortnight it is £65 a year for nothing. The only sound reasons to buy another kit are a spare device, a second flavour running in parallel, or a battery that has aged past usefulness.

Cost per millilitre across the Hayati pod ranges

Pod	Price	Volume	Cost per ml	Rated puffs
Rubik pod	£3.99	12ml	33.3p	7000
Pro Ultra Plus pod	£7.99	22ml	36.3p	25000
Pro Max Plus pod	£5.49	12ml	45.8p	6000
Mini Ultra pod	£3.49	4ml	87.3p	1500

Pro Max Plus sits third on running cost and first on choice: eighty-nine pods against nineteen for the Rubik, fifty-two for the Pro Ultra Plus and thirty for the Mini Ultra. That trade is the honest case for the range. If you have found your one flavour and it appears on the Rubik list, the Rubik will cost you less. If you like to change flavour regularly, nothing else Hayati makes comes close on breadth.

How many pods to order at a time

Two considerations shape this: free UK delivery over £20, and the fact that unopened pods keep perfectly well.

The delivery threshold

Four pods at £5.49 comes to £21.96 and clears the free delivery threshold with room to spare. Three pods comes to £16.47 and does not. Ordering in fours is therefore the efficient unit, and it also gives you roughly a month of supply at typical usage, which means fewer orders and fewer delivery charges over a year.

Rotating flavours without wasting anything

A useful pattern is to order three pods of a flavour you know works and one you have not tried. If the new one suits you it enters the rotation; if it does not, you have lost £5.49 rather than a whole month's supply. Over a year that approach walks you through a good portion of the eighty-nine without ever being stuck with something you dislike.

Shelf life and storage of unopened pods

Sealed pods are stable for a long time if stored sensibly, but e-liquid is not immortal. Nicotine slowly oxidises, which darkens the liquid and dulls the flavour, and heat and light accelerate both. Store spare pods upright in a cool, dark drawer with the mouthpiece plug fitted. Avoid windowsills, car glove boxes and anywhere near a radiator. Darkened liquid in an old pod is oxidation rather than contamination, but it will not taste as bright as a fresh one. Use oldest first and do not stockpile beyond a couple of months of supply.

Getting the most out of each pod

Pace, don't chain

The single biggest determinant of how a pod performs across its life is how fast you draw on it. The feed slots are sized for a moderate rhythm; a long run of back-to-back draws outpaces the cotton's ability to resupply the mesh, and the result is a dry, sharp taste that in the worst case scorches the wick permanently. Leaving a few seconds between draws is not a rule we invented to sound careful, it is the operating envelope of the hardware.

Keep it upright

The transfer mechanism between reserve and chamber works with gravity. A device carried mouthpiece-down for hours will not break, but it makes flooding and condensate in the airflow path more likely. Upright in a pocket or a small case is the right way to carry one.

Keep it out of the heat

Warm e-liquid is thinner, and thinner liquid finds its way past seals. A device left on a car dashboard in summer will often come back leaking, tasting weak, and with liquid in the mouthpiece. Heat is also the fastest way to age the battery in the device it is fitted to. There is no version of storing a pod somewhere hot that ends well.

Use the whole pod

Flavour dulls gradually towards the end of a pod's rated life as the coil accumulates residue. That is normal and there is nothing to be done about it in a sealed, non-serviceable pod. Discarding a pod at the first hint of change wastes liquid you have paid for; carrying on past a genuinely harsh, burnt taste achieves nothing because the wick is spent. The point to change is when the taste has clearly gone rather than at the first slight dulling.

Troubleshooting a replacement pod

The new pod does nothing

Nine times in ten this is contacts. Pull the pod, wipe both the pod base and the device bay with a dry cotton bud, and refit firmly until flush. If the device still shows nothing at all, charge it for twenty minutes — the pod change may simply have coincided with a flat battery. If the device indicator lights but no vapour comes, the coil in that pod has failed.

The new pod tastes burnt from the first draw

The cotton was fired before it saturated. Rest the pod for ten minutes and try short gentle draws. If the burnt taste persists, the wick was scorched in those first puffs and will not recover.

The pod leaks or spits liquid

Small amounts of condensate in the airflow path are normal, particularly in cold weather. Remove the pod, tap the mouthpiece downwards onto kitchen roll, wipe it, refit. A pod that floods immediately and repeatedly from new has a seal fault and should be taken out of use.

The draw has gone very tight

Check the air inlet on the device body rather than the pod. Pocket lint is the usual culprit. Clear it gently with a dry cocktail stick, never a pin.

The pod rattles slightly in the device

A small amount of play at the join is normal on a friction-retained pod and does not affect performance as long as the pod sits flush and fires reliably. Excessive movement, or a pod that lifts under its own weight when the device is held upside down, usually means the retention ribs in the bay have worn after many pod changes. That is a device at the end of its service life rather than a faulty pod. Fitting a fresh kit is the fix, and the worn device should go for electrical recycling rather than into a drawer.

The device gets warm in use

Mild warmth around the pod and the upper body during a run of draws is expected — you are heating a coil a few millimetres away from the shell. Warmth that builds while the device is idle, or any heat at all around the charging port when nothing is plugged in, is not normal. Stop using the device, do not charge it, and take it for electrical recycling.

Flavour is weak but liquid remains

Either the coil is near the end of its life, or you are tasting residue from the previous flavour in the device's airflow path, or the liquid has aged in storage. Work through those in order: check how many days the pod has done, wipe the pod bay, and check whether the pod was an old one from the back of a drawer.

The device fires by itself

That is the device, not the pod. Draw-activated sensors respond to pressure changes and a device loose in a bag will occasionally see one. Carry it upright. Persistent self-firing means the device should be retired and recycled.

Pro Max Plus pods next to the rest of the Hayati refill range

Against Rubik pods

Same 12ml, £1.50 cheaper, and a higher rated puff count. On cost alone the Rubik pod wins outright. What it cannot offer is choice: nineteen flavours against eighty-nine, and no tobacco, no T-Misu, no Aura blends and none of the sour range. Rubik pods also need a Rubik device, so this is only a live comparison if you are deciding which range to commit to rather than restocking one you already own.

Against Pro Ultra Plus pods

A Pro Ultra Plus pod is £7.99 for 22ml, which is cheaper per millilitre and a much longer interval between pod changes. Many listings also carry two flavours in one pod with a rotating mouthpiece to switch between them. Against that, it is a larger device, a higher up-front cost, and £2.50 more per pod in absolute terms, which matters if you buy in fours.

Against Mini Ultra pods

A Mini Ultra pod is £3.49 for 4ml — nearly twice the cost per millilitre. It exists for size rather than economy. Plenty of customers run a Pro Max Plus as their main device and keep a Mini Ultra in a bag.

Against bottled e-liquid

If cost per millilitre is your only concern, bottles win comfortably. A 10ml Pro Max nic salt at £2.49 is 24.9p per ml, and a 120ml shortfill at £6.99 is 5.8p per ml at zero nicotine. Bottles need refillable hardware, a filling routine and coil changes, so you are trading convenience for money. Browse the whole liquid range at Hayati e-liquids.

The UK rules that shape what is on this page

Several things about this collection look odd until you know the regulatory background, so it is worth setting out plainly what the rules require and how these pods meet them.

The 2ml chamber limit

UK law caps the capacity of the chamber you vape from at 2ml. Every Pro Max Plus pod meets this: the chamber holding the coil and cotton is 2ml, and the remaining 10ml sits in a sealed reserve you cannot open, decant or vape from directly. The transfer between the two is one-way and metered, so the chamber is never above the permitted volume. This is why a compliant product can honestly state 12ml on the listing.

The 20mg/ml nicotine cap

Nicotine strength in e-liquid is capped at 20mg/ml. That is the standard strength across this range and it is a ceiling rather than a target — the 10mg, 5mg and zero-nicotine pods exist for people who want less. No legal UK retailer can sell you a stronger e-liquid than 20mg, and you should treat any claim to the contrary as a reason to shop elsewhere.

The 10ml bottle limit

Bottles containing nicotine are capped at 10ml, which is why every Pro Max nic salt is a 10ml bottle. The 120ml shortfills are not bound by that limit because they contain no nicotine at all. This distinction catches people out regularly: the cap is on nicotine-containing bottles, not on e-liquid generally.

Packaging, labelling and product notification

Nicotine-containing products sold in the UK must arrive in child-resistant and tamper-evident packaging, carry the required health warning covering the specified proportion of the pack, list the ingredients and nicotine content, and include an information leaflet. They must also be notified to the regulator before they can legally be placed on the market. If a pod arrives without that packaging, without a warning, or with a foreign-language label and no UK notification, it has not come through a compliant route.

Age restriction

It is illegal to sell nicotine products to anyone under 18 in the UK, and illegal to buy them on behalf of someone under 18. We age-verify orders and we will refuse any order we cannot satisfy ourselves about. That applies to every product on this site without exception.

Ordering pods from Hayati Flavours

Age verification

We supply adults aged 18 and over in the UK only. All orders are subject to age verification and we will ask you to confirm your age where our checks require it before an order ships. We do not sell to under-18s, and it is an offence to buy nicotine products on behalf of someone under 18.

Delivery and tracking

UK delivery is free on orders over £20; below that a standard charge applies at checkout. All orders ship tracked, with 24-hour and 48-hour options, and tracking reaches you by email once the parcel is collected. Orders placed before our daily cut-off are picked the same working day; weekend and bank holiday orders are picked on the next working day.

What else to add to a pod order

If you are close to the £20 threshold, a 10ml nic salt at £2.49 or a tin of Hayati nicotine pouches at £4.49 will usually bridge the gap for less than a delivery charge. New listings across every range appear under new products, and every pod and refill we stock sits on the prefilled pods and refills page. The complete catalogue is on the store page.

Recycling used pods

A spent pod is not ordinary plastic waste. Inside it are a metal mesh coil, cotton and a small amount of residual e-liquid, which makes it electrical waste under UK WEEE rules rather than something for the household bin or the kerbside recycling box.

The practical route is to collect them. Keep a small sealed box or jar for finished pods and empty it at a household waste recycling centre that accepts small electricals, or at a retailer take-back point — many larger supermarkets have a collection bin near the entrance. Take the device itself along by the same route when it reaches the end of its life, whole and with the cell left inside. Do not attempt to open a pod to separate the materials, and never puncture, crush or burn a battery or a pod.

Who should be buying from this page

You should be buying pods rather than kits if you already own a working Pro Max Plus device that charges and fires normally. That is the whole test. At £5.49 against £7.99 for identical liquid, pods are the correct purchase for the overwhelming majority of restocks, and buying in fours clears free delivery.

Buy a complete kit instead if you do not own the device yet, want a charged spare, want to run two flavours side by side, or your battery has aged to the point where it needs charging noticeably more often than it used to. If you are still deciding between Hayati ranges entirely, the full hardware comparison lives on the Hayati pod kits page, and every pod across every range is gathered under Hayati pods. All of it is for adults aged 18 and over.

Related collections

• Pro Max Plus kits
• All Hayati pods
• Pods & refills
• Pro Ultra Plus pods
• Rubik pods
• Mini Ultra pods
• All Hayati pod kits
• 10ml nic salts
• Ice flavours
• Berry flavours

Frequently asked questions

Do these pods include a battery?

No. A Pro Max Plus pod is the refill only: e-liquid, mesh coil and wicking in a sealed shell. There is no battery, no charging port and no electronics. It will not produce vapour on its own — it needs a Pro Max Plus device. If you do not own one yet, buy a complete Pro Max Plus kit at £7.99, which includes the device, a cable and a pod.

Which Hayati devices do these pods fit?

Hayati Pro Max Plus devices only. Pro Ultra Plus, Rubik and Mini Ultra each use their own pod fitment, with different footprints, contact placement and retention. If your device has a small screen showing battery or liquid level it is a Pro Ultra Plus; if the body is squared-off and cubic it is a Rubik; if it is noticeably smaller it is a Mini Ultra.

How much do I save buying pods instead of kits?

£2.50 per refill. A pod is £5.49 and a kit is £7.99, both carrying the same 12ml — the difference is the device and cable in the kit box. At a pod a week that is £130 a year, plus a pile of duplicate batteries that legally need electrical recycling rather than binning. Buy the kit once, then buy pods.

How many pods should I order at once?

Four is the natural unit. Four pods at £5.49 comes to £21.96, which clears the £20 free UK delivery threshold; three pods comes to £16.47 and does not. Four also covers roughly a month at typical usage. A useful pattern is three of a flavour you know plus one you want to try, so a miss costs £5.49 rather than a month's supply.

What nicotine strengths are available?

20mg/ml nicotine salt as standard across the flavour range, which is the UK maximum. There are also 10mg, 5mg and zero-nicotine pods listed, all in Banana Ice, all at £5.49. Your device does not care what strength is in the pod, so you can change between pods freely. Nicotine is addictive and these products are for adults 18 and over.

Can I refill a Pro Max Plus pod?

No. There is no fill port, the coil is sealed in and not serviceable, and the 10ml reserve compartment is closed by design. Puncturing it pushes liquid into the airflow channel and ruins the pod. If you want to use your own bottled e-liquid, look at the Hayati Quokka refillable kits, which take a 2ml refillable pod.

How do I fit a new pod so it does not taste burnt?

Pull the old pod straight out without twisting, wipe the device contacts and pod bay with a dry cotton bud, remove the new pod's mouthpiece plug and base sticker, press it in until flush, then leave the device standing upright for two to three minutes. Take the first five or six draws short and gentle. Scorched cotton never recovers, so the rest period matters every time.

How long does one pod last?

Depends entirely on how you vape — the 6000-puff rating is a machine test figure, not a prediction. Draw length matters most: a two-second draw uses roughly twice the liquid of a one-second draw. Write the date on the box when you fit a pod and again when you change it, do that three times, and the average is the only number worth planning orders around.

Why does a 12ml pod comply with the UK 2ml rule?

Because the 2ml limit applies to the chamber you vape from. The pod holds a 2ml chamber containing the coil and cotton, plus a 10ml sealed reserve with no route to the mouthpiece and no opening you can access. A one-way metered transfer tops the chamber back up as it depletes, and the chamber never exceeds 2ml.

How should I store spare pods?

Upright, in a cool dark drawer, with the mouthpiece plug fitted. Heat and light accelerate nicotine oxidation, which darkens the liquid and dulls the flavour — that is ageing rather than contamination, but it will not taste as bright. Avoid windowsills, glove boxes and radiators, use oldest first, and do not stockpile more than a couple of months of supply.

Which Hayati pod is cheapest per millilitre?

The Rubik pod at £3.99 for 12ml, which is 33.3p per ml. Pro Ultra Plus pods are 36.3p, Pro Max Plus pods 45.8p and Mini Ultra pods 87.3p. Pro Max Plus sits third on cost and first on choice: 89 flavours against 19 for the Rubik. Pods are not cross-compatible, so this only matters when choosing a range rather than restocking one.

What do I do with a used pod?

Not the household bin. A spent pod contains a metal mesh coil, cotton and residual e-liquid, which makes it electrical waste under UK WEEE rules. Collect finished pods in a small sealed box and take them to a household waste recycling centre with a small electricals point, or a retailer take-back point. Never open, puncture or burn a pod.