How long does a 10ml bottle of e-liquid last? Days, puffs and pounds

UK pods and tanks hold a maximum of 2ml, so a 10ml bottle fills one five times. How long that takes depends almost entirely on how much you vape. Somebody taking a few puffs after meals might use 1ml a day. Someone with a pod in hand all day can get through 4 or 5ml.

Bar-style 600-puff kits are made with 2ml of liquid, so a 10ml bottle holds the same as five of them. Manufacturers' puff counts come from standardised testing, and real-world puffs vary with how long and hard you draw, so treat puff figures as a rough comparison rather than a promise.

Here is how long a 10ml bottle typically lasts in a refillable MTL pod at different usage levels. These are ranges based on how much liquid people commonly use, not measured averages, and your own figure could easily sit either side.

The easiest way to find out where you sit is to count. Note how many times you refill your pod in a week, multiply by your pod size, and divide by seven. A 2ml pod refilled ten times a week means about 3ml a day, or a bottle every three to four days. Do the count for a normal week, not a holiday or a stressful one.

Plug in what you spend on a bottle and how long it lasts you, and the calculator gives your weekly, monthly and yearly cost. It is also a handy way to compare against prefilled pods or anything else you are weighing up.

Bottle prices on our shelves start at £2.99 for ranges such as Elfliq, with most premium 10ml liquids at £3.49 to £3.99. If you vape a lot, buying several bottles at once and checking the deals page brings the per-bottle figure down further. Add your coil or pod spend separately for the full picture.

The cost gap is large. A 10ml bar salt at £2.99 works out at 30p per ml. A 600-puff bar-style pod kit with 2ml of liquid at £4.99 works out at roughly £2.50 per ml. Five of them, the same amount of liquid as one 10ml bottle, would cost about £24.95.

A refillable kit does add the cost of replacement coils or pods, typically a few pounds every week or two depending on your liquid and habits. Even with those, the refillable route is usually cheaper for anyone who vapes daily. The bar salts guide covers how to get the same flavours in a refillable kit.

Several things speed up liquid use beyond simply vaping more. Lower resistance coils and higher wattage vaporise more liquid per puff. Long draws use more than short ones. Leaks waste liquid without you noticing, and a coil that floods can lose a surprising amount through the airflow.

Sub-ohm tanks are in a different league: a 0.2 ohm coil at 60W can empty a 2ml tank very quickly, which is why sub-ohm vapers usually buy shortfills rather than 10ml bottles. Lower nicotine often means more puffs too, since you are taking more vapour to feel satisfied. Here is how to stretch a bottle.

You refill your 2ml pod roughly twice a day, every day, with a 20mg bar salt that costs £2.99 per 10ml bottle. A friend asks how many bottles you get through in a month, and what that costs you, because they are thinking of switching from prefilled pods.

Work out your daily liquid use first, then how many days a bottle lasts, then scale up to a thirty-day month. Which answer is closest? Rounding is fine here, since the point is the order of magnitude rather than the exact penny, and it gives your friend something real to compare against what they spend on prefilled pods each month.