How do you find the cheapest vape in Canada?
Compare the same product across stores, and compare different products on a common basis rather than by sticker price: per millilitre for e-liquid, and the full delivered price for everything. Two stores can list an identical product at different prices, and the size of the container, the number of units in a pack and the stated puff rating each change what a price actually means.
Compare the same product across stores
Retailers set their own prices, so one product is routinely listed at several different amounts. Each product page on this site shows what every tracked store currently lists for it, and each category page shows where the gap between the cheapest and the dearest store is widest right now: disposable vapes, pod systems, e-liquid and vape hardware. The stores directory lists every retailer tracked.
Compare different products on a common basis
E-liquid is sold in bottles of different sizes, so a sticker price says little until it is divided by the stated millilitres. Every e-liquid bottle ranked by price per mL does that division across the catalogue, and e-liquid bottle sizes: cost per millilitre by size gives the median at each size.
Disposable vapesstate a puff count, which is the manufacturer’s rating rather than a measurement: what a puff count actually tells you explains why two ratings are not directly comparable. For readers who compare by the advertised figure anyway, disposables ranked by price per 1,000 rated puffs divides each device’s median price by its rating and states that caveat on the page. Disposable and refillable vapes: the cost per millilitre compares the two formats on the one basis that is physically measured.
Devices with a long track record are compared pair by pair on the device price comparisons, each stating the lowest price, the typical price and the number of stores for both devices.
Add shipping, federal duty and provincial tax
A shelf price is not the amount paid. Federal vaping duty is charged per container, some provinces add their own vaping tax, and each store sets its own shipping charge and free shipping threshold. Vape prices by province shows what a vape costs delivered in each province, and the arithmetic is worked through in how much does a vape cost in Canada? and vape tax in Canada, explained. For what products cost across all provinces and categories, see the price index.
Check what the listing actually is
A low price can belong to a smaller container, a single unit of a multi-pack, or a different strength from the one a reader has in mind. Pack count, bottle size and stated nicotine strength are worth reading before comparing prices at all; the federal limit on strength and what the numbers mean are in nicotine strength: what mg/mL and percentages mean, and the age, strength and provincial rules that apply to an online sale are in what the law says about buying vapes online in Canada.
What Puff Prices does and does not do
Puff Prices is a comparison service, not a store. Every price is read from a retailer’s own published listing and dated, no retailer pays to appear or to rank, and the retailer’s own page is always the authority on a price. Nothing here recommends a product. Vaping products are sold only to adults of legal age, and the rules differ by province.