Lost Mary BM6000 vs Hayati Pro Max Plus: Which 6000-Puff Pod Kit Wins?

You would think we would all have stopped mentioning the disposable vape ban by now. Despite the new law having been in effect for well over a year, many online articles and commenters continue to reference it pretty often. Including us. We are doing it now.

But this collective fixation is warranted. Vaping has changed more in the last year than in the several preceding it, driven mostly by the throwaway ban, which left manufacturers with a problem to solve: how to give people everything they liked about disposables, without the disposable part. To satisfy that need, innovation was needed.

Hail The New Breed

The Lost Mary BM6000 and the Hayati Pro Max Plus are products of that innovation. It wouldn't be fair to say they exist purely because of the disposable ban, but they probably wouldn't exist in this form without it, either.

Both devices follow the blueprint that emerged once disposables vanished, with each one pairing a small 2ml pod with a 10ml refill reservoir that tops it up on its own, so you are carrying 12ml of e-liquid and somewhere near 6,000 puffs before anything needs replacing. Both draw like a cigarette, both fire as soon as you inhale, and when the liquid finally runs dry, you swap the pod rather than the whole thing.

That's reassuringly familiar, assuming you have used a disposable before. And by finding this blog post, you probably did. By the same token, it is also a new way of vaping, thanks in no small part to the ban and the subsequent innovation that sprang out of it.

Either way, given how similar both vape kits are, and in light of how popular they have become, we thought a quick comparison might be in order. So here it is.

Key Takeaways

• They are near-identical on paper. Both the Lost Mary BM6000 and the Hayati Pro Max Plus give you 12ml of e-liquid (a 2ml pod fed by a 10ml refill), up to 6,000 puffs, and a smooth MTL draw.
  
  

• The Hayati is the cheaper option. At £9.95, it undercuts the Lost Mary by two pounds, comes in 47 flavours to the Lost Mary's 54, and refills itself with no input from you.
  
  

• The Lost Mary wins on battery and flexibility. Its 1000mAh cell outlasts Hayati's 850mAh, and it's the only one of the two offering 10mg and 0mg strengths for lighter vapers or anyone cutting down.
  
  

• Nicotine strength may settle it for you. The Hayati is 20mg only (a firm hit for new switchers) while the Lost Mary's lower strengths suit a gentler draw.
  
  

• Either beats a disposable on cost. One 6,000-puff pod does the work of roughly 10 600-puff disposables, so the running cost drops well below that.

Design and User Experience

Lost Mary BM6000

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, as the old adage goes. It is in that spirit that Lost Mary launched the BM6000 in 2025, immediately following the ban on disposables. Its body copies the original and much-loved Lost Mary BM600, although most similarities end there, rendering the old adage only partially relevant.

Inside the familiar pocket-sized shell there is now a rechargeable, refillable kit, with a clear window on one side showing your e-liquid level so you can swap before a dry, burnt hit catches you off guard. Refilling is simple: just turn the device upside down for a few seconds, and the 10ml reservoir refills the 2ml pod.

Unlike the Hayati Pro Max Plus, the Lost Mary BM6000 offers a choice of strengths, including 10mg and 0mg nicotine-free versions, whereas the Hayati is limited to 20mg. If you are a lighter smoker (or aiming to quit), that lower strength should suffice, and since it's a nic salt on a dual 1.1Ω QUAQ mesh coil, the 10mg still draws smoothly.

Hayati Pro Max Plus

Where the Lost Mary requires an occasional deft flick of the wrist, the Hayati Pro Max Plus needs nothing. One of its selling points is how little it asks of you, with a 10ml reservoir that feeds the 2ml pod continuously as you vape, topping it up in the background without a manual step. You draw, it refills itself, and you carry on. Apart from the obligatory raising of the arm and pursing of the lips, it's almost effortless.

From there, everything adheres to the same low-effort logic. It's slim enough to slip into a pocket unnoticed, there's no button to hold (just inhale, and it fires), and the advanced mesh coil keeps the flavour steady from a full pod down to the last few draws.

When the Hayati Pro Max Plus pods run empty, you just drop in a fresh one. It won't offer you a 10mg or a zero-nicotine option like the Lost Mary (again, 20mg is all there is), but if you happen to be a full-strength vaper who wants the machine to look after itself, that's hardly a great loss.

Shared Tech

For all their differences, both kits solve the same annoyance of running low on juice the same way, with a small LED screen on the front showing how much battery and e-liquid you have left. It's a useful touch. Instead of a pod dying without warning or a flat battery catching you out mid-morning, you get a glance-and-go readout that tells you when to recharge or swap. On devices built to last weeks rather than days, knowing where you stand is a bigger benefit than it might sound on paper.

Battery Life and Charging

Lost Mary BM6000

Hayati Pro Max Plus

Performance: Coils and Nicotine Strength

Coil Technology

Nicotine Strength

This is the difference that swings it for many people, as the Hayati Pro Max Plus comes in 20mg nic salt and nothing else, which makes it a strong first kit for a smoker just making the switch, or anyone who wants a firm hit to keep cravings at bay.

The Lost Mary BM6000 takes the opposite approach with its 10mg strength: a step down that suits vapers who might find 20mg too much, or who are deliberately winding their intake back over time. It's the gentler of the two, and paired with the 0mg option elsewhere in the range, it gives you somewhere to go as you cut down, rather than being stuck at full strength.

Flavours and Variety

Hayati Pro Max Plus

On sheer choice at the point of purchase, the Hayati takes it quite comfortably. The kit is sold in 47 flavours, from easy everyday fruits to the sweeter, icier end of things, including Banana Ice, Blue Raspberry, Lemon & Lime, and Summer Dream (to name a few), alongside a long list of berry, cola, and the usual menthol/ice options.

If you like to change things up often, or just haven't settled on a favourite yet, the sheer range of flavours available with Hayati Pro Max Plus pods offers plenty to get stuck into.

Lost Mary BM6000

The BM6000 takes a leaner approach, with 11 options built around popular Lost Mary flavours such as Triple Mango, Pineapple Ice and Blueberry Sour Raspberry. Yes, the range is notably tighter, but they are solid, dependable staples of the sort that made the brand's name.

While the Lost Mary BM6000 covers the essentials well, the Hayati Pro Max Plus offers the larger catalogue by some distance.

Price and Overall Value

Hayati Pro Max Plus

At £9.95 for the kit, the Hayati Pro Max Plus is the cheaper entry point, and for a device that includes the battery, a pod and a 10ml refill, that's a lot of vaping for under a tenner. It undercuts its rival by a couple of pounds which is hardly a huge saving, but does make it the easier first purchase if you are weighing the two up on cost alone.

Lost Mary BM6000

The Lost Mary BM6000 costs £11.95, which is just slightly more for the same broad package. You are paying the small premium (with emphasis on small) for the bigger battery and the choice of nicotine strengths rather than anything you get in the box, so whether it's worth the extra comes down to how much those two things matter to you.

For the sake of a couple of quid, it makes no sense to argue a solid case either way, really.

Value

Initial cost aside, both kits save you money thanks to the very way they are designed, as you pay once for the device, then only for pods after that - a cost-efficient premise that even the likes of Gary Economics would find inarguable.

And because a single 6,000-puff pod does the work of about ten 600-puff disposables, the cost of keeping one topped up is less than what you would previously have to fork out for multiple disposables. Either way, you are onto a winner, price-wise, and if you go for the Hayati, you have the equally inarguable bonus of saving a couple of pounds.

We are in a cost-of-living crisis, after all. Every little helps.

No Clear Winner

But which is better?

The honest answer is that neither of these kits wins outright, because they are built for different people. If you are looking for a conclusive, expert opinion, we may struggle to arrive at one. As is often the case when our team debates matters such as these, opinion is split.

If you were to press us either way, we would probably suggest as follows:

Buy the Hayati Pro Max Plus if price is the deciding factor. It's the cheaper kit at £9.95 (albeit marginally), and its auto-refill system demands very little of you. The 20mg nic salt also makes it the stronger option for a smoker who wants a firm hit from the off, which is often exactly what someone making the switch is after.

Buy the Lost Mary BM6000 if you would rather have staying power and a gentler draw. The larger 1000mAh battery means fewer charges, and the 10mg strength (with a 0mg option in the wider range) would probably suit anyone who finds 20mg too much.

Your decision comes down to two factors, really. Do you want the stronger hit or the softer one, and does a bigger battery matter to you more than a wider choice of nicotine strengths and flavours? Answer those, and you have your answer.

Alternatively, you could just buy both - cost of living crisis be damned.