Arizer are the Canadian mob who built their reputation on flavour and glass. They’ve been going since the early 2000s, and while they’re not flashy, their gear does one thing very well: clean, tasty vapour through a glass stem with no plastic near the heat. That’s most of why people in Australia sought them out. They’re also fair value and tough as old boots, which never hurts.
The range splits neatly. A family of glass-stem portables built around the same idea, then two desktops for home. Here’s the lot, with the honest version of each.
Solo 2
The Solo 2 is the one that made Arizer’s name, and it’s still the pick of the bunch for most people. It’s a conduction vaporiser, portable, with a stainless and ceramic oven and a glass stem you load and drop in. The flavour is superb and the draw is smooth and cool, because that glass mouthpiece does a lot of the work. Sit it around 180-195°C for taste, push to 200-210°C if you want bigger clouds.
The battery is the headline. It’ll do a couple of hours of solid use and it lasts years before it fades. The quirk is the stem poking out the top, so this is a couch or bag vape, not one for a tight pocket. Heat-up is about 30 seconds.
Air 2
The Air 2 is the Solo 2’s slimmer cousin. Same conduction heating, same glass stem, same lovely flavour, in a narrower body that’s easier to hold and carry. It’s portable and it takes a removable 18650 battery, so you can swap in a charged cell instead of waiting at the wall. Run it 180-200°C and you’re in the sweet spot.
It doesn’t last quite as long per charge as the Solo 2 and the draw is a touch tighter. But the swappable battery makes it the better pick if you’re out for the day.
Air SE
The Air SE is the budget entry. It’s the Air 2’s heating and glass-stem flavour in a plainer package, with a fixed battery instead of a swappable one and a simpler set of buttons. Conduction, portable, and genuinely good value. Same 180-200°C range does the job.
If you want the Arizer taste without spending up, this is where you start. You give up the removable cell and a bit of polish, not the flavour.
Air Max
The Air Max is the top of the Air line and, for a lot of people, the one to get. Conduction again, portable, glass stem, but with a bigger swappable 18650 battery, faster heat-up and a brighter screen. Vapour quality matches the Solo 2, and it’s slimmer in the hand. Flavour temps sit around 185-200°C, a bit higher for density.
The only real knock is price, since it creeps up near the Solo 2. Pick the Air Max for swappable batteries and a slim body, the Solo 2 for the bigger single cell and the best draw.
ArGo
The ArGo is Arizer’s properly pocketable one. It uses short glass aroma tubes that tuck away behind a flip-up door, so nothing pokes out and it actually fits a pocket. Conduction, portable, with a swappable 18650 battery. The trade-off for the small size is a smaller oven and a tighter draw, so it’s a sipper rather than a cloud machine. Keep it 185-200°C.
It’s the Arizer for someone who found the Solo 2 too bulky to carry. You load the little tubes ahead of time, which is fiddly but handy for a day out.
Extreme Q
The Extreme Q is the desktop that earned Arizer a cult following, mostly for being indestructible and dirt cheap for what it does. It’s a hybrid that can run two ways: fill a balloon bag with the fan, or use the glass whip and draw it like a hose. It’s a plug-in desktop, not portable, and it comes with a remote, which is a bit retro but works. Run it 190-210°C for bags, a touch lower on the whip.
The vapour isn’t quite as refined as the pricey German desktops, and the fan is a little noisy. But for the money, nothing else gives you bag and whip in one unit. People keep these going for a decade.
V Tower
The V Tower is the Extreme Q’s simpler sibling. Same heater and glass whip, minus the fan and the remote, so it’s whip-only. It’s a desktop, conduction-style through the glass, and it’s about as no-nonsense as a home vape gets. Set it 190-205°C and draw at your own pace.
No balloon bags here, which is the point of buying it cheaper than the Extreme Q. If you only ever wanted the whip, the V Tower saves you a few dollars and some bench clutter.
Living with one
The good news with Arizer is that cleaning is dead easy. The glass stems and whips just soak in iso, the screens pop out and rinse, and there’s no plastic cooling unit to pull apart. Keep a spare stem or two around, because glass does break if you drop it, and they’re cheap to replace. Give the oven a gentle brush now and then and the flavour stays clean.
- Solo or Air owner? Start with our guide to cleaning the Arizer Solo.
- Got a desktop? Read the Extreme Q cleaning guide.
- New to the Air? Have a look at the Arizer Air unboxing.
- Curious about the pocket one? See three reasons the ArGo is a cracker.
For the wider picture, browse our portable vaporizers, desktop vaporizers and dry herb vaporizers guides, or see how Arizer stacks up against Storz & Bickel, PAX and Boundless.
Which one suits you
Quick version. Best all-rounder for flavour at home: Solo 2. Want swappable batteries and a slim body: Air Max. Tightest budget for the Arizer taste: Air SE. Need something that fits a real pocket: ArGo. Vaping at home and want bags and a whip: Extreme Q. Just want a simple whip desktop for less: V Tower.