DaVinci are the American mob who build vapes for people who like a bit of control. Where some makers hide everything behind one button, DaVinci hand you exact temperatures, a removable battery, and a few clever tricks borrowed from their old Ascent days. The gear feels engineered, not knocked together. That precision, plus batteries you can swap instead of binning the whole unit, is most of why people in Australia went looking for them.
They’re conduction vapes, the lot of them. That means the herb sits against a hot oven wall rather than having hot air pushed through it. Flavour is clean, the draw is easy, and you trade a bit of raw cloud size for consistency and a tidy pocketable shape. Here’s the range, honestly.
The IQ2
The flagship, and the one most people mean by “DaVinci vape”. It’s a portable conduction unit with a zirconia ceramic air path, that little pearl in the mouthpiece you flip to control airflow, and a dotted LED screen for setting a precise temperature. The party trick is the dosage pod with the measuring window, handy if you like to know exactly how much you’ve loaded.
Adjustable airflow is the real upgrade over the first IQ. Wind it down for tight, tasty pulls or open it up when you want volume. Set it around 185-200°C for flavour through the session, push to 205-215°C near the end if you want to wring the last out of a bowl. The removable 18650 battery means you carry a spare and never get caught flat.
Quirks? The zirconia path needs a proper warm-up, so give it a moment before the first draw or it tastes thin. It’s a touch fiddly to load neatly, and the pearl can get sticky with use. None of it’s a dealbreaker, just the price of all that control.
The IQC
The IQC is the more affordable take on the IQ idea. Same conduction heating and the same zirconia ceramic path, but stripped back to keep the cost down. The big practical difference is power: it runs off a removable battery or you can plug it straight into USB-C and vape while it charges, which is genuinely useful at home or at a desk.
You lose the fancy screen of the IQ2 and some of the airflow trickery, and the build is a little plainer. What you keep is the clean flavour and that swap-or-plug-in flexibility. Run it in the same window, roughly 185-205°C, and it behaves a lot like its dearer sibling. A sensible pick if you want the DaVinci flavour without paying flagship money.
The Miqro
The pocket rocket. The Miqro shrinks the IQ formula into something barely bigger than a key fob, with the same zirconia ceramic oven in a much smaller body. Tiny oven, tiny battery, tiny footprint. If discretion and carry size matter most, this is the one.
It comes with an adjustable spacer so you can pack a smaller bowl when you only want a couple of pulls, which suits the lighter user nicely. The flip-out mouthpiece is neat. Set it around 190-205°C, a hair warmer than the bigger units since the little oven likes a nudge.
The trade-offs are exactly what you’d expect from something this size. Battery life is short, so heavy users will be charging or swapping cells often. The buttons are small and the menu takes a moment to learn. As an everyday discreet vape, though, it’s hard to beat for the size.
Living with one
The thing that keeps a DaVinci going is that you can pull it apart and the battery isn’t glued in. Keep the zirconia path clean with an isopropyl-dipped cotton bud after a handful of sessions and the flavour stays honest. The IQ2 and Miqro share the same fiddly-but-cleanable air path, so a regular wipe-out beats a deep scrub later. Our complete cleaning guide for your DaVinci IQ and Miqro walks through it, and there’s an older cleaning guide for the DaVinci too if you’ve got an earlier model.
Want to read more before you decide? We’ve covered whether the DaVinci IQ is really worth your money, put the DaVinci IQ up against the Miqro, and written up the IQ when it launched and the Miqro’s introduction.
Which one suits you
Quick version. Want one vape that does everything with the best screen and airflow: IQ2. Want most of that for less, with the option to vape plugged in: IQC. Want something tiny you’ll actually carry every day: Miqro.
If you’re cross-shopping, it’s worth seeing how DaVinci sits against the rest. They land near PAX on polish and pocketability, while Arizer and Healthy Rips lean more towards convection and bigger vapour. All of them live in our portable vaporizers and dry herb vaporizers collections if you want to compare the field.