Per millilitre, Al Fakher's 60mL salt nic e-liquid costs 67 cents at UniVape; the same flavours inside a Crown Bar Mega Max 75K cost $1.40 per mL, and inside a Crown Bar Cloud X 60K $1.95. The bottle is less than half the price of one and a third of the other — but it is 20mg/mL where the Crown Bars are 6mg/mL, and it needs a pod kit ($14.99–$48.99, bought once) and a refill every day or two. Buy the bottle if you vape daily, want full-strength nicotine, or want the lowest running cost. Buy the Crown Bar if 6mg/mL is your strength, you want nothing to maintain, or your flavour is one of the ten Al Fakher only makes as a disposable. The numbers, the nicotine gap, the flavour twins and a one-order way to switch are below.
The three Al Fakher formats sold in Canada
| Salt Nic 60mL | Crown Bar Mega Max 75K | Crown Bar Cloud X 60K | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price at UniVape | $39.99 | $41.99 | $38.99 |
| E-liquid | 60mL | 30mL | 20mL |
| Per mL | 67¢ | $1.40 | $1.95 |
| Nicotine | 20mg/mL nicotine salt | 6mg/mL | 6mg/mL |
| Rated puffs | Depends on your pod | Up to 75,000 | Up to 60,000 |
| Refillable | Yes — any pod kit | No, sealed | No, sealed |
| Battery | Your pod kit's, rechargeable | Rechargeable, USB-C | 1000mAh, USB-C |
| Flavours | 10 | 18 | 8 |
| Hardware | Pod kit $14.99–$48.99 once; pods about $5 each | Included | Included |
Cost: compare millilitres, not puffs
A Crown Bar's puff count is a lab figure — short, light puffs, tens of thousands of them from 20 or 30mL. A 2mL pod in a Caliburn or an XROS gives most people 500–700 real puffs, which would make a 60mL bottle "15,000–20,000 puffs" and the disposables look cheaper per puff. They are not; the two numbers are measured differently and should never be set side by side. E-liquid volume is the one thing the three formats share, so that is the comparison.
| 60mL of Al Fakher | How you buy it | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Salt Nic 60mL | One bottle | $39.99 |
| Crown Bar Mega Max 75K | Two devices (2 × 30mL) | $83.98 |
| Crown Bar Cloud X 60K | Three devices (3 × 20mL) | $116.97 |
Add the hardware the bottle needs and the gap narrows but does not close. A pod kit is $14.99 (Vaporesso XROS SE) to $48.99 (Uwell Caliburn G4 Pro), bought once. Replacement pods are about $5 each — Caliburn pods are $19.99 for four, XROS pods $16.99 a pack — and last one to two weeks, so $10–20 a month. At 60mL a month, roughly 2mL a day and a normal pod habit, the first year looks like this:
| Year one at 60mL a month | Liquid | Device and pods | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Nic 60mL in a pod kit | 12 × $39.99 = $479.88 | $30 kit + $120–240 in pods | $630–750 |
| Crown Bar Mega Max 75K | 24 × $41.99 | — | $1,007.76 |
| Crown Bar Cloud X 60K | 36 × $38.99 | — | $1,403.64 |
That is $250–380 a year saved against the Mega Max and $650–770 against the Cloud X, before the nicotine difference — and the nicotine difference makes the real gap larger, because at 20mg/mL most people use noticeably less liquid than they did at 6mg/mL for the same satisfaction. Use less than 60mL a month and every number above shrinks in proportion, but the ratios hold.
Nicotine: 20mg/mL against 6mg/mL is the bigger difference
The Crown Bar Mega Max 75K and Cloud X 60K are sold in Canada at 6mg/mL — low for a disposable, and part of why they vape like a shisha session, long and mild. The bottle is nicotine salt at 20mg/mL, the Canadian legal maximum: more than three times the nicotine in every puff, in a salt form that stays smooth at a strength where freebase would be harsh. Two consequences follow.
If you came to vaping from cigarettes, or you found the Crown Bar too light and kept reaching for it, the bottle will satisfy you with far fewer puffs. If you are happy at 6mg/mL, the jump to 20mg/mL in a pod is a big one — take shorter puffs, use the highest-resistance pod your kit offers, and expect to vape much less often. Al Fakher does not make a low-strength salt for Canada, so if you want a refillable at Crown Bar strength you need a different liquid: the Lemon Drop 60mL freebase line comes in 0, 3 and 6mg/mL and the Flavour Beast 60mL freebase in 3mg/mL, both for the same pod kits.
Flavour match: which bottle replaces which Crown Bar
Al Fakher reuses its flavour names across formats, which makes the switch easy to map. Eight of the ten bottles have a Crown Bar with the same name; Chew Mint is the bottle's name for what the Crown Bar calls G Mint or Gum Mint, and Blue Sour Raspberry is the bottle's nearest thing to Blue Razz, with a sour edge and no cooling. Ten Crown Bar flavours have no bottle at all — among them Summer Dream and Grape Mint, two of the five best-selling Crown Bars — and Blue Razz, the best seller of all at 29% of Crown Bars sold at UniVape over six months, has only that near-twin. Peach Ice is second and Mango Ice third in the Crown Bar ranking; in the bottles' first nine days on sale, every bottle sold online was Two Apple.
| Salt Nic 60mL | Mega Max 75K | Cloud X 60K | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two Apple | Two Apple | Two Apple | Double apple with the anise note — the Al Fakher signature |
| Lemon Mint | Lemon Mint | Lemon Mint | Bright lemon over cool mint |
| Chew Mint | Gum Mint | G Mint | Sweet chewing-gum mint |
| Spearmint | Spearmint | — | Clean, soft spearmint |
| Peach Ice | Peach Ice | Peach Ice | Ripe peach, light chill — the Crown Bar's #2 seller |
| Mango Ice | Mango Ice | Mango Ice | Ripe mango, balanced ice — #3 seller |
| Lush Ice | Lush Ice | — | Watermelon, heavy menthol |
| Mixed Berry | — | Mixed Berry | Layered berries, no ice |
| Watermelon Kiwi | Watermelon Kiwi | Watermelon Kiwi | Watermelon, tart kiwi, no ice |
| Blue Sour Raspberry | Blue Razz (nearest) | — | Blue raspberry with a sour edge, no ice |
| — | Grape Mint, Summer Dream, Magic Love, Pineapple Ice, Blueberry Ice, Cherry Classic, Cherry Raspberry, Strawberry Punch, Orange Mint | Mint | Disposable only |
Convenience, honestly
The Crown Bar wins this one and it is not close. It is sealed, draw-activated, charges over USB-C and asks nothing of you for 20 or 30mL. The bottle route means a refill every day or two, a pod change every one to two weeks, a bottle in the bag, and a five-to-ten-minute wait on a new pod before the first puff. In exchange you get three things a disposable cannot give: a fresh coil every week or two, so the last millilitre tastes like the first (a disposable coil is tired by the end of 30mL); any strength of any flavour from any brand in the same device; and one 60mL bottle in the bin instead of two or three devices with lithium batteries inside them.
Who should buy which
Buy the bottle if you vape every day, you came to vaping from cigarettes or want the strongest nicotine the law allows, you already own a pod kit, or you are spending $80 or more a month on disposables. Buy the Crown Bar if 6mg/mL is your strength, you want nothing to refill or maintain, you vape occasionally and one device lasts you weeks, or your flavour is one of the disposable-only ten. Buy both if you are a hookah smoker who wants Two Apple at full strength at home and a sealed Crown Bar for the car.
How to switch in one order
One pod kit and one bottle: a Vaporesso XROS 6 Mini ($19.99) and Two Apple 60mL ($39.99) is $59.98 — less than two Mega Max 75Ks, with the same amount of liquid as two of them and a device you keep. If you want adjustable airflow and a choice of pod resistances, swap the kit for a Uwell Caliburn G3 ($42.99) or a Vaporesso XROS 6 ($29.99). Fill, wait ten minutes, start on short puffs. Add a second bottle and a pack of pods and the order ships free. All ten flavours and the device picks are explained flavour by flavour in Al Fakher e-liquid in Canada; the two disposables are covered in the Al Fakher vape guide and the shisha vape explainer, and everything from the brand is on the Al Fakher page.
Frequently asked questions
Is Al Fakher e-liquid cheaper than the Crown Bar?
Per mL, yes: 67¢ for the 60mL bottle against $1.40 for the Crown Bar Mega Max 75K and $1.95 for the Cloud X 60K at UniVape. Sixty millilitres is $39.99 as a bottle, $83.98 as two Mega Max or $116.97 as three Cloud X. Over a year at 60mL a month the bottle route is about $630–750 including a pod kit and pods, against $1,008 and $1,404.
Does the Al Fakher bottle taste the same as the Crown Bar?
Same flavour names from the same company and the same profiles — Al Fakher does not say whether the recipes are identical. The bottle is 20mg/mL, so the throat hit is firmer, and a pod changed every week or two keeps the flavour cleaner than a disposable coil at the end of its tank.
Can I refill a Crown Bar with Al Fakher e-liquid?
No. The Crown Bar Mega Max 75K and Cloud X 60K are sealed, with no fill port, and their coils are built for one tank. Use a refillable pod kit — from $14.99 at UniVape — and keep the Crown Bar for what it is.
Why is the bottle 20mg/mL when the Crown Bar is 6mg/mL?
The Crown Bars are sold in Canada at 6mg/mL, which gives them their mild, shisha-like draw. The Canadian salt nic line is made only at 20mg/mL, the legal maximum. If you want 6mg/mL in a pod, use a freebase 60mL such as Lemon Drop (0, 3 or 6mg/mL) rather than the Al Fakher salt.
How many Crown Bars equal one bottle?
By volume, two Mega Max 75Ks (2 × 30mL) or three Cloud X 60Ks (3 × 20mL). By nicotine, the bottle goes further than that, because 20mg/mL needs fewer puffs than 6mg/mL.
Which Al Fakher flavours are only available as a disposable?
On the Mega Max 75K: Grape Mint, Summer Dream, Magic Love, Pineapple Ice, Blueberry Ice, Cherry Classic, Cherry Raspberry, Strawberry Punch and Orange Mint; on the Cloud X 60K: Mint. Blue Razz has a near-twin in the bottle, Blue Sour Raspberry.
Is the Crown Bar still worth buying?
Yes, if 6mg/mL suits you and you want zero maintenance or a disposable-only flavour. Of the two, the Mega Max 75K is the better value — $1.40 per mL against $1.95, 30mL against 20mL, and 18 flavours against 8.
Where can I buy Al Fakher e-liquid and the Crown Bar in Canada?
At UniVape: the ten bottles at $39.99, the Mega Max 75K at $41.99 and the Cloud X 60K at $38.99, with same-day delivery across Toronto and the GTA, pickup at 335 Yonge Street, or shipping to every province where flavoured vapes are legal, free over $100. 19+ only.
Where to buy
The Al Fakher Salt Nic E-Liquid ($39.99), the Crown Bar Mega Max 75K ($41.99) and the Crown Bar Cloud X 60K ($38.99) are all at UniVape — same-day delivery across Toronto and the GTA, pickup at 335 Yonge Street, or shipping to every province where flavoured vapes are legal, free over $100. 19+ only, ID checked at the door. Prices and sales figures are univape.ca as of October 30, 2026.
