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OXVA Xlim Pro 3 vs Xlim 3 Ultra: Which One Should You Buy?
Two kits from the same range, £3 apart, sharing a battery, a power range and a pod. If you have been going back and forth between them, that is why — on paper they look almost identical, and most of the pages comparing them do not tell you where the actual difference lies.
It is the screen, and what the screen does to the size.
The short answer
Buy the Xlim Pro 3 unless you specifically want a touch screen. It is the same battery, the same wattage and the same pods in a smaller, lighter body, and it costs less.
Buy the Xlim 3 Ultra if you change settings often enough that a 2.2-inch touch screen is worth carrying 13g more to get.
Side by side
Battery — 1500mAh on both
Wattage — 5–30W on both
Screen — Pro 3: 1.05" colour · Ultra: 2.2" HD full touch
Weight — Pro 3: 77.4g · Ultra: 90g
Height — Pro 3: 119.9mm · Ultra: 121.9mm
Width — Pro 3: 15.0mm · Ultra: 16.5mm
Charging — Type-C 5V/2A on both
Pod — Xlim top-fill 2ml (UK) on both
Coils included — 0.6Ω and 0.8Ω on both
Coils compatible — 0.4 / 0.6 / 0.8 / 1.2Ω on both
Material — zinc alloy with IML/PU on both
Price — Pro 3: £27.00 · Ultra: £30.00
Everything that affects how it vapes is the same. Same battery, same power range, same coils, same pods, same airflow control, same charging speed. Whichever you buy, the vape is the vape.
What the screen actually changes
The Pro 3 has a 1.05-inch colour screen: wattage, battery, puff count, adjusted with buttons. The Ultra has a 2.2-inch HD touch screen you operate with a finger.
If you set your wattage once and leave it — which is most people — the Pro 3's screen tells you everything you need and the touch screen is paying £3 and 13g for a nicer way to do something you rarely do.
If you move between a 0.8Ω on salts and a 0.6Ω on a shortfill, changing power each time, the touch screen is genuinely quicker. That is the case for the Ultra, and it is a real one — it is just narrower than the marketing suggests.
Size is the other half of it
The Pro 3 is 15mm across and 77.4g. The Ultra is 16.5mm and 90g. Those numbers look close written down and feel further apart in a pocket, because the Ultra needs the extra width to fit the screen.
The Pro 3 is the lightest full-size kit OXVA make. If pocketability is what you care about, that is the whole argument, and if you want to go smaller still, the Xlim Go Lite is 41.5g — though you give up the screen and half the battery to get there.
Pods and coils: no difference at all
Both take the same Xlim top-fill cartridges, in 0.4Ω, 0.6Ω, 0.8Ω and 1.2Ω. Both ship with 0.6Ω and 0.8Ω in the box.
0.8Ω — cooler, tighter, the one for nic salts. Start here.
0.6Ω — warmer and more open, better with higher-VG shortfills.
1.2Ω — the tightest draw, for high-strength salts.
0.4Ω — the most open, and the hardest on battery.
If you already own any Xlim, your pods carry over to both of these. That is worth more than most spec-sheet differences, and it is the reason people stay in this range.
What about the Nexlim?
Different line, and the one people confuse with these two. The NeXlim runs to 40W rather than 30W and uses its own dual-mesh cartridges with Boost and ECO modes, so it is not a bigger Xlim — it is a different platform with different pods.
If you have been searching "Nexlim Pro 3", that product does not exist: you are looking at either the Xlim Pro 3 or the NeXlim, and they take different cartridges. We wrote a separate comparison of the Xlim Pro 3 and the NeXlim covering that one.
So which?
For most people, the Pro 3. It is lighter, smaller, cheaper, and identical in every respect that changes how it vapes.
The Ultra earns its £3 if you want the touch screen — and if you do, you will know already.
Both are in stock in both Northampton shops, and you are welcome to handle them before deciding. The size difference is the part that does not come across in photographs.
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