Mito Red Light Alert: The Most Expensive is not the Best

No one could blame you for getting confused sorting through the Mito Red Light therapy devices. Which Mito Red Light is the best one for you? Is it the most powerful? The cheapest?

The Best Mito Red Light is the MitoRED MitoMEGA full body panel. At $999 before discounts, it’s cheaper than many other full body panels, but has a higher fluence, LED count and treatment surface area. The MitoMEGA has the highest fluence of any light Mito Red Light sells.

In this article, you will also find the cheapest, the most powerful and the best warranties amongst the Mito portables, tabletops, half body panels and full body panels.

A Note About Prices

Prices are accurate as of September 2022 and do not include the 5% discount you can get using coupon code “RED” at checkout. View my coupon page for more discounts.

A Note About Links

Links in this article go to articles on this site (Best Red Light Therapy) and to MitoRedLight.com for viewing and purchasing red light therapy devices.

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Update Sep 23 2022

Mito Red Light is discontinuing the MitoMOD series. I am updating the article accordingly.

The Best Mito Red Lights (Quick Take)

• The MitoRED MitoMEGA is the best red light overall
• The Therapy Belt is the best portable (and wearable).
• The MitoPRO 300  is the best tabletop.
• The MitoPRO 750 is the best half body panel.
• The MitoRED MitoMEGA is the best full body panel.

For the complete details of how I came to this choice, go to “The Best Mito Red Light (Complete Answer)” at the bottom of this article.

The Best Red Light Overall, and the Best Full Body Panel: MitoRED MitoMEGA

The Best Half Body Red Light: the MitoPRO 750

 

The Best Tabletop: the MitoPRO 300

The Best Portable: the Advanced Therapy Belt

Mito Red Light Classes (Sizes)

Update 9/23/22: Mito Red Light is removing the MitoMOD family. This simplifies your choice between the MitoRED and the MitoPRO families.

Mito Red Light sells portables, tabletops, half body panels and full body panels.

The best choices are based on these criteria:

• the best price
• the best LED count
• independent wavelength control
• the best warranty
• the best treatment area size
• the best power consumption
• the best battery life
• the best fluence

Mito Portables

In the portables, Mito offers two handhelds and a wearable. All portables have a 1-year warranty.

• The handhelds treat an area the size of your hand, or a part of your quad.
• The Therapy Belt treats your entire lower back or entire quad and hamstring in one session.

Mito Panels

The panels come in tabletop, half body and full body sizes.

The larger the panel, the greater the area of your body it can treat at a time.

• The tabletops treat an area the size of your head or quadriceps.
• The half body panels treat half of one side of your body: the upper or lower half.
• The full body panels treat one side of the body from head to toe.

The Best Mito Lights by Feature

The Cheapest Mito

These prices are accurate as of September 2022 and do not include the 5% discount for using coupon “RED” at checkout.

Use COUPON “RED” for 5% off your order.

The cheapest Mito is the Mobile handheld at $199, which is also the cheapest portable.

The cheapest tabletop is the MitoRED MitoMIN.

The cheapest half body panel is the MitoRED MitoMID.

The cheapest full body panel is the MitoRED MitoMAX.

The Best LED Count

A larger LED count is better.

LED count is a proxy for how much light you get per session.

If you have an unreliable irradiance value, and don’t have fluence, you can use LED count to guestimate how much light the device gives out.

The best LED count is the Therapy Belt, which is also the best portable LED Count.

The Therapy Belt has a massive 1,215 LEDs for $329.

It’s a fantastic value.

The best tabletop LED count is tied. They all have 60 LEDs.

The best half body LED count is the MitoPRO 750 with 150 LEDs.

The best full body LED count is tied between the MitoRED MitoMEGA and the MitoPRO 1500 with 300 LEDs each. The MitoRED MitoMEGA is also the best Mito Red Light overall.

The Best Independent Wavelength Control

Independent control is better to finesse treatment protocols.

If you can run only red or only infrared on your device, then the device has independently controllable wavelengths.

Use red or infrared alone to customize treatment protocols.

Red light can be very bright so running infrared is sometimes more comfortable.

All Mito lights except the Mobile have independent wavelength control.

The Best Warranty

The best warranty is the MitoPRO family with a 3-year warranty for the MitoPRO 300, MitoPRO 750 and the MitoPRO 1500.

The MitoRED and MitoMOD families have 2-year warranties.

The portables have 1-year warranties.

The Best Treatment Area Size

A larger treatment area spreads the light to more of your body.

The treatment area size is the bulb area’s height x width and so is expressed in square inches.

It’s an indication of how much area emits light on a device.

This measurement is helpful but not as accurate as fluence in determining your dose.

The treatment area size makes sense only in the context of holding the device against the skin. As you increase distance, the light spreads away from the target, increasing the treatment size but with fewer photons per square inch reaching the desired destination.

The best portable treatment size is the Therapy Belt.

The best tabletop treatment size is the MitoPRO 300.

The best half body panel treatment is the MitoPRO 750.

The best full body panel treatment is the MitoRED MitoMEGA with 432 sq. in.

The MitoRED MitoMEGA is also the best Mito Red Light overall.

The Best Power Consumption

Lower is better as it uses less electricity.

Higher watt devices use more electricity, so you want lower wattage to keep this cost down.

The ideal device has low watts and high fluence.

That is, it uses very little electricity to send a maximal quantity of photons to the target.

See Best Battery Power for the portable devices.

The best tabletop power consumption is the MitoRED MitoMIN.

The MitoMIN also has the lowest power consumption overall.

The best half body power consumption is the MitoRED MitoMID.

The best full body panel power is the MitoRED MitoMAX.

The Best Battery Life

A 10,000-mAh better lasts about 2-4 hours between charges. A 15,000-mAh battery lasts about 4-6 hours between charges.

The Therapy Belt has the best battery life.

The Best Irradiance

The best irradiance doesn’t matter if we can’t rely on the value. If you want to know what this means, see my article: How Mito Red Light Solved the Thorny Problem of Irradiance. See The Best Fluence below for a better measure of photon delivery.

The Best Fluence

The MitoRED MitoMEGA full body panel has the best fluence amongst the panels as well as the highest fluence of all Mito Red Light devices. You can think of fluence as the lamp’s power.

Fluence is the rate at which photons reach the surface of the target, not just one sq. cm. of that surface that irradiance measures.

Higher fluence delivers more photons to the target resulting in faster sessions.

The best tabletop fluence is the MitoRED MitoMIN.

The best half body panel fluence is a tie between the MitoRED MitoMID and MitoPRO 750.

The best full body fluence is the MitoRED MitoMEGA with 2.8J/minute.

The MitoRED MitoMEGA also has the best fluence overall, and is the best red light overall.

The Best Mito Red Light (Complete Answer)

The MitoRED MitoMEGA is the best red light overall.

With the largest 2.8J/minute fluence of any device, 300 LEDs, and a massive 432 sq. in. treatment area, it beats the MitoPRO 1500 on all points except the extra warranty year.

The MitoMEGA has the highest fluence of all Mito Red Light devices. A 60 joules therapy session takes 21 min. 25 sec. with the MitoMEGA, and 24 minutes with the three other Mito full body panels. The MitoMEGA saves 2 min. 35 sec. per day, 18 min. 5 sec. per week, 77 min 30 sec. per (30-day) month, and 942 min 58 sec. (15 hours 42 sec) per year.

Compared to all other Mito devices, the MitoMEGA is the most powerful, has the largest treatment area size, and has the most (or is tied for the most) LEDs.

Within their classes, the best Mito lights are as follows:

• The MitoRED MitoMEGA is the best red light overall
• The Therapy Belt is the best portable (and wearable).
• The MitoPRO 300  is the best tabletop.
• The MitoPRO 750 is the best half body panel.
• The MitoRED MitoMEGA is the best full body panel.

The Best Mito Portable/Wearable

The Therapy Belt is the best Mito Red Light portable and wearable device.

The Belt has 50% more battery power than the Mobile or Mobile Flex.

But what really sets it apart is its massive 105 sq. in. treatment area chock full of 1,215 LEDs.

The Belt also has five power settings, especially important to biohackers who want to refine their therapy protocols.

Several of the cheaper panels are best in class, but amongst the portables, you do get what you pay for in this case.

The Best Mito Tabletop

The best Mito Red Light tabletop is the MitoRED MitoMIN if you want the cheapest, and the MitoPro 300 is you want the best warranty.

The Best Mito Half Body Panel

The best half body panel is the MitoPRO 750.

The MitoPRO 750 has a three-year warranty, and a massive 150 LED count.

The tiny differences in fluence and treatment area size are too small to make a difference.

If you’re going for the best, then it’s the MitoPRO 750 for the 150 LEDs and 3-year warranty.

The Best Mito Full Body Panel

The best Mito Red Light full body panel is the MitoRED MitoMEGA.

The MitoMEGA has a massive 432 sq. in. treatment area size so that you will receive more photons even at an 18-inch distance between the light and your body.

The treatment area is stuffed with an explosive 300 LEDs to shower you with healing light.

The MitoRED MitoMEGA has the highest fluence rate not just amongst the full body panels but also amongst all the devices that Mito Red Light sells.

The MitoRED MitoMEGA is the best Mito Red Light full body panel, and the best red light therapy device that Mito Red Light sells.