The 14 Best Mattresses to Help You Sleep Better

THERE ARE no two ways about it: Your mattress is the very foundation of your sleep. While it may cost a pretty penny—and feel more like an investment—a great mattress can mean the difference between tossing and turning and a good night’s rest.

And it’s more important than ever to get a good night’s sleep: Proper sleep can help your job performance, power better muscle recovery, ease your stress, and so much more. So when you ask if a great mattress is worth the investment, our answer is a resounding yes.

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Check out our picks for the 14 best mattresses of 2022 for every type of sleeper. You won’t regret the investment.

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Best Hybrid Mattress

Mattress Type: Innerspring
Mattress Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, Split King, California King, Split California King
Mattress Height: 11.5 inches
Mattress Firmness: Luxury Firm

If you’re a stomach sleeper—or even if you sometimes sleep on your back—then Saatva’s Classic Mattress is a great investment. It comes in three firmness versions: plush soft, luxury firm, and firm. All excellent choices.

At 11.5 inches high, it’ll feel luxurious no matter what, and maybe the best part—at least for us—is how green it is. The naturally breathable organic cotton cover allows more airflow to help disperse body heat.

Other bonuses: a responsive dual-coil design made of recycled carbon steel that’s tempered three times for superb durability. And it’s all assembled in the USA. Saatva’s quality is unparalleled, and it’s worth the investment. If you tend to flip flop between sleeping on your stomach and your back, pick this one up.

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Best Budget-Friendly Mattress

Mattress Type: Memory Foam
Mattress Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King
Mattress Height: 12 inches
Mattress Firmness: Medium

Just because it doesn’t break the bank doesn’t mean it’s not an incredible mattress, and

Allswell Luxe Hybrid Mattress is case in point. It shows you don’t necessarily need to “invest” in a mattress for it to be just what you need for a good night’s rest.

Allswell’s mattress is made from layers of innovative memory foam with individually wrapped coils for the perfect blend of comfort and support, all adding up to a medium-firrm feel—a good median for most people, gently contouring to your body.

The big bonus: the CertiPUR-US® certified foams are made without toxic chemicals including mercury, lead, formaldehyde, and phthalates.

The mattress is encased in a fabric designed to feel cool to the touch, so you’re not just getting a cheap bed. You’re getting a great budget-buy.

Best Firm Mattress

Mattress Type: Memory Foam
Mattress Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King
Mattress Height: 13.25 inches
Mattress Firmness: Firm

Firm For those who love an ultra-supportive sleep surface, there’s Brooklyn Bedding’s Plank Firm Luxe Mattress. “Designed to be the firmest mattress on the market,” it boasts a two-inch high-density top layer for maximum rigidity. We love that it can also be flipped with a reverse side that’s more “traditionally” firm for a slightly plusher night’s sleep.

Best Mattress for Side Sleepers

Mattress Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King
Mattress Height: 13.5 inches
Mattress Firmness: Luxury Firm

Side-sleepers should feel like they’re slipping away into a cloud when they fall asleep—and the Winkbed makes it happen. It has a luxury firm feel due to the combination of soft cushion atop coils.

It works like this: at the top of the mattress, there’s a soft cover derived from Tencel©, a eucalyptus-based performance fabric. The next layer is a pressure-relieving quilted Euro-pillowtop that ensures your back, hips, and shoulders receive superior cushioning and support. Under that, there’s a layer of individually-wrapped pocketed coils. Finally, an extraEDGE support system provides a more sleepable area through enhanced edge support.

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Phew. That’s a lot of layers, but it all adds up to an ideal night’s sleep for a side sleeper. Beyond comfortable, really breathable, and not egregiously expensive, pick it up from Winkbed and start sleeping like never before.

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Best Cooling Mattress

Mattress Type: Hybrid
Mattress Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King
Mattress Height: 11.5 inches
Mattress Firmness: Medium Firm

Not only are natural and organic mattresses better for the environment, they’re also better for your quality of sleep. Birch Luxe Natural Mattresses support breathability and temperature regulation through the premium materials they use: a plush cotton cover, ultra-fine cashmere, naturally hygroscopic wool, and latex that allow for increased airflow to keep you cool and comfortable.

The surface of the mattress is made from organic cotton featuring a beautiful matelassé woven finish. The top layer is a blend of organic cashmere and wool for luxurious breathability, while over one thousand individual steel coils cradle your body and limit motion transfer at the foundation.

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Best For Back Sleepers

Mattress Type: Hybrid
Mattress Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King
Mattress Height: 13 inches
Mattress Firmness: Medium

This Casper Wave Mattress is something of an engineering feat: five layers combined to give you the most comfortable sleep possible, especially if you have back pain. The trick to the Wave mattress is the placement of each layer to provide a more ergonomic sleep experience.

One of the key features: strategically placed comforting gel pods that are right under your waist and lower back that help you from sinking and keep your spine aligned—giving you more support than just a normal layer of foam.

The top layer has a thin coating of cooling gel to help you regulate your temperature at night, and a layer of foam—strategically placed to be firmer at the hips, waist, and lower back—all help prevent back pain and make you ultra-comfortable.

It’s all about healthy spinal alignment with the Wave mattress, one of the best medium-firm mattresses around, and that’s how you ditch your back pain and get back to sleeping like a baby.

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Best Mattress for Couples

Mattress Type: Memory Foam
Mattress Sizes: Twin, Twin Long, Full, Queen, King, Split King, California King, Split California King
Mattress Height: 11-13 inches
Mattress Firmness: Medium Hybrid to Soft Firm

When you think of an adjustable bed, it’s hard to get more robust than the excellent TEMPUR-Adapt from Tempur-Pedic.

When paired with the brand’s Smart Base, the mattress can be adjusted to several positions, including a more upright one for reading or watching TV. If your partner tends to be a snorer, a gentle incline of the head can help ease it up and give you both a good night’s rest.

This mattress is enhanced with advanced motion-absorbing properties, so you and your partner can sleep comfortably and undisturbed all night long, ensuring you wake up feeling fully rested and refreshed.

Originally created by NASA to cushion astronauts during space travel, Tempur-Pedic mattresses provide next-level comfort and technology for a perfectly engineered sleep, every night.

Best Mattress for Stomach Sleepers

Mattress Type: Hybrid
Mattress Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King
Mattress Height: 14 inches
Mattress Firmness: Luxury Firm

If you love the feeling of a plush mattress but as a stomach sleeper, you find that you can’t ever get fully comfortable on one, meet the DeamCloud. The brand boasts that their mattress has the“perfect” firmness, and we agree.

The top starts with quilted foam and cashmere on top, and under that, a layer of pressure-relieving gel memory foam that contours to your shape. The middle layer is what DreamCloud a sink-in-just-right layer—name self-explanatory. The essential base layer and targeted-support coil layer create a sturdy foundation for deep, restful sleep.

If you’re still on the fence, DreamCloud offers a 100% risk‑free 365‑night home trial, just to make sure it’s really The One.

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Best Mattress in a Box

Mattress Type: Memory Foam
Mattress Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King
Mattress Height: 12 inches
Mattress Firmness: Medium Firm

Nectar’s out-of-the-box hybrid mattress is, well, a little out there with how sophisticated it is in its design: a mix of adaptive foam with a 7-inch layer of standard foam for added comfort and support.

It all starts at the top, with a quilted poly-blend cover featuring heat wicking, cooling technology. A three-inch layer of Nectar gel memory foam provides pressure relief with just the right amount of cushion and support. Then, two inches of dynamically adjusting foam gives your body the foundational support it needs to relax into a deep slumber.

Whether it comes from a box or not, it’s a fantastic memory foam mattress, which is why it’s even better that it can just be delivered to your door in cardboard. Stay cool, comf