The 8 Best Mattress Brands of 2026  

Beautyrest is part of Serta Simmons Bedding, a legacy brand established in 1870 that's had a massive impact on the mattress industry. We have the brand to thank for the invention of pocket springs, along with the technology that enabled their mass production. This breakthrough led to the flagship Simmons Beautyrest Mattress, which featured Thomas Edison, George Bernard Shaw, and Eleanor Roosevelt in its marketing. These days, Beautyrest is one of four brands the company operates (Serta, Beautyrest, Simmons, and Tuft and Needle). They mainly carry hybrid mattresses at a wide range of price points; their models tend to offer decent support and pressure relief. Their mattresses provide a good blend of responsiveness and motion isolation, but they're usually not very durable, leading to sagging and indentations.

The Beautyrest Mattress is featured as the best budget option on our list of the best firm mattresses. It's a medium-firm hybrid that's best-suited to heavier-weight side sleepers and lighter-weight back and stomach sleepers. It stands out for its responsiveness; the surface bounces back quickly, making it very easy to move around and change positions while sleeping. At the same time, it provides impressive motion isolation, so you don't feel much movement across the mattress, even if you have a sleeping partner who tosses and turns. It's also quite cooling, though you might still feel warm as you fall asleep if you sleep hot. Unfortunately, it uses mostly low-density, low-quality foam, which makes it not very durable.

The Boring Mattress Co. is one of the newest mattress brands on the market. It comes from three co-founders, two of whom previously launched Tuft and Needle, an early bed-in-a-box brand. After the company merged with Serta Simmons Bedding, they left to start a new mattress brand, Boring, which they market as an intentionally dull alternative to the exciting, but often questionable, claims coming from the mattress industry as a whole. Their mattresses typically provide good performance, especially for the price, with solid responsiveness, motion isolation, and cooling, but where they really shine is longevity. They use dense, high-quality foam that resists sagging, extending the lifespan of your mattress. And their customer service has a stellar reputation among mattress enthusiasts.

The Boring Hybrid is a budget-friendly mattress with a medium-plush feel. Its support and pressure relief depend on your body type; it's well-suited to lighter-weight back and stomach sleepers, and especially average- and heavier-weight side sleepers, but lighter-weight side sleepers should look elsewhere. This mattress is our pick for the best cooling mattress in the budget category. It's cooling enough for hot sleepers, providing excellent cooling throughout an eight-hour night. It's also very responsive, so it's easy to shift sleeping positions, and it offers excellent motion isolation, so movement isn't likely to wake you up. And it is one of the most durable mattresses we've tested so far, so it should resist sagging longer than mattresses with lower-quality foam.

While Casper didn't invent the bed-in-a-box mattress, it played a major role in popularizing it. The company has been around since 2014, when it began selling mattresses through a direct-to-consumer model, at a time when most mattresses weren't available online. Of course, the concept took off, and now Casper is just one of many bed-in-a-box brands. Their mattresses are available at a range of prices, from budget to mid-range, and they tend to be quite versatile, working well for a variety of sleepers. In particular, they do an excellent job of dissipating motion, so they're a great choice if you sleep lightly. They offer a good combination of pressure relief and support, too, which helps keep your spine aligned and reduces pressure points.

The Casper Snow is a hybrid mattress with a medium feel, offering excellent support and pressure relief for people with a wide range of body types and sleeping positions. We recommend it as our top pick in three categories: the best mattress, the best memory foam mattress, and the best mattress for side sleepers. It offers excellent performance in a few areas. As the name suggests, it's cooling enough for hot sleepers, especially after the first hour of the night. It also provides excellent motion isolation; you only feel larger movements, and they don't travel much throughout the mattress, so you're not likely to wake up when your pet jumps on the bed in the middle of the night. However, it's not very responsive, so it can feel hard to move around on, and it's not very durable either.

DreamCloud, along with Nectar, is owned by Resident Home, a company that produces bed frames, bedroom furniture, and other bedding products, as well as mattresses. The brand launched in 2018 with a focus on making hybrid mattresses at affordable prices, and now offers hybrid and all-foam mattresses at various price points. DreamCloud mattresses provide great overall performance. They typically include a quilted top that adds extra cushioning, which some sleepers prefer. They're also responsive, dissipate motion quickly and effectively, and they're very cooling, although most aren't quite cooling enough for hot sleepers. However, like many manufacturers, they use mostly low-quality foam, which makes the mattresses prone to sagging.

The DreamCloud Classic Hybrid is their entry-level model, and it's our pick for the best cheap mattress for side sleepers. It's a medium-plush model, making it a good choice for lighter- to average-weight sleepers. It stands out for its fantastic responsiveness and edge support, which makes it very easy to move around and to get in and out of bed. It offers pretty good motion isolation as well. While it can't compete with top models in this regard, movement doesn't last long, so it shouldn't disturb you too much, unless you sleep very lightly. Its cooling performance is similar. While it heats up a bit at the beginning of the night, it cools down after that. All-in-all, it offers good performance at an affordable price, but it uses mostly low-quality foam, so it's not a durable pick.

Helix Sleep has been around since 2015, but in 2021, they merged with Brooklyn Bedding and subsequently formed 3Z Brands, which now operates six mattress brands: Helix, Brooklyn Bedding, Birch, Bear, Nolah, and Leesa. Each of these brands is advertised to a slightly different audience, with Helix being the most general, meant to suit "every body." Of course, no mattress is a perfect fit for everyone, but Helix's mattresses do offer pretty good all-around performance. They're responsive, dissipate motion well, offer fantastic edge support, and they're cooling enough for most people. They also tend to be fairly durable, though they still use some low-quality foam layers, which decrease the overall longevity of their offerings.

The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 is our recommendation for the best memory foam mattress at a mid-range price. It's a medium hybrid mattress, so it's a good fit for average to heavier-weight side sleepers and lighter back and stomach sleepers. The memory foam layers help dissipate motion effectively, so it's a good choice if you sleep lightly or with a partner. It's also very responsive, so while you feel comfortably cradled, it's still easy to move around. Cooling is also a strong point for this mattress; it transfers heat efficiently enough to keep hot sleepers from waking up overheated. And while the quilted top uses low-quality foam, the layers below are denser, making the mattress reasonably durable overall.

Like DreamCloud, Nectar is a part of Resident Home, a company specializing in sleep products. Nectar was one of their first brands, launching in 2017, and now they operate five overall, with four producing mattresses (Nectar, DreamCloud, Siena, and Awara). Nectar and DreamCloud share a similar space in the affordable bed-in-a-box market, but while DreamCloud positions itself around hybrids, Nectar's marketing focuses on memory foam mattresses, even though both lineups include hybrid and memory foam options. The focus on memory foam typically means that Nectar mattresses offer great motion isolation, so you don't feel much movement across them. On the other hand, they tend to lack edge support and often use lower-quality foam, which affects longevity.

The Nectar Premier is an all-foam mattress with a medium feel, and it's our choice for the best budget memory foam mattress. It's a highly contouring mattress that's well-suited to lighter-weight back and stomach sleepers, as well as average- and heavier-weight side sleepers, though lighter side sleepers won't compress the mattress enough for comfort. Like many Nectar mattresses, it excels at motion isolation, so it's a good option if you sleep lightly or with a partner. It's also easy to move around on, thanks to its excellent responsiveness, and it's cooling enough for hot sleepers. Unfortunately, it only contains one layer of good-quality foam, and even then, it just makes the cut, leaving the mattress prone to sagging.

Purple mattresses stand out for one unique component: the waffle-shaped purple topper the brand calls the GelFlex Grid. The GelFlex Grid is a type of buckling column gel, a product developed in the 1990s for medical applications, such as wheelchair cushions. It's designed to stay firm under light pressure but to collapse under firmer pressure, providing support, pressure relief, and increased airflow. Purple uses a proprietary hyper-elastic polymer and grid design, which the company has patented and uses across its mattress lineup. Thanks to this unique upper layer, their mattresses are extremely responsive and exceptionally cooling, though users typically either love or hate the grid's feel, so it's worth testing out Purple mattresses in person if possible.

The Purple RestorePlus Hybrid offers fantastic cooling. In fact, it's off-the-charts compared to the next best option, making it our pick for the best cooling mattress. If you persistently sleep hot, it's a superb option. It's a highly contouring, hybrid mattress with a medium feel, making it an ideal pick for average to heavier-weight side sleepers and a great choice for lighter-weight back and stomach sleepers, too. However, sleepers who don't fall into one of these categories, and especially lighter side sleepers, should avoid it. That said, if it suits your body type and sleeping style, it also offers an incredibly responsive feel and great motion isolation. It's decently durable, too. It only has one layer of polyfoam, but it's good-quality, so it shouldn't start to form indents too quickly.

As a luxury brand, Saatva mattresses tend to be on the pricier end. They make a wide range of mattresses, including latex, dual-sided, adjustable firmness, and crib mattresses, as well as dog beds and Murphy beds. Their level of support and pressure relief depends heavily on your sleeping position and body type, so it's a good idea to consider these factors when choosing. Their mattresses tend to be very responsive, so they're a good option if ease of movement is a priority for you. They offer good cooling, so the brand is worth a look if you tend to sleep hot. That said, their motion dissipation is usually just decent, so you may want to look elsewhere if you sleep lightly or sleep with a partner.

The Saatva Latex is our pick for the best firm mattress. It's a firm hybrid that offers good pressure relief and support for most sleepers, though lighter-weight sleepers are the exception. If you fall into that category, it won't provide enough pressure relief, leading to painful pressure at the shoulder and hip. This mattress stands out in two areas: responsiveness and cooling. It bounces back practically instantly when compressed, so your movements are supported, and you never feel restricted. It's also cooling enough for hot sleepers, especially those who tend to wake up overheated later in the night. Longevity is also a plus for this mattress, as it uses high-quality latex, though it's worth noting that this is an exception rather than the rule for Saatva mattresses.

Interestingly, Tempur-Pedic's story starts with an invention from NASA. In the '60s, the space agency developed viscoelastic (memory) foam, a slow-moving foam used to cushion astronauts during test flights. After the space agency made the formula public, a Swedish foam firm developed a version tailored to sleep, calling it 'Tempur Material.' From there, the technology reached the U.S., where it formed the foundation of the Tempur-Pedic brand and gained traction quickly, thanks in part to the 'famous wine glass test.' Now, they make high-end mattresses, with the priciest going for more than $10 000. They're typically very contouring, with superb motion dissipation but low responsiveness, offering a hugging feel that can be cozy or cloying, depending on your preferences.

The Tempur-Pedic Tempur-Adapt is an all-foam mattress with a medium feel, making it a good fit for lighter to average-weight back and stomach sleepers, as well as heavier side sleepers. It features as the best upper mid-range option on our list of the best memory foam mattresses thanks to its highly contouring feel, fantastic motion dissipation, and good cooling. However, the flip side is that it lacks bounciness and responsiveness, which can make it hard to shift sleeping position and leave you feeling 'stuck in place.' Like most of the other options listed here, this mattress isn't particularly durable. It uses two layers of good-quality foam and two layers of low-quality foam, so it may begin to sag before mattresses with good-quality foam throughout.