The Boring Hybrid is a budget-friendly bed-in-a-box with a medium-plush feel. It has a pocket spring support system with two layers of foam on top. Both the upper comfort layer and the transition layer are made of Energex-branded polyfoam, marketed as offering the pressure relief of memory foam and the responsiveness of latex. The foam layers are CertiPUR certified, meaning that they're lower in indoor air pollutants and heavy metals.
Our Verdict
The Boring Hybrid mattress is suitable for average-weight and heavier side sleepers. It offers strong body conformity for these sleepers, allowing the shoulders and hips to sink far enough into the mattress for proper pressure relief. Lighter side sleepers, however, won't compress the mattress enough, leading to pressure points at the shoulders and hips. Regardless of your weight, the lighter parts of your body will sink into the upper comfort layer, which can help with pressure relief, but it doesn't offer much contouring, limiting the effect.
Strong body conformity performance for average-weight and heavier sleepers.
Comfort layers allow you to sink in, relieving pressure.
Poor body conformity performance for lighter sleepers.
Low contouring.
The Boring Hybrid mattress is best suited to lighter back sleepers. It offers enough support for sleepers in this category to keep the hips lifted, so the spine stays aligned. Its plush upper layers allow the lighter parts of your body to sink in, providing some pressure relief, though it's not very contouring. It offers a lot less support for average-weight and especially heavier individuals. If you fall into this category and sleep on your back, your hips will sink too far into the mattress, misaligning the spine.
Good support for lighter sleepers.
Unremarkable support for average-weight and heavier sleepers.
The Boring Hybrid mattress is best suited to lighter stomach sleepers. If you fall into that category, this mattress offers enough support to prevent your back from arching in this sleeping position. It offers a lot less support for average-weight and particularly heavier sleepers. If you fall into either of these categories, your abdomen will sink too far into the mattress to keep your spine aligned.
Good support for lighter sleepers.
Unremarkable support for average-weight and heavier sleepers.
The Boring Hybrid mattress is very durable. Both the upper comfort layer and the transition layers are made of dense, high-quality polyfoam, a rare feature in a mattress. Thanks to these dense layers, it's likely to resist sagging and forming indents for longer than mattresses with less-dense, lower-quality foam.
Uses only dense, high-quality foam.
The Boring Hybrid mattress offers strong pressure relief for individuals in the average- and heavier-weight categories. If you fall into either of these categories, this medium-plush mattress will allow the heavier parts of your body to sink deeply enough to relieve pressure. This is especially important for side sleepers who have more weight concentrated on their shoulders and hips. Its performance is less impressive for lighter people, who won't compress the mattress enough for comfort. This isn't a particularly contouring mattress either; its soft upper layers allow your whole body to sink in a bit, but don't hug your body as closely as some other options.
Strong body conformity performance for average-weight and heavier sleepers.
Comfort layers allow you to sink in, relieving pressure.
Poor body conformity performance for lighter sleepers.
Low contouring.
The Boring Hybrid mattress provides good support for lighter sleepers, but not for average or heavier sleepers. If you fall into the lighter-weight category, this mattress will keep the heavier parts of your body lifted, so your spine stays aligned. However, if you're an average-weight or heavier sleeper, the heavier parts of your body will sink too far down for comfort. If you sleep on your back, for example, your hips will sink lower than the rest of your body, taking your spine out of alignment.
Good support for lighter sleepers.
Unremarkable support for average-weight and heavier sleepers.
The Boring Hybrid mattress delivers strong cooling throughout the night, making it a great choice for hot sleepers, especially those who often wake up overheated. While it transfers heat more slowly during the first hour of the night, it's still efficient enough to keep most sleepers cool.
Cooling enough for hot sleepers.
The Boring Hybrid mattress offers excellent motion isolation. You only feel larger movements, and even then, you feel them mainly nearby and not throughout the mattress. So, if your pet hops onto the foot of the bed, you feel it mainly around your feet and not in the lumbar region or at the head of the bed. Motion dissipates quickly, too, so you're not left bouncing around afterwards, and you're less likely to wake up.
Excellent motion dissipation, so movement is less likely to wake you.
The Boring Hybrid mattress is superbly responsive. It recovers its shape very quickly when compressed and has a very bouncy feel, so it's easy to shift positions and move around.
Remarkably responsive, so it's easy to move around.
Performance Usages
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Boring Hybrid mattress comes in Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, and California King. The Boring Mattress Co. also makes an all-foam version. We tested the Queen-sized hybrid version, and you can see the label for our unit.
If you encounter another variant, let us know in the comments, and we'll update this review.
Popular Mattress Comparisons
The Boring Hybrid mattress is a medium-plush bed-in-a-box available at a budget-friendly price point. This mattress stands out for its durability, since it contains only high-quality foam. This makes it less likely to sag or form permanent indents prematurely than mattresses with lower-quality foam. like the Saatva Classic (Plush Soft). It's also very cooling, so it's a better choice for hot sleepers than mattresses that transfer heat less effectively, like the Nectar Premier Copper. That said, some mattresses offer more support and better pressure relief. For example, options like the Casper Snow offer a more comfortable sleeping experience for a wider range of sleepers, though the Boring is still a fantastic choice for heavier side sleepers.
If you're looking for suggestions, see our recommendations for the best mattresses, the best cooling mattresses, or the best mattresses for side sleepers.
The Saatva Latex Hybrid is a better choice than the Boring Hybrid for most people. Although it has a firm feel, its highly contouring comfort layer helps it offer similar pressure relief to the Boring. At the same time, it offers better support for people in all weight categories. This makes it a better choice for back and stomach sleepers, especially. The Saatva is also more cooling and responsive, though the Boring offers better motion isolation, so it's worth considering if you sleep with a partner who tosses and turns.
The Boring Hybrid is a better choice for most people than the Novaform ComfortGrande Plus for most people. The medium-plush Boring offers better body conformity, though neither is a great choice for lighter sleepers in this regard. It's also more cooling, responsive, and durable. On the other hand, the Novaform offers more support for average and heavier individuals, so back and stomach sleepers in these categories may prefer it. It also offers better motion isolation, so movement is less likely to wake you.
The Casper Snow is a better choice for most people than the Boring Hybrid. The Casper provides both better support and better body conformity, making it a more comfortable option for most sleepers regardless of weight or sleeping position. While both options work well for hot sleepers, the Casper offers more efficient cooling. On the other hand, the Boring is much more durable, so it will resist sagging and indentations for a lot longer. It's more responsive, too, making it easier to move around.
The Boring Hybrid is a better pick than the Sealy Posturepedic Hybrid. Both mattresses have a medium-plush feel, but the Boring is more supportive. It's also more cooling and offers both better responsiveness and motion dissipation, so while you don't feel much movement across the mattress, it's still easy to move around. The Boring is also more durable, with denser, higher-quality foam throughout the mattress, so it will resist sagging and imprints for longer.
Test Results
At 10.3" (26.2 cm) tall, this mattress has a relatively low profile, so standard fitted sheets will easily fit.
The Boring Hybrid mattress has a medium-plush firmness level. It's supportive enough for lighter sleepers, keeping the hips lifted so that the spine stays aligned, making it a good choice for back and stomach sleepers in this category. It's also conforming enough for average-weight and heavier sleepers, particularly those who sleep on their sides, as they'll sink deeply enough into the mattress to relieve pressure on the hips and shoulders.
This mattress provides superb body conformity for heavier sleepers. If you fall into this weight category, the heavier parts of your body, such as the shoulders and hips for side sleepers, will sink deep enough into the mattress to relieve painful pressure points and keep your spine aligned. It offers very good body conformity for average-weight sleepers as well, so it's a good choice for side sleepers in this category, though you may also prefer a more highly contouring option, depending on your preferences. It's not conforming enough for lighter sleepers. If you fall into this category, you won't compress the mattress enough, creating uncomfortable pressure in the hips and shoulders.
It isn't very supportive for most people, though it offers good support for lighter people. If you fall into that weight category, your hips will stay mostly lifted in line with the rest of your body when you sleep on your back. It's much less supportive for average-weight and particularly heavier sleepers. The heavier parts of your body, like the hips for back sleepers, will sink too deeply into the mattress, misaligning your spine.
The Boring Hybrid mattress is very bouncy. While neither the pocket spring layer nor the foam layers are particularly bouncy or resilient compared to those in other models, the foam layers are thinner than in most other hybrids, so you feel more bounciness from the spring layer.
You sink fairly deeply into this mattress, but it doesn't contour you very closely. So, while you sink into the plush comfort layers, they don't mold closely to your body. This creates a feeling of being cradled, but not tightly hugged.
It's remarkably responsive. This mattress springs back almost instantly when you compress it, supporting you each time you shift positions, so it's easy to move around and change sleeping positions.
It provides excellent motion isolation. You feel larger movements mainly near their source, but they don't travel throughout the mattress. So, if your sleeping partner rolls over, you feel it in the lumbar region, but not much at the head or foot of the bed. The movement doesn't last long either, so it's less likely to disturb or wake you up.
It provides excellent edge support, thanks to the additional polyfoam that reinforces the sides. While you sink fairly far into the mattress when you sit down, the edges don't compress much more than the center, so you don't feel like you could slip off.
This mattress keeps you impressively cool. Its performance isn't quite as good during the first hour of the night, but after that, it transfers heat more efficiently, making it a great choice for hot sleepers, especially if you tend to wake up overheated.
The cover is made of polyester (98%) and spandex (2%). The manufacturer specifies that it shouldn't be removed and that it isn't machine-washable.
The edges are reinforced with additional polyfoam, providing extra support when you sit or sleep nearby. This contributes to the mattress's excellent edge support.
This mattress has two layers of Energex-branded polyfoam above its pocket coil support layer. According to the Boring Mattress Co., Energex foam offers the benefits of memory foam and latex, providing pressure relief and motion isolation while remaining responsive and resilient.
Both the upper comfort layer and the transition layer are made of dense, high-quality foam, so they'll resist sagging and forming indents for longer than lower-quality foams. The comfort layer, in particular, is especially dense.
There are 3" (7.6 cm) of foam above the pocket coils, which is less than in most hybrid mattresses. Both the polyfoam upper comfort layer and the polyfoam transition layers are 1.5" (3.8 cm) thick. Most people will fully compress the comfort layer and partially compress the transition layer, while heavier sleepers will fully compress both foam layers and directly engage the pocket springs beneath.
The support layer is made up of pocket springs, which offer better motion isolation compared to other types of springs, since each individually wrapped coil can move independently of those around it. The layer of 14-gauge springs has an average density, offering a medium firmness level. Combined with the softer foam layers, they give the mattress a medium-plush firmness level overall.
The upper comfort layer is made of soft polyfoam, while the transition layer is made of medium-soft polyfoam. This setup provides a plush sleeping surface that relieves pressure and allows you to sink a little way into the mattress, while offering graduated firmness, so you don't notice the transition between the mattress's layers.
The 14-gauge pocket springs offer moderate support. They're slightly less firm in the lumbar region, but the difference isn't noticeable across the mattress. Together with the softer foam layers, they produce a medium-plush mattress.
The Energex-branded foam layers offer moderate resilience. Energex is marketed as having the benefits of both memory foam and latex, responding to body heat and contouring like memory foam, while retaining the responsiveness and resilience of latex. The difference is visible in our results: both foam layers are less resilient than a typical layer of latex, but more resilient than a typical layer of memory foam. They dampen the bounciness of the spring layer just a bit, resulting in a mattress that is still highly bouncy overall.
While the pocket springs add some bounce to the mattress, they 'push back' less than the spring layers in other hybrids. That said, this mattress also has thinner foam layers than most hybrids, and while they don't add much resilience to the mattress, they don't dampen the bounciness from the springs much either. Overall, this results in a highly bouncy mattress.