The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 is a hybrid mattress with a quilted top, memory foam upper comfort layer, and a pocket coil support layer. It's an updated version of the Helix Midnight Luxe 2024 and offers a firmer feel. The materials are CertiPUR-US and GREENGUARD Gold certified.
It has a 'Medium' firmness level, making it well-suited for average and heavier side sleepers as well as lighter back and stomach sleepers. Lighter side sleepers may want a plusher mattress for better pressure relief, while heavier back and stomach sleepers may want a firmer option for better support. This mattress has moderate sinking and contouring, so you feel cradled but not hugged or enveloped. It's responsive and bouncy, so it's easy to move around and doesn't have a slow-moving memory foam feel.
Our Verdict
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Sturdy edges so you can sleep comfortably near the side.
Medium firmness suitable for average and heavier side sleepers and lighter back/stomach sleepers.
Too firm for lighter side sleepers.
Too soft for heavier back/stomach sleepers.
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Light Weight
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Average Weight
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Heavy Weight
Sturdy edges so you can sleep comfortably near the side.
Medium firmness suitable for average and heavier side sleepers and lighter back/stomach sleepers.
Too firm for lighter side sleepers.
Too soft for heavier back/stomach sleepers.
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Light Weight
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Average Weight
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Heavy Weight
Sturdy edges so you can sleep comfortably near the side.
Medium firmness suitable for average and heavier side sleepers and lighter back/stomach sleepers.
Too firm for lighter side sleepers.
Too soft for heavier back/stomach sleepers.
The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 is a fairly durable mattress. The weak point in terms of durability is the quilted top, which contains low-density, low-quality polyfoam and memory foam. These layers are prone to losing their shape and developing permanent indentations. The layers below are of better quality, however. The memory foam upper comfort layer is dense enough to reach the standard for good-quality, and so is the polyfoam transition layer. These layers will hold up to wear and tear longer, increasing the durability of the mattress overall.
Sturdy edges so you can sleep comfortably near the side.
Uses good-quality foam in the comfort and transition layers, increasing durability.
Medium firmness suitable for average and heavier side sleepers and lighter back/stomach sleepers.
Uses lower-quality foam in the quilted top, which is prone to sagging.
Too firm for lighter side sleepers.
Too soft for heavier back/stomach sleepers.
Sturdy edges so you can sleep comfortably near the side.
Medium firmness suitable for average and heavier side sleepers and lighter back/stomach sleepers.
Too firm for lighter side sleepers.
Too soft for heavier back/stomach sleepers.
Sturdy edges so you can sleep comfortably near the side.
Medium firmness suitable for average and heavier side sleepers and lighter back/stomach sleepers.
Too firm for lighter side sleepers.
Too soft for heavier back/stomach sleepers.
The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 has a great cooling performance. It doesn't feel warm when you first get into bed and dissipates heat efficiently overnight. It's cooling enough to keep most people comfortable, including hot sleepers.
Cooling enough for hot sleepers.
Sturdy edges so you can sleep comfortably near the side.
Medium firmness suitable for average and heavier side sleepers and lighter back/stomach sleepers.
Too firm for lighter side sleepers.
Too soft for heavier back/stomach sleepers.
The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 has great motion dissipation. Motion dissipates decently quickly, so while you may feel a wobbling sensation with bigger movements, you won't feel like you're bouncing around whenever someone moves. It's even better at isolating motion. You'll only feel bigger movements near the source, and overall, movements aren't likely to wake you.
Movements aren't likely to wake you.
Sturdy edges so you can sleep comfortably near the side.
Medium firmness suitable for average and heavier side sleepers and lighter back/stomach sleepers.
Too firm for lighter side sleepers.
Too soft for heavier back/stomach sleepers.
The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 has great responsiveness. Although its comfort layer is made of slow-moving memory foam, the quilted layer also includes polyfoam and fiber fill. The mattress responds quickly to your movements, so you won't feel stuck in place or tightly hugged.
Great responsiveness, so you don't feel stuck in place.
Sturdy edges so you can sleep comfortably near the side.
Medium firmness suitable for average and heavier side sleepers and lighter back/stomach sleepers.
Too firm for lighter side sleepers.
Too soft for heavier back/stomach sleepers.
Performance Usages
Changelog
- Updated Mar 09, 2026: We converted this review to Our Verdict section to clearly show the suitability of a mattress for your weight and sleeping position.
- Updated Feb 12, 2026: We converted this review to Test Bench 1.1. We've added new tests, including Body Conformity, Support, and Comfort Layers Envelopment, and also added scoring to the Bounciness test. Our usage scores have also changed, with new usages 'Side Sleeping,' 'Back Sleeping,' and 'Stomach Sleeping' replacing the 'Sleeping' verdict. We've also added 'Pressure Relief' and 'Support' performance usages. You can find more details in the full changelog.
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Updated Jan 12, 2026:
Added a note that the Purple RestorePlus Hybrid has better cooling.
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Updated Oct 06, 2025:
We rewrote portions of this review to align with Test Bench 1.0.1, which adds a Longevity verdict and a score to the Foam Layer Mass Density box for users interested in the mattress's durability.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 comes in one 'Medium' firmness level and many different size options, including Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King, Short Queen, and RV King. There are a few different options for the cover: the default option is a TENCEL cover. For an additional cost, you can also get the 'GlacioTex Cooling Cover', which is advertised as a more cooling option, or the GlacioTex cover and a 'CoolForce Layer', an additional layer marketed for cooling.
We tested a Queen-sized mattress with the basic 'TENCEL' cover, and other variants may perform differently. Here's our unit's label.
If you have this mattress or a variant, we invite you to share your experience in the comments.
Popular Mattress Comparisons
The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 is a hybrid mattress with a great overall performance. It's a newer version of the Helix Midnight Luxe 2024 and has a slightly better overall performance in most respects, although it has a less responsive feel. It's cooling enough for hot sleepers, unlike some other 'Medium' mattresses like the Beautyrest Black and Puffy Lux. It has great motion dissipation as well. However, if you don't mind a memory foam mattress with slow responsiveness, the Casper Snow offers better cooling and better motion dissipation, with a similar medium firmness level.
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The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 is better than the Beautyrest Black for most people. They both have a medium firmness, a responsive feel, and moderate sinking and contouring. However, the Helix offers significantly better cooling, so it's much more suitable for hot sleepers. It has better motion isolation, so your partner's movements are less likely to wake you. It also offers better edge support, so it's more comfortabale to sleep near the side of the mattress.
The Casper Snow and Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 have different strengths. Both have a medium firmness level, but you may prefer the Casper if you like feeling enveloped by your mattress, since it has a higher sinking level. The Casper offers much better cooling and motion isolation, but has slow responsiveness, so you may feel stuck in place. The Helix is much more responsive and has better edge support, making it easier to get in and out of bed and more comfortable to sleep near the edge of the bed.
The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 and Nectar Premier Hybrid are both moderately bouncy and responsive hybrid options with medium firmness, but most people will prefer the Helix. The biggest difference is in edge support. While both mattresses have pocket coils built into the edges, the coils in the Nectar compress too easily to provide much support. The coils in the Helix, on the other hand, provide a lot of support, so you can sleep comfortably right next to the sides. The Helix is also more responsive and slightly more cooling. The one area where the Nectar comes out ahead is motion isolation, so if you sleep with a partner, you may prefer it since movement is less likely to disturb or wake you.
The Helix Midnight Luxe 2025 is an updated version of the Helix Midnight 2024. It has a different feel and a slightly better performance overall. The 2025 version has a medium firmness level, so it's a little firmer than the medium-plush 2024 version. It offers better cooling as well as marginally better edge support and motion dissipation. However, it uses less resilient memory foam in its comfort layer and also includes a layer of memory foam in its quilted layer, which results in a less responsive mattress.
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