The Nectar Classic Hybrid mattress is a high-end bed-in-a-box mattress. It has a hybrid construction with a layer of pocket coils for support, a polyfoam transition layer, and a memory foam comfort layer.
This mattress is medium-firm, so it's a good choice for light to average-sized back and stomach sleepers as well as heavier side sleepers. Heavier back and stomach sleepers may want something firmer, so they don't sink too far into the mattress and misalign their spines as they sleep. By contrast, light to average-sized side sleepers may want something plusher, as they might not sink far enough into the mattress to engage its support layers and relieve pressure on their shoulders and hips. As a moderately bouncy mattress, it provides a bit of 'push back' without feeling overly springy. It also contours your body fairly closely, but you don't sink very far in, so you feel gently cradled, but not hugged or enveloped.
Our Verdict
The Nectar Hybrid mattress delivers a very good sleeping experience. One of its strengths is excellent motion isolation, as you don't notice smaller movements while sleeping on the mattress. Larger movements are a bit more noticeable, but they're not likely to disturb you as motion is fairly localized and dissipates quickly. This mattress should keep you comfortable if you often wake up overheated; however, it may not suffice if you have trouble falling asleep in the heat, as it transfers heat slowly for the first hour of the night. There are thicker 13-gauge pocket coils built into the mattress's border, but unfortunately, they still compress fairly easily, so it can feel like you're about to slip off when you sleep very close to the edges. Finally, this isn't the most responsive mattress, but it bounces back quickly enough to help you avoid feeling 'stuck' as you shift sleeping positions.
Very good cooling performance throughout the night.
Excellent motion isolation means movement is less likely to wake you.
Good choice for light to average-sized back and stomach sleepers and heavier side sleepers.
Thicker pocket coils provide decent support for most sleeping positions.
Contains low-quality memory foam, which can form impressions prematurely.
Not ideal for heavier back and stomach sleepers or light to average-sized side sleepers.
Edge compresses enough to make getting out of bed a challenge.
The Nectar Hybrid mattress is very good at cooling. It transfers a lot of heat away from you throughout the night, making it a good choice for people who tend to heat up as they sleep. But if you have trouble falling asleep because you feel warm when you first get into bed, this mattress isn't the best choice, as it transfers heat more slowly during the first hour of the night.
Very good cooling performance throughout the night.
The Nectar Hybrid mattress provides excellent motion isolation and dissipation. Most movement isn't noticeable, and while you still feel larger motions, like when your sleeping partner rolls over, you notice them mainly in the lumbar. They don't transfer much to the head or foot of the bed, so they're not likely to wake you.
Excellent motion isolation means movement is less likely to wake you.
The Nectar Hybrid mattress has decent edge support. Despite using thicker 13-gauge pocket coils in the mattress's border, edge support is just decent overall. The sides compress fairly easily, so it can feel like you're about to slip off when you sleep close to the edges.
Thicker pocket coils provide decent support for most sleeping positions.
Edge compresses enough to make getting out of bed a challenge.
The Nectar Hybrid mattress offers satisfactory responsiveness. It adapts to your movements fairly quickly, though not instantly. So, while it's not effortless, it's still pretty easy to move around and change sleeping positions.
Adapts to movements quickly, making it fairly easy to change position.
Not responsive enough for people who enjoy a lively mattress.
The Nectar Hybrid isn't a durable mattress. While the polyfoam transition layer is just dense enough to be considered good-quality, the memory foam comfort layer is not, so it'll lose its shape more quickly than denser foam. You can expect the mattress to sag and develop permanent impressions faster than options with better-quality foam inside.
Contains low-quality memory foam, which can form impressions prematurely.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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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.
- Updated Oct 06, 2025: Converted this review to Test Bench 1.0.1. We've added scoring to the Foam Layer Mass Density section and a new 'Longevity' performance usage. Read more about it in our Changelog.
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Updated Sep 30, 2025:
We mentioned the recently reviewed Nectar Premier Hybrid in the Firmness box for users looking for a medium firmness level.
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Updated Sep 11, 2025:
We mentioned the recently reviewed Helix Midnight 2024 in the Motion Isolation box to showcase the Nectar's excellent performance in this area.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Nectar Classic Hybrid is available in Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, Cal King, and Split King sizes. It's a medium-firm mattress and the manufacturer also makes a medium-firm foam model, the Nectar Classic. Our unit is a Queen-sized model and our results are only valid for that variant. See a photo of our unit's first label and second label.
If you encounter another variant or have experience with a variant that performs differently, let us know in the comments.
Popular Mattress Comparisons
The Nectar Hybrid mattress is a medium-firm option from Nectar Sleep, a popular bed-in-a-box brand. Overall, this mattress offers middle-of-the-pack performance, compared to other hybrid models, which tend to provide at least decent performance in most areas. It has better cooling, responsiveness, and edge support than its all-foam sibling, the Nectar Classic, thanks to the addition of the pocket spring support layer. This mattress is also excellent at motion dissipation, outperforming many other hybrids, despite being moderately bouncy. While it transfers heat away from you somewhat slowly at the beginning of the night, it offers very good cooling overall, too. After the first hour of the night, it keeps you very cool, so you don't wake up overheated, nearly matching the performance of the Sleep On Latex Pure Green Organic.
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The DreamCloud Hybrid (Canadian Version) and Nectar Classic Hybrid are pretty evenly matched, and you may prefer either depending on your preferences. Both mattresses isolate motion well and keep you pretty cool, though the DreamCloud is more effective at the beginning of the night, while the Nectar transfers more heat throughout the rest of the night. They each struggle with edge support, and while the Nectar offers a little more stability in this area, the sides of both mattresses compress fairly easily. One big difference is in responsiveness. The DreamCloud responds to your movements very quickly, and the Nectar adapts significantly slower, making it harder to move around or shift sleeping positions.
The Boring Mattress is better than the Nectar Classic Hybrid. It's a much more responsive mattress, so it's easier to move around and change sleeping positions on the Boring. It also provides increased edge support over the Nectar, so you can sleep close to the edge without worrying about falling off. The Boring is also more cooling than the Nectar, albeit by a smaller margin. It's slightly more cooling as you fall asleep and throughout the night. The one area where the Nectar outperforms the Boring is in motion dissipation, but the difference is so small that you're unlikely to notice it—both mattresses are excellent in this regard, so you only notice larger movements, and only for a moment.
The Nectar Premier Hybrid is the higher-end version of the Nectar Classic Hybrid. These mattresses perform similarly overall, and you may prefer either depending on your sleeping style, preferences, and budget. As the higher price tag would suggest, the medium Premier Hybrid outperforms the medium-firm Classic Hybrid in most respects, though, not by a huge margin. It's slightly more cooling and isolates movement a bit more effectively. If you sleep hot or sleep with a partner, the added cost may be worth it. It's also more responsive, so it's easier to move around on. Conversely, it has worse edge support, so if sturdy edges are a priority for you, you may prefer the Classic Hybrid.
For most people, the Bear Elite Hybrid is a better mattress than the Nectar Classic Hybrid. The Bear provides more responsiveness and better edge support, so it's easier to move around, and you can comfortably sleep right near the sides. However, the Nectar is better at isolating motion, so if you're a light sleeper or sleep with a partner, it may be a better fit.
We've recently started testing mattresses. We use objective data and repeatable testing for key characteristics like firmness, cooling, and motion isolation, to ensure each mattress gets the same treatment. Since we buy all of our mattresses, we can tear them down layer by layer and isolate the mechanical properties of every component: quilted tops, foams, coils, and any special materials. Our approach gives us unprecedented insight into how each product design decision contributes to a mattress's overall performance and feel, and allows us to tailor our results to different body types and sleeping positions.
Test Results
The Nectar Hybrid is advertised as a 12-inch (30.5 cm) mattress, but ours measured just a hair taller, so you can use standard fitted sheets.
This medium-firm mattress is a good choice for lighter and average-sized back and stomach sleepers, as well as heavier side sleepers. Heavier back and stomach sleepers may sink too far into the mattress for comfort and could benefit from something firmer, while lighter and average-sized side sleepers may want a plusher option so their shoulders and hips can sink further in, keeping the spine aligned.
If you think a mattress with medium firmness would be a better fit for you, check out the Nectar Premier Hybrid.
The Nectar Hybrid is a moderately bouncy mattress, so it responds to your movements. However, it doesn't offer as much 'push back' as other hybrid models, like the Saatva Classic. People who like the lifeless feeling of a memory foam mattress will find this one too lively, while those who prefer the noticeably buoyant response of an innerspring mattress will find this option too dull.
You don't sink very far into the Nectar Hybrid; most people compress the memory foam comfort layer and only sink a little way into the polyfoam transition layer below. As a result, you sleep more on than 'in' this mattress. It's moderately contouring, too, so the surface stays fairly close to your body, offering a hug-like sensation.
The Nectar Hybrid is fairly responsive. While it doesn't recover instantly, it bounces back pretty quickly when compressed. It takes a bit of extra effort to move around or change sleeping positions, since the mattress's surface takes a moment to adapt to your movements, but it's not enough to bother most sleepers. If responsiveness is a priority for you, you may want to consider the Boring Mattress or the WinkBeds The WinkBed, both hybrid models that bounce back significantly quicker than this mattress.
The Nectar Hybrid has excellent motion isolation, especially for a hybrid mattress, which tend to transfer more motion because of their spring layer. For example, it outperforms the Helix Midnight 2024 despite having a thinner memory foam upper comfort layer. If you sleep with a partner or have a pet who tends to jump on and off the bed late at night, you'll still feel their larger movements, but they don't travel throughout the mattress and dissipate very quickly, so they're not likely to disturb or wake you.
The Nectar Hybrid has decent edge support. Thicker pocket coils are built into the sides, which offer more resistance when compressed. That said, when you sit on or sleep near the edges, they still collapse somewhat, creating a ramp that can limit the comfortable sleeping surface and make you feel like you could slip off the side of the mattress.
For an option with better edge support, take a look at the Bear Elite Hybrid. It also has pocket coils in the sides, and while the coils are actually a higher gauge, they're very tightly wound and offer more robust support.
The Nectar Hybrid transfers a lot of heat throughout the night and will keep you cool if you predominantly suffer from overheating. However, during the first hour of the night, it doesn't perform quite as well, transferring the same amount of heat as its all-foam sibling, the Nectar Classic. If you have trouble falling asleep in a warm environment, you may want to consider something that transfers more heat away from you at the beginning of the night.
Although the cover has a zipper, the manufacturer warns not to unzip it and not to remove the cover. The sleeping surface is made up of 78% polyester, 13% viscose, 3% barrier coating, and 3% filament poly.
There are thicker pocket coils built into the border of the mattress. While the springs in the rest of the mattress are 15-gauge, the edge support springs are 13-gauge, making them noticeably more difficult to compress. Unfortunately, they still collapse enough to leave you feeling like you could slip off the side fairly easily when sleeping close to the edge.
This mattress has two layers of foam above its pocket spring support layer. The upper comfort layer is made of memory foam, which contours your body and relieves pressure. The transition layer is made of polyfoam, which is firmer and more resilient. It provides some support while ensuring you don't sink too far into the mattress.
This mattress uses a mix of low-quality and good-quality foams. The memory foam upper comfort layer is not dense enough to be considered good quality. This low-density foam is prone to premature sagging and indentations. The polyfoam transition layer is just dense enough to be considered good quality, so it should hold up to wear and tear for a bit longer, but not as long as even denser foam.
This mattress has 3" (7.5 cm) of foam above its pocket coil support system. The upper comfort memory foam layer is 1" (2.5 cm) thick, which is enough to provide pressure relief and contour your body. This layer is soft and easily compressed, so you also feel the 2" (5 cm) polyfoam transition layer below. This layer is quite firm and contributes significantly to the medium-firm feeling of the mattress overall. Most people will compress it somewhat, but since it's so firm, you're not likely to feel the individual springs below.
The mattress's support layer consists of pocket coils. Compared to other types of springs, pocket coils offer better motion isolation and contouring because they're individually wrapped and can compress independently of one another. The 15-gauge coils are soft and not very densely packed, so while they still support the heaviest parts of your body like your shoulders, hips, or lumbar, depending on your sleeping position, they have a flexible feeling and offer gentler support than firmer springs.
The memory foam upper comfort layer is soft, which is typical of memory foam and provides a cushy surface that relieves pressure. The polyfoam transition layer below is firm, so you don't sink too far into the mattress or feel the pocket springs below.
The pocket springs are the firmest component in the mattress, but the 15-gauge springs are still softer than in most hybrid models. They offer flexible support to the heavier parts of your body and have a little extra firmness in the lumbar region for added stability in that area. Together with the firm transition layer and soft upper comfort layer, the springs still result in a medium-firm mattress.
The upper comfort layer isn't very resilient or bouncy, though this is expected of memory foam, which is slow-moving and doesn't offer much 'push back' when compressed. This layer makes it more difficult to move around, since the memory foam doesn't bounce back quickly enough to support your next move. The transition layer is much more resilient, helping to give the mattress its moderate bounciness overall.
While the springs are inherently bouncy, they don't have as much 'push back' as most other hybrid or innerspring models. Combined with the resilient polyfoam transition layer and much less resilient memory foam upper comfort layer, the springs produce a moderately bouncy mattress. While it's not the bounciest hybrid available, it's still quite easy to move around on the surface or change positions as you sleep.