The Winkbeds The Winkbed is a hybrid mattress with a support layer of pocket coils, a memory foam comfort layer, and a quilted top. It's marketed as being made in the U.S. and comes in several firmness levels.
The 'Luxury Firm' variant has a firm feel, making it best-suited for average and heavier back and stomach sleepers. Lighter back and stomach sleepers and most side sleepers may need something plusher. You don't sink very deeply into it, which creates a feeling of sleeping 'on' versus 'in' it, and its memory foam layer helps give it high contouring, so the mattress molds closely around your body. It's moderately bouncy and very responsive, so it feels easy to move around in your sleep.
Our Verdict
The WinkBeds The WinkBed offers a great sleeping experience. This firm mattress is well-suited for average and heavier back and stomach sleepers. It's very responsive and moderately bouncy, which makes it easier to move around in your sleep. It offers great edge support, so it's quite easy to get in and out of bed, and you can sleep near the side without feeling at risk of sliding out of bed. Its motion dissipation is good. While you'll feel most movements near the source, you won't feel the mattress wobble with every movement. It's also cooling enough for most people, although hot sleepers may want a mattress that dissipates heat a bit more efficiently.
Very responsive, so you can easily change sleeping positions.
Cooling enough for most people.
Good motion isolation, so movement isn't as likely to wake you up.
Great edge support increases the comfortable sleeping surface.
Firm feel suitable for average and heavier back and stomach sleepers.
Too firm for most side sleepers.
Uses mostly low-density foams, which impacts durability.
The WinkBeds The WinkBed is good for cooling. It doesn't feel warm when you first get into bed, and it dissipates enough heat overnight to keep most people comfortable. However, it's not quite cooling enough for hot sleepers.
Cooling enough for most people.
The WinkBeds The WinkBed has good motion dissipation. You'll feel movement near its source, like in the lumbar area when your partner rolls over. However, you'll feel it less across the mattress, and motion dissipates quickly, so you won't feel like you're bouncing around whenever someone moves.
Good motion isolation, so movement isn't as likely to wake you up.
The WinkBeds The WinkBed has impressive edge support. The mattress's sides don't compress much when you sit on the edge, which gives you a solid surface to use when getting in and out of bed. You can sleep on the side of the bed without feeling at risk of sliding off, which increases the comfortable sleeping space.
Great edge support increases the comfortable sleeping surface.
The WinkBeds The WinkBed has fantastic responsiveness. It recovers its shape very quickly after being compressed, so it adapts to your movements almost immediately. This makes it easier to move around in your sleep and prevents you from feeling stuck in place.
Very responsive, so you can easily change sleeping positions.
The Winkbed is moderately durable. The transition layer is made of good-quality polyfoam, which will help the mattress resist sagging for longer than lower-quality foams. However, the polyfoam in the quilted top and the memory foam used for the upper comfort layer are not dense enough to be considered good quality and may form indentations sooner than higher-quality materials.
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 10, 2025:
Added a link to our new recommendations for the best firm mattresses in Popular Mattress Comparisons.
- Updated Aug 29, 2025: Review published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The WinkBed comes in standard sizes including Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, and California King. There are a few different firmness options: Soft, Luxury Firm, Firm, and Plus, which is a firmer option marketed for plus-size people. We tested a Queen-sized 'Luxury Firm' model and you can see our unit's label.
If you have the WinkBed in Luxury Firm or another variant, we invite you to share your experience in the comments below.
Popular Mattress Comparisons
The WinkBed is a firm hybrid mattress well-suited for average and heavier back and stomach sleepers. Like similar models like the Saatva Latex Hybrid, you don't sink very deeply into it, but it has high contouring, so it molds around your body closely. It's very responsive, so unlike mattresses like the medium-firm Sealy Posturepedic Plus Mount Auburn and Nectar Classic Hybrid, it adapts quickly to your movements, avoiding any slow-moving memory foam feeling. While it has good motion dissipation and cooling, it doesn't really stand out from other mattresses. The Nectar Classic Hybrid is a better option for motion dissipation, and if you're a hot sleeper looking for a cooling mattress, models like the Saatva Latex Hybrid and the Sleep On Latex Pure Green Organic may be worth considering instead.
For a look at other firm mattresses, check out our recommendations for the best firm mattresses. Find plusher options on our list of the best mattresses for side sleepers or see our picks for the best mattresses overall.
The Bear Elite Hybrid performs better than the WinkBeds The WinkBed. The Bear offers significantly better edge support, making it a better option for individuals with mobility issues who want a solid edge to push off from when getting in and out of bed. It's more responsive, which makes it easier to move around in your sleep, and it performs marginally better in terms of cooling and motion dissipation.
The Saatva Latex Hybrid has a better performance than the WinkBeds The WinkBed. Both are firm mattresses, but the Saatva offers better support regardless of your weight, and is a better option for back/stomach sleeping overall. It's more cooling, making it suitable for hot sleepers, and it has better edge support, which makes it easier to get in and out of bed. It's also more responsive, so it adapts faster to your movements. The Saatva is bouncier, which also helps make it easier to move around in your sleep.
The Sealy Posturepedic Plus Mount Auburn and the WinkBeds The WinkBed have different strengths. The Sealy has significantly better edge support, which may make it a better option for people with mobility issues or who want to maximize the comfortable sleeping surface. The Winkbed has marginally better cooling, and it's much more responsive, which makes it easier to move around in your sleep.
The Sleep On Latex Pure Green Organic performs better than the WinkBeds The WinkBed in most aspects. The Sleep On Latex offers significantly better edge support, which increases the comfortable sleeping surface, and much better cooling, making it more suitable for hot sleepers. It's also more responsive, which makes it feel easier to move around in your sleep. That said, the Winkbed has better motion isolation, so light sleepers might prefer it.
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
Winkbeds markets their 'Luxury Firm' mattress as being 13.5"/34.3 cm tall, and ours was a tiny bit smaller at 13.4"/34.1 cm. You may need to use deep-pocket fitted sheets.
The Winkbed mattress is firm, making it best-suited for average and heavier back and stomach sleepers, who will benefit from a firmer mattress for proper spinal alignment. However, lighter people and most side sleepers will want a plusher model for pressure relief.
It's a moderately bouncy mattress, so it has a mildly springy feel that makes it easier to change sleeping positions, without having very noticeable 'push-back' like the Saatva Latex Hybrid.
You only sink a little into the mattress, so it creates a feeling of sleeping 'on' and not 'in' it. However, its memory foam upper comfort layer helps give it high contouring, so you feel like the mattress molds around your body without hugging or enveloping you.
It has fantastic responsiveness. While some mattresses adapt slightly faster, like the Saatva Latex Hybrid, it recovers its shape very quickly after being compressed, which helps make it easier to move around on.
It has good motion isolation. You're likely to feel movement near the source, so you'll feel it in the lumbar area when your partner rolls over, but less motion is transferred across the mattress. It also dissipates quickly, so while you may feel movements, you won't feel the mattress wobble around whenever someone stirs.
It has great edge support. The sides don't compress much when you sit on the edge, which makes it easier to get in and out of bed. They form a slight ramp outward when pressure is applied, but it's not overly steep, and you won't feel at risk of sliding off when sleeping on the edge either.
It has good cooling. It doesn't feel warm when you first get into bed, and it does a good job of dissipating heat overnight. It's cooling enough to keep most people comfortable overall. However, it's not quite cooling enough for hot sleepers, who may need something that dissipates heat more efficiently.
The Winkbed's cover is made of Rayon and TENCEL, a material made from wood pulp. It's not removable or machine-washable.
Firmer coils reinforce the mattress's edges, which contribute to its great edge support. The entire support layer consists of 14-gauge coils, including the edges, but the edge coils are taller and feel firmer.
The quilted top contains polyfoam and fiber fill and has a soft feel. The memory foam layer below adds contouring, but it's quite firm for memory foam.
Below it, our unit has a layer of felt, followed by a very firm layer of polyfoam. There's an identical felt layer directly below the springs and above a final layer of firm polyfoam at the very bottom of the mattress. The manufacturer doesn't include the felt layers in the mattress's marketing, so it's unclear if every unit includes these layers. The felt layer below the memory foam upper comfort layer is likely an inexpensive way to distribute your weight over the polyfoam below, helping to protect this layer from being compressed and increasing its longevity. The lower layer of felt may help the springs from sinking into the layer of polyfoam at the base of the mattress.
Most of the foam in the mattress isn't dense enough to be considered good quality, including the polyfoam in the quilted top and the memory foam upper comfort layer. These layers are likely to start forming permanent indentations sooner than higher-quality foams. That said, the polyfoam transition layer is made of good-quality foam, which suggests it'll be more resistant to sagging than less dense foams.
The Winkbed mattress's quilted top is soft but quite thin, at 1.8" (4.5 cm) thick, so it allows you to sink just a bit. Below it is 1.8" (4.6 cm) of memory foam, which adds contouring but is quite firm. Beneath the memory foam layer, our unit has a 0.2"/0.5 cm layer of felt, followed by 0.9"/2.2 cm of very firm polyfoam. These layers add firmness, so if you compress both upper layers, you'll feel a solid surface below.
14-gauge pocket coils make up the support layer. This coil design is more contouring and helps with motion isolation versus continuous coils. The edge coils are also 14-gauge springs, but are taller and feel stiffer, which helps give the mattress its great edge support performance.
The quilted top is quite soft and gives the mattress its slight sinking. The memory foam layer below is much firmer, and it's quite firm for memory foam, so it adds contouring but feels like a firmer surface below the upper layer. The polyfoam layer below is very firm, so if you compress both upper layers, it'll help prevent further sinking and add support.
This mattress also includes a thin layer of felt between the memory foam upper comfort layer and polyfoam transition layer, and an identical layer below the springs. These felt layers aren't included in the manufacturer's description of the mattress, and aren't part of a recent design update, according to Winkbed, who say the last design change happened in 2018.
Pocket coils make up the spring layer and help with contouring and motion isolation versus continuous coils. They're firm and help add support for the heavier parts of your body, like your lumbar, when sleeping on your back or stomach.
The foam in the quilted layer is resilient, or bouncy, which helps give the mattress its responsive, lively feel. The memory foam layer is much less bouncy, but it's still quite resilient for memory foam. The firm polyfoam layer below is in between, with a moderate level of bounce. These fairly resilient foam layers contribute to the mattress's overall bounciness and make it feel easy to change sleeping positions.
The springs are moderately bouncy, contributing to the mattress's overall medium bounciness. They're not as bouncy as some mattresses' springs, such as the Beautyrest Silver BRS900, which has a bouncier feel overall.