Best Hybrid & Innerspring Mattress Reviews

Purple mattresses have been somewhat of a game changer in the mattress industry because they’re unlike anything else out there. And since the new Purple mattresses added coils to the construction, they’re all-around accommodating beds for all sorts of people—assuming you like the unique feel (and not everyone does).

Purple uses the usual materials, like pocketed coils and poly foam, but they also have a grid layer of Hyper-Elastic Polymer and that’s what makes their beds stand out. It’s a really responsive material that provides pressure relief and really great airflow. You can learn more about the material on Purple.com.

Plus, you still get plenty of support from the foam and coil layers. To figure out which model (Purple.2, Purple.3, or Purple.4) is right for you, you can check out our Purple Mattress Comparison where we break it all down.

The Bear Hybrid mattress is an insanely comfortable bed—the kind of bed that makes you say “aaahhh” when you hit the sack at the end of the day. We actually think it’s Bear’s best bed.

The coils not only give the bed a little bit of a bounce, but they also provide plenty of support for all sleeper types—back, stomach, side, or combo. Because it’s such a thick, hefty mattress, it can handle all body types, heavier folks included, without bottoming out or withering away.

It also has a Celliant cover. Celliant technology has been tested and proven to promote healthy circulation, muscle recovery, and restful sleep (according to the manufacturers of Celliant).

Overall, if you’re looking for a comfortable, supportive, thick mattress, and Celliant technology sounds interesting, the Bear Hybrid might be right for you. The bed even has thicker coils and better edge support now that it was updated at the beginning of the year.

The Saatva mattress is a luxurious version of a fairly traditional innerspring bed. Saatva has two layers of coils—a steel innerspring system for durability, and individually wrapped coils for more precise support that contours to your body.

With the organic cotton cover and Euro pillow top, the bed gets a bit of cushioning, too, though it’s still quite firm if you go with the Luxury Firm or Firm comfort level. The Saatva mattress is very supportive, very durable, and has a bit of bounce to it. It also sleeps pretty cool, which many sleepers count as a plus.

WinkBed is a hotel luxury product that we consider also to be a really nice value and, better yet, a phenomenal mattress. It’s a little more expensive than Saatva, for example, but it too has dual coil layers and is offered in numerous firmness profiles.

And, just so you know, WinkBed comes with a lifetime warranty and the free returns option. WinkBed will also have more of a fluffy, puffy pillow top than many of the mattresses that you’ve tested.

And, if you’re heavy or overweight, you might want to look into WinkBed Plus, which is designed just for heavy people—that weigh up to about 450 lb. You can check WinkBeds.com to see all the models and prices.

GhostBed Flex has some of that traditional innerspring bounce you may be used to, but also has a neutral-foam feel to it, despite the fact that it actually has memory foam in the comfort section. The pocketed coils provide plenty of support for all sleep styles as well. In other words, you can sleep on your stomach, back, or side on the GhostBed Flex mattress.

We also think GhostBed Flex could be a good pick for hot sleepers—the cover has special cooling fibers, which help to regulate heat. Even more, the pocketed coils allow for good airflow and the firmness means you sleep more on top of the bed as opposed to down in it.

Overall, if you want a somewhat cool-sleeping bed with a little bounce, but still prefer a foam feel, GhostBed Flex is definitely a nice option. We have no shortage of thumbs-up comments to make about this bed.

A close runner up with GB Flex is DreamCloud, a hefty 15″ thick mattress. It has five layers of foam materials and a layer of 8″ pocketed coils. If you’re looking for a hybrid mattress with a memory foam feel, that’s exactly what DreamCloud is—even more so than GB Flex.

While we think this is a nice mattress for heavy folks, it’s now actually softer than it used to be. We previously rated DreamCloud a medium-firm, but with the latest changes we consider it to be closer to a true medium in our firmness tests.

Allswell is a hybrid mattress (i.e. uses coils and foam) that’s best suited for back and stomach sleepers, though combination sleepers will fare just fine as well; remember, though, it will become softer after it has been broken in. Despite the fact that it’s perhaps the most cost-efficient spring mattress, it’s still made in the USA and is supportive, durable, and surprisingly comfortable.

When we first got the mattress we were expecting it to retail in the $800 range, but in actuality the MSRP for a queen bed is under $400! And that’s before you apply promotions. Given that Allswell is owned by Walmart, this pricing strategy makes sense, but it’s still a shocker to see such a nice bed at a sub-$450 price point.

We saved Helix for the end of this review because if all else fails Helix probably won’t. The company makes over ten different models, but in an effort to avoid any confusion they created a special sleep quiz to line you up with the right mattress for your exact sleeping preferences, as well as those of your partner if you have one.

All Helix mattresses have 8″ pocketed coils for their main support structures. The only difference between them will be in the comfort layers (i.e. density and firmness of the foams).

While Helix has the sleep quiz to make things easy for you, they also have different names and colorways for each of their beds. That way, if you know what you’re looking for you can go straight to it and select the bed. Their mattresses range from plush to firm and fairly supportive to highly supportive.

Helix even has a series of high end mattresses, which they call Helix Luxe. These beds add an extra pillow top and special zoned support coils.