The Best Hybrid Mattresses for Couples, Back Pain, and More (2025)

What Is a Hybrid Mattress?

A hybrid mattress combines two or more mattress materials so that sleepers can leverage the top-performing aspects of both. This is helpful if you are in between mattress types, such as memory foam or innerspring, and don’t want to fully commit to just one. You can get pressure relief from latex, memory foam, or both; innerspring coils amp up the support.

What Kind of Hybrid Mattresses Are There?

There are many combinations that hybrid mattresses can feature. Usually, it’s foam on top and coils underneath for support, but there’s a lot of variance within these two material categories. For example, foam can mean memory foam, polyfoam, proprietary foam like Nolah’s AirFoam, or even combinations of these types. Latex hybrids can involve the various types of latex (Dunlop, Talalay, latex foam) atop coils. As for coils, hybrid mattresses more often than not use pocketed coils over traditional ones. Individually wrapped coils, or pocketed coils, are independent and help with increased motion isolation, pressure relief, and zoned support. That doesn’t mean traditional coils are obsolete in the world of hybrid mattresses, though. The Saatva Classic is the premier example of a contemporary mattress using both traditional and modern coils. Pocketed coils at the top are better for adapting around a sleeper’s body, while the bottom layer of traditional coils promotes durability. This bottom layer is also responsible for not only supporting all the layers atop it, but also increasing airflow within the mattress.

Who Is a Hybrid Mattress Best For?

Virtually every kind of sleeper can find a hybrid that works for them, mainly since there is so much variety on the market. Whether you’re looking for specific materials for your new mattress or something built especially for your sleep position, there are plenty of options available to you. Out of all the mattresses out there, hybrids are the ones we test most regularly and that you will see in our guides. If you want to find out which we consider the best of the best, head over to our best mattresses of 2025 guide to learn more.

We know how anxiety-producing it is to make a decision sight-unseen as to what you may end up spending 10 years sleeping on. To that end, we spend a week or more testing these mattresses in our own homes, sleeping on them, relaxing on them, and just overall using them as a consumer would, to get insight on comfort, support, materials, and any other details that pop up. To give us some concrete data (since we're not exactly conscious during testing), sleep trackers keep tags on our progress.

How Does WIRED Acquire Mattresses to Test?

All mattresses chosen for this guide were either samples provided by the manufacturer, with no obligation for coverage or promises for what coverage could look like, or purchased by WIRED and expensed.

What Does WIRED Do With the Mattresses After Testing Them?

Once testing is complete, the mattresses are donated locally within the tester's geographic region.