Mattress Reviews & Ratings Summary → Based on Data From 16,207 Actual Owners
Updated March 28, 2012
Our mattress ratings and research findings are based on thousands of mattress consumer reviews that were collected using an unbiased, accurate methodology.
What You Need To Know
1. Innerspring beds tend to rate considerably lower than most other mattress types, including memory foam, air, latex and water.
2. Paying more for a mattress does not necessarily result in higher owner satisfaction.
3. Some bed types perform significantly better than others in preventing and relieving pain, including back pain.
Get details and other important research findings here.
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Owner Satisfaction by Mattress Type
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| Mattress
Type (sample size) |
Owner Satisfaction |
| Air (permanent use) (1,809) |
78% |
| Air (temporary use) (3,092) |
74% |
| Futon (1,423) |
74% |
| Innerspring (3,316) |
62% |
| Latex (652) |
80% |
| Memory
Foam (5,852) |
81% |
| Water (304) |
79% |
|
Owner Satisfaction By Mattress Brand
The following chart lists many of the more popular mattresses available. Each bed has a sample size of at least 150 owner / consumer experiences.
Note: Do not assume that you personally will be satisfied with a highest- or top-rated mattress. You should learn about the characteristics, pros and cons of a mattress before buying to ensure as much as possible that it is right for you personally.
Click on a brand below for a detailed research report.
| Mattress
Brand (type) |
Owner Satisfaction |
| Aerus (memory foam) |
80% |
| Bed in a Box (memory foam) |
86% |
| Bodipedic (memory foam) |
82% |
| Comfortaire (airbed) |
83% |
| Comfort Dreams (memory foam) |
79% |
| Kingsdown (innerspring) |
58% |
| Night Therapy (memory foam) |
82% |
| Sealy Posturepedic (innerspring) |
65% |
| Serta (innerspring) |
63% |
| Simmons
Beautyrest (coil) |
62% |
| Sleep
Innov/Novaform (memory foam) |
78% |
| Sleep
Number / Select Comfort (airbed) |
78% |
| Spa Sensations (memory foam) |
82% |
| Stearns
& Foster (innerspring) |
57% |
| Tempurpedic Cloud (memory foam) |
86% |
| Tempurpedic (HD) (memory foam) |
81% |
Additional Mattress Brand Ratings
The mattresses below are not included with the mattresses above because their sample sizes and or number or sources are currently too small to provide a fair and accurate comparison. Click on a brand for a detailed research report that is based on consumer reviews.
| Owner Satis-faction | Sample size | Type | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerobed | 71% | 100+ | Temporary-use airbed | |
| Angel Bed | 76% | 36 | memory foam | |
| Bob-O-Pedic | 73% | 72 | Memory Foam | |
| Duxiana | 64% | 69 | innerspring | |
| Essentia | 81% | 16 | Latex | |
| Englander | 63% | 96 | innerspring, memory foam, latex | |
| Heavenly Bed | 74% | 83 | Innerspring | |
| Ikea (innerspring) | 64% | 64 | Innerspring | |
| Ikea (foam) | 78% | 59 | Memory Foam | |
| Ikea (latex) | 83% | 41 | Latex | |
| King Koil | 60% | 52 | Innerspring | |
| Natural Form | 74% | 44 | Air | |
| Nature's Rest | 53% | 37 | Latex | |
| Restonic | 58% | 83 | Innerspring | |
| Sealy Comfort Series | 84% | 37 | Memory foam | |
| Sealy Embody | 80% | 22 | memory foam and latex | |
| Serta iComfort | 80% | 45 | Memory Foam | |
| Simmons Beautyrest NxG | 74% | 43 | Coil / memory foam | |
| Simmons Comforpedic | 91% | 56 | Memory Foam | |
| Ara (Sleep Science) | 77% | 148 | Memory Foam | |
| Vera Wang | 62% | 91 | Innerspring & Latex |
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