Hybrid mattresses combine two mattress structures - supportive coils and more comfortable foams.

Hybrid mattresses have these features:

• Breathability: The coils increase airflow and prevent the mattress from holding on to excess heat.
• Temperature regulation: Many hybrid mattresses are also equipped with cooling technology making them ideal for hot sleepers.
• Supportive and durable: Coils can handle heavier weights and provide additional support that you don't get with memory foam mattresses.
• Adaptable: Hybrid mattresses have more support structures than memory foam mattresses. They adapt more easily to different sleeping positions and adjust quickly when you move positions.
• Expensive: As a general rule, hybrid mattresses are more expensive than memory foam.

Hybrid mattresses must have coils and foams. Mattress support cores must be coil-based.

Coils come in 3 types:

1. Pocketed Coils: These coils are made by covering them with cloth and sewing them together, which allows them to isolate motion.
2. Bonnell Coil: Less flexible and more susceptible to compression of nearby coils, but less expensive and less supportive.
3. Continuous Wire Coils: All springs are made of one piece of wire, so they perform similarly.

In a hybrid comfort system, 3 types of foam can be used:

1. Memory foam: Adapts to the body and responds slowly.
2. Polyfoam: Less pressure relief, but superior movement and temperature regulation.
3. Latex: Very comfortable and responsive, but expensive.

7 features hybrid mattresses should have:

• Bounce: Along with edge support and temperature regulation, this is one of their most consistent characteristics.
• Comfort system material: Hybrids perform similarly, but their comfort systems vary significantly.
• Contouring support: This refers to a mattress's ability to conform to the body's weight.
• Edge support: Hybrid mattresses have more stable edges.
• Temperature regulation: Adding airflow to the support core helps regulate temperature.
• Noise: Squeaks that disturb sleep are prevented with quiet mattresses like hybrids:
• Ease of Movement/Sex: Its bounce allows ease of movement.

3 advantages of hybrid mattresses:

• Temperature: Having coils in the mattress increases airflow and prevents excess heat from being trapped. Hybrid mattresses also feature cooling technology that keeps the temperature down while you sleep.
• Durability & Longevity: Coils can support heavier weights and provide additional support not found in memory foam mattresses.
• Adaptable Sleep Positions: Due to their more supportive structures, hybrid mattresses can adapt to different sleeping positions more easily.

3 main drawbacks of hybrid mattresses:

• Price: Higher price tag than other mattresses.
• Poor motion transfer: Not ideal for couples.
• Weight: Hybrid mattresses are heavier.

Hybrid mattresses fall into the middle price range.

Premium memory foam, such as Loom and Leaf (or a latex mattress), is more expensive.

They are, however, more expensive than innerspring mattresses.

Queen hybrid mattresses cost between $1,200 and $2,000.

Among those ranges, you will find the Saatva Classic, one of the top hybrid mattresses on the market. Considering its overall quality, it's a great buy.

Hybrids usually last 6 to 8 years.

They last about as long as foam mattresses.

Compared to latex mattresses, they last a bit less (10-15 years vs. 15-20 years).

However, high-quality hybrids like the Saatva Classic may last 10-15 years with proper care.