A mattress can make or break your sleep, so choosing one as the ultimate winner above the other 120+ we’ve tested is quite the undertaking. After multiple rounds of voting, we’ve awarded the Saatva Classic our Tom’s Guide Sleep Award for Best Mattress of The Year 2025.
For interest’s sake I’d like to say this was a tight race, but here’s the truth: the Saatva Classic is in a league of its own. In October my team and I completed another full retesting of this luxury innerspring hybrid under our new methodology and the Saatva Classic cleaned house.
It’s the highest scoring mattress we’ve tested to date (we’ve been reviewing mattresses for nearly five years at Tom’s Guide), earning an overall score of 5 out of 5. Here’s why the Saatva Classic is the Best Mattress in our first ever Tom’s Guide Sleep Awards…
Practically perfect for every sleeper
The job of a good mattress is to distribute your weight evenly and to contour your body through the night to stop any sore points from building up.
A good mattress also needs to prevent excess heat from pooling underneath you, and it needs to do a decent job of stopping motion travelling across the mattress so you can sleep undisturbed regardless of how many sleep positions your partner twists and turns into.
I’ve yet to come across a mattress that balances comfort and support with such pinpoint perfection as the Saatva
Throw all of those things together, and add in edge support strong enough to help you get in and out of bed with ease, and you have a mattress that will help you sleep better for years to come.
The Saatva Classic does all of that and then some. In my job as a Certified Sleep Science Coach I’ve tested every type of mattress you can buy online, and I’ve yet to come across a mattress that balances comfort and support with such pinpoint perfection as the Saatva. The contouring it offers feels gentle, almost subtle, at first, but it’s extremely effective.
This is a mattress you sleep on top of, with your weight evenly distributed and the premium springs and foams inside the bed constantly responding to your body to prevent pressure points from forming.
Little wonder the Saatva Classic achieved a 5 out of 5 score in our pressure relief tests (see our Saatva Classic mattress review for the full test data).
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Cool as a cucumber
I’d 100% describe myself as a hot sleeper – stick me on a dense foam mattress and I start sweating harder than an ice cube in a sauna – so hybrid mattresses, like the Saatva Classic, are definitely my vibe.
I spent over seven months sleeping on the Saatva (it was supposed to be three weeks but I just couldn’t bear to part with it) and never overheated on it, not even before my period when my body temperature rockets and duvets are suddenly the enemy. So I had an inkling that the Classic would do well in our temperature regulation tests.
What I wasn’t expecting was for it to achieve the same 5 out of 5, best-in-class rating as our top cooling mattress of the year, the Bear Elite Hybrid.
The Saatva proved itself more than capable of keeping sleepers at the right temperature. And considering how being too cold or too hot can directly impact our ability to fall asleep (and stay asleep through the night), this was a major win for the Saatva Classic.
Testing the temperature regulation capabilities of the Saatva Classic (Image credit: Tom’s Guide, Future Plc)
Edge to edge support
Saatva uses high density foam rails along the perimeter of its handcrafted mattresses, so you can imagine how sturdy the Classic feels when you’re sitting or lying on the edges.
My Features Editor Lauren Jeffries is very talented, but I could have sworn she was some kind of levitating magician when she took part in our ‘roll-off’ usable sleep space test…
The outer part of her body was a full 2.5” off the Saatva Classic at one point, yet she still said: “Yeah, I could definitely fall asleep here.” As it turns out, Lauren isn’t a levitating magician – the Saatva just delivers outstanding edge support.
I’ll tell you what mattress did give the Saatva a run for its edge support money, though: the Siena Signature memory foam, a brilliant budget mattress with a penchant for punching well above its $244 queen Amazon Black Friday price tag. My jaw hit the floor when that cheap bed wiped the floor with far more expensive rivals.
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A better night’s sleep
When devising our new mattress methodology we came up with five critical areas to test and analyze each mattress in: pressure relief, temperature regulation, edge support, motion isolation and value for money.
The only area the Saatva scored a less than perfect 5 out of 5 score was motion isolation. And hey, what did we really expect from a bouncy innerspring hybrid? These beds are easy to move around on, but the trade-off is that they do allow more motion to move from one side to the other.
Memory foam mattresses rule the roost when it comes to deadening all motion from co-sleepers, but the Saatva put up one heck of a fight, coming away with a feisty 4 out of 5 score. It’s the best hybrid bed we’ve tested so far, under our new methodology, for motion isolation.
The Saatva Classic is the pinnacle of sleep comfort right now
Here’s the bottom line on why this hotel-style mattress has won our Mattress of The Year Sleep Award: the Saatva Classic is the pinnacle of sleep comfort right now. It has everything most people need to feel comfortable enough to fall asleep fast, and to sleep through the night.
It eliminates virtually all sore points, doesn’t turn into an inferno, and it’s built to last way longer than the average mattress in a box. The only downside? The Saatva has a weight capacity of 300lbs per sleeper. I know. It’s disappointing.
Saatva does make a mattress for heavy people, the Saatva HD, but it’s more expensive and quite frankly it doesn’t hit the same way as the Classic.
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Minor niggles aside, the Saatva Classic is an excellent mattress for most people. Now is a good time to take it home too – it’s back to its cheapest price since September’s Labor Day sales.
If the Saatva is outside your budget at $1,739 for a queen, then I recommend the DreamCloud Classic Hybrid instead. This mid-range marvel is the second highest rated model in our overall mattress rankings, and the best mattress in a box too. It isn’t a direct affordable alternative to the Saatva, but it offers some of the same performance and feel for over $1,000 less at $699 for a queen at DreamCloud.
Tariffs forced price hikes across many of the brand’s beds this year (see our complete guide to the best Saatva mattresses), so I recommend nabbing the Saatva Classic in the Black Friday mattress sales to be assured of getting this year’s comfiest bed at a great value price.
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