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If you’re in the market for a better night’s sleep, it’s worth taking a look at the Lucid and Tempur-Pedic mattresses. These two beds are both hybrid foam and innerspring mattresses, and they each promise to help you sleep soundly no matter your sleeper type. But, the price points of these two mattresses couldn’t be more different. In this guide, we’ll compare the Lucid vs. Tempur-Pedic beds head to head to help you decide which one is best for your sleeping needs and budget.
Quick Comparison of Available Mattress Models
In this comparison table, we’re going to be laying out the finer details of the two brands—more importantly, we’re going to break down the most popular models of Sleep Innovations and Tempur-Pedic and take it from there!
Later on in the article, you can view other details that might be more important for you and your decision.
Sleep Innovations
Tempur-Pedic
The Alden model: Has a comfort system at the outermost layer—with its design of SureTemp memory foam. The inner core is high-density polyfoam.
The Skylar model: Designed with gel memory foam. It also has Air Channel polyfoam layers and a high-density polyfoam.
The Taylor model: Like Skylar but with a different cover of cotton-polyester.
The Shiloh model: Keeps it simple with a single layer of memory foam and a high-density polyfoam support core.
The Shea model: Like Shiloh but with a thinner build.
The Marley model: Hybrid design with both gel memory foam and Air Channel polyfoam.
The Sage model: Has a single layer of gel memory foam and a high-density polyfoam support core.
The Cloud model: Focuses on contouring and support of the sleeper—but not exactly for stomach sleepers.
The Contour model: Gives you the firmness of medium-firm to firm. Great for pressure relief and moderate contouring. Great for stomach and back sleepers.
The Flex model: This is built from a hybrid design. Containing polyfoam and memory foam layers, it also lies on pocketed coils. Gives you an enhanced response, support, bounce, and cooling.
As you can see from the charts above, the Sleep Innovations mattress contains 9.5 inches of HD polyfoam, which is quite a decent chunk of foam to help you sink into sleep!
However, the Tempur-Pedic supplies a thicker form of polyfoam, with solid HD, creating that firmer, yet more decent construction.
Comfort
When it comes to picking a mattress, how comfortable the particular product or brand is can play a HUGE difference in whether or not you would want to purchase it!
Although comfort can mean something different to everyone, in this section, we’re going to take a look at not only the factors that can play a large role in comfort but also how it can change from brand to brand.
Even though we might not know what helps you in particular sleep better at night, we hope that informing you about the finer details of these mattresses can help you pick a product that gets you the best night’s sleep.
The Tempur-Pedic Cloud Supreme mattress is a great choice if you’re a side sleeper—especially since it focuses on pressure relief and contouring, which are the two main problems with side sleepers. Which is what brings us to our other point—the position you sleep in during the night can play a huge role in what kind of mattress you need.
When taking a look at the Sleep Innovations Shiloh 12-inch, for example, you’ll want this mattress if you are a side or back sleeper—since it boasts medium type firmness and adequate spine support and alignment—if you’re worried about that sort of thing.
Firmness and support
If you’re a sleeper who likes (or needs) to feel support through the night, the Tempur-Pedic mattress will be the way to go. With its softer surface, you can feel the mattress topper practically hugging and cradling the various contours of your body. This sort of style not only feels good but can also be great for spinal support and your overall health. The combination of the Tempur-Pedic’s sinkage, contouring, and pressure relief are great for sleepers of all kind!
The Sleep Innovations brand, on the other hand, is not as hard of a firmness. Since there is a balance when it comes to softness and firmness, this mattress can be suitable for sleeping positions of all different kinds—stomach, back, and even side. The mattress provides balanced support for the hips, the neck, and lower back.
Temperature control
The temperature of a mattress can play a major role in the comfort of your sleep quality. It can also be affected by multiple factors, like where you live, what season it is, and even if your air condition (or heater) is working properly in your home!
We’ve taken it to the thermometer and compared Tempur-Pedic and Sleep Innovations when it comes to the various temperatures.
In general, if you sleep hot, Sleep Innovations can be a bit of a cooler choice when compared to Tempur-Pedic. This is because of the air passageways of the model located in the support layer. These air passageways can give heat the perfect escape route, helping the airflow throughout the mattress while you sleep. This constant exchange from heat to cool air helps keep the mattress at a consistent temperature, which means you’re less likely to get overheated during the night.
Tempur-Pedic, on the other hand, tends to run a bit hotter since it’s fully made from foam. Even though the brand is designed with innovative technology, if a mattress is made entirely out of foam it’s hard to avoid overheating issues. If a cooler mattress isn’t really your thing, however, a hotter mattress might be your best bet. If you do like a cooler mattress but want all the other features of the Tempur-Pedic, you can still invest in a mattress topper, which can help regulate the temperature.
Both mattresses, however, aren’t the best in the market when it comes toheat retention and moisture-wicking. Although both brands have a climate regulator system within its design, they are not the best on the market.
Motion transfer
If you’re purchasing the mattress for two sleepers instead of you alone, you’ll need to think about the properties of motion transfer.
This is when—even if partners are sleeping side-by-side—one person moves, gets out of bed, or tosses and turns while sleeping. When a mattress has good quality motion transfer, the other partner will not feel it and will not be disturbed.
Fortunately, both mattress brands have reduced motion transfer, which means less disturbance—regardless of motion coming from the other side of the bed. With the Sleep Innovations brand, you have a boasted motion isolation because of the dense foam bottom layer, which helps reduce or completely eliminate motion.
Responsiveness
When you lay down to go to sleep, the last thing you probably would want is to fully sink down to the bottom of the mattress. However, when we look at these two mattress brands in regard to their responsiveness, you can note how they are in thickness.
The Tempur-Pedic mattress has twocomfort layers, with two inches of thickness, which allows for a highly responsive nature. What does that mean to you? The mattress will help give you the support you’ve been looking for, supporting and adapting to your weight and body.
The Sleep Innovations mattress is also quite thick when it comes to density. This excessive thickness allows for deeper compression support of the body, which can allow you to feel supported throughout the night.
Resilience and bounce
When it comes to the resilience and bounce of a mattress, the thicker, the better.
Fortunately, both of the mattress brands featured here are rated quite high when it comes to these components.
With the Sleep Innovations brand, the top layer of the build measures to be around is 2.5 inches thick. This thickness, combined with the technology of its Shiloh memory foam makes for a very effective mattress. Not only does it have enhanced pressure relief, but it also is quite good in letting air flow pass through—which helps with air pressure and all the components of that feature.
The Tempur-Pedic mattress gives 2 inches of support with the outermost layer. This is half-an-inch less than Sleep Innovations, but can also be adequate support when it comes to body base and bounce back.
Edge support
The Tempur-Pedic brand mattress has a great reputation when it comes to rejecting sinkage—especially at the edges of the bed. Although the feel of the mattress is quite comfortable, you can rest assured that it’s still supportive.
One thing that the Sleep Innovations brand does better than Tempur-Pedic? It has full deep compression support. However, if you are a heavier sleeper, you might prefer this since you will tend to sink lower.
Sleep position ratings
SLEEP POSITION
Light sleepers(less than 130 lbs)
Average sleepers(130 lbs to 230 lbs)
Heavy sleepers(greater than 230 lbs)
Sleep Innovations
Side
Fair
Fair
Good
Back
Good
Good
Good
Stomach
Good
Good
Good
Tempur-Pedic
Side
Very good
Very good
Very good
Back
Very good
Very good
Very good
Stomach
Good
Good
Good
When it comes to comfortability, your sleeping position will have a lot of impact. When making the comparison between Sleep Innovations and Tempur-Pedic, Sleep Innovations rates a bit better for back and stomach sleepers. Meanwhile, the Tempur-Pedic brand is a bit better for side and back sleepers.
Sizes and pricing
SIZE
Sleep Innovations
Tempur-Pedic
Twin
$358.91
$1,699
Twin XL
N/A
$1,699
Full
$381.79
$2,049
Queen
$613.32
$2,199
King
$642
$2,899
California King
$549
$2,899
Split Cal King
N/A
$1,699
Customer service
Sleep trial
Warranty and refund
Delivery
Sleep Innovations
30 nights
10-year limited warranty
Within the U.S.
Tempur-Pedic
90 nights
10-year limited warranty
Free White Glove delivery in the contiguous U.S.
When you’re buying a mattress, you’re making, what can hope to be, a pretty long investment. The Sleep Innovations brand comes with a 30-night sleep trial and is backed by a 10-year limited warranty. It’s also able to be delivered within the U.S.
The Tempur-Pedic mattress holds a sleep trial of 90 nights and comes backed by a 10-year limited warranty. The mattress has a free delivery policy for the contiguous U.S.
