Choosing a mattress can be a challenge, especially when shopping online. While today's most popular online mattress brands offer time-saving convenience, the lack of interaction with a physical product can make it difficult to evaluate important factors such as mattress quality, comfort, and overall feel.
 
We went through the mattress buying process ourselves, and challenged our team to choose between two top online mattress brands, Leesa Sleep and Nectar – using only the information we could find on the web. After comparing countless customer reviews, industry articles, mattress ratings, and of course the claims of the brands themselves, we're here to share our top mattress pick, and ready to put your most burning mattress-buying concerns to bed.

Find out why Leesa Sleep is The Fascination's top pick for the best online mattress brand of 2022, read the research and customer reviews that convinced us to give Nectar a no, and check out our thoughts on the Leesa mattress we bought.

Leesa vs Nectar Ratings

Meet The Leesa Lineup

Leesa boasts a lineup of four, American-made, top-rated mattresses designed to deliver unparalleled, adaptable comfort at an accessible price. Leesa makes it simple to find something that fits your personal preferences within a price range that suits your lifestyle. Take a look at Leesa's mattress lineup below for a a quick overview of the highlights:

Leesa Original Mattress

About The Leesa Original Mattress:

Leesa’s signature, fan-favorite, all-foam mattress made with premium foams for cooling, contouring, and pressure-relieving support.

• Perfect for all sleep positions
• Designed for comfort and support
• Relieves pressure and reduces back pain

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Leesa Hybrid Mattress

About The Leesa Hybrid Mattress:

Leesa’s award-winning, advanced hybrid mattress that combines the benefits of premium foam with pocket springs for comfort and advanced support.

• Premium foams for cooling & contouring
• Pocket springs for advanced support
• Perfect for all sleep positions
• Designed for comfort and support
• Relieves pressure and reduces back pain

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Leesa Legend Mattress

About The Leesa Legend Mattress:

Leesa’s luxury hybrid mattress, with two layers of springs, edge-to-edge support, micro-coils for targeted hip and shoulder support, and a layer of premium foam.

• Hypoallergenic, organic cotton, Merino wool cover
• Made with sustainable & recycled materials
• Perfect for all sleep positions
• Designed for targeted comfort and support
• Relieves pressure and reduces back pain

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Leesa Studio Mattress

About The Leesa Studio Mattress:

Leesa’s newest, budget-friendly mattress offers the brand’s signature comfort, support, and durability at an incredible value. The Studio includes 3 foam layers: a top layer of breathable, responsive memory foam, a middle layer of pressure-relieving foam, and a core layer for support and durability.

• Perfect for all sleep positions
• Designed for comfort and support
• Relieves pressure and reduces back pain

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Nectar Mattresses

Nectar offers a selection of three mattresses; The Nectar Mattress, The Nectar Premier Mattress, and The Nectar Premier Copper Mattress. Each of these mattresses are made using an all-foam construction, featuring stacked layers of memory foam that vary in density and height.  Each mattress is available in all sizes, from twin to California king.

Mattress Materials & Construction

While memory foam is very comfortable, it is also very dense, which means it retains and traps heat – especially when compressed. Which means that mattresses built entirely out of memory foam, like Nectar, are bound to run warm, no matter how much they claim to sleep cool.

Leesa places their higher-density foam layers underneath a top layer of exclusive, custom designed, breathable foam, ensuring that their mattresses remain both supportive and cool throughout the night. For Leesa mattresses, the dense, foam base layer ensures comfortable, full-body support, regardless of how a person sleeps. The Leesa Hybrid and Legend add in a layer of individually wrapped coiled steel springs, giving additional edge support and bounce for those who need it.

• Medium firmness
• Sleeps cool
• Support that lasts for years
• Balanced density and feel
• Made in the USA

• Leans on the softer side
• Sleeps moderately warm
• Support deteriorates over about 6 months
• Nectar mattresses have a heavier density
• Outsourced materials and manufacturing

About Leesa Sleep

Dedicated to providing a good night’s sleep for everyone, Leesa has quickly become one of the foremost mattress-in-a-box businesses. With the era of brick and mortar mattress stores largely over, Leesa swooped in to fill a considerable void. They currently offer four different mattress types in every size, along with every type of accessory: frames, foundations, pillows, sheets, and more. Beyond selling some of the most comfortable beds ever made, Leesa has dedicated themselves to ending bedlessness, donating over 37,000 mattresses to those in need, to date. From good nights to good mornings, Leesa's ethically-made beds and bedding provide relief, support, and lasting comfort to anyone who sleeps on them.

Leesa is a certified B Corp, and through their their 1 Good Bed Promise program, Leesa donates one mattress to those in need for every ten mattresses sold.

Shipping & Delivery

Shipping
Both Leesa mattresses and Nectar mattresses are compressed, vacuum-sealed, and shipped in a compact box directly to your doorstep – a method originally pioneered by Leesa Sleep as one of the first direct-to-consumer, online mattress brands.

Both Leesa and Nectar offer free ground shipping anywhere in the U.S., but for Nectar, customers in Alaska and Hawaii need to pay additional delivery charges ($150 per large item ordered). Leesa's free ground shipping extends to customers in all 50 states. For additional fees, Leesa also delivers to international locations.

Fulfillment & Processing
Leesa mattresses are made to order, right here in the US, and ship within 3-5 business days, post-purchase. Nectar mattresses are not made to order, nor are they made in the US. Nectar cites shipping within 2-5 days after an order is placed.

White-Glove Delivery Options
Both mattress brands also offer a white-glove delivery option, which means they'll send someone to help you set up your new mattress and (if needed) remove the bed you're replacing along with any unwanted packaging.

For Leesa, white-glove delivery costs a $150 flat fee. Nectar's white glove service option costs $149 for your mattress – with an additional $45 per-item fee for any other applicable items required in the setup.

Mattress Sleep Trials & Returns

Because the majority of online mattress brands don't operate out of a physical location (though you can find and experience Leesa mattresses in select retail locations like West Elm), it can be difficult to accurately assess qualities like mattress firmness, support, and comfort without interacting with the mattress itself.

To bridge the gap between the in-person mattress buying experience at physical mattress stores and the hands-off process of purchasing a mattress online, most online mattress companies offer a sleep trial period. This gives customers some time to test their new mattresses and return them if they aren't satisfied.

Nectar offers a 365-night sleep trial – one of the longest sleep trials available across the entire mattress industry. This trial requires a 30-night break-in period, but after that, you can initiate a return at any point if the mattress isn't a good fit. For no extra charge, Nectar will arrange to pick up the mattress from your home and transport it for recycling or donation.

Leesa’s sleep trial is 100 nights in length with no mandatory break-in period, but Leesa does recommend testing your mattress for at least 30 nights to allow your body to adjust to the premium level of ergonomic support (especially if your previous mattress wasn't a supportive one). If you choose to return your mattress at any point within the first 100 days, Leesa will issue a full refund coordinate a free mattress pickup.

Customer Experiences

A major part of our mattress buying process involved taking a look at customer reviews and experiences. Here are a few of the highlights that helped us decide which mattress was worth the buy and which brand we'd trust to deliver the best night's sleep:

Our Top Mattress Pick: The Leesa Hybrid Mattress

Ultimately, after reviewing all of our research, we chose to purchase the Leesa Hybrid Mattress. The Leesa Hybrid Mattress is the perfect option for those looking to upgrade to a more premium, luxurious feel with better pressure relief and support that lasts. On the Hybrid, we slept deeper, woke up feeling well-rested and energized, and loved the ergonomic, tension relieving design. The edge support is also fantastic and doesn't collapse when compressed. If you're looking for a better, balanced, comfortable sleep that won't cost you multiple thousands, the Leesa Hybrid is our #1 pick.

Here's a breakdown of how it's built. Take a closer look at the Leesa Hybrid Mattress:

"It is so very comfortable! I haven't slept this well in years. It's soft enough to cradle, but not enough to sink. I love my mattress!"

- KIM T.

Leesa Hybrid Cover

Seamless, white and gray Hybrid cover is soft and looks so great you won't want to cover it with sheets (but we recommend you do!).

Comfort Layer

Hole-punched for breathability, responsive foam sleeps cool, with the hug and bounce you want from a mattress.

Memory Foam Recovery Layer

Memory foam provides enhanced body contouring, relieving pressure on your back, hips and shoulders.

Quick Responsive layer

1,000+ active response pocket springs for durability and stability, with little to no motion transfer & edge support for all body types.