Winkbed Soft vs. Luxury Firm vs. Firm. vs Plus

In This Comparison
Performance Tests | Firmness | Support & Sleeping Positions | Design | Materials

Here at NapLab, we put each mattress to the test.

We test 8 different factors that impact the comfort, feel, and value of the mattress. Testing categories include:

Factor	Soft	Luxury Firm	Plus
Cooling	10	10	10
Motion Transfer	8.9	9.8	8.8
Response	10	10	10
Edge Support	9.3	10	10
Sex	9.8	9.9	9.4
Pressure Relief	10	10	10
Off-Gassing	9.8	10	9.9
Company	9.8	9.8	9.8

The table below shows the data we generated to determine these scores.

Factor	Soft	Luxury Firm	Plus
Overall	9.72	9.93	9.80
Max Temp.	89.7° F	90.3° F	89.3° F
Max Sinkage	3.16″	2.38″	2.50″
Total Motion Transfer	9.50 m/s²	5.85 m/s²	9.67 m/s²
Response Time	0.3 sec.	0.2 sec.	0.3 sec.
Total Bounce	9.68″	9.91″	6.75″
Edge Support – Sitting Sinkage	4.50″	2.25″	2.50″
Edge Support – Lying Support	Excellent	Exceptional	Exceptional
Sex Overall	9.8	9.9	9.4
Comfort Material	4.50″	4.50″	4.50″
Off-Gassing – Smell	Minimal	None	Moderate
Off-Gassing – Days	2 days	0 days	1 days
Trial	120 days	120 days	120 days
Warranty	Lifetime years	Lifetime years	Lifetime years

Winkbed Soft vs. Winkbed Luxury Firm vs. Winkbed Firm vs. Winkbed Plus: Which Is the Winner?

The table below shows which of these mattresses is the winner in each scoring category we test for.

Factor	Winner	Value
Best Overall	Winkbed Luxury Firm	9.95
Best Cooling	Winkbed (all versions), Winkbed Plus	10
Most Sinkage	Winkbed Soft	3.16″
Least Sinkage	Winkbed Luxury Firm	2.38″
Lowest Motion Transfer	Winkbed Luxury Firm	5.85 m/s²
Fastest Response Time	Winkbed Luxury Firm	0.2 sec
Slowest Response Time	Winkbed Sofa, Winkbed Plus	0.3 sec
Most Bounce	Winkbed Luxury Firm	9.91″
Least Bounce	Winkbed Plus	6.75″
Best Edge Support	Winkbed Luxury Firm	2.25″ max sinkage
Best for Sex	Winkbed Luxury Firm	9.9
Best Pressure Relief	Winkbed (all versions), Winkbed Plus	10
Least Off-Gassing	Winkbed Luxury Firm	None, 0 days
Best Company	Winkbed

Between these mattresses, the original Winkbed hybrid won or tied in 11 testing categories.

The Winkbed Plus won or tied in 4 categories including best cooling, slowest response, least bounce, and best pressure relief.

The soft mattress won or tied in 5 categories, with a standout performance for the most sinkage.

These results make the Winkbed Luxury Firm our overall winner.

This comparison is best on our tests of the Winkbed soft, Winkbed luxury firm, and Winkbed Plus. We have not yet tested the Winkbed firm, so we don’t have as much comparative data for that mattress.

WinkBed Plus Cooling Test

The sinkage levels on the Winkbed mattresses were all deeper than the average amount of sinkage we typically see.

Sinkage Test	Sinkage Depth	Max Sinkage
Winkbed Soft	Extremely Deep	3.16″
Winkbed Lux Firm	Deep	2.38″
Winkbed Plus	Deep	2.50″

Based on all of our tests to date, the average level of sinkage is 2.2″.

Images below show the level of sinkage for each mattress.

As you can see, the Winkbed Soft has the most sinkage thanks to the plush cover and softer firmness.

The Winkbed Plus also has a plush cover, which gives it a deeper sinkage, despite its firmer feel.

The Winkbed Luxury Firm has 2.38″ of sinkage, or just slightly beyond average.

Although we didn’t personally test it, I would assume that the Winkbed Firm would have the least amount of sinkage among these four mattresses. It has the firmest feel and lacks the added plushness of the thicker cover like on the Winkbed Plus.

The motion transfer of the Winkbed Luxury Firm is about equal to the average amount of motion transfer we have seen from other mattresses tested to date.

Motion Transfer Test	Score	Acc. Range
Winkbed Soft	8.9	9.50 m/s²
Winkbed Lux Firm	9.8	5.85 m/s²
Winkbed Plus	8.8	9.67 m/s²

For reference (based on all of our mattress tests to date), the average amount of motion transfer is 5.83 m/s².

Both the Winkbed Soft and Winkbed Plus experienced almost twice the amount of motion transfer, 9.50 m/s² or greater.

The level of motion transfer is documented in the videos below. The graphs which follow each video visualize the data from our accelerometer tests.

Winkbed Soft Motion Transfer

So the interesting this about the Winkbed Soft is that although it experienced higher levels of motion transfer initially, it actually absorbed the motion quicker than both other Winkbeds we tested. By 0.65 seconds, the energy is pretty much gone.

Winkbed Luxury Firm Motion Transfer

On the Winkbed Luxury Firm, the energy spiked around 2.5 m/s² and continued to travel across the mattress beyond 1 second.

Winkbed Plus Motion Transfer

On the Winkbed Plus, motion transfer levels were higher like the Winkbed Soft, spiking around 4.5 m/s² and continuing beyond 0.7 seconds.

The response time on the Winkbed is pretty consistently fast across all mattresses.

Response Test	Score	Mostly Recovered	Completely Recovered
Winkbed Soft	10	0.3 seconds	0.5 seconds
Winkbed Lux Firm	10	0.2 seconds	0.3 seconds
Winkbed Plus	10	0.3 seconds	0.4 seconds

The average response time across all mattresses that we’ve tested to date is 0.56 seconds to be mostly recovered and 0.94 seconds to be fully recovered.

As you can see, the response time of Winkbed is much faster than that, nearly twice as fast.

The response times of each mattress are shown in the video clips below.

Winkbed Soft Response Test

Winkbed Luxury Firm Response Test

Winkbed Plus Response Test

The level of bounce on the Winkbed Soft and Winkbed Luxury Firm is slightly more bounce than average. The Winkbed Plus has less bounce than average.

Bounce Test	Bounce Height	Bounce Range
Winkbed Soft	Moderate	9.68″
Winkbed Lux Firm	Moderate	9.91″
Winkbed Plus	Low	6.75″

The average amount of bounce across all mattresses tested to date is 9.35″.

The plush cover on the Winkbed Plush deadens a lot of the bounce you otherwise feel on the original Winkbed (Soft, Luxury Firm, and likely the Firm mattress as well).

Bounce levels can also be viewed in real-time via the short video clips below.

Winkbed Soft Bounce Test

Winkbed Luxury Firm Bounce Test

Winkbed Plus Bounce Test

Moving right along, let’s talk about edge support. The edge support on the Winkbed Luxury Hybrid and the Winkbed Plus is exceptional.

Edge Support Test	Score	Max Sinkage	Lying Support
Winkbed Soft	9.3	4.50″	Excellent
Winkbed Lux Firm	10	2.25″	Exceptional
Winkbed Plus	10	2.50″	Exceptional

On the Soft, it’s a bit more sinkage than I like to see, but still slightly less than the average (across all mattresses that we’ve tested to date).

The average level of sinkage (when sitting right at the edge of the mattress) is 4.67″.

As you can see in the photos above, the Soft Winkbed just doesn’t have the support that it needs to really maintain the structure at the edges.

Although we don’t have a testing photo, I would expect the Winkbed Firm to have as good or better edge support as the Luxury Firm Winkbed.

The Winkbed Luxury Firm & Winkbed Plus have objectively the best edge support of any mattresses we’ve tested to date.

Here’s a look at our sex formula:

Sex Score Formula = (Bounce * 0.5) + (Edge Support * 0.2) + (Noise * 0.2) + (Sinkage * 0.05) + (Cooling * 0.05)

We use the following scores, plugged into the formula, to derive a sex score for each mattress.

The table below shows the individual scores as well as the combined total sex score.

Sex Test	Sex Score	Bounce	Edge Support	Noise	Pressure Relief	Cooling
Winkbed Soft	9.8	9.9	9.3	10	10	10
Winkbed Lux Firm	9.9	10	10	9.0	10	10
Winkbed Plus	9.4	9.2	10	9.0	10	10

Among these mattresses, the Winkbed Luxury Firm had the best performance with Winkbid Soft close behind. Both of these mattresses have high levels of bounce, good edge support, as well as excellent pressure relief and cooling.

The Winkbed Plus has a lower level of bounce, which does hurt the score a bit, but that’s the only category that trailed behind. A score of 9.4 on the Winkbed Plus mattress means it’s good for sex, just not amazing.

Pressure relief is exceptional on the Winkbed mattresses. Each mattress has a 5.0″ comfort layer, excluding for the Winkbed Plus, which has a 5.5″ layer. The support layer on all mattresses tested here was 9.0″.

Pressure Relief Test	Score	Comfort Layer	Support Layer
Winkbed Soft	10	5.0″	9.0″
Winkbed Lux Firm	10	5.0″	9.0″
Winkbed Plus	10	5.5″	9.0″
Winkbed Firm	N/A	5.0″	9.0″

Generally speaking, good pressure relief is made possible by a high-quality mattress that has a proper balance of comfort material and support material. This is exactly what we see with Winkbed.

Comfort material is sufficiently thick to allow the body to sink into the mattress providing contour and comfort, but paired with a support layer as well that keeps the spine in alignment.

Off-gassing on the Winkbed mattress is all pretty good. Each of the mattresses that we tested was fully off-gassed within 2 days of opening the box.

Off-Gassing Test	Score	Initial Smell	Off-Gassing Period
Winkbed Soft	9.8	Minimal	2 days
Winkbed	10	None	0 days
Winkbed Plus	9.9	Moderate	1 day

The average period of time it takes to off-gas (based on all of our mattress tests to date) is usually 2.87 days, so this is a bit faster than the average.

The Winkbed Luxury Firm has the best performance as it had no smell at all right out of the box.

The Winkbed Soft has a minimal smell that dissipated within 2 days and the Winkbed Plus has a slightly stronger moderate smell. Even though the Winkbed Plus had a stronger smell out of the box, it actually off-gassed faster than the Winkbed Soft (fully off-gassing in only one day).

Winkbed as a company has pretty favorable terms and conditions. Each of the Winkbed mattresses lists a 120-night trial period with a lifetime warranty and free shipping.

Company	Winkbed
Trial Period	120 nights
Warranty	Lifetime years
Shipping	Free shipping
Returns	Free returns
Country of Origin	USA

Returns are free if you decide you don’t like the mattress. If you want to exchange the mattress there is a $49 fee.

Do note, Winkbed limits customers to one return per customer and household shipping.

Winkbed offers a range of firmness options depending on what exactly you’re looking for in a mattress.

Firmness	Rating	Label	Read Review
Winkbed Soft	4.0	Slightly Soft	Read Review
Winkbed	6.0	Medium-Firm	Read Review
Winkbed Plus	7.0	Slightly Firm	Read Review
Winkbed Firm	7.0	Slightly Firm	Not Yet Tested

How firm is the soft Winkbed mattress?

The Winkbed Soft is the softest firmness available—a 4 out of 10 on the firmness scale. Lightweight sleepers (all positions) or moderately weighted side sleepers may like the firmness of the Winkbed.

How firm is the luxury firm Winkbed mattress?

The Winkbed Luxury Firm mattress is the medium firmness of this mattress, coming in at a 6 out of 10 on the firmness scale. This is a firmness with a pretty wide appeal that suits a lot of sleepers. It will be suitable to most body types (excluding sleepers over 300 pounds) and all sleeping positions.

How firm is the Winkbed firm & Winkbed Plus mattress?

The Winkbed Plus and the Winkbed Firm are both a 7 out of 10 on the firmness scale. This firmness may be a good option for heavier sleepers, back or stomach sleepers, or anyone who just prefers a firmer feel.

If you’re not sure which firmness is best for you, check the tables below. To use these tables, find your body weight and preferred sleeping position.

As you can see, not all firmnesses are suitable for all sleepers. It’s important to know your ideal firmness prior to purchasing a new mattress.

Winkbed Soft

Sleeper Weight	Stomach Sleeper	Side Sleeper	Back Sleeper
Under 150 lbs.	Yes	Yes	Yes
150-225 lbs.	Maybe	Yes	Maybe
225-300 lbs.	No	Maybe	No

Winkbed Luxury Firm

Sleeper Weight	Stomach Sleepers	Side Sleepers	Back Sleepers
Under 150 lbs.	Yes	Yes	Yes
150-250 lbs.	Yes	Yes	Yes
250-300 lbs.	Yes	Yes	Yes

Winkbed Firm or Winkbed Plus

Sleeper Weight	Stomach Sleepers	Side Sleepers	Back Sleepers
Under 150 lbs.	Maybe	No	Maybe
150-250 lbs.	Maybe	No	Maybe
250-300 lbs.	Yes	Maybe	Yes

Design

The design of all of these Winkbed mattresses is pretty consistent. They are all hybrids that use a blend of poly foam, support foam, and pocketed coils.

Design	Type	Thickness
Winkbed Soft	Hybrid	14″
Winkbed Lux Firm	Hybrid	14″
Winkbed Plus	Hybrid	14.5″
Winkbed Firm	Hybrid	14″

Materials

On the inside of each of these Winkbeds is essentially the same makeup.

There is 5.0-5.5″ of comfort material followed by 8″ pocketed coils and then a thinner support foam at the base.

One note, the Winkbed Plus is the only Winkbed mattress featured here that uses latex foam. Latex foam has a fast response time and additional cooling properties, as well as a slightly different feel.

Which Winkbed Should You Buy?

As you can see in the tests and analysis above, even though the quilted cover is the biggest difference between these two mattresses, this factor alone has a decent impact on performance, across the board.

Should You Buy the Winkbed Soft?

I would recommend the Winkbed Soft if you’re looking for:

• Deeper sinkage. This mattress has the most sinkage out of all of the Winkbed mattresses featured in this comparison.
• 4 out of 10. The Winkbed Soft has a feel of 4 out of 10 on the firmness scale. If you’re a lightweight sleeper or a side sleeper, you may benefit from the softer feel.

Should You Buy the Winkbed Luxury Firm?

I would recommend the Winkbed Luxury Firm if you’re looking for:

• Well-rounded. The Luxury Firm is the most well-rounded Winkbed mattress in this comparison with excellent performance across the board.
• 6 out of 10. This mattress has a firmer feel than the Soft, but not as firm as the Firm or Plus Winkbed. If you’re looking for a medium & balanced feel, or if you’re just not sure what firmness you need, then the Luxury Firm Winkbed is the right choice.

Should You Buy the Winkbed Firm?

I would recommend the Winkbed Firm if you’re looking for:

• Less sinkage. The Winkbed Firm is presumed to have excellent edge support and the least amount of sinkage among all Winkbeds tested in this review.
• 7 out of 10. This mattress is slightly firmer than the Winkbed Luxury Firm (and quite a bit firmer than the Soft version). If you’re a heavier sleeper, a back or stomach sleeper, or just prefer a firmer feel, the Winkbed Firm could be right for you.

Should You Buy the Winkbed Plus

I would recommend the Winkbed Plus if you’re looking for:

• Support for plus-sized sleepers. The Winkbed plus is designed with heavier sleepers in mind. It has a thicker comfort layer and a firmer feel for adequate support.
• 7 out of 10. The Plus is firmer than the Luxury Firm as well as the Soft, which is a good option for larger sleepers, especially over 300 pounds.

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