Puffy Cloud vs Puffy Lux Hybrid: Which mattress suits your sleep the best?

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The Puffy Cloud and Puffy Lux Hybrid are two popular mattresses from American sleep brand Puffy. While both beds come with generous extras such as a lifetime warranties and a 101-night sleep trial, there are a lot of key differences between the Puffy Cloud vs Puffy Hybrid Lux. 

The Cloud and Hybrid Lux provide comfort with layers of memory foam, a popular material found in a lot of this year's best mattresses. The Puffy Cloud has an all-foam design and is Puffy's most affordable bed, while the best-selling Puffy Lux Hybrid combines foam and coils for plush support. But which is better for your sleep: the Puffy Cloud or the Puffy Lux Hybrid?

In this Puffy Cloud vs Puffy Lux Hybrid comparison guide, we'll take a look at how the Cloud vs Lux Hybrid differ in price, design, support, and comfort. Whichever you choose, both the Cloud and Lux Hybrid are currently discounted in this month's mattress sales to help you sleep comfortably for less.

PUFFY CLOUD VS PUFFY LUX HYBRID MATTRESS: SPECS

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Header Cell - Column 0 Puffy Cloud Puffy Lux Hybrid
Type Memory Foam Hybrid
Internal layers46
Firmness7/105/10
Height10"12"
Trial101 nights101 nights
Warranty Lifetime Lifetime
Price (MSRP)From $1,949 (now from $599)From $2,249 (now from $899)

PUFFY CLOUD VS PUFFY LUX HYBRID MATTRESS: Price

  • Both have free shipping and returns, a lifetime warranty, and 101-night trial
  • A queen Puffy Cloud usually costs around $1,049 (MSRP: $2,399)
  • You can usually pick up a queen-size Hybrid Lux for $1,499 down from $2,849 

As both the Cloud and Lux Hybrid are brought to you by sleep brand Puffy, they come with the same generous extras: a lifetime warranty, free shipping and returns, and a 101-night sleep trial. 

While the extras may be the same, there is quite a difference in price. As the brand's entry-level model, the Puffy Cloud is the cheapest of Puffy's line-up mattresses. The Cloud's MSRPs may be high, but frequent discounts put the Cloud into the mid-range price tier, with a queen frequently down to $1,049 from $2,399. 

The Lux Hybrid, meanwhile, is Puffy's second-most expensive mattress. It sits in the premium price bracket at full retail and only falls into the upper-mid bracket when on sale. A consistent sale usually takes a queen-sized Lux Hybrid from $2,249 to $1,499. 

Puffy Cloud: was from $1,949now from $599 at Puffy

Puffy Cloud: was from $1,949 now from $599 at Puffy
The mattress comes with free shipping and returns, 101-night sleep trial, and a lifetime warranty. The Puffy Cloud Mattress is currently on sale, with a queen now $1,049 (was $2,399). 

Puffy Lux Hybrid Mattress: was from $2,249now from $899 at Puffy

Puffy Lux Hybrid Mattress: was from $2,249 now from $899 at Puffy
The Lux Hybrid comes with a lifetime warranty and 101 night sleep trial, while regular sales take its premium ticket price of $2,849 for a queen down to $1,499. 

PUFFY CLOUD VS PUFFY LUX HYBRID MATTRESS: Design and materials

  • Both are USA-made, fiberglass-free, and ACA-endorsed
  • The Puffy Cloud stands at 10" tall and has an all-foam construction
  • The Puffy Lux Hybrid is 12" and has a hybrid design of both foam and coils

Both Puffy mattresses are fiberglass-free, American-made, and endorsed by the American Chiropractic Association. In terms of design similarities, the Cloud and Lux Hybrid mattresses have cool-touch covers, an anti-slip base cover, an air-circulating climate fiber top layer, gel-infused Cooling Cloud foam, a 2" layer of pressure-relieving foam, and a bottom layer of high-density support foam.

Layers of the Puffy Lux Hybrid mattress separated

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However, while the 10" Puffy Cloud features all four layers mentioned above, the 12" Puffy Lux Hybrid also has two additional layers: 6" Contour-Adapt Coils and a Lux-exclusive Plush Dual Cloud Foam. 

The tier of coils are encased in foam for motion isolation, while the Plush Dual Cloud Foam boasts 2" of responsive gel memory foam to relieve pressure points. 

PUFFY CLOUD VS PUFFY LUX HYBRID MATTRESS: Support and Comfort

  • The Puffy Cloud is medium-firm, rated as 7/10 on the firmness scale 
  • We rate the Puffy Lux Hybrid as 5/10 (medium-plush) on the firmness scale 
  • Both mattresses did a great job at keeping our testers cool

The Puffy Cloud and Puffy Lux Hybrid have both been tested by our panel of sleep experts, and you can read about our testers' experiences in our Puffy Cloud mattress review and Puffy Lux Hybrid mattress review.  

When testing the Puffy Cloud, we found the all-foam bed to have a medium-firm feel (7/10) and recommend it to back sleepers with aches and pains or side sleepers who like their beds to be on the firmer side.

The Puffy Lux Hybrid, meanwhile, is much plusher at 5/10 on the firmness scale, making it ideal for side sleepers who prefer a soft body-hugging feel. However, this medium-plush bed will be too soft for back and stomach sleepers. 

Tester sleeping on his side on a Puffy Cloud mattress in a king

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In terms of temperature control, both mattresses use Puffy's signature cooling technology via cool-touch cover. Reviewers for the Puffy Cloud did have slight complaints about the slipperiness of the cover, but testers for the Lux Hybrid made no such complaints. (This maybe due to the Lux Hybrid's cover being quilted for extra-cushioning comfort.) However, reviewers for both mattresses overall were impressed with how the beds regulated temperature. 

PUFFY CLOUD VS PUFFY LUX HYBRID MATTRESS: Which should I buy?

Buy the Puffy Cloud Mattress if...

✅  You're a back sleeper: The Cloud is medium-firm and supportive, making it excellent for back sleepers with aches and pains. 

✅  You're on a tighter budget: Out of the two Puffy beds, the Cloud is the more affordable option.

✅  You share a bed: Thanks to the all-foam construction, you likely won't feel a restless partner moving around at night.

Buy the Puffy Lux Hybrid...

✅  You're a hot sleeper: With airflow-boosting coils and cool-to-the-touch cover, testers found the Lux Hybrid to sleep incredibly cool.

✅  You're a side sleeper: Thanks to its medium-plush feel, the bed is perfect for side sleepers who want body-contouring pressure relief.

✅  You want better edge support: The Lux Hybrid scored high in our edge support tests, making it easier to get in and out of bed. 

Frances Daniels
Sleep Staff Writer

Frances Daniels is a PPA-accredited journalist and Sleep Staff Writer at Tom's Guide with an MA in Magazine Journalism from Cardiff University. Her role includes covering mattress and sleep news and writing sleep product reviews and buyer's guides, including our Best Hybrid Mattress 2024 guide. She is hugely interested in the relationship between good sleep and overall health, interviewing a wide array of mattress and sleep experts to create well-informed articles about important topics such as nutrition, sleep disorders (from sleep apnea to night terrors), lucid dreaming, sleep hygiene, and mattress care. She is also our specialist on mattress toppers — producing mattress topper reviews and taking care of our Best Mattress Toppers 2024 guide — and takes the lead on all content related to fiberglass-free mattresses for a clean, non-toxic sleep.