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Puffy Cloud vs Purple Mattress

By MattressDealsOnline Editorial · Updated October 2026 · Scored on five categories

Who wins what

How the five categories compare

Category by category, in detail

Cooling — Purple Mattress, the widest gap between them

Purple Mattress takes cooling at 96 against 50, a decisive gap of 46 points. Cooling governs whether you wake up warm at three in the morning, which puts this column in front of hot sleepers above all, and couples second.

That comes straight off the build. Purple Mattress uses a GelFlex Grid, backed by soft flex knit cover.

In practice, a 46-point gap here is the strongest single argument for Purple Mattress on this page, and it is most of what you are paying the extra $150 for.

Support — Purple Mattress

Here Purple Mattress leads 80 to 65, clear at 15 points. Because support governs whether the spine stays in line once your hips and shoulders sink in, the gap lands hardest on back sleepers, heavier sleepers, and anyone whose lower back complains.

You can see why in the layers. Purple Mattress uses high-density support foam, backed by comfort transition foam and firmer foam encasement.

In practice, a 15-point gap here is a solid argument for Purple Mattress on this page, and it is most of what you are paying the extra $150 for.

Motion isolation — Puffy Cloud

Motion isolation goes to Puffy Cloud, 88 against 76 - a clear 12-point gap. What it decides is whether someone else getting up wakes you, and the people it decides it for are couples, dog owners, and anyone who wakes at the smallest thing.

Puffy Cloud earns that on test, not on a published feature, because its construction detail for motion isolation is not broken out in the specification.

In practice, a 12-point gap here is a solid argument for Puffy Cloud on this page, and it arrives with the lower price attached, not a premium.

Edge support — Purple Mattress

Edge support goes to Purple Mattress, 72 against 45 - a decisive 27-point gap. What it decides is whether the sides hold firm or roll away under you, and the people it decides it for are couples short on width, and anyone who perches on the edge.

That is a construction difference. Purple Mattress uses a firmer foam encasement, wraps the edges of the grid, which is what gives this all-foam bed usable edge support.

In practice, a 27-point gap here is a solid argument for Purple Mattress on this page, and it is most of what you are paying the extra $150 for.

Value — Purple Mattress

Value goes to Purple Mattress, 78 against 60 - a clear 18-point gap. What it decides is how much bed the price actually buys, and the people it decides it for are shoppers weighing two beds at very different prices.

That tracks the price directly: $1,049 for a queen Puffy Cloud against $1,199 for Purple Mattress, 14% more. Value scores what you get back per dollar, not how good the bed is outright, so a cheaper bed can win this column and still lose the matchup.

In practice, a 18-point gap here is a solid argument for Purple Mattress on this page, and it is most of what you are paying the extra $150 for.

Construction and materials

Puffy Cloud is a 10-inch, six-layer all-foam build. Puffy describes it as plush on top for pressure relief over a firmer core for alignment, with heat-dispersing gel foam and a cooling knit cover. The brand does not publish a layer-by-layer breakdown, so the stack below covers Purple Mattress only.

Purple Mattress is an all-foam bed with a hyper-elastic polymer grid on top at 9.25 or 9.5 inches, built from 5 layers.

Specifications

Firmness and feel, by sleeper

Puffy Cloud is published at 5.0 out of 10 and Purple Mattress at 6.0. That is 1.0 of a point apart, enough that most people would pick Puffy Cloud out as the softer of the two on first contact.

Side sleepers: both land in the usual window, Puffy Cloud for light, average and heavy builds and Purple Mattress for average and heavy. Past that it comes down to support, where Purple Mattress leads 80 to 65.

Back sleepers: both land in the usual window, Puffy Cloud for light and average builds and Purple Mattress for light, average and heavy. Support is what separates them here, 80 against 65 to Purple Mattress, and back sleepers feel that column more than any other.

Stomach sleepers: Purple Mattress fits light and average builds at 6.0 out of 10. Puffy Cloud at 5.0 sits outside the usual window for this position, so it is the harder recommendation here regardless of how it scores elsewhere.

The windows come from what each position and body weight usually needs, applied to the firmness each brand publishes.

Price and value

A queen Purple Mattress is $1,199 against $1,049 for Puffy Cloud: $150 more, 14% more.

What the extra $150 buys, measured and not claimed: cooling, support and edge support - cooling 96 against 50, support 80 against 65, edge support 72 against 45. Everything else it does no better than the cheaper bed.

Spread across the warranty, Purple Mattress works out at about $120 a year over 10 years and Puffy Cloud at $42 over 25. Even annualised the dearer bed stays dearer.

A twin price is not published for Puffy Cloud, so that size cannot be compared here.

A king price is not published for Puffy Cloud, so that size cannot be compared here.

Trial, warranty and delivery

Puffy Cloud gives you 365 nights to decide against 100 for Purple Mattress - 265 more nights. That matters more than it sounds: a mattress takes a few weeks to break in, so a 100-night trial is really about 70 nights of informed sleeping once the break-in period is deducted.

Both arrive compressed in a box, so unboxing is a wash.

A return fee is not published for Purple Mattress, so confirm it before you buy.

On warranty, Puffy Cloud is the longer cover. Warranties protect against sagging and manufacturing defects rather than against the bed simply not suiting you, which is what the trial is for.

Where each one wins and loses

Puffy Cloud

• Motion isolation, 88 against 76. A 12-point lead on a 100-point scale.
• Cheaper by $150 on a queen. $1,049 against $1,199, 13% less for the same size.
• A 365-night trial. 265 more nights than the 100 you get with Purple Mattress.

• Cooling, 50 against 96. Purple Mattress leads by 46 points here, which is the gap you would be accepting.
• Support, 65 against 80. Purple Mattress leads by 15 points here, which is the gap you would be accepting.
• Edge support, 45 against 72. Purple Mattress leads by 27 points here, which is the gap you would be accepting.
• Value, 60 against 78. Purple Mattress leads by 18 points here, which is the gap you would be accepting.

Purple Mattress

• Cooling, 96 against 50. The GelFlex Grid is the reason: a hyper-elastic polymer moulded into a grid of buckling columns with well over 1,400 air channels, which collapses under pressure points and springs back instantly.
• Support, 80 against 65. The high-density support foam is the reason: a durable polyfoam base that gives the mattress its structure and longevity, with a non-slip bottom cover.
• Edge support, 72 against 45. The firmer foam encasement is the reason: wraps the edges of the grid, which is what gives this all-foam bed usable edge support.
• Value, 78 against 60. A 18-point lead on a 100-point scale.
• Also certified CertiPUR-US. Certification the other bed does not publish.

• Motion isolation, 76 against 88. Puffy Cloud leads by 12 points here, which is the gap you would be accepting.
• Dearer by $150 on a queen. $1,199 against $1,049, which the scorecard has to justify.
• Only 100 nights to decide. 265 fewer than Puffy Cloud.

Who should pick which

Buy Purple Mattress if cooling is the thing you are actually shopping for. It leads 96 to 50 there, the widest gap between these two beds, and it wins the card overall by 18.8 points on equal weighting.

Buy Puffy Cloud if you care more about motion isolation, because it still beats the winner there: motion isolation 88 against 76. Losing the weighted total does not mean losing every column, and if your priority is one of those, the ranking on this page is answering a different question from yours.

It also leaves $150 in your pocket, which is a real part of the decision and not a consolation.

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