The Best Smart Beds You Can Buy Right Now

Most smart beds you'll come across use air chambers to achieve adjustable firmness. Most of the time, this is fine, but you can definitely feel the flexible air chambers underneath you. Certain adjustable bases let you unlock relaxation features, such as the heavily marketed “massage” settings. But that tech typically isn't built into the mattress itself, and when I've tried them, I wouldn't exactly call them relaxing. I didn't sign up for an earthquake simulation, just better sleep.

But that's not the case with Bryte's Balance Pro, which is why it's so interesting. Instead of air chambers on each side of the mattress, this smart bed follows a more traditional blueprint of coils and memory foam layers. These coils, called Bryte Balancers, can be adjusted to specific zones. If you want extra lumbar support or contouring, use the Bryte app to select that area of the bed to get a boost. There are also 100 firmness levels, with 100 feeling very firm thanks to the Balance Pro's coil usage. This level of support also opens smart bed access to more sleepers, as stomach sleepers and heavier body types may not find air-chambered smart beds to be firm enough for lumbar support.

The smart bed is controlled exclusively via app, with an AI Sleep Concierge feature. The Sleep Concierge is best for getting tips on how to sleep better or to explore the bed's features. My favorite feature, by far, is the massage settings in the app's Guided Meditation library, which gently press the coils against you.

Another feature built into this smart bed is sleep tracking. It will monitor your sleep metrics, including sleep phases, hours of sleep, heart rate, respiratory rate, and the number of bed rebalances. This refers to how it automatically adjusts its Bryte Balancer coils while you're sleeping, keeping your support evenly distributed.

Bryte Balance Pro ranges from $5,999 for a twin mattress to $6,899 for a California king.

If you’re looking for the spaceship of smart beds, Tempur-Pedic's Tempur-ActiveBreeze comes pretty dang close. This is a true luxury smart bed, with a unique build centered on temperature control and intense programming. It's also got some of the most extensive sleep tracking and temperature control features I've ever seen, which factors heavily into its cost.

The main appeal of this bed is that it caters to hot sleepers in more extreme night-sweat situations, whether that's due to chronic conditions, body composition, or medical treatments. There are fans built into the base, and you have three airflow speeds to work with: slow, medium, and fast. Airflow is streamlined from the base through two ports in the bed. To help with this, the perforated memory foam layers and coils inside are meant to promote circulation. Altogether, it's supposedly designed to provide either a 30-degree cooler or warmer temperature range.

The wild thing is, I felt cool air lightly skittering along the surface. Even when I piled on my heaviest duvets and bedding, I did not break out in a sweat once. The marketed temperature range is debatable, as I only saw a 6-degree drop when I used a temperature gun. There are so many variables that can affect temperature, like time of year, the clothing you wear, or how your body functions. However, the cooling was palpable, which was exciting.

The depth of data the Tempur-ActiveBreeze can pull from is also a big driver of this bed. With Sleeptracker-AI integration, you can utilize an AI sleep coach to get active feedback on how to tackle the day based on how you rested. You can also monitor your bedroom's air quality and analyze sleep metrics like breath and heart rate, plus gauge all the sleep stages you were in. The app will break down this data into nightly, monthly, and eventually yearly views for you—and send updates via an email report.

It's important to note that this is the only bed I've tested that doesn't qualify as an adjustable mattress, as it has only one firmness level. With the provided adjustable base (if you purchase directly from Tempur-Pedic), you can do typical smart-bed settings like zero gravity, head-and-foot angles, and anti-snore.

The Tempur-ActiveBreeze (base included via Tempur-Pedic) ranges from $10,398 for a queen to $19,396 for a split California king.