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Top3 Mattress compares mattresses sold in Australia, and we make our money when a reader buys through one of our links. Brands pay us advertising and referral fees, and those arrangements affect which mattresses we cover and how high they sit in our rankings. Some mattresses here have no arrangement with us at all.

Every mattress is scored against the same ten published criteria, and each of the ten scores is shown alongside the total. What those criteria measure, and how the total is set, are laid out on our How we rate page. The work behind the scores is desk work: we read published specifications, warranty documents and trial terms, and cross-check them against each manufacturer's own pages. We do not buy these mattresses and sleep on them, and no score here comes from in-home testing.

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Plain-English guides to firmness, materials, trials and warranties — written for Australian buyers.

An older couple sit laughing together on the edge of a well-used oak bed with soft linen bedding, while their adult daughter watches from the doorway behind them.
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Mattress warranties: what “10 years” actually covers

Ten years sounds like a promise that the mattress will last ten years. It is not that. Here is what a mattress warranty covers, what voids it, and how the nine mattresses we rank compare.

Top3 Mattress Editorial Team August 25, 2026

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A man and a young boy laugh as they shake out a grey linen sheet over a bare quilted mattress, with folded linen and a lavender wool blanket on an oak bench behind them.

What is your mattress actually made of?

Springs, foam, or both — and the handful of layers underneath the cover that decide how a mattress sleeps, how long it lasts and how much of your money went into it.

August 25, 2026
A woman lies back across a newly made bed with her arms flung wide, laughing, while her partner sits beside her and a ginger cat sleeps on the pillows; unopened moving boxes stand against the wall.

How mattress sleep trials really work

A 100-night trial is not 100 nights of free choice. Here is what the minimum period, the return cost and the refund-or-exchange clause actually mean, and how the nine mattresses we rank compare.

August 25, 2026
A woman sits propped against a pale oak headboard laughing while her partner sleeps face-down beside her and their young son crawls across the oatmeal linen bedding.

How firm should your mattress be?

Firmness is the first number on every mattress page and the least standardised one on it. Here is how to read the labels, narrow it to one or two candidates, and let the trial period settle the rest.

August 25, 2026