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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.

We do not cover every mattress sold in Australia, and the ones we can earn a commission on are more likely to be among the ones we do cover. Prices, trial lengths and warranty terms change without notice, so check the brand's own page before you buy. A ranking here is not a guarantee about a product and not an endorsement of it. Our full terms are set out in the Terms of use.
Articles & research

Articles

Plain-English guides to choosing, buying and looking after a mattress — written for Australian buyers.

A woman wakes up in a tiny-house loft bed under a patchwork quilt, a black-and-white cat asleep beside her.

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 mattresses we rank compare.

Top3 Mattress Editorial Team 25 June 2026
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A grandmother and her teenage grandson lift a bare mattress to turn it round on its timber bed base, under an arched window.

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 mattresses we rank compare.

Top3 Mattress Editorial Team 18 June 2026
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A man lies on a rug on the floor beside the bed while his wife peers down at him from a coral bedspread.

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.

Top3 Mattress Editorial Team 13 June 2026
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