Casper Mattresses Overview

Michael Magnuson

Founder of GoodBed, Leading Mattress Expert

Summary: Casper Mattress Lineup

New to 2024, Casper’s new line of mattresses updates and refines their overall collection. If you’ve ever tried a Casper mattress these will feel similar, however, we think Casper’s made a number of subtle changes that translate to big improvements in the overall line. 

Most notably, these mattresses have new covers, new materials, and even a few new totally new models. Additionally, almost all of these mattresses have some degree of zoned support to preserve alignment in different sleeping positions. We’ll break these down into three categories: the all-foam One Mattress, the Dream Hybrids, and the Snow Hybrids. But first, let’s talk about their shared features.

Shared Features across the Casper Collection

Cover

All of Casper’s new mattresses have soft, stretch-knit covers with a waterfall edge and a colored corner panel to denote the specific mattress. In addition, the covers on the hybrid models also have a slightly different visual pattern in the center third to highlight the underlying zoned support.

Comfort Layers

Casper uses a few different foams in their new line of mattresses. First, they use two different types of soft and fast-responding poly foam that almost feels “latex-like” in our opinion. They call these their “Breathe Flex” and “Breathe+ Flex” foams. Second, they have a few different types of memory foam with somewhat fast-responding and somewhat slow-responding variations. They call these their “Soothe,” “Align,” and "Align+" memory foams. 

Finally, they use a conventional poly foam in the support layers and foam edges of their mattresses. In conversations we’ve had with Casper, they’ve informed us that all of the foams they use are at least 1.8 lbs per cubic foot or greater - this is reassuring, and should put their poly foam in the HD range.

Coil Unit

All of the new hybrid mattresses use the same underlying coil unit. This is a fairly robust 13 gauge coil unit in a 788 count density in a Queen size. If you’re unfamiliar with coil units, the 13 gauge nomenclature means that this is a relatively thick coil, and one that is likely to be very durable in the long-term. The 788 count density means that, if the coils weren't contained by a 4" foam edge and instead extended all the way to the edge of the mattress, then they'd have a 788 overall count.

Casper One Mattress

The Casper One is an all-foam design built to evoke the sense of the Original Casper mattress. In other words, it’s designed to feel somewhat similar to the old Casper with an immediate sense of surface softness followed by a deeper sense of conforming memory foam and dense support foam. We put this mattress at about a Medium-Firm overall softness that we think is well-suited to back and stomach sleepers.

The Casper Dream Hybrid and Dream Max

The Casper Dream and Dream Max are two of Casper’s new hybrid models. These largely replace the outgoing Casper Hybrid and Casper Nova mattresses, although they don’t feel exactly like those models. 

The Casper Dream is a 12” hybrid mattress with a Medium-Firm overall feel. At the top of the mattress there’s an inch of a fast-responding specialty foam followed by about two inches of a somewhat fast-responding memory foam as a transition layer. This memory foam is also zoned in a rather unique way. Unlike other types of zoning that often add extra foam and can create an uneven sleep surface, Casper actually uses a slightly firmer segment of memory foam in the middle of the transition layer to provide just a bit of lift and extra support to your hips.

The Casper Dream Max builds on the same design principles as the Dream and adds even more comfort material and subtle zoning to create a softer feel - we put this at a Medium-Soft. Whereas the Dream was a “three-zone” mattress (with these zones being the upper third, the middle third, and the lower third), the Casper Dream Max is a “seven-zone” design, and adds contour-cut zones in the transition layer to create an even more ergonomic sleep surface and improve alignment while side-sleeping. Underneath these layers the Dream Max uses the same robust pocket spring unit.

The Casper Snow Hybrid and Snow Max

The Casper Snow models closely mirror the Dream models and add luxury cooling features to help these mattresses maintain temperature throughout the night. What's more, these also feel slightly different, with more of a sense of a dense, slow-responding memory foam. If you like that “melting-into-the-bed” kind of memory foam, then the Snow and Snow Max would be good options.

In the case of the Casper Snow, this is built similarly to the Dream Hybrid, but feels a bit firmer on initial contact with the mattress. Despite this, we thought that the Snow still came to about the same overall softness at a Medium-Firm. It's also built with a host of cooling features including a cool-to-touch cover (that they’re appropriately calling their “Snow Cover”) and a layer of phase-change material on the first layer of memory foam. For those unfamiliar, phase-change material is a relatively new addition to the mattress industry that uses a microscopic infusion of tiny wax beads that effectively change phase from a solid to a liquid and actively absorb heat.

Additionally, the Snow Hybrid uses three strips of aluminum and graphite bands that are "molecularly-aligned" and designed to conduct heat away from a sleeper. Casper calls these their “Heat Delete Bands.” While we can’t totally verify their effectiveness, Casper claims that these can help keep you five degrees cooler overnight.

Much like the Dream Max, the Snow Max adds more comfort material and adds contour-cut zones compared to the relative base Snow Hybrid. However, the Snow Max also adds more Heat Delete Bands as well. Where there were only three bands in the Snow Hybrid, the Snow Max has a total of six Heat Delete Bands to channel heat away from a sleeper. And much like with the above hybrids, underneath these layers there's the same sturdy pocket spring unit.

Who We Think These Are Best For

We think Casper new line should appeal to a broad range of sleepers.

However, we think these will particularly appeal to a few categories. First, we think these would be an excellent fit for people that have liked Casper products in the past. These are built with a similar construction to past models, and there's enough shared DNA that we think that these are an easy product to recommend. Second, we think these will appeal to people looking at the hybrid category in general. All of Casper's hybrids are built with some kind of ergonomic support, and the presence of somewhat fast-responding and somewhat slow-responding hybrids covers a lot of territory in the hybrid category.

The only people we'd steer away from the current line would be people that dislike memory foam. All of Casper's new mattresses include some type of memory foam, and this doesn't always agree with every sleeper. Otherwise we think these are a good fit for many types of sleepers.

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What They Cost

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Delivery, Returns, & Warranty

Delivery

• Free delivery

Casper offers free delivery on all mattresses. Additional shipping fees apply to Alaska and Hawaii.

Returns

• 100-Night Home Trial

Casper offers a 100-Night In-Home Trial with a mandatory 30-Day adjustment period. Learn more here.

Warranty

• Warranty Length: 10 years
• Indentation Coverage: 1” and above