The 9 Best Pillows We Found After Months of Testing (2025)

Honorable Mentions

There are acold excessively galore pillows connected the market. We've listed our favorites above, but adjacent that doesn't screen the wide array of serviceable pillows retired there. If, somehow, each of our picks supra aren't to your tastes, present are a fewer others to see and what we thought astir them.

Avocado Down Pillow for $109: This down pillow does person feathers sourced from Responsible Down Standard (RDS)-certified farms, but it felt unimpressive and borderline level to slumber on.

Avocado Green Pillow for $109: This pillow's capable is made from GOLS-certified integrated latex and GOTS-certified integrated kapok, and comes successful some a modular signifier and side-sleeper curved shape. It felt overmuch denser than different pillows we tried, and my trial sheet and I preferred different latex pillows implicit this one.

Bedgear Storm Pillow for $200: This pillow from Bedgear is akin to the Bedgear Flow supra but without the curve for broadside sleepers. If you slumber connected your backmost 100 percent of the time, this mightiness beryllium a amended fit, but I similar the versatility of having 1 curved broadside and 1 consecutive side. –Eric Ravenscraft

Brooklinen Down Alternative Pillow for $59: I liked this pillow amended than Brooklinen's existent down pillow, since it had amended outpouring and support. (I chose the steadfast enactment for testing.) I similar the Buffy Cloud, but this is simply a coagulated runner-up.

Casper Hybrid Pillow for $89: This hybrid pillow uses a premix of heavy foam and a halfway of shredded foam for its marshmallow-like, dense-yet-soft feel. I liked sleeping connected this pillow, and it did good successful my sheet tests, but some of my panelists who volunteered to semipermanent trial it came backmost with disappointing results wrong a week. My petite broadside sleeper recovered it excessively firm, and my taller, broader semipermanent tester recovered that the Casper wasn't bouncing backmost rather arsenic overmuch arsenic it should beryllium for the terms aft a week of sleeping connected it. If you similar a firm-ish pillow, though, you could beryllium blessed with this one. The Snow mentation ($134) is somewhat cooling and a bully wintertime enactment for blistery sleepers.

Eli & Elm Everyday Memory Foam Pillow for $104: Compared to the latex mentation below, the representation foam mentation of this pillow feels lumpy. Most of my panelists disliked it, including myself, but my chaotic sleeper was a instrumentality of its malleable signifier for her haphazard sleeping patterns.

Eli & Elm Everyday Latex Pillow for $110: This shredded latex-filled pillow is bully and springy, and it’s a coagulated runner-up to the Coop and Purple pillows. I recovered it comfy to slumber connected arsenic a broadside sleeper, since it arsenic a higher loft and bully support.

Eli & Elm Side Sleeper Pillow for $116: This pillow is astir shockingly steadfast retired of the box. You tin customize the magnitude of capable wrong to springiness it the close magnitude of enactment for you, but if you're the benignant of broadside sleeper who likes a truly steadfast pillow, this mightiness beryllium the 1 for you. It adjacent comes with a abstracted removable screen for casual washing. It's smaller than the Scrumptious one, truthful don't expect to bash overmuch cuddling connected this one, but for 1 idiosyncratic it's a large choice. —Eric Ravenscraft

GhostBed Memory Foam Pillow for $55: Former WIRED reviewer Medea Giordano has been utilizing the representation foam GhostBed pillow since 2020—she slept connected it portion visiting with a person and instantly bought 1 aft returning home. It's medium-firm and works for her side-, back-, and stomach-sleeping rotation. GhostBed's assertion of it being the “Coolest Pillow successful the World” is exaggerated, but Medea sleeps hot, and she says the gel-infused foam does enactment chill each night.

Marlow the Pillow for $49: This is different shredded representation foam pillow, though it was little lumpy and had amended enactment than the Eli & Elm. It was a small smaller than the rest, but it besides has a flimsy accommodation option, letting you unzip broadside panels to marque it bigger oregon smaller. It was good to slumber on; I recovered it a small steadfast for my liking, but my semipermanent tester says it's been supportive and cleared up her cervix pain. It's a bully pillow for the terms too.

Nest Easy Breather Pillow for $119: This is simply a fashionable pillow, but I recovered it excessively dense and excessively lofty for me. It is adjustable, truthful you tin easy marque it little lofty, and it comes with a capable container to store your other fill. The capable is simply a premix of foam and polyester fiber. My panelist who liked the firmer Marlow besides liked this pillow, portion the remainder of america preferred softer options.

No More Aches Neck Pillow for $40: There's nary shortage of novelty pillows, but arsenic idiosyncratic who experiences a batch of cervix pain, I'm intrigued by this unusual small pillow. It has a concave halfway for back, side, and tummy sleeping, positive an indented borderline that perfectly fits your arm. Its awkward signifier makes it little than perfect for thing different than laying your caput connected it, but it's inactive a coagulated prime for cervix pain. —Eric Ravenscraft

Parallel High Profile Pillow for $150: Former WIRED reviewer Eric Ravenscraft was a instrumentality of the Parallel's precocious illustration for taller broadside sleepers. It's a bully option, but I deliberation you'll beryllium conscionable arsenic blessed with a Purple oregon Coop cutout pillow if you request a precocious loft and broadside sleeper support.

Purple DreamLayer Pillow for $179: If you find you power betwixt being a broadside sleeper and backmost sleeper, the Purple DreamLayer pillow provides an fantabulous mediate ground. Rather than utilizing adjustable capable to customize its height, this pillow comes with 2 foam inserts truthful you tin get precisely the level of enactment you need. —Eric Ravenscraft

Snuggle-Pedic Adjustable Cooling Pillow for $58: This was our favourite pillow nether $100, but it's retired of banal everyplace close now. If you tin find it available, it's a large pillow filled with shredded representation foam that you tin set to get your cleanable height.

Tempur-Pedic Tempur-Adapt ProAdjust Pillow for $125: This adjustable-fill pillow from Tempur-Pedic has a compartment wherever you tin adhd oregon region foam filling to get the cleanable magnitude of enactment for you. This is an progressively communal feature, but what sets it isolated is Tempur-Pedic's trademark cooling materials. The institution makes immoderate of the champion cooling materials connected the market, and this 1 managed to enactment cooler than astir I tried. —Eric Ravenscraft

Tempur Pedic Tempur Adapt ProHi for $175: Our erstwhile representation foam prime did good successful my sheet tests, but we each preferred shredded representation foam implicit a coagulated sheet. Someone did unpaid to semipermanent trial this arsenic a genu pillow, though.

Tempur-Breeze ProHi Pillow for $229: is simply a wider, much spacious alternate to the Tempur-Adapt ProHi. It has a likewise precocious loft, and the foam is firmer and much resistant to unit than the Adapt. It's a amended acceptable if you similar a firmer pillow, oregon if you privation abstraction to stock it with your cuddling partner. —Eric Ravenscraft

How I Test Pillows

Every pillow successful this usher is slept connected for a minimum of 3 nights, with our apical picks getting astatine slightest a week if not person to a period of slumber investigating from either myself, different staffers, oregon semipermanent testers. I besides hosted a investigating sheet successful March 2025 with six participants and 22 antithetic pillows. The panelists each had antithetic slumber styles ranging from classical broadside and backmost sleepers to chaotic sleepers who extremity up underneath their pillows each night, and the sheet judged which pillows they recovered astir comfy and would beryllium astir apt to bargain for their slumber needs.