Bryte Vs. Sleep Number: A Comprehensive Comparison

Smart beds that promote more restorative sleep are growing in popularity. With smart tech becoming a part of everyday life, more people are turning to personalized, adaptive sleep solutions to boost performance and support better health. But with so many smart beds on the market, how do you choose the right one for your unique needs?

At Bryte, we’ve compared our revolutionary sleep technology with many of the leading smart beds on the market today.

All Bryte mattresses include active pressure relief technology that detects the smallest pressure imbalances as you sleep. Up to 90 intelligent Bryte Balancers™ throughout 16 separate zones per mattress (8 zones per sleeper) respond to your every movement throughout the night. This subtle and silent automatic system alleviates pressure so you can stay asleep longer. The Bryte Balance PRO™ and PRO Conform models offer adjustable comfort with independent zone control for an advanced level of personalization and a selection of optimized support profiles that fine-tune Bryte’s air coils to complement your sleep position.

Unique to Bryte, BryteWaves™ synchronizes wave-like mattress motion with curated audio to help you relax during the day and drift off to sleep more quickly at night. PRO models include a guided meditation library. Bryte’s software tracks your sleep and provides daily insights. PRO models add Sleep Concierge and Silent Wake, a silent alarm that gently wakes you with motion without disturbing your partner.

Sleep Number has 12 models in its smart bed product line, ranging from the Classic Series to its Climate360™ model. All Sleep Number smart beds feature adjustable firmness on each side of the bed (through its Sleep Number setting), Responsive Air® technology that automatically maintains air pressure to keep your chosen firmness setting, and sleep tracking through its app. Unlike more dynamic systems like Bryte, Sleep Number’s Responsive Air® is designed to maintain consistent firmness by sensing changes in air pressure within the mattress’s two chambers and adjusting accordingly, rather than actively responding to your movements to relieve pressure. Higher-end models offer additional features such as cooling, memory foam, or pressure-relieving foam and comfort layers.

Let’s look at some side-by-side comparisons of Bryte vs. Sleep Number smart beds.

How do the technologies of Bryte and Sleep Number beds differ?​ Both offer real-time air pressure adjustments; however, they work differently. Sleep Number’s Responsive Air® technology senses and automatically adjusts the pressure to maintain your current Sleep Number setting. Bryte’s active pressure relief detects pressure imbalances in real time and silently alleviates them by automatically adjusting the pressure throughout the night. Sleep Number beds have two air chambers, one for each sleeper, while Brye beds have up to 90 Bryte Balancers (air coils) in all bed models, with eight zones for each person. In Bryte PRO models, sleepers can adjust the firmness of individual rows of coils for greater precision in fine-tuning pressure relief and support, especially in areas like your shoulders or lumbar area.

Bryte’s AI-powered Sleep Concierge, available on Pro models, is similar to Sleep Number’s SleepIQ reports in that both provide insights into sleep quality. Sleep Number offers a passive snapshot through metrics such as time in bed, heart rate, breath rate, motion, and a composite SleepIQ score. Bryte, on the other hand, tracks sleep stages and adds the number of times it reduces pressure each night, offering a more dynamic and responsive experience. Bryte’s sleep insights serve as the equivalent of a sleep report, providing a clear summary of nightly metrics. Sleep Concierge builds on that foundation by offering an interactive experience. You can click into it, ask questions about your sleep trends, and receive synthesized data. Sleep Concierge can also recommend and apply firmness changes based on your inquiries about your sleep habits and answer questions about your insights or sleep trends. It not only reports on your sleep, but actively helps you improve it in real time.

Only Bryte offers BryteWaves immersive relaxation to help you fall asleep and Silent Wake, an alarm that wakes you with silent motion on your side of the bed, without disturbing your partner.

Which bed offers better customization for individual sleep preferences? While both beds allow you and your partner to adjust your comfort, Bryte and Sleep Number approach the process in different ways. When you first receive your Bryte smart bed, Guided Comfort Tailoring helps you find your ideal firmness over two weeks, using regular check-ins through the app to guide the experience. With a Sleep Number bed, you explore on your own, manually adjusting the number until you find what feels best, without any built-in guidance.

Models in the PRO series give users independent zone control and optimized support profiles for sleep that can be personalized to both your unique body’s needs and to how you sleep. Sleep Number beds provide DualAir technology, which allows for separate firmness adjustments on each side of the bed, but it is not a multi-zone system like Bryte beds, which allows for more dynamic, fine-tuned adjustments to fit your body. Sleep Number beds have a foam divider in the middle of the bed. There is no foam divider in the middle of Bryte beds, creating a more seamless transition for sleeping or cuddling in the middle of the bed.

What are the price differences between Bryte and Sleep Number beds? Bryte’s most advanced smart mattresses, the Bryte Balance PRO and Bryte Balance PRO Conform, sell for $5,999 for a queen-size bed. The PRO models feature adjustable individual zone control, adjustable comfort, combined audio and motion experiences for relaxation, Sleep Concierge, Silent Wake, and an expanded BryteWaves library with guided meditations.

The comparable Sleep Number smart bed, in a Queen size, costs $5,499 for the ClimateCool model and $10,240 for the Climate360.

Bryte vs. Sleep Number—how does each company fare in customer satisfaction? Bryte bed owners rave about their mattresses in these Bryte Smart Mattress Reviews. Many people discuss how the bed has helped alleviate back pain and insomnia, and they give the Bryte team high ratings for its easy setup and prompt responses to questions. They’re happy with the sleep insights, features like BryteWaves and Silent Wake, and the ability to customize the comfort level. They also mention how quiet it is.

Sleep Number customers are generally happy, though some customers report discomfort and restlessness and complain about the foam divider and motor noise throughout the night.

Are there any notable health benefits associated with either bed?​ Both Bryte and Sleep Number smart beds help users to stay asleep longer and wake up with less pain, though more people mention having to “get used to the mattress” with the Sleep Number bed. Waking up feeling well-rested and restored, as is reported by Bryte sleepers, helps sleepers feel more energetic during the day and enhances their overall well-being. The BryteWaves produce soothing wave-like motion patterns, and the audio feature included with the Bryte bed provides relaxation during the day and allows users to drift off to sleep at night quickly and peacefully for more restorative sleep.

While both Bryte and Sleep Number smart beds improve the quality of sleep for most users, if you’re looking for active pressure relief with more zones and targeted adjustments, greater personalization, and unique smart bed features like BryteWaves synchronized audio and massage, Sleep Concierge, and Silent Wake, the Bryte bed is the better choice.

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