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Eight Sleep

Eight Sleep

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16 creators use or recommend it

▲ 4 active in the last 90 days

2 use + recommend 10 use 4 recommend 6 mention 2 critical
Last discussed Oct 19, 2026

A smart mattress and sleep tracking system that regulates temperature and monitors sleep metrics.

What else do they all swear by?

Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss, Chris Williamson and 13 others use or recommend Eight Sleep. See what else they have in common.

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What creators think

Peter Attia, Chris Williamson, Andrew Huberman, and several others recommend Eight Sleep, with active temperature regulation as the consistent reason — most say it meaningfully improved their sleep where cooling the room alone didn't. Huberman says the Pod tracks slow wave and REM sleep ratios accurately; Williamson calls cooling via room air "medieval" by comparison; Attia emphasizes he has no affiliation. Andy Galpin frames it more narrowly, recommending it specifically if heat is already disrupting your sleep rather than as a universal upgrade. Jonathan Courtney loves the product but warns that customer support is poor enough he'd prefer they freeze development and fix it; Jack Raines pushes back on the sleep-tracking side, saying the nightly scores feel anxiety-inducing and of questionable accuracy. David Sinclair mentions it in passing as a possible tool for heat expenditure without endorsing it outright.

How Eight Sleep compares

4 creators weighed in
Whoop Direct rival
wearable fitness and sleep tracker

Andrew says Eight Sleep captures sleep stages more accurately than Whoop. John values its useful metrics and cooling over a simple score.

3 creators
John Coogan

"Well, and with Eight Sleep, I'm actually interested in like how is my REM versus deep sleep trending? Things like that. REM resting heart rate, all these other things."

Prefers it over Whoop for sleep tracking

John Coogan

"But with Eight Sleep, I like the cooling. Like that's nice. Well, and with Eight Sleep, I'm actually interested in like how is my REM versus deep sleep trending, things like that"

Different from Whoop - focuses on useful metrics rather than scores

Andrew Huberman

"I am tracking my sleep. Because I sleep on an Eight Sleep. And that has good sleep tracking ability... Whereas the Eight Sleep seems to really capture slow wave sleep, rapid eye movement, sleep ratios really well."

More accurate than WHOOP and Oura, which can be confused by limb movement

This Week in Startups

"My Eight Sleep all of this now is become a moat and a way to increase the fidelity and the usefulness of a product."

Example alongside Whoop for hardware lock-in

Oura Ring Different focus
sleep tracking smart ring

Both track sleep. Eight Sleep adjusts your bed temperature automatically; Oura Ring is a wearable you wear on your finger.

2 creators
Tim Ferriss

"Yeah, I use both Eight Sleep and Oura at the moment."

Uses alongside Oura

Andrew Huberman

"Something like Eight Sleep using AI is making temperature adjustments for you. This would be amazing to have for waking states — like let's say during the course of this conversation the room was dynamically changing in temperature."

Mentioned alongside Oura Ring and Whoop as leading sleep-reading wearable technologies

What creators say

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Andrew Huberman
uses recommends mentioned
Used for: Temperature changes overnight to increase REM and deep sleep Praised: Dynamic temperature changes during the night vs: Called an indirect method compared to direct neural stimulation; does not mea...

"My Eight Sleep changes the temperature throughout the night to give me more REM sleep or deep sleep. It's already doing that."

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Said Sep 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"We monitor REM through like an Eight Sleep or a Whoop or some other device through changes in heart rate and breathing."

Said Jul 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"Something like Eight Sleep using AI is making temperature adjustments for you. This would be amazing to have for waking states — like let's say dur..."

Chris Williamson
uses recommends
Used for: Improving sleep quality, especially managing body temperature fluctuations at night Praised: Game-changing, helps with detox pathway-related temperature dysregulation at ...

"There's lots of brands like Eight Sleep. I would sell that to anybody. It is such an amazing game-changing product, and I've got no — apart from the fact that I use it and they pay on the show — I have no loyalty to them as a brand, but they rule...."

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Said Aug 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"Anyone that's not using an Eight Sleep, it's medieval. I understand they're expensive, but every single person that I've got to try it can't believ..."

TBPN
uses mentioned Said Apr 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Optimizing wake-up times with adaptive alarm Praised: Adaptive alarm functionality

"I have the Eight Sleep will decide like the optimal time that I wake up within a few minutes, right? Because it's like an adaptive alarm"

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+1 more mention from TBPN
Pod 6 · newest

"There's also a new Eight. The Pod 6 is live. The sixth generation of Eight Sleep's intelligent sleep system redesigned for every kind of bed. The n..."

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Allison Ellsworth
uses Said Aug 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Regulating sleep temperature for both bed partners independently, maintaining REM and deep sleep, preventing waking from overheating or cold Praised: Dual-zone temperature control, automatic temperature adjustments throughout t...

"I'm obsessed with my Orion sleep system. My side of the bed is different than Steven's side of the bed and you can sleep and then it auto changes throughout the night and tracks your temperature so that you know like those nights where you like wa..."

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Jonathan Courtney
uses Said Jul 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Sleep temperature control; eliminating need to have phone in the bedroom Praised: New model has controls on the bed itself, removing the need to use a phone app

"I got the new Eight Sleep which has all the controls on the actual bed thing itself, which has been a game changer. So that's another reason now I have no excuse to have my phone in my room. I have an emotional roller coaster relationship with tha..."

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Delian Asparouhov
uses Said Jun 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Solving overheating during sleep at night Praised: Effective at temperature regulation during sleep

"We both did Eight Sleep together back in the day and it was not because we had some deep hypothesis on mattress markets or anything. I'm so hot in the middle of the night. I don't want this to happen anymore and this is a good product. And I remem..."

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Matan Grinberg
uses Said Jun 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Improving sleep quality for better cognitive performance and decision making Praised: Helps with sleep quality, makes people sharper and more productive vs: Investment in team productivity optimization

"I got everyone on the team Eight Sleeps, like fully free, whatever, $3,000 per person... I think Eight Sleep helps with my sleep engineer like great let's do it let's they're going to be better they're going to have more of their wits about them t..."

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John Coogan
uses Said Jun 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Sleep tracking, monitoring REM vs deep sleep trends, resting heart rate Praised: Cooling feature, detailed sleep metrics vs: Prefers it over Whoop for sleep tracking

"Well, and with Eight Sleep, I'm actually interested in like how is my REM versus deep sleep trending? Things like that. REM resting heart rate, all these other things."

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+1 more mention from John
Said Jun 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"But with Eight Sleep, I like the cooling. Like that's nice. Well, and with Eight Sleep, I'm actually interested in like how is my REM versus deep s..."

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Byron Deeter
uses Said Apr 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"You see our CEOs, we gave them all whoops and you'll see Oura rings or Eight Sleep and all these things now that are part of it."

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All-In Podcast
uses mentioned Said Jan 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"I'm taking my Eight Sleep data, my Whoop data, my blood panels, and I'm putting it into all four of the major ones, asking it."

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Said Jan 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"Between your Eight Sleep, your Oura, your Whoop, all of that, your blood work coming together and giving you customized medicine."

Peter Attia
uses Said Dec 2023, when Pod 3 was newest
Used for: Mattress cover for cooling during sleep Praised: Fantastic cooling; made an enormous difference to his sleep vs: Tried other cooling products, which are good, but prefers this one

"I don't have any affiliation with these things, so I use Eight Sleep as my mattress cover. I love what these guys have done. It's a fantastic cooling product and it's made an enormous difference for me. I've been using it for the last three years...."

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Tim Ferriss
uses Said Mar 2023, when Pod 3 was newest
Used for: Sleep tracking vs: Uses alongside Oura

"Yeah, I use both Eight Sleep and Oura at the moment."

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Andy Galpin.
recommends Said Aug 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Regulating sleep temperature for people who overheat during the night Praised: Effective temperature regulation; 'fantastic' product vs: Alternative to cooler sheets or better-ventilated mattresses for temperature ...

"Eight Sleep is fantastic. So Eight Sleep is not a bed, it's a cover which regulates temperature. If you are in a bedding situation where you're getting hot, then that's a problem. So if an Eight Sleep will help you regulate that temperature, it's ..."

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Elizabeth Stone
recommends Said Jul 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Health and well-being, sleep quality Praised: Critical to health and well-being

"Critical for my health and well-being, Eight Sleep."

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Graham Stephan
recommends Said Jul 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Better sleep quality Praised: Noticeably improved sleep

"For me, as an example, I'll just say like the Eight Sleep. I sleep way better having the Eight Sleep. They're not sponsoring us and they're not sponsored. But I will say an Eight Sleep."

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Keith Rabois
recommends Said Apr 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"I don't this crusade about eight sleep, which is another one of my conventions is, you know, you must sleep eight hours a day. You must prioritize sleep even when you're very busy. Um, I am an investor and so I'm somewhat biased in eight sleep, bu..."

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Bryan Johnson
mentioned Said Sep 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Biological age prediction based on sleep pattern data Praised: AI-derived age predictor accurate within ~3.5 years based on sleep data alone... vs: Contrasted with off-the-shelf wearables that Bryan says have less measurement...

"Eight Sleep — they're just about to announce this. They did an age predictor where they had an AI model and they showed it data of nights of sleep. It was able to detect within I think three and a half years of precision how accurately how old tha..."

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+1 more mention from Bryan
Said Nov 2024, when Pod 4 was newest

"Grounding sheets, copper pillowcase, Eight Sleep mattress."

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Abud Bakri
mentioned Said Jun 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
vs: Contrasted with lack of sleep tracking in 1970s Soviet research

"They didn't have Whoops in the 1970s in the Soviet Union. They didn't have an eight sleep."

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This Week in Startups
mentioned Said May 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
Used for: Sleep optimization and tracking Praised: Creates moat, increases product fidelity and usefulness vs: Example alongside Whoop for hardware lock-in

"My Eight Sleep all of this now is become a moat and a way to increase the fidelity and the usefulness of a product."

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Said Apr 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"we also originally did the series B of Eight Sleep back in the day"

Marques Brownlee
mentioned Said May 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
vs: Referenced as example of specialized sleep tracker that Google Health can int...

"And then if you have other trackers, like an Eight Sleep or a Garmin, for example, Fitbit will actually defer to those more specialized fitness trackers for those certain activities for contributing to Google Health."

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Greg Isenberg
mentioned Said May 2026, when Pod 5 was newest
vs: Used as example of successful human products that could be adapted for pets

"Someone should do Athletic Greens for pets. Eight Sleep for pets."

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JD Ross
mentioned Said Feb 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"We signed amazing companies like Chomps and Bombas and Eight Sleep."

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Jack Raines
critical Said Jul 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"My Eight Sleep said that I didn't sleep well last night and that my day is going to suck. It's like, I don't know, man. I sleep on a normal mattress and if I wake up and feel weird, I probably need to take a cold shower or go to the gym."

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Jonathan Courtney
critical Said Jul 2026, when Pod 5 was newest

"I buy the Eight Sleep mattress, we love them, everyone loves them, it's all good. But if you have to deal with the support — no. I'd rather they stop developing the product and just leave it as it is and improve the support and get more humans in ..."

Sponsored mentions

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Chris Williamson recommends uses sponsored

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Andrew Huberman uses sponsored

"I've been sleeping on an Eight Sleep mattress cover for nearly 5 years now. And with each new iteration of Eight Sleep, it gets better and better at figuring out what my body needs in order to get the best possible night's sleep. And of course, it..."

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Ryan Holiday uses sponsored

"So, I woke up this morning as I do every morning thanks to my Eight Sleep. I've loved my Eight Sleep for years. The new Eight Sleep Pod 6 is officially available... The hub is 50% smaller than the previous versions. Its thermal engine is 20% faste..."

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Codie Sanchez uses sponsored

"I hyper believe in this one, but it is expensive. Eight Sleep — I got a discount code for you guys, you can click the link below. I don't even think I make money on this anymore, so you guys just take the $600 or whatever it is off. This has been ..."

Steven Bartlett uses sponsored

"I've been on a bit of a journey with sleep. I see it as the single most important thing that I have the privilege of having control over. Here's what the Eight Sleep Pod does: it monitors your body while you're sleeping, and with their AI it adjus..."

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Tom Bilyeu sponsored

"You can save an average of 30% on products like Eight Sleep, Peloton, AG1, and others that studies show can treat or reverse many common chronic conditions."

Tim Ferriss sponsored

"This episode is brought to you by: Eight Sleep Pod Cover 5 sleeping solution"

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Eric Jorgenson recommends sponsored

"I'm a huge personal fan of Eight Sleep. I got one as a surprise for my wife when we had our first baby and she wept with joy when it arrived."

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David Friedberg sponsored

"A cover that goes on any mattress, cools it down to 55°, and uses AI to adjust your temperature all night. Up to 34% more deep sleep."

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