Eight Sleep Unveils Compact Cooling Hub Designed to Fit Under Your Bed

Eight Sleep has unveiled the latest iteration of its “intelligent sleep system,” designed to optimize your bed’s temperature based on tracked health and sleep metrics such as breathing and heart rate. Dubbed the Pod 6, this release is touted as the company’s “most significant hardware launch to date,” featuring a revamped cooling hub that’s compact enough to fit under most beds. While the Pod 6 is more affordable than its predecessor, the Pod 5 from 2025, it still comes with a premium price tag.

The Pod 6 is now available for purchase directly from Eight Sleep’s online store. The Standard version is priced between $2,699 for a full-size mattress and $2,999 for king and California king sizes. For the first time, Eight Sleep is also offering a Solo option tailored for single sleepers, which covers half of any mattress size and retails for $1,999. The Pod 6 remains compatible with Eight Sleep’s optional accessories, including a $999 cooling pillow cover, and requires a subscription that costs between $199 and $399 annually for two sleepers.

Eight Sleep asserts that the Pod 6’s control hub has been “rebuilt from scratch,” with its electrical, mechanical, and software systems re-engineered to be half the size of earlier models while enhancing performance. This hub circulates temperature-controlled water through the mattress cover, improving sleep quality, and is now 20 percent faster at adjusting temperatures.

The health and sleep tracking features have also seen significant upgrades, now equipped with 18 sensors compared to the two biometric sensors in the Pod 5. The Pod 6 can monitor health metrics such as heart rate, heart rate variability, breathing rate, sleep stages, and even detect snoring for two sleepers, whether they’re side by side or at opposite ends of the bed. It can differentiate between adults, children, and pets. All this data feeds into Eight Sleep’s AI-driven Autopilot feature, which is included in the subscription, allowing for automatic temperature adjustments throughout the night to ensure optimal comfort without any manual intervention.