Best Intex Air Mattresses of 2026

Take the queen we recommend first, narrow it to 39 inches, and you have this twin: the same 13-inch height, the same velvety top, and the same one-year limited warranty, which is unusual coverage on a bed this size. It's also roughly five pounds lighter at 10.7 pounds, so it's the one that goes up a narrow stairway or onto a high closet shelf without a wrestling match.

We reach for it for one adult or one kid, never two. A 300-pound rating and 39 inches of width make that official: two teenagers will spend the night arguing about the middle. Where it earns its place is a small guest room, a dorm, or a corner of a kid's room where a queen simply will not go, and where a real bed frame is not happening.

Setup runs the same routine as the queen — built-in 110-120V pump, an outlet nearby, and a top-up after the first night while the vinyl stretches into shape. Between this and the USB twin further down, the choice is straightforward: if there's an outlet and you want the better bed, take this one; if there's no outlet at all, take that one.

Taller usually means heavier, and here it doesn't. This 16.5-inch queen is listed at 12.6 pounds, about three pounds less than the 13-inch model we recommend first, and that pairing — the tallest of the standard queens, the lightest of them to carry — is exactly why we like it for anyone with a bad knee, a narrow hallway, or a guest room up a flight of stairs. The head end also inflates into a pillow, so the bed is complete and made up the moment it's firm.

Underneath it's the familiar package: 600-pound rating, three-layer top, and the same built-in 110-120V pump that wants a wall outlet. The one real trade is coverage. Intex backs this one for 180 days instead of the full year on the two 13-inch Deluxe models, and that difference is the clearest thing separating two otherwise similar beds.

At 16.5 inches you sit down onto it rather than lowering yourself to the floor, which is the detail guests mention on the second morning of a stay. Give it the same first-night top-up as the rest while the vinyl stretches, and measure it once it's firm before you buy bedding — a fitted sheet with a deep pocket will save you an argument with the corners.

The headboard is the whole idea here, and it works. The top of the bed inflates into a raised panel that stops your pillow from migrating to the floor by 2 a.m., which is the single most irritating thing about sleeping on an air mattress. At 18 inches the bed also sits close to the height of a real bed, so guests sit down onto it instead of lowering themselves to the floor. Underneath you still get the 600-pound rating and the built-in 110-120V pump.

The place we put this is a guest room that gets used a few times a year and has to look made when it isn't. It is a 15-pound bed and the priciest thing in this group, so it earns its keep as furniture rather than as a spare that lives in a closet. One catch we hit: a flat sheet won't tuck under the headboard, so build the bed with a fitted sheet and a pillowcase and skip the hospital corners.

An 8-foot USB cord is the reason to look at this one. Plug it into a phone charger at the cabin, a 12-volt car charger on the way to a trailhead, or a power bank when there's no outlet for a mile, and the built-in pump handles the rest — Intex puts inflation at about three and a half minutes. The bed itself is a 12-inch twin with a velvety top and a 300-pound rating, so it's one adult or one kid.

The catch with any USB pump is the power source, not the pump. A power bank that has been in a glove box since June will not inflate a mattress, so charge it before you leave and bring the cable you know works. Intex covers this one for 90 days, the shortest term it writes, which is worth knowing before you decide it's the family's forever camping bed.

This is the twin that earns its place in the car rather than the closet, because it doesn't care whether there's a socket at the other end. The cord length is the underrated part: 8 feet reaches from a car's 12-volt outlet through an open door to a level patch of ground. If there is a wall outlet where the bed lives, the 13-inch Deluxe twin is the better bed and the longer warranty for a little more money.

The lowest queen price in this group also comes with a 600-pound rating, which is a combination worth pausing on. What you give up is height — this one is 10 inches, the lowest queen here — and the built-in AC pump. What you get instead is a hand-held battery pump in the box and a bed you can inflate in a basement, a cabin, or a rental where there is no outlet within reach of the mattress.

That pump runs on six C-cell batteries, and they are not included. Buy them with the mattress, because a pump with no cells is a very slow evening. The rest of the package is standard Intex: Fiber-Tech beams, velvety sleeping surface, carry bag, repair patch, and a 90-day warranty.

Ten inches puts the sleeping surface lower than anything else here. That suits a low frame, a kid's room, or a tent with a low ceiling, and it does not suit anyone with a bad back. It is, on the other hand, the easiest of the queens to roll up and shove under a bed between visits.

Where it makes sense is a bed that comes out a few times a year — a basement guest corner, a cabin, a rental that needs a spare. At 600 pounds and the lowest queen price here, it does the job without asking for much. If the bed is going to be up for a month at a stretch, though, the 13-inch Comfort Plush and its year of warranty are worth the difference.

Three pounds. That is the entire argument for this one, and it is a good argument: it's the lightest bed in this group by a wide margin, and it's the one that goes back on a closet shelf without a fight. You get a 75-by-39-inch twin, a 10-inch height, a velvety sleeping surface, and a 300-pound rating.

No pump in the box, and at this price that's the trade. The two-in-one valve opens extra wide, so a nozzle fits easily and deflation is quick, but you need to own a pump already — and a small one built for pool toys will take all evening on a twin. Intex covers it for 90 days.

We came back to this one for the sleepover job: a spare that comes out for a night, gets jumped on by kids, and never has to survive a month of nightly use. The low height is a plus there — it's stable, it's easy to roll up, and nobody is climbing onto it from a standing start. For a bed that stays up for a week, the 13-inch Deluxe twin is the better buy and worth the extra.

It's the only king in this lineup, and it's worth knowing exactly how much king you're getting. The listing gives 72 by 80 inches; a standard king mattress is 76 by 80, so plan on about four inches less width than the name implies. It is still 12 inches wider than the queens here, which is the entire point of stepping up.

Everything else is the familiar package: 18-inch height, velvety top, dual-layer top surface, Fiber-Tech beams, a built-in 110-120V pump, and a 600-pound rating. At 18 inches you sit down onto it like a real bed, and that matters more on a king than on a twin because two people are getting in and out from both sides.

Two things to plan for. The pump wants a wall outlet, so this is an indoor bed, not a tent one. And king bedding is a real purchase — with a 72-inch sleeping surface, expect a standard king sheet set to fit loosely across the top rather than snugly, so put the money into a good mattress pad instead.

Width is the whole point, so that's the case for it: a couple upgrading from a queen, in a room that can take an 80-inch-long bed. It costs less than the 18-inch headboard queen above and gives you an extra foot of width — a fair trade if the bed is shared for a week at a time and nobody needs a headboard to keep a pillow in place.