For some people yes, for others no — and that depends less on the bed than on you. If you sleep badly through pain or restlessness, spend eight hours a night in it and the bed stays for twenty years, the arithmetic is favourable. If you already sleep well, or you move house every few years, you are mainly buying a beautiful object.
If you sleep badly and light, rhythm and temperature won't fix it, a bed of this calibre is one of the few remaining dials. Anyone with years of mediocre nights behind them counts an outlay like this differently — and rightly so.
The second case is physical: shoulder or hip complaints in side sleepers, or a large weight difference with your partner. Those are exactly the situations where a bed that can be built up per half genuinely does something a cheaper bed cannot.
And the third is simple: you can spare it, you find it beautiful, and you will live in the same place for twenty years. The cost-per-night sum is then low enough to end the discussion.
If you already sleep well, the honest expectation is that you will notice the difference but not be transformed by it. A good bed doesn't turn a bad sleeper into a good one; at most it removes an obstacle. Anyone without an obstacle is buying comfort, not a solution.
If you move every few years, or your living situation is in flux, the arithmetic gets worse than it looks on paper. A bed that lasts twenty years is only cheap per night if you lie on it for twenty years.
And if you are buying it mainly because it is a Hästens: that's allowed, but then call it that. It is a purchase like a watch or a kitchen, and it defends itself perfectly well without sleep arguments.
We sell Hästens. That is a reason to read this page with suspicion, and rightly so. But our business model is arranged precisely so that we also get paid when you don't buy: you pay for a night in a spa, and only those who buy afterwards get that amount back.
That makes "don't buy it" an acceptable outcome for us. It is also the only way advice from a selling party is worth anything.
That differs from person to person, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling you something. What is established is that material, construction and support differ measurably from a standard mattress; whether that difference matters for your body you only know after a whole night.
Ask before signing what the dealer arranges for a wrong comfort choice — that varies per shop and is separate from the factory warranty. And better still: sleep a night on it first, and the question largely becomes redundant.
Different, and for some people better. The difference sits in material and lifespan, not in a leap in comfort everyone feels. Anyone torn between the two gains most from a direct comparison over a whole night.