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No pillow treats neck pain. What a pillow can do is hold the head and neck near the line a sleeper already finds comfortable, and the variable that matters most is height. The two pillows here handle it in opposite ways: the Coop Original lets you add or remove its shredded foam fill, while IKEA's KLUBBSPORRE is a firm memory-foam block fixed at 13 cm.
In Australia the price gap is large. IKEA sells the KLUBBSPORRE from local stores at A$49.99. Coop does not sell here directly; Amazon Australia carries the Queen at A$197.35 shipped from Amazon US, or A$204.54 sold and dispatched by Amazon AU. The extra money buys the ability to tune the height, which only matters if the right height is still unknown.
The things in this guide
A closer look at the products, who they may suit, and what to check before buying.
Original Adjustable Pillow · Queen
A zippered inner pillow of cross-cut memory foam and microfibre that you can empty or top up, with a bag of extra fill in the box; the inner pillow and cover machine-wash, and Coop covers its pillows for five years against defects.
Before you buy: Four times the IKEA's price; tuning takes several nights; the inner pillow can take several dryer cycles; the Amazon US listing warns that a manufacturer warranty may not apply to imports.
KLUBBSPORRE Ergonomic Pillow · Queen
A 41 × 70 cm memory-foam pillow with a gel layer, 13 cm high, which IKEA aims at side and back sleepers who want a firmer, higher pillow; the cover machine-washes at 40 °C.
Before you buy: The height cannot change; the foam must not be washed, tumble-dried or dry-cleaned; IKEA Australia's 60-day Test & Try excludes pillows, so only an unopened one goes back for change of mind.
Price checked 5 November 2026. Retailer prices can change.Height decides it before the material does
Harvard Health Publishing names side and back sleeping as the two positions easiest on the neck, and warns that too high or stiff a pillow keeps the neck flexed overnight, which can mean morning pain and stiffness. For side sleepers it suggests a pillow higher under the neck than under the head; stomach sleeping it calls tough on the spine, because the neck is turned to the side.
Height is what those warnings turn on. The Coop can go up or down as fill is added or removed; the KLUBBSPORRE stays at 13 cm in firm memory foam. Neither is a medical device, and neither replaces a GP or physiotherapist's assessment of pain that persists or gets worse.
Adjustable: the Coop Original, shipped in through Amazon
The Coop Original is a zippered inner pillow filled with a blend of cross-cut memory foam and microfibre. Amazon's listing says every pillow ships with an extra bag of fill, so the loft can rise as well as fall. The cover and inner pillow go in the washing machine on cold and delicate, though Coop warns the inner pillow may need several dryer cycles before the fill is dry.
That adjustability is the reason to pay four times the IKEA price. A sleeper who has never found a fixed pillow at the right height can take fill out a handful at a time until the neck sits level, and keep the spare for later. The cost is time, since every change means unzipping, moving fill and sleeping on it again. Coop's warranty page covers its pillows for five years against defects without saying how claims work outside the US, and the Amazon US import listing adds that a manufacturer warranty may not apply.
Fixed at 13 cm: IKEA's KLUBBSPORRE at A$49.99
The KLUBBSPORRE sold in Australia is 41 × 70 cm and 13 cm high, memory foam topped with a gel layer, and IKEA pitches it at side and back sleepers who need a firmer, higher pillow. The cover unzips and machine-washes at 40 °C. The foam itself must not be washed, bleached, tumble-dried, ironed or dry-cleaned, so a pillow protector belongs in the same trolley.
Its weakness is the one fixed number. If 13 cm in firm foam is right, it is the cheapest correct answer here by a wide margin; if it is too high, nothing can be removed. A stomach sleeper gets a firm block that cannot be shaped lower, which is the posture Harvard Health singles out as hard on the neck.
What each channel lets you send back
IKEA Australia's 365-day full refund applies only to unopened, unused products. Its returns page also mentions a 60-day trial for opened products, but the April 2026 policy limits that Test & Try to selected products, and clause 4.3(a) excludes sleepwear, naming mattresses, mattress protectors and pillows. A KLUBBSPORRE you have slept on is not a change-of-mind return; only a fault falls back on the Australian Consumer Law.
The Coop's return path follows the seller. The A$197.35 offer comes from Amazon US under Amazon's international terms; the A$204.54 offer is sold and dispatched by Amazon AU. Paying A$7.19 more for the local offer puts the pillow, and any return, inside Amazon Australia's own system rather than an import.
How to choose without buying both
If you sleep on your side or back and a firm, high pillow has suited you before, start with the KLUBBSPORRE: at A$49.99 it costs a quarter of the Coop, and a few nights will tell you whether 13 cm is right. Count the A$49.99 as spent, though, because a slept-on IKEA pillow cannot go back for change of mind.
If the current pillow is wrong and you cannot say whether you need more height or less, the Coop is the only one of the two that moves in both directions. A stomach sleeper should skip the KLUBBSPORRE altogether and, if buying the Coop, expect to empty a good share of the fill to bring it low enough.
No published figure gives the Coop's height at full fill or how far it drops as fill comes out, so matching it to the KLUBBSPORRE's 13 cm takes trial nights rather than a tape measure. Neither Amazon listing says whether Coop's own sleep trial applies to an Amazon purchase, so count on Amazon's returns, not Coop's.
How we put this together
Built from the product pages and listings below, without test scores or results we have not measured. Specifications and prices change, so check the original page for the exact model, current price, delivery, and returns.
- Harvard Health Publishing: Say "good night" to neck pain (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon Australia: Coop Home Goods Original Loft, Queen (B00EINBSEW) (opens in a new tab)
- Coop Sleep Goods: Care instructions (opens in a new tab)
- Coop Sleep Goods: Warranty claim (opens in a new tab)
- IKEA Australia: KLUBBSPORRE ergonomic pillow, side/back sleeper 41x70 cm (804.460.97) (opens in a new tab)
- IKEA Australia: Return policy (opens in a new tab)
- IKEA Australia: Returns, Exchanges and Cancellations Policy, effective 9 April 2026 (v2) (opens in a new tab)
