Il Sole 24 Ore Paywall: How to Read Il Sole 24 Ore for Free
Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy's business daily owned by Confindustria, meters its site through Piano and reserves articles for subscribers. How to read a full story.
Paywall behaviour last tested
Il Sole 24 Ore is Italy's business and financial daily, published in Milan and owned by Confindustria, the employers' federation. Its lineage runs back to Il Sole, which first appeared in Milan in 1865, and the present paper dates from the 1965 merger of Il Sole with the rival 24 Ore. It is the paper that Italian executives, accountants and lawyers read for markets, company news, tax and public finance, and its coverage of shareholders' meetings, government decrees and European rules is often the most detailed available anywhere. Those are the pieces most often reserved for subscribers, so a reader arriving from a search result or a shared link frequently meets the subscription box. This guide explains how the paywall works, why the site took a while to make our list, and how to read a full article.
How the Il Sole 24 Ore paywall works
Il Sole 24 Ore runs a metered paywall on the Piano platform with a layer of subscriber-only articles on top. Some stories are open to everyone, and as far as we can tell non-subscribers can read a limited number of others before a prompt appears. Pieces marked "riservato agli abbonati" are reserved for subscribers from the first visit. We have not verified the current subscription price, so we do not quote one.
The gate is enforced in the browser. The article text is delivered in the page so that search engines can index it, and a script then checks whether you are a subscriber or over your limit and swaps the body for the subscription box. A reader that fetches the page without running that script receives the complete article. Our explainer on metered versus hard paywalls sets out why that distinction matters, and Il Sole 24 Ore sits on the softer side of it.
It did not always look that way to us. In our tests on 17, 20 and 24 October 2026 the reader returned extracts of around 400 words, and we could not say whether they were complete articles or truncated ones, so the site stayed off the list. On 30 October 2026 the extracts matched the articles' own full text, ending with each article's last sentence, so Il Sole 24 Ore is now listed. If a piece looks short, compare it with the published page and try again later.
Our tests on 30 October 2026 through Skip the Paywall:
- A 2,255-word Il Sole 24 Ore live report on the Monte dei Paschi di Siena shareholders' meeting in Siena, "Al via l'assemblea a Siena, dieci punti all'ordine del giorno", loaded in full, all 58 paragraphs.
- A 376-word Il Sole 24 Ore report on Norway reviewing the Norges fund rules to allow defence investment loaded in full, all 5 paragraphs.
- A 731-word Il Sole 24 Ore analysis, "Il costo economico della remigrazione", loaded in full, all 5 long paragraphs.
Read an Il Sole 24 Ore article in full
- Copy the article link. Il Sole 24 Ore links look like ilsole24ore.com/art/ followed by the headline as a slug and a short alphanumeric id.
- Paste it into the box on the home page and press Read Article.
- The story appears in a clean reader view with the headline, byline and full text.
The reader shows the article in Italian, exactly as Il Sole 24 Ore published it. If you want it in English, your browser's built-in translation works on the reader page in the normal way.
Other approaches
- Newsletters. Il Sole 24 Ore publishes a range of email newsletters, including the Morning 24 briefing and sector bulletins such as Fintech+ and RealEstate+. Check the sign-up page for which ones are open to non-subscribers.
- Library access. PressReader's Italian business catalogue lists Il Sole 24 Ore, and many public libraries offer PressReader free to cardholders, so check your library's catalogue.
- Private windows. The monthly meter is kept in your browser, so a private window resets the count, though articles marked "riservato agli abbonati" stay closed.
- Related free sources. Borsa Italiana publishes company announcements, the Bank of Italy and ISTAT publish their statistics and reports, and decrees appear in the Gazzetta Ufficiale, all free, so the primary documents behind much of the paper's reporting are available without a subscription.
How it compares with other Italian papers
Il Sole 24 Ore joins the Italian titles that load in full: Corriere della Sera, the Milan daily that is Italy's largest, Il Foglio and the Venice regional Il Gazzettino. Its direct rival in business news behaves differently. Milano Finanza does not work: it blocked the reader on 30 October 2026, the same day Il Sole 24 Ore passed, so there is no Milano Finanza guide. la Repubblica also does not work, returning only a short stub in our tests. The full list of sites that work is kept current.
Subscribe if you read it regularly
Il Sole 24 Ore keeps specialist reporters on tax, pensions, public accounts and the markets whose work has no real equivalent in the Italian press. If you rely on it for your job or read it every morning, a digital subscription is the right way to keep that reporting going.
Try it with an article
Paste the URL of an article from Il Sole 24 Ore and read it in a clean reader view. Free, instant, no signup.
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Il Sole 24 Ore?
Confindustria, the Italian employers' federation. The paper is published in Milan and traces its history to Il Sole, founded in 1865, and the 1965 merger that created the current title.
Why was Il Sole 24 Ore not listed before 30 October 2026?
In our tests on 17, 20 and 24 October 2026 the reader returned extracts of around 400 words that we could not call complete. On 30 October 2026 the extracts matched the full published text of all three test articles, so the site was added to the list.
Does the reader work on Milano Finanza too?
No. Milano Finanza blocked the reader in our 30 October 2026 tests, so it is not on the list of supported sites. Il Sole 24 Ore, Corriere della Sera, Il Foglio and Il Gazzettino all load in full.