Pantheon Tickets and Prices

The Pantheon was free to enter for about fourteen centuries. It stopped being free on 3 July 2023, and on 1 July 2026 the price went from five euro to seven. Most of the English-speaking web has not noticed. When we checked twelve Pantheon websites in August 2026, ten of them still printed 5.00 euro or gave no price at all, and one of those had updated its page the previous month.

So here is the number, with the source next to it, and the date we checked. Below that, the more useful question: four different organisations sell something they call a Pantheon ticket, and only one of them is the Italian state.

Two things follow from that table that nobody puts in a headline. The first is that roughly half of the people inside the Pantheon paid nothing. In 2024 the monument took 14,712,752 euro from 4,086,947 visitors, which is 3.60 euro a head against a five euro ticket. The second is that the free routes are real, documented and easy to use, which is exactly why the sites that sell tickets do not mention them.

This is the part that generates three years of unresolved forum threads, and it is not complicated once somebody writes it down. Four separate organisations have something to sell, and they are not the same organisation.

The single most useful fact here: the state does not sell an audio guide at all. The only things on the government portal are individual tickets, group tickets, evening openings and the walk behind the rotunda. So every product advertising an official audio guide means the Chapter's audio guide, which is a different organisation and a different transaction. That ambiguity is where the threads titled is this a scam? come from, and it is not really a scam, it is two landlords in one building.

We read the live catalogues of three affiliate platforms in August 2026 and worked out the median asking price for each kind of product that includes admission. The result contains one genuine oddity.

Look at the middle two rows. The bare ticket costs more than the ticket with a commentary attached: a median of 20.00 against 13.00. Sellers who add nothing to the state's seven euro mark it up by thirteen; sellers who actually include a service take less. That is the opposite of what anyone would predict, and it is the strongest argument on this page for not buying admission on its own from anybody but the state.

If you are going to pay a middleman, pay one who is giving you something. The commentary is cheaper than the convenience.

The two products priced at 4.50 and 4.99 are below the state's own ticket, which is not possible for a full adult admission. Either they are reduced fares presented as full ones, or the headline price excludes the entry. We have not published them, and neither should anyone else without opening the booking flow first.

One number here will look wrong against the rest of this site, so here is why it is not. The medians above describe the whole Viator catalogue for Rome, unfiltered: nineteen products resell bare admission and the middle one asks 20.00. What we actually list under Entry Tickets is a selection of fourteen, with a median nearer 10.35, because the selection drops the listings that were poor value. Both figures are true and they measure different things — one the market, the other what survived the filter. If they matched, the filter would not be doing anything.

Oltre il Pantheon, which the state sells under that Italian name even in English, is a 45-minute visit to the spaces behind the rotunda, in what survives of the Basilica of Neptune. It costs 10.00 euro on top of the 7.00 admission, in groups of 25, in Italian or English, every day except the first Sunday of the month.

It is the only genuinely exclusive thing on sale at this monument, it appears on exactly two products in the entire affiliate catalogue, and in English almost nobody explains how to buy it. We wrote a page about it.