Paywall Examples

A paywall is the screen a publisher shows to restrict access to content until the reader subscribes, registers, or pays. The main types are hard paywalls (no free reading), metered paywalls (a set number of free articles, then a wall), freemium (some content always free, premium content paid), and registration walls (free, but you trade an email to keep reading).

This gallery collects real paywall and subscription-offer screens from publishers across news, business, trade, education and more — the actual pricing pages and article walls readers see. Each example is tagged by industry, paywall type and price so you can compare approaches side by side instead of reading a static list.

A hard paywall blocks every article until you subscribe (the Wall Street Journal is the classic example). A metered paywall lets you read a few articles free each month, then walls the rest. Freemium keeps some content permanently free and reserves the best or most specialised content for subscribers. Many publishers combine them — a registration wall first, a metered allowance, then a hard wall.

Yes. Every example is captured from the publisher's live site and dated, then framed consistently so the gallery is easy to scan. Pricing and offers change often, so each card shows when it was captured and links to the live page.

Pelcro is the subscription and paywall platform behind the kind of screens in this gallery — metering rules, hard and freemium walls, registration gates, pricing, offers and billing — so publishers can run the exact paywall strategy they see here without building it from scratch.