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How to read Het Financieele Dagblad (FD) free or for less

FD articles sit behind a wall: non-subscribers can create a free account to read an article, and the app's news overview and market prices are free, but full access needs a subscription. Full-time students pay €15 a month in the first year, and anyone new can try it for 4 weeks for €1; Dutch university libraries dropped the FD in January 2025.

Last checked 9 Nov 2026. Offers change often, so confirm the price on the outlet's own page before you pay.

Quick answer

Full-time students up to age 26 should take the €15-a-month student subscription; everyone else can try FD Digitaal for 4 weeks for €1, which stops on its own, and should ask their employer whether it has an FD Zakelijk licence.

Netherlands

Employer

FD Zakelijk licence through your employer

Free to you if your employer pays; companies pay a price on request

Companies can buy FD access for teams from 2 users, either as a group licence with a login per person or as a company licence where staff sign up through a self-service tool or are let in automatically through the company network (SSO). It covers FD.nl, the app and the digital newspaper. Ask your employer before paying yourself.

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Free articles

Read an article with a free FD account

Free

Under subscriber articles, the FD offers "Gratis proberen": enter your email address to create an account and read the article. The FD does not say how many articles a free account can read.

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App

Free FD app with news overview and market prices

Free

The FD app is free and has no in-app purchases. Without a subscription it shows the latest business news overview and share prices from exchanges such as the AEX and Nasdaq; subscribers can read every article and the digital newspaper from 6am.

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Student rate

Student subscription to FD Digitaal

€15/month (about €3.46/week) for the first year, instead of €54/month

Open to full-time university (WO) and HBO students aged up to 26 who live away from their parents. You give your institution, subject and student number when you sign up. It includes the site, the app and the daily digital newspaper. You commit for the first year; after that you can cancel monthly. Choose "Studentenabonnement" under other subscriptions on the overview page.

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Intro offer

4-week trial for €1 that stops on its own

€1 for 4 weeks (instead of €48)

The FD offers this trial of FD Digitaal on the box shown under subscriber articles. It ends automatically after 4 weeks, so you won't be charged again unless you choose a subscription.

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Intro offer

First month for €1, then a discounted year

FD Digitaal €1 for the first month, then €38/month for 12 months, then €54/month; FD Digitaal Plus €39 then €56; FD Totaal (print and digital) €40 then €67

New subscribers pay €1 for the first month and a reduced price for the next 12 months, after which the regular rate applies. You can cancel monthly throughout. Digitaal Plus adds the Saturday paper and FD Persoonlijk magazine; Totaal adds the weekday paper too. The overview page has also shown €10 for the first month, so check the price at checkout.

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Questions

Mostly not. The FD invites non-subscribers to create a free account to read an article, and the app's news overview and market prices are free, but we could not confirm how many articles a free account gets.

The regular price of FD Digitaal is €54 a month or €589 a year. New subscribers pay €1 for the first month and €38 a month for the next 12 months, and a 4-week trial costs €1.

Yes. Full-time WO and HBO students up to 26 who live away from home pay €15 a month for FD Digitaal in the first year, instead of €54.

Generally not any more. Following advice from SURF, which negotiates licences for Dutch higher education, university libraries such as Tilburg and Erasmus ended their FD subscriptions on 1 January 2025 over privacy terms, and the FD is no longer in Nexis Uni. Check instead whether your employer has an FD Zakelijk licence.

Yes. Every subscription, including Weekend, includes the digital newspaper, from 6am in the FD app and 6:30am on FD.nl, Monday to Saturday. You can download it in the app and read it offline for 7 days.