"Paris Pass" or the "Parislib'" card?

How many days will you be in Paris? There are other options. There is the Paris Museum Pass. And there are quite a few transportation passes available, depending on your length of stay and how many zones you will be traveling through. For short stays there's the daily Mobilis pass, or an Easy card ( reloadable, kind of like a London Oyster card), or a weekly Navigo Decouverte card. Nearly any combination will be cheaper than a Paris Pass.

Those costs sound exorbitant to me, and I know folks here have said in the past that the Paris Pass is just a bundle of other passes and tickets sold at a substantial mark-up. The core sightseeing pass in the bundle is the Paris Museum Pass, which can be bought separately. In a recent change, it no longer allows multiple entries to a museum; it's now one entry per museum. For small museums that may not matter; for a humongous place like the Louvre it can matter a great deal.

And now the pass alone will not get you into the Louvre at all; you must also make a time-specific (free) booking in advance.

It doesn't matter how many sights a pass covers; you need to figure out which ones you want to see and how many you'll reasonably have time for. Are you willing to eat something like a sandwich on the run every day at lunch time? If you intend to take advantage of being in France by having a nice sit-down meal at midday (which is often a lot cheaper than a full meal at dinnertime), that will eat into your time to use any pass and make it less likely to pay off.

Paris Pass = Rip Off.

Neither of these passes is good value; they charge more than it would cost you to pick up the things you want to do in Paris. And the transport pass that is included is the most expensive travel option available. Don't get either. (and they are not a 'card' that lets you do these things -- they are an ordinary Museum Pass, an ordinary Paris Visite transport pass that doesn't even cover the airport and coupons for some other things. You can't do them all simultaneously e.g. HOHO and Paris Visite.

buy what you actually want and need when you get there. None of these is difficult to acquire.

As others have said, Paris Pass is a rip off.

Here’s what I do: decide what I want to see, add up the costs of the things that are included on the Paris Museum Pass and compare to the cost of the pass, considering whether I can/want to do all the things in the time the pass is valid. There have been trips that I have bought the pass, and trips I have not. What is nice about having it, is popping into smaller museums that one might not have had you had to pay for them, as well as the ability to skip the ticket line at some of the larger venues. (As noted, this is no longer an option at the Louvre, Versailles or the Pompidou).

It is very easy to purchase tickets for things online - most are good for a year and other than those noted, you do not have to choose a date/time. I only bother to do this for the larger things like the D’Orsay where the ticket line will be long.

As for getting around, I have usually done well with just a carnet (10) of metro tickets. Somehow my travel days never work out for the weekly pass. (Why they don’t make that valid for a week from day of purchase is a mystery to me :-) ).