Costs of Florence Museum Tickets

Always purchase your tix on official websites
I don’t believe there is any other more economical way
The Firenze Card used to work quite well to save a few euros but it is not being offered at this time

If you need links for official sites just ask

ETA
here you go
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/italy/obtaining-tickets-for-specific-museums-in-florence-direct-tickets-not-with-tour-operators

All those reservation fees are annoying, but I haven't found a way around them for individual high-traffic sites. I assume you don't pay that fee if you buy the ticket on site, but waiting till you arrive in the city will probably mean finding at least some things you want to see sold out, plus you'd have to spend precious vacation time buying the tickets in person.

Are you aware of the five-day Passe Partout ticket? It's just 38 euros (apparently no booking fee, even for the Uffizi, but I could be wrong about that) and covers one visit to each of these museums and sights: Uffizi, Pitti Palace (which has many museums), Boboli Gardens, National Archaeological Museum and Museum of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. If you want to go to the Uffizi and even a few of the others, the Passe Partout ticket will save money.

For folks really gung-ho about museums, joining the Friends of the Uffizi (Amici degli Uffizi) could be worthwhile. For 70 euros you get a calendar-year (unfortunately) membership that appears to cover an unlimited number of visits to the same places as the Passe Partout. That's a lot of money, but I like the idea of returning to a place I loved the first time as well as being able to spread the museums over more than five days if I want to. The Uffizi isn't very large, but by all accounts the Pitti is very time-consuming.

Thank you for your responses. The Firenze Card was my first choice due to the volume of sites we are planning on visiting but I don't want to be shut out by waiting to see if it is reactivated. I am thinking that the costs of entering the Uffizi must have increased fairly recently which would explain the cheaper listing when I do a Google search. The 5 day pass is an option although we didn't have the Boboli Gardens on our itinerary due to time constraints. But if there is no reservation fee we will still come out ahead even if we don't visit the Gardens.

Thanks again, your responses were reassuring.

As far as I understand it, the 12 euro adult ticket price applied only to low season (Nov - Feb) and there's a 4 euro reservation fee so it's really 16 euros. High season tickets are 20 euro +4 euro reservation fee. I would be wary of random searches for prices as the official information source is Uffizi website itself. A fair amount of tourist info everywhere changed with the pandemic so it's best to make sure you're not seeing outdated prices/procedures/hours/etc.

As one of the very most visited attractions in Florence - and I'd assume ALL the museums are having to make up revenue for the months closed to COVID + reduced tourism - they don't have any issue commanding a healthy ticket price! Shoot, the Met in NYC charges $25, and isn't free for teens between 13-18 so the Uffizi can be a good deal, depending. If you like art, it'll be well worth it. :O)