The Times is to increase the cover price of its weekday edition by 20p, to £1.40p, its first price rise in more than two years.
The Times will raise its cover price next week, the same time the cost of the weekday Guardian will rise 20p to £2, the first rise since January 2014.
In a bid to drive its subscription business it is holding the price of the weekday edition at 80p for subscribers.
The Times, which is owned by News UK, has taken the decision to hold the price of the Saturday edition, which is £1.50, and the Sunday Times at £2.50.
There has not been a cover price increase for the weekend papers since 2012.
From this weekend the Guardian will increase the cost of the Saturday edition by 20p to £2.90, and the Observer by 10p in the UK to £3.
