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(Image credit: Future) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Just two months after the last price increase, your slice of Raspberry Pi just got a lot more expensive and AI is squarely to blame.
Writing in an official blog post , Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO Eben Upton shared the bad news that price rises have accelerated and the cost of some parts has more than doubled over the last quarter. That means that the current flagship Raspberry Pi 5 and the older flagship Raspberry Pi 4, along with their Compute Module variants with 2GB or more memory, are seeing up to a $60 price increase, on top of the previous increases. The general theme is that no matter the product (Pi 4 and 5, Compute Module 4 and 5), each memory density will see a price increase. So a Raspberry Pi 500 would now cost $130 from Adafruit. The Raspberry Pi 500+, with its 16GB of RAM goes from $220 to a whopping $280 at Adafruit!
We've gone through the price increases and illustrated the original retail price, the December 2025 price, and the new price. The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB has gone from $120 to $205, quite frankly an eye watering sum of money. But the most expensive Pi is the Raspberry Pi 500+, which jumps from $180 to $259, nearly $80!
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-price-increases-drastically-as-ai-shortage-bites-16gb-version-now-usd205-second-price-increase-in-three-months-over-70-percent-more-expensive-than-original-msrp#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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