- Raspberry Pi 4/5, Pi 500/500+ and more face price increases
- But there’s a new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 to optimize cost vs. performance
- Some ‘classic’ products that use stock chips are not affected
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton has announced another round of price increases across much of the company’s range, largely blaming the global chip shortage.
The latest increases range from $11 to $150, depending on model or RAM, driven by rising LPDDR4 DRAM costs affected by AI-induced demand.
Upton explained that RAM prices for the chips used by the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 have increased sevenfold in the last year, but with higher RAM models being hit hardest due to supply shortages, the company thought creatively and introduced a lower storage model to keep costs down.
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Raspberry Pi launched a model with lower RAM in response to rising costs
“While we can’t help but pass on a portion of these increased costs, we are also conducting engineering work to expand the range of memory density options available to our customers,” Upton wrote.
The new Raspberry Pi 4 3GB model is now available for purchase, positioned below the 4GB model and above the 1GB and 2GB variants, for $83.75. As for the latest models in the company’s existing range, prices have increased across the board:
- Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 (4GB) +$25
- Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 (8GB) +$50
- Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB) +$100
- Raspberry Pi 500 (unit and kit only) +$50
- Raspberry Pi 500+ unit only +$150
- Raspberry Pi 500+ Kit +$150
- Computing Module 4 and 4S (1GG) +$11.25
- Computing Module 4, 4S, 5 (2GB) +$12.50
- Computing Module 4, 4S, 5 (4GB) +$25
- Computing Module 4, 4S, 5 (8GB) +$50
- Computing Module 5 (16 GB) +$100
- Compute Module 5 Development Kit +$25
- Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 +$50
There are some products that remain unchanged, including the Raspberry Pi 400 (4 GB), Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 (1 GB and 2 GB), and “classic” products such as the Pi Zero/Zero W/Zero 2 W, Pi 1/3/3B+/3A+, and Compute Module 1/3+.
Upton calls the strain “challenging but temporary” and expects prices to fall again once memory costs stabilize.
The news follows previous increases in December 2025 and February 2026, which were attributed to competition for manufacturing capacity, as large-scale AI infrastructure continues to absorb an increasing share of global memory production.
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