- Raspberry Pi 4/5, Pi 500/500+ and more face price increases
- But there’s a new Raspberry Pi 4 3GB to optimize cost vs. performance
- Some ‘classic’ products using stock chips aren’t being affected
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton has announced another round of price increases across much of the company’s range, pointing the blame largely at global chip shortages.
The latest increases range from around $11 to $150 depending on the model or RAM, driven by increased 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 past year, but with higher-RAM models hit hardest due to strained supply, the company has thought creatively and introduced a lower-storage model to keep a lid on costs.
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Raspberry Pi launched lower-RAM model in response to rising costs
“While we can’t avoid passing on a portion of these increased costs, we’re also doing engineering work to expand the range of memory-density options available to our customers,” Upton wrote.
The new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 model is now available to buy, slotting beneath the 4GB model and above the 1GB and 2GB variants, for $83.75. As for the latest models in the company’s existing lineup, 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 only and kit) +$50
- Raspberry Pi 500+ unit only +$150
- Raspberry Pi 500+ kit +$150
- Compute Module 4 and 4S (1GG) +$11.25
- Compute Module 4, 4S, 5 (2GB) +$12.50
- Compute Module 4, 4S, 5 (4GB) +$25
- Compute Module 4, 4S, 5 (8GB) +$50
- Compute Module 5 (16GB) +$100
- Development Kit for Compute Module 5 +$25
- Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 +$50
There are some products that remain unchanged, including the Raspberry Pi 400 (4GB), Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 (1GB and 2GB) and ‘classic’ products like the Pi Zero/Zero W/Zero 2 W, Pi 1/3/3B+/3A+ and Compute Module 1/3+.
Upton sees the strain as “challenging but temporary,” and expects prices to fall again once memory costs stabilize.
The news follows earlier December 2025 and February 2026 increases, which were blamed on competition for fabrication capacity, as large-scale AI infrastructure continues to absorb a growing share of global memory production.
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