Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 Pricing: 2GB Price Increase
Official maximum USD prices effective . Verified against Raspberry Pi's first-party announcement.
Verified hardware price change
Both 2GB boards increased by $12.50
Raspberry Pi says steep memory costs made the earlier protection of lower-memory boards unsustainable. The Pi 4 2GB is now $67.50 and the Pi 5 2GB is $77.50. No reversal date was announced.
Raspberry Pi 2GB old and new prices
| Product | Previous | Current | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi 4 2GB | $55.00 | $67.50 | +$12.50 · 22.73% |
| Raspberry Pi 5 2GB | $65.00 | $77.50 | +$12.50 · 19.23% |
Price basis: Official published maximum price before local taxes, shipping, and reseller-specific charges. Regional checkout totals may differ. Raspberry Pi advises buying from an approved reseller that follows its published maximum prices.
Products explicitly unchanged
- ✓ Raspberry Pi 4 1GB
- ✓ Raspberry Pi 5 1GB
- ✓ Compute Module 4 2GB
- ✓ Compute Module 5 2GB
The announcement does not provide a complete regional price list, so unmentioned SKUs are not inferred.
Structured pricing data
The hardware feed records official prices, arithmetic, effective date, verification time, and source provenance without mixing boards into token-priced AI models.
How to compare Raspberry Pi cost for local AI
Board price is not total deployment cost. Add power, storage, cooling, enclosure, accelerators, maintenance, and engineering time. Then verify that a 2GB board can load the exact model and complete the workload without swapping or unacceptable latency.
Use the local AI versus API calculator for the deployment boundary and compare current hosted AI API prices. A low-utilization project may cost less on an API; privacy-sensitive, offline, or continuously used workloads may justify owned hardware.
Labs inclusion decision
A physical board cannot enter the route-based text leaderboard as if it were a model. The Labs coverage note requires pinned hardware, software, model, quantization, tasks, power, latency, correctness, failures, and full-system cost before any Raspberry Pi local-inference result can be compared.
Read the price-increase analysis for percentage changes, unchanged-product scope, local-AI impact, and the buyer checklist.
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Raspberry Pi 4 2GB cost now?
Raspberry Pi lists the Raspberry Pi 4 2GB at $67.50, up $12.50 from $55. That is a 22.73% increase before local taxes, shipping, and reseller-specific charges.
How much does the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB cost now?
Raspberry Pi lists the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB at $77.50, up $12.50 from $65. That is a 19.23% increase before local taxes, shipping, and reseller-specific charges.
Which Raspberry Pi products did not increase?
The October 1 announcement says the 1GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 and the 2GB Compute Module 4 and Compute Module 5 remain unchanged.
Why are Raspberry Pi prices not in the AI model pricing API?
A Raspberry Pi is physical hardware, not a billable AI endpoint. Hardware prices use a dedicated canonical JSON and API mirror so token and request calculators are not polluted with pseudo-model rows.
Official source and freshness
Source: Raspberry Pi's October 1 price announcement. Verified . The feed is guarded for source, arithmetic, and canonical/API parity and should be rechecked when Raspberry Pi publishes a reversal or another memory-driven change.