1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises

At Raspberry Pi, our mission is to put high-performance, low-cost, general-purpose computers in the hands of people all over the world. For me, the crucial element of that sentence is low-cost. Over the years we’ve worked hard to hold down the prices of our single-board computers – at $35, a 1GB Raspberry Pi 4 costs the same as a 256MB Raspberry Pi 1 from 2012 – and to introduce new products at ever lower price points, from the $10 Raspberry Pi Zero to the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico.

But today, to offset the recent unprecedented rise in the cost of LPDDR4 memory, we are announcing price increases to some Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 products. These largely mirror the increases that we announced in October for our Compute Module products, and will help us to secure memory supplies as we navigate an increasingly constrained market in 2026.

In happier news, we are also announcing the immediate availability of a new 1GB version of Raspberry Pi 5. This brings our flagship platform, with its quad-core 2.4GHz Arm Cortex-A76 processor, dual-band Wi-Fi and PCI Express port, to a new low price point of $45.

What’s changing?

With effect from today, we’re making the following changes to the prices of Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers:

Product	Density	Old price	New price
Raspberry Pi 4	4GB	$55	$60
Raspberry Pi 4	8GB	$75	$85
Raspberry Pi 5	1GB	–	$45
Raspberry Pi 5	2GB	$50	$55
Raspberry Pi 5	4GB	$60	$70
Raspberry Pi 5	8GB	$80	$95
Raspberry Pi 5	16GB	$120	$145

We’re also increasing the price of 16GB variants of Compute Module 5, which remained unchanged in October, by $20. The prices of lower-density Raspberry Pi 4 variants, of Raspberry Pi 3+ and earlier models, and of Raspberry Pi Zero products remain unchanged.

Nothing ever lasts forever

The current pressure on memory prices, driven by competition from the AI infrastructure roll-out, is painful but ultimately temporary. We remain committed to driving down the cost of computing and look forward to unwinding these price increases once it abates.

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