It was only a couple of months ago that the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced price increases for its line of extremely popular single-board computers. However, it hasn't taken long for the next price hike to hit the product line. Today, the company announced it will be making further changes to the prices of the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5, as well as the Compute Module 4 and 5, with only the 1GB configurations being safe.
The company says that the accelerating price of memory in the global market is once again the culprit for this latest change. Some part costs have "more than doubled over the last quarter," per the company, all thanks to "competition for memory fab capacity from the AI infrastructure roll-out."
To explain the latest price shifts, the company released this numbers chart:
| Memory density | Price increase |
|---|---|
| 1GB | None |
| 2GB | $10 |
| 4GB | $15 |
| 8GB | $30 |
| 16GB | $60 |
Any devices with 1GB of memory have avoided receiving a price hike in this latest wave, which includes the $35 1GB Raspberry Pi 4 and the $45 1GB Raspberry Pi 5. While Raspberry Pi 500 and 500+ computers that are built into keyboards are affected as well, the cheapest all-in-one configuration, the Raspberry Pi 400, will remain at $60 for now.
"2026 looks likely to be another challenging year for memory pricing, but we are working hard to limit the impact," added the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Eben Upton. "We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again: the current situation is ultimately a temporary one, and we look forward to unwinding these price increases once it abates."
As for the company's older products like the Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi 3, they will remain at their original prices. It said that this is due to it holding "several years'" worth of inventory for LPDDR2 memory that is used by these classic boards.
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