Raspberry Pi Raises Memory-Heavy Model Prices as AI Demand Drives Up Costs

Raspberry Pi serves the education, maker and industrial embedded markets with low-cost single-board computers, making price changes consequential for a large number of long-term deployments. The expansion of AI data centers is absorbing high-bandwidth memory and wafer capacity, squeezing supplies of the LPDDR4 DRAM used in the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5. Its price has surged sevenfold in a year, showing that AI investment is spilling over into education and consumer hardware supply chains.

Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said on April 1, 2026, that prices for the 4GB and 8GB versions of the Pi 4 and Pi 5 would rise by $25 and $50, respectively, while the 16GB Pi 5 would increase by $100. The company also introduced a 3GB Pi 4 priced at $83.75. The Pi 400 remains at $60, while the 1GB and 2GB versions of the Pi 4 and Pi 5 remain priced between $35 and $65.