Raspberry Pi 5 price increases drastically as AI shortage bites, 16GB version now $205 — second price increase in three months, over 70% more expensive than original MSRP

Raspberry Pi 5 placed near an older Raspberry Pi on a board.

Just two months after the last price increase, your slice of Raspberry Pi just got a lot more expensive and AI is squarely to blame.

Writing in an official blog post, Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO Eben Upton shared the bad news that price rises have accelerated and the cost of some parts has more than doubled over the last quarter. That means that the current flagship Raspberry Pi 5 and the older flagship Raspberry Pi 4, along with their Compute Module variants with 2GB or more memory, are seeing up to a $60 price increase, on top of the previous increases.

The general theme is that no matter the product (Pi 4 and 5, Compute Module 4 and 5), each memory density will see a price increase. So a Raspberry Pi 500 would now cost $130 from Adafruit. The Raspberry Pi 500+, with its 16GB of RAM goes from $220 to a whopping $280 at Adafruit!