Last October, Raspberry Pi had to increase the price of its CM4/CM5 Compute Modules due to DDR4 supply constraints. Now the company has had to do the same for the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 single board computers, and launched the Raspberry Pi 5 1GB for people wanting a lower cost option.
They could not get the traditional $35 price tag, and the new low-cost Pi 5 sells for $45. Here’s what the old and new prices are.
| 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 |
$145 for a Raspberry Pi 5 16GB starts to be really stiff, especially since that’s only the board we are talking about here. Other casualties are 16GB variants of the Compute Module 5, which got a price increase of $20 after being spared by the October price adjustments. The cheapest Pi 4/5 option – the Raspberry Pi 4 1GB – is still sold for $35. It’s not in the table above as the price remains the same, and the same is true for the $45 Raspberry Pi 4 2GB. Raspberry Pi 3+ and earlier models, as well as the Raspberry Pi Zero family, are not affected by the price change.
The Raspberry Pi 5 1GB appears to have limited availability, as it looks to be mainly available through European resellers, and Canakit in the US and Canada, but you’ll have a hard time sourcing it in Asia, and none of the “rest of the world” resellers have stock for this model.
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Why would anyone get a 16G Pi for $185 when you can get a complete N100, 512G, enclosure, and fan for $219 that’s faster and better in every way?
The Pi is no longer a value.
That’s old news at this point. Low RAM Pi variants are more interesting, but I wouldn’t recommend going below 2 GB for most use cases.
I would guess you need the gpio and ram for whatever reason…
For how much longer though?
The king is dead! Long live the Kong!
Seems like a large cope from the rpi “foundation”. Who needs compute this fast with so little RAM? Is this just for running Home Assistant?
If you have the skill and equipments, buying the 1GB version and upgrading the RAM yourself is often cheaper…
Extremely limited even for HA. Bought a new (old stock) fanless HP thin client with 8GB ram for $50 on eBay which even accepts some coral TPU for frigate shenigangs.
What HP thin client – can you share model ?
Some t610, t620 or t630 with an AMD dual core
T630 it is
And yes unlike some overpriced raspberry it comes with case, stand, PSU, SSD, display port adapter, Ethernet cable and got free slots for expandable RAM, storage and TPU/NPU… Like a christmas package!