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Raspberry Pi Announces Price Hikes Due To RAM Demand, 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 Launched

Written by Michael Larabel in Raspberry Pi on 1 December 2025 at 06:16 AM EST. 23 Comments
Due to the ongoing RAM shortages in the industry amid ongoing massive demand for AI servers,Raspberry Pi announced today they are having to raise prices on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers. They have also launched a 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 version too for those not needing much memory and wanting to keep pricing to a minimum.

Back in October Raspberry Pi announced some price hikes for their RPi Compute Modules cited due to rising memory demand. Now they are having to raise pricing on their typical Raspberry Pi single board computers due to the RAM demand and shortages within the industry.

The Raspberry Pi 5 4GB is going up from $60 to $70, the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB from $80 to $95, and the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB from $120 to $145. There are also price hikes to Raspberry Pi 4 SBCs too:

👁 Raspberry Pi pricing table comparison


Amid the RAM squeeze, Raspberry Pi also launched a Raspberry Pi 5 with just 1GB of RAM for $45.

More details for those interested via the Raspberry Pi Blog.

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