Raspberry Pi Raises Prices Again as Memory Market Tightens

Global memory shortages keep pushing hardware prices upward, and Raspberry Pi now joins the growing list of affected products.

As Neowin reports, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new round of price increases across several of its popular boards. The changes impact Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 5, Compute Module 4, and Compute Module 5, while 1GB memory variants remain exempt.

Memory costs push Raspberry Pi prices higher

Raspberry Pi links the price hike directly to rising global memory prices. According to the company, some memory components more than doubled in cost over the last quarter as AI infrastructure projects compete aggressively for memory fab capacity.

The increase scales with memory size. Models with 2GB RAM rise by $10, 4GB versions increase by $15, 8GB boards jump by $30, and 16GB configurations see the steepest increase at $60. Despite this, the $35 Raspberry Pi 4 (1GB) and $45 Raspberry Pi 5 (1GB) stay at their current prices.

Keyboard-based systems also feel the impact. Raspberry Pi 500 and 500+ models receive price bumps, while the Raspberry Pi 400 remains unchanged at $60.

Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton says 2026 will likely remain difficult for memory pricing, but he expects the situation to ease. The foundation plans to roll back these increases once memory market conditions stabilize.

Older boards escape the hike. Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi 3 retain their original pricing because the company still holds several years’ worth of LPDDR2 inventory for those products.

The broader hardware market shows similar pressure. Memory shortages have already pushed DDR4 prices higher due to constrained DDR5 supply, and GPU pricing has followed the same trend, with recent RTX 5070 Ti price hikes appearing across US retailers.