Raspberry Pi Raises Prices, Introduces New 3 GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75

The component crisis has come for Raspberry Pi, as it must, with the low-priced board computer maker raising prices across the board and introducing a new 3 GB model of the previous-generation Raspberry Pi to help make up the slack.

“As many of you are aware, the price of memory continues to rise, with a seven-fold increase over the last year in the price of the LPDDR4 DRAM used on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5,” Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton writes. “Providing low-cost general-purpose computing remains a non-negotiable priority for us at Raspberry Pi, so while we can’t avoid passing on a portion of these increased costs, we’re also doing engineering work to expand the range of memory-density options available to our customers: we want to make sure you don’t pay for more memory than you need.”

Basically, Raspberry Pi is announcing two big changes.

First, it is raising the prices across almost its entire product range, with prices going up $25 to $100 across various Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 models, $50 to $150 across various Raspberry Pi 500 units and kits, and other price increases to Compute Model, Development Kit, and Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 products. (In the good news department, pricing for some models is unchanged.)

Second, it’s offering a new Raspberry Pi 4 configuration with 3 GB of RAM for $83.75 that you can order now. “In this environment, it’s well worth right-sizing both your memory and your overall compute, rather than going for something with more headroom than your application actually needs,” Upton notes. “Consider whether these models, or lower-density variants of newer models, will get the job done.”

Upton also adds that these price hikes are temporary: When component pricing goes down again, Raspberry Pi will lower prices too.