Ouch: The Raspberry Pi 5 just hit an eye-watering $385

The times, they are a-changin’, and not for the better. Raspberry Pi is the archetypal single-board project PC. Its monster popularity comes down to its open nature, easy-to-work-on layout, and its low price. But while data centers devour the world’s RAM supply, low prices are a thing of the past. The latest round of price increases makes the 16GB variant of the Raspberry Pi 5 a whopping $385 USD.

The slim Pi Compute Module 5 16GB also gets a price bump, from $335 to $375. According to CEO Ebon Upton, the company is trying to hold out on price increases for the Pi 500+ PC-in-a-keyboard, and I assume that’s possible just because they sell fewer of those than the regular Pi devices.

That brings the recent, full-power Pi lineup pricing to this grim table, going by today’s prices on PiShop US:

Model1GB2GB4GB8GB16GB

Pi 4 model B$35$67.50$100

Pi 400 keyboard$76

Pi 5$45$77.50$110$175$385

Pi 500 keyboard$180

Pi 500+ mechanical$450

Pi Compute Module 5$67.50
$75.50 wireless$100
$105 wireless$165
$170 wireless$375
$380 wireless