Raspberry Pi Raises Prices on Selected 16GB Models as Memory Costs Climb
Raspberry Pi has raised the price of its 16-gigabyte Raspberry Pi 5 by $80 to $385, citing pressure on memory and other component costs.
Published November 15, 2026Briefs / Frontier Tech / Experimental Systems
Raspberry Pi has raised the price of its 16-gigabyte Raspberry Pi 5 by $80 to $385, citing pressure on memory and other component costs. In a November 2 update, chief executive Eben Upton said 16GB Compute Module 5 variants would rise by $40. The company is holding the price of the 16GB Raspberry Pi 500+ keyboard computer. Raspberry Pi's announcement
The changes concentrate the impact on particular high-memory products. For developers planning a system, that makes the working memory requirement a more consequential part of the hardware budget, especially when the same board will be deployed repeatedly. Raspberry Pi says it intends to reverse the increases as memory costs fall, with the timing tied to component-market conditions. The immediate planning task is to match a project's memory demand to its full system cost.