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It launched at $130 in January 2026; Raspberry Pi's pages give no reason for the change.","regions":["US"],"checkedAt":"2026-10-18","sourceId":"src_rpi_ai_hat2_page"},{"label":"Adafruit","amount":225,"currency":"USD","cadence":"one_time","note":"In stock, limit 2 per customer.","regions":["US"],"checkedAt":"2026-10-18","sourceId":"src_adafruit_ai_hat2","support":{"support":"independently_verified","verified":"Adafruit's US store listed the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 at $225.00, in stock (limit 2 per customer), on October 18, 2026"}}],"claims":[{"id":"clm_aihat2_vision_power","text":"In Jeff Geerling's hands-on test (January 2026), YOLO-based vision models ran on the AI HAT+ 2 \"10x faster than on the Pi's CPU\". The Hailo-10H runs at a maximum of 3 W, against up to 10 W for the Pi's processor. CNX Software measured 7.2–7.6 W running DeepSeek R1 1.5B on a Raspberry Pi 5 with the board, against 10.2–10.6 W on its CPU-only setup, a different Raspberry Pi board; it doesn't say where power was measured.","evidenceClass":"documented","sourceIds":["src_geerling_ai_hat2","src_cnx_ai_hat2_review"],"observedAt":"2026-10-18","support":{"src_geerling_ai_hat2":{"support":"independently_verified","verified":"Jeff Geerling ran language and vision models on the AI HAT+ 2 on a Raspberry Pi 5 and compared them with the Pi's own CPU; the post doesn't say how he obtained the board"},"src_cnx_ai_hat2_review":{"support":"independently_verified","verified":"CNX Software ran computer-vision, LLM and VLM tests on a review sample that Raspberry Pi sent, and measured tokens per second and power"}}},{"id":"clm_aihat2_genai_claim","text":"Raspberry Pi presents the AI HAT+ 2 as bringing generative AI to the Raspberry Pi 5: a Hailo-10H accelerator rated at 40 TOPS (INT4) with 8 GB of on-board memory for language and vision-language models, launched with models including Llama 3.2 1B, Qwen2.5-Instruct 1.5B and DeepSeek-R1-Distill 1.5B.","evidenceClass":"company_claim","sourceIds":["src_rpi_ai_hat2_page","src_rpi_ai_hat2_launch"],"observedAt":"2026-10-18"},{"id":"clm_aihat2_llm_tests","text":"Both independent tests found the language models slower on the AI HAT+ 2 than on a Raspberry Pi CPU. Jeff Geerling wrote that the Pi's CPU \"trounces the Hailo 10H\", with the board close only on Qwen2.5-Coder 1.5B. CNX Software measured, for example, 6.72 tokens per second for DeepSeek R1 1.5B on the board against 9.04 on its CPU baseline, Raspberry Pi's Compute Module 5 development kit, so the comparison isn't like-for-like.","evidenceClass":"documented","sourceIds":["src_geerling_ai_hat2","src_cnx_ai_hat2_review"],"observedAt":"2026-10-18","support":{"src_geerling_ai_hat2":{"support":"independently_verified","verified":"Jeff Geerling ran language and vision models on the AI HAT+ 2 on a Raspberry Pi 5 and compared them with the Pi's own CPU; the post doesn't say how he obtained the board"},"src_cnx_ai_hat2_review":{"support":"independently_verified","verified":"CNX Software ran computer-vision, LLM and VLM tests on a review sample that Raspberry Pi sent, and measured tokens per second and power"}}},{"id":"clm_aihat2_software","text":"Both testers described early software as immature in January 2026. Running two models at the same time ended in segmentation faults in Jeff Geerling's tests, and some of Hailo's example code hadn't been updated for the new board.","evidenceClass":"documented","sourceIds":["src_geerling_ai_hat2","src_cnx_ai_hat2_review"],"observedAt":"2026-10-18","support":{"src_geerling_ai_hat2":{"support":"independently_verified","verified":"Jeff Geerling ran language and vision models on the AI HAT+ 2 on a Raspberry Pi 5 and compared them with the Pi's own CPU; the post doesn't say how he obtained the board"},"src_cnx_ai_hat2_review":{"support":"independently_verified","verified":"CNX Software ran computer-vision, LLM and VLM tests on a review sample that Raspberry Pi sent, and measured tokens per second and power"}}},{"id":"clm_aihat2_specs","text":"Raspberry Pi says the board connects to the Raspberry Pi 5 over PCI Express, follows its HAT+ specification, works with the Raspberry Pi camera software, matches the vision performance of the 26 TOPS AI HAT+, and operates at 0–50 °C.","evidenceClass":"company_claim","sourceIds":["src_rpi_ai_hat2_brief","src_rpi_ai_hat2_page"],"observedAt":"2026-10-18"}],"sourceIds":["src_rpi_ai_hat2_page","src_rpi_ai_hat2_brief","src_rpi_ai_hat2_launch","src_adafruit_ai_hat2","src_geerling_ai_hat2","src_cnx_ai_hat2_review"],"lastCheckedAt":"2026-10-18","updatedAt":"2026-10-18","editorial":{"status":"published","reviewedBy":"Holly White","reviewedAt":"2026-10-18","note":"Batch 2B-E record, approved in the evidence review (2026-10-18) and published."},"status":"available","statusAsOf":"2026-10-18","sourceRecords":[{"id":"src_rpi_ai_hat2_page","title":"Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2","publisher":"Raspberry Pi","url":"https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-hat-plus-2/","origin":"company","mediaType":"official_page","checkedAt":"2026-10-18","sourceType":"first_party"},{"id":"src_rpi_ai_hat2_brief","title":"Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 product brief","publisher":"Raspberry Pi","url":"https://pip-assets.raspberrypi.com/categories/1319-raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2/documents/RP-009655-MM-6-raspberry-pi-ai-hat-plus-2-product-brief.pdf","origin":"company","mediaType":"documentation","checkedAt":"2026-10-18","sourceType":"first_party"},{"id":"src_rpi_ai_hat2_launch","title":"Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: generative AI on Raspberry Pi 5","publisher":"Raspberry Pi","url":"https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-ai-hat-plus-2-generative-ai-on-raspberry-pi-5/","origin":"company","mediaType":"press_release","publishedAt":"2026-01-15","checkedAt":"2026-10-18","sourceType":"first_party"},{"id":"src_adafruit_ai_hat2","title":"Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2","publisher":"Adafruit","url":"https://adafruit.com/product/6451","origin":"independent_reporting","mediaType":"order_page","checkedAt":"2026-10-18","sourceType":"independent"},{"id":"src_geerling_ai_hat2","title":"Raspberry Pi's new AI HAT adds 8GB of RAM for local LLMs","publisher":"Jeff Geerling","url":"https://jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2","origin":"independent_reporting","mediaType":"independent_test","publishedAt":"2026-01-15","checkedAt":"2026-10-18","sourceType":"independent"},{"id":"src_cnx_ai_hat2_review","title":"Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 review – A 40 TOPS AI accelerator tested with Computer Vision, LLM, and VLM workloads","publisher":"CNX Software","url":"https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/20/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2-review-a-40-tops-ai-accelerator-tested-with-computer-vision-llm-and-vlm-workloads/","origin":"independent_reporting","mediaType":"independent_test","publishedAt":"2026-01-20","checkedAt":"2026-10-18","sourceType":"independent"}],"canonicalUrl":"https://itsalive.ai/products/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-plus-2"}