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Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2

An add-on board that gives a Raspberry Pi 5 a Hailo-10H AI accelerator and 8 GB of its own memory, so it can run camera vision models, and small language models, on the board itself.

by Raspberry Pi · last checked Oct 18, 2026

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What has been shown

On sale since January 2026; independent retailers have it in stock.

Evidence support Company-reported · Independently verified

Public availability Raspberry Pi lists the AI HAT+ 2 as "Available now for $200", and Adafruit's US store had it in stock at $225.00 on October 18, 2026. Raspberry Pi, Adafruit

As of Oct 18, 2026 · Raspberry Pi (company source), Adafruit (independent reporting)

Can you get it?

Available now

Sold through retailers; Adafruit limits orders to 2 per customer.

United States · As of Oct 18, 2026 · Raspberry Pi (company source), Adafruit (independent reporting)

Is it still alive?

Active

Raspberry Pi says it will remain in production until at least January 2036.

    As of Oct 18, 2026 · Raspberry Pi (company source), Adafruit (independent reporting)

    Sold through retailers at a $200 list price; Adafruit had it in stock in the US at $225 on October 18, 2026.

    What the evidence says

    1. Independently verified

      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.

      Observed Oct 18, 2026 · Jeff Geerling (independent reporting), CNX Software (independent reporting)
    2. Company claim

      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.

      Observed Oct 18, 2026 · Raspberry Pi (company source), Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: generative AI on Raspberry Pi 5 (company source)
    3. Independently verified

      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.

      Observed Oct 18, 2026 · Jeff Geerling (independent reporting), CNX Software (independent reporting)
    4. Independently verified

      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.

      Observed Oct 18, 2026 · Jeff Geerling (independent reporting), CNX Software (independent reporting)
    5. Company claim

      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.

      Observed Oct 18, 2026 · Raspberry Pi (company source), Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 (company source)

    Price

    • List price$200Raspberry Pi's list price. It launched at $130 in January 2026; Raspberry Pi's pages give no reason for the change. Checked Oct 18, 2026. Raspberry Pi (company source)
    • Adafruit$225In stock, limit 2 per customer. Checked Oct 18, 2026. Adafruit (independent reporting)

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