Y’all need a price chart. You are literally getting what you are paying for.

Raspberry Pi 5, 16 GB RAM

• Price: $205 (don’t trust the price on RPi website, no way you are buying it for $145).
• Generic desktop PC: runs Blender and video editors.
• AI agent: yes.
• Computer vision: yes, with face recognition and real-time AI filters.
• SDR signal processor: you can broadcast an HD TV station on it.
• Servers: whatever you want, can host Amazon and Netflix.

Raspberry PI 5, 1 GB RAM

• Price: $45.
• Generic desktop PC: you can edit office documents.
• AI agent: lol no.
• Computer vision: a movement sensor for your surveillance camera.
• SDR signal processor: you can broadcast FM radio.
• Servers: home file server and torrents.

Raspberry PI Zero 2, 512 MB RAM

• Price: $15 on a website, $19 in shops.
• Generic desktop PC: probably runs Solitaire.
• AI agent: dream on.
• Computer vision: a movement sensor for your surveillance camera, and it won’t support HD cameras.
• SDR signal processor: you can record FM radio, not much else.
• Servers: online garage door opener.
• Ethernet adapter sold separately, if you don’t want your garage door opener to drop offline at random because of unstable WiFi.

Raspberry Pi Pico, 264 KB RAM

• Price: $4.
• Generic desktop PC: nope.
• AI agent: absolutely impossible.
• Computer vision: nope.
• SDR signal processor: nope.
• Servers: unsecure garage door opener.
• Ethernet adapter requires soldering skills.
• You don’t need 40 programmable pins to control one garage door.
• Just buy ESP32 instead.

ESP32-C6-Zero, 400 KB RAM.

• Price: $3.50.
• Does everything that Raspberry Pi Pico does, but better.
• Works for a year from three AAA batteries.