Infrastructure / Edge AI hardware

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+

An AI accelerator HAT+ add-on board for the Raspberry Pi 5 that integrates a Hailo neural-network accelerator: the 13 TOPS Hailo-8L or the 26 TOPS Hailo-8 variant. It conforms to the Raspberry Pi HAT+ specification, connects over PCIe, and integrates with the Pi camera stack for tasks like object detection and segmentation. Made by Raspberry Pi (silicon by Hailo); it is the official first-party way to add meaningful NPU compute to a Pi 5.

Verified live 2026-06-22 via primary sources. Officially supported open Pi software stack and public product page, globally purchasable, but the underlying Hailo model-compiler toolchain is registration-gated.

Openness

4 medium confidence

4.0

schematics: partial (HAT+ mechanical spec public)
toolchain: partial (open Pi driver integration, Hailo compiler gated)
datasheets: brief (public brief)
blobs: required (Hailo firmware required)
retail: open_market (mass-market)

Officially supported open Pi software stack and public product page, globally purchasable, but the underlying Hailo model-compiler toolchain is registration-gated.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-hat/ recorded 2026-06-22
Official product page: Hailo-8 (26 TOPS) / Hailo-8L (13 TOPS), HAT+ form factor, from $70

Adoption

4 high confidence

4.0

First-party Raspberry Pi accessory sold through the global Pi distributor network with strong community/tutorial coverage.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-hat/ recorded 2026-06-22
Official availability and pricing from $70

Capability

3 high confidence

3.0

Mid-tier vision-focused NPU; strong for CNN inference but not large LLMs, and dependent on the host Pi for memory.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-hat/ recorded 2026-06-22
26/13 TOPS Hailo accelerator spec and supported tasks

Unchanged since 2026-08-01 (last edited, not re-checked)