Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ (13 TOPS)

The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ is the official add-on for bringing power-efficient, high-performance Artificial Intelligence to the Raspberry Pi 5. Designed to integrate seamlessly with the Pi 5's hardware, this board offers an accessible, cost-effective entry point to edge computing, robotics, and smart automation.

13 TOPS of Neural Processing

This variant of the AI HAT+ features the Hailo-8L accelerator, delivering 13 TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second) of inferencing performance.

• Perfect for Vision: While it uses less power than its larger siblings, 13 TOPS is more than enough to run complex neural networks for object detection, semantic segmentation, and pose estimation in real time.

Of course, if you need a little more power, the 26 TOPS version is available below for more demanding workloads.

Seamless PCIe Integration

Gone are the days of USB accelerators hanging off the side of your board. The AI HAT+ communicates directly with the Raspberry Pi 5 over the PCIe Gen 3 interface.

• Auto-Detection: On the latest Raspberry Pi OS, the board is automatically detected, and the NPU is immediately available for tasks.
• Native Camera Support: The built-in rpicam-apps suite natively supports this module, enabling your camera pipelines to automatically offload post-processing tasks to the NPU with minimal configuration.

Optimized for Efficiency

Not every project needs the raw power of a generative AI engine. The 13 TOPS variant is the ideal "right-sized" solution for standard computer vision tasks. By using the lower-power Hailo-8L chip, this board offers a lower power profile and thermal footprint than its high-performance counterparts, making it well-suited for battery-powered drones, remote wildlife cameras, and always-on security systems where efficiency is as important as processing speed.