Where to buy cheapest raspberry?

[MarkWilson]

Hello currently buying raspberry 3 with sd for 50$ and would like to know if there is any provider selling for less. Looking to scale up my projects for lowest cost. Thanks on advance if anyone knows it will help a lot

 

[highapp]

amazon , 39 usd

 

[MarkWilson]

amazon , 39 usd

seems like it doesn't have sd included

 

[ViceCaz]

could you share where you get yours from too? It doesnt seem like a bad price

 

[eykanspelgud]

Hello currently buying raspberry 3 with sd for 50$ and would like to know if there is any provider selling for less. Looking to scale up my projects for lowest cost. Thanks on advance if anyone knows it will help a lot

What are you planning to do? A Raspberry Pi 3 might be overkill if you're doing something low powered.
Check to see if there's a Microcenter near you as they have very competitive prices compared to Amazon. If you find out that you only need a Raspberry Pi Zero, they sell them for $1 (at least in my area), but are limited to 1 to 5 per purchase depending on the store. You still have to buy SD cards, unfortunately.

I've purchased SD cards on the cheap from AliExpress, though you'll have to test each one and I don't recommend going above 4Gb. Also, removing most of the bloatware on Raspbian (if that's your OS of choice) frees up about a gig or so of storage.

Good luck!

 

[MarkWilson]

could you share where you get yours from too? It doesnt seem like a bad price

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[MarkWilson]

What are you planning to do? A Raspberry Pi 3 might be overkill if you're doing something low powered.
Check to see if there's a Microcenter near you as they have very competitive prices compared to Amazon. If you find out that you only need a Raspberry Pi Zero, they sell them for $1 (at least in my area), but are limited to 1 to 5 per purchase depending on the store. You still have to buy SD cards, unfortunately.

I've purchased SD cards on the cheap from AliExpress, though you'll have to test each one and I don't recommend going above 4Gb. Also, removing most of the bloatware on Raspbian (if that's your OS of choice) frees up about a gig or so of storage.

Good luck!

I will check, thanks!

 

[shifubill]

+1 for Aliexpress. You can also find a cheaper Orange Pi if you don't specifically need the RPi.

 

[jerkowick]

Depends on your application but check out one of the knock-offs like OrangePi or BananaPi. Might be sufficient. Or If you care to share more details PM me and maybe I can advise you more suitable solution.