In the next couple of days, you’ll likely see the price of Home Assistant Green increasing at local retailers to around $159 / €139. This represents a $30 / €30 increase.
Like many organisations have been announcing recently, we’ve been hit by component cost increases. We need to raise the price to ensure that every purchase continues to fund the development of Home Assistant. Thanks again for your support of Nabu Casa and the Open Home Foundation 🙏.
It’s never fun to give this news, but it's just the reality of the current world. As you’ve probably seen in the news, it's mainly RAM (memory) prices that are driving up costs. Meaning the component price of building a Home Assistant Green has nearly doubled since we started making the device. Luckily, we’ve been able to avoid doubling the price of this awesome little box by working a bit smarter to keep costs down. We’ve also done some work behind the scenes to avoid needing to raise prices again in the near future.
We still long for those days when you’d buy something and the next year it would be so much cheaper you’d be kicking yourself for being an early adopter. Now the best advice seems the exact opposite: If there’s something you want or need, buy it sooner rather than later, as prices will likely continue to be volatile for the coming year.
Green is still the easiest way to get started with Home Assistant, but it’s by no means the only way. Home Assistant runs on some very affordable hardware, so if you’re having trouble getting a Green at a price you can afford, the Home Assistant documentation have a great getting started guide – you might have something just lying around that will allow you to run Home Assistant pretty well.