



The best free alternative to Raspberry Pi is Orange Pi, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Raspberry Pi and four of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Raspberry Pi are OLinuXino, UDOO and Minnow Board.




OLINUXINO is Open Source software and Open Source Hardware, low cost Linux Industrial grade single board computer with GPIOs capable to operate -25+85C.



UDOO is a single-board computer integrated with a microcontroller Arduino 2 compatible, designed for the education of computer science, the world of Makers and the Internet of Things.


The Minnow Board is Intel's entry into the hacker-space. It's a completely open-source single-board computer.

Orange Pi is the best and cheapest alternative to Raspberry Pi.
It can do 99% of what Raspberry Pi can do. Most of the microprocessor is based on ARMv8 Cortex A5x micro architecture. So it will support most, if not all, apps and OS that can run on Raspberry Pi out of the box.
The only negative is the customer support could be improved and the English-language community is not as big as Raspberry Pi since it is based in China.