# A Guide to Self-Hosting AI Models on a Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi

> Source: <https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/08/21/a-guide-to-self-hosting-ai-models-on-a-raspberry-pi-piday-raspberrypi/>
> Published: 2026-08-21 17:23:30+00:00

Hackernoon has this quick how’s and why’s of setting up a Raspberry Pi 5 as a local AI agent. I was burning through $40-60/month on OpenAI API calls for my agent project. Every conversation, every code review, every “summarize this for me” was a metered API call. Worse, I was sending personal data to […]