What actually runs well on a Raspberry Pi 5?

Our compute tiers are estimates based on parameter counts. Real numbers beat estimates.

If you have measured frame rates or latency on a Pi 5 for small detectors, depth models, compact VLMs or streaming speech, please share the model, runtime and settings.

Referenced repos

Indexed from Hugging Face and linked upstream, not hosted here.

ustc-community/dfine-small-coco
Object detection10M paramsEst. Single-board computerApache 2.0Feb 2025

Small real-time DETR-style detector for the 80 COCO classes that refines box edges as distributions for tighter localization.

HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct
Vision-language507M paramsEst. Single-board computerApache 2.0Feb 2025

Half-billion-parameter vision-language model from Hugging Face that answers questions about images and short video clips.

moonshine-ai/moonshine-streaming-small
Speech to text123M paramsEst. Single-board computerMITJan 2026

The small size of the Moonshine Streaming family, an English-only encoder-decoder recognizer that uses a sliding-window encoder so it can transcribe live audio with low latency on edge hardware.

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