Home Assistant — system requirements

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Minimum RAM

2 GB

“Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 with power supply (minimum 2 GB RAM)”

Scope: Home Assistant OS on Raspberry Pi ONLY — no official x86 figure published · official source · retrieved 2026-07-24

No official figure published for: recommended RAM, minimum CPU cores, recommended CPU cores

We publish nothing we can't source. Evidence of the gap.

External services

Image: ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant · compressed size (amd64): 594 MB · architectures: amd64, arm64 · source, retrieved 2026-07-24

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