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Raspberry Pi 5 + Hailo AI HAT for Frigate: Does It Work?

Frigate on Raspberry Pi 5 with the Hailo AI HAT+: measured inference time, docs numbers, and limits.

last reviewed 2026-10-19 newest Frigate 0.18.2Hardware in this guide: Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ (Hailo) · Hailo-8L (M.2) · Raspberry Pi 5 · Raspberry Pi 4 8GB

The Raspberry Pi 5 with Hailo's PCIe HAT is a supported Frigate platform per the docs. Our database has one hands-on measurement plus the official Hailo numbers.

Known issues and gotchas

  • Measured: Jeff Geerling reports ~12 ms on a Pi 5 with Hailo; whether the module was the 8 or 8L wasn't confirmed in our extract (db-170).
  • x86 does better: docs say x86 platforms with dual PCIe lanes yield further improvements vs the Pi (docs).
  • Video decoding is separate: the accelerator doesn't decode video (docs), and the Pi's CPU decoding is a separate bottleneck — not yet benchmarked in our data.
  • Pi 4 + USB Coral at 55 ms was flagged as abnormal in its source thread (db-122).

Live numbers for this guide's hardware

Generated from the database at build time

The text above is written by hand and never contains numbers or prices. Everything below is pulled from builds.json and hardware.json when the site is built, so it stays current without touching the guide.

Median inference
12 ms
all models · 1 usable build
Capacity · estimate
~83 det/s
frigate-default median 12 ms · 1 detector
Cameras · estimate
19
5 fps · Typical · under 60% (33 before overload)
Price
not tracked yet
retailer link below
BuildSourceModelSpeedCamsFrigatePosted
db-170 community default 12 ms 2 — Feb 18, 2026 · jeffgeerling.com
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1 build
Median inference
11 ms
all models · 3 usable builds
Capacity · estimate
~100 det/s
mobilenet-v1 median 10 ms · 1 detector
Cameras · estimate
24
5 fps · Typical · under 60% (40 before overload)
Price
not tracked yet
retailer link below
BuildSourceModelSpeedCamsFrigatePosted
db-002 Frigate docs ssd mobilenet v1 10 ms — — checked 2026-10-19
db-004 Frigate docs yolov6n 11 ms — — checked 2026-10-19
db-005 Frigate docs yolov9-tiny 320 18 ms — — checked 2026-10-19
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3 builds

Hosts have no inference numbers of their own; the builds below name it as the host, and their numbers belong to the detector hardware inside. Price not tracked yet, no retailer link listed.

BuildSourceModelSpeedCamsFrigatePosted
db-170 community default 12 ms 2 — Feb 18, 2026 · jeffgeerling.com
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1 build

Hosts have no inference numbers of their own; the builds below name it as the host, and their numbers belong to the detector hardware inside. Price not tracked yet, no retailer link listed.

BuildSourceModelSpeedCamsFrigatePosted
db-122 default 55 ms 5 — Sep 2023 · GitHub #7601
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1 build · db-122 is flagged and left out of the medians