Raspberry Pi Pico SDK

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Freedom report

Three barsScore 6.5

  • Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
  • Open codeNo open-source code on record
  • Runs widely3 of 6 device platforms
  • DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Raspberry Pi Pico SDK is ranked #11 of 28 in embedded systems toolchains on Freedom251. It runs on Browser extension, Linux, macOS, Windows. There is a free plan.

Raspberry Pi Pico SDK plans and pricing

All plans
Free Free SDK source code is open source · for Raspberry Pi RP-series microcontrollers github.com · 5 Oct 2026

Compared on embedded systems toolchains

SDK components
C/C++ and assembly headers, hardware APIs, hardware and high-level libraries, networking libraries, runtime infrastructure, CMake build system
Target architectures
RP2040 Arm Cortex-M0+; RP2350 Arm Cortex-M33 and Hazard3 RISC-V
Host platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Build systems
CMake
Debug interfaces
SWD, USB-to-SWD, UART, OpenOCD and GDB
License model
open-source

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