Andreas Spiess found a a Raspberry Pi replacement for Home Assistant:
And suggests to upgrade your Raspberry Pi to a Homelab instead of buying a Raspberry Pi 5:
The Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) suggests to choose these alternatives if possible:
the Orange Pi 5 with Ubuntu and the Mango Pi Quad with Debian, and eventually the Mango Pi Pro with Ubuntu:
If these SBCs work for your application.