If you don't need the pinouts, it's likely cheaper to get a used thin client or a N100 based machine.
You'd get similar power draw, plus a case and a PSU.
It doesn't seem even close. Rasberry Pi 4 starts at €40 or so, while the cheapest N100 PC my amazon query returns is €180.
I suspect that either you care about performance and the pi loses badly, or you care about price and the pi 4 loses to... probably other pis, actually. Or used x86 off eBay. Or you care about absolute power consumption and again other pis win.
Used thin clients start at 20€, that’s unbeatable (because they include case and PSU, allow SATA Harddrives, replaceable RAM…)
> while the cheapest N100 PC my amazon query returns is €180
Check AliExpress. Much cheaper for N100s.
Raspberry Pi 4 cannot be compared to N100. It's miles behind.
The SW ecosystem and the community were always the selling point for the Pi, never the HW, that always sucked ass compared to the competition.