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Nano Banana

CTX33K

59Quality

Image generation

Input$0.30/M

Output$30/M

Nano Banana image model for fast generation, edits, and character-consistent assets

PaidProprietary645/1044

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Nano Banana

Nano Banana image model for fast generation, edits, and character-consistent assets

gemini-2.5-flash-image

Type: Image
Quality: 59 · Top 41% on the LMArena Text to Image
Context window: 32,768 tokens
Max output: 32,768 tokens
Input price: $0.30 / 1M tokens
Output price: $30.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.075 / 1M tokens
Cache write: —
Released: Aug 26, 2025
Knowledge cutoff: Jun 2024
Takes in: Text, Image
Puts out: Text, Image
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: No
Structured output: No
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Holo rare
Set number: 645/1044

Open Google docs Quality 59 Where to run it 12 Evolution 1/2 Meet its creature Battle gpt-image-2

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Google’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: ai.google.dev.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Nano Banana, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 41% of the 82 models on the LMArena Text to Image: #34.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

LMArena Text to Image#34 of 82
Two images from the same prompt; people pick the better one.1,150 rating
Listed as gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)
LMArena Image Edit#31 of 59
Two edits of the same image; people pick the better one.1,293 rating
Listed as gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)

Scores from LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

12 providers sell Nano Banana through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestPoe$0.21 in · $1.80 out
From the labGoogle$0.30 in · $30.00 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
PoeCheapest paid`google/nano-banana`	$0.21	$1.80	66K
Eden AI`vertex/gemini-2.5-flash-image`	$0.30	$2.50	33K
Kilo Gateway`google/gemini-2.5-flash-image`	$0.30	$2.50	33K
Merge Gateway`google/gemini-2.5-flash-image`	$0.30	$2.50	33K
OpenRouter`google/gemini-2.5-flash-image`	$0.30	$2.50	33K
Vercel AI Gateway`google/gemini-2.5-flash-image`	$0.30	$2.50	33K
302.AI`gemini-2.5-flash-image`	$0.30	$30.00	33K
Abacus`gemini-2.5-flash-image`	$0.30	$30.00	33K
AIHubMix`gemini-2.5-flash-image`	$0.30	$30.00	33K
GoogleOfficial`gemini-2.5-flash-image`	$0.30	$30.00	33K

Show 2 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Vertex`gemini-2.5-flash-image`	$0.30	$30.00	33K
Qiniu`gemini-2.5-flash-image`	—	—	33K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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Current image models from other labs at a similar output price.

vs gpt-image-2OpenAI · $30.00 out per 1M

Nano Banana

Nano Banana

How good is it?

Leaderboards

Where to run it

API providers

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