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Nano Banana 2

CTX131K

88Quality

Image generation

Input$0.50/M

Output$60/M

Image model for prompt-driven generation, editing, and visual design workflows

PaidProprietary909/1044

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Nano Banana 2

Image model for prompt-driven generation, editing, and visual design workflows

gemini-3.1-flash-image

Type: Image
Quality: 88 · Top 12% on the LMArena Text to Image
Context window: 131,072 tokens
Max output: 32,768 tokens
Input price: $0.50 / 1M tokens
Output price: $60.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: —
Cache write: —
Released: May 28, 2026
Knowledge cutoff: Jan 2025
Takes in: Text, Image, Video, PDF
Puts out: Text, Image
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: No
Structured output: No
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Holo rare
Set number: 909/1044

Open Google docs Quality 88 Where to run it 11 Evolution 2/2 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 2, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 12% of the 82 models on the LMArena Text to Image: #11.

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#11 of 82
Two images from the same prompt; people pick the better one.1,262 rating
Listed as gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]
LMArena Image Edit#14 of 59
Two edits of the same image; people pick the better one.1,387 rating
Listed as gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]

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

11 providers sell Nano Banana 2 through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestRequesty$0.50 in · $2.00 out
Free to try1 providerKenari
From the labGoogle$0.50 in · $60.00 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
KenariFree`nano-banana-2`	Free	Free	131K
RequestyCheapest paid`gemini-3.1-flash-image`	$0.50	$2.00	131K
Abacus`gemini-3.1-flash-image`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
AIHubMix`gemini-3.1-flash-image`	$0.50	$3.00	131K
Eden AI`vertex/gemini-3.1-flash-image`	$0.50	$3.00	131K
Kilo Gateway`google/gemini-3.1-flash-image`	$0.50	$3.00	131K
Merge Gateway`google/gemini-3.1-flash-image`	$0.50	$3.00	33K
OpenRouter`google/gemini-3.1-flash-image`	$0.50	$3.00	131K
Vercel AI Gateway`google/gemini-3.1-flash-image`	$0.50	$3.00	131K
GoogleOfficial`gemini-3.1-flash-image`	$0.50	$60.00	131K

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Provider	Input	Output	Context
Vertex`gemini-3.1-flash-image`	$0.50	$60.00	131K

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 2

Nano Banana 2

How good is it?

Leaderboards

Where to run it

API providers

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