Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Google’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 18, 2026. Official source: ai.google.dev.
How good is it?
Public leaderboard scores for Nano Banana 2 Lite, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.
83Quality
Top 17% of the 82 models on the LMArena Text to Image: #15.
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.
Two edits of the same image; people pick the better one.1,314 rating
Listed as gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)
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
8 providers sell Nano Banana 2 Lite through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.