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| 2 models | googleGoogle: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)Remove × | googleGoogle: Nano Banana 2.1Remove × |
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| What’s different | Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a.k.a. "Nano Banana," is now generally available. It is a state of the art image generation model with contextual understanding. It is capable of image generation,... | Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1) is Google's image generation and editing model on the Flash tier, succeeding Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro. It improves product recontextualization,... |
| Date | Oct 7, 2025Listed | Oct 6, 2026Released |
API prices USD · provider configuration shown below | ||
| Listed rate | $30.00/ 1M output tokens + $0.30 / 1M image-input tokens Google Vertex · via OpenRouter · Conditional | $30.00/ 1M output tokens Google AI Studio · via OpenRouter · Conditional · Output only |
| Provider endpoints | 1 endpoint → | 2 endpoints → |
Benchmarks Each result retains its evaluation configuration | ||
| AA Image ↗2.1 | Not reported | 1,175.56 ↗Text-to-image · all categoriesIndependent result95% CI 1,163.56–1,187.56 · n=6,210 |
Specifications | ||
| Context window | 32.8K | 65.5K |
| Max output | 8.2K | 59K |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Tool calling | Not reported | Supported |
| Structured output | Supported | Supported |
| Image input | Supported | Supported |
| Reasoning | Not reported | Supported |
| Prompt caching | Supported | Not reported |