Banana
#4 in Small & Edge Modelsgoogle · seit August 2025 · 48× · zuletzt 30. Juni 2026
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Momentum
Nano Banana is Google's native image generation and editing model from the Gemini family. The base model (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) was released in August 2025, enabling fast image generation and editing with subject consistency. Later followed Nano Banana Pro (November 2025) with improved text rendering and higher fidelity, and Nano Banana 2 (February 2026) as a balance between quality and speed.
Momentum trend
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Features
| Key Benchmark (%) | NB Pro: 94% text rendering accuracy (per Google documentation). Highest ELO score in LMSYS Chatbot Arena at time of initial release (Aug. 2025), outperformed Midjourney and Flux in blind tests. |
| Context Window (Tokens) | NB Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview): 65,536 token context, max. 32,768 output tokens | NB 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview): 131,072 token context, max. 32,768 output tokens |
| License | Proprietary (Google). Enterprise use via Vertex AI with copyright indemnification (contractual). Outputs carry SynthID watermark. |
| Multimodality | Input: text + images (up to 14 reference images); Output: images (512px / 1K / 2K / 4K, flexible aspect ratios up to 1:8). Natively multimodal within the Gemini LLM framework. No audio/video output. |
| Platform | Gemini App, Google AI Studio, Gemini API (gemini-2.5-flash-image / gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image / gemini-3.1-flash-image / gemini-3-pro-image), Vertex AI, Google Ads, Google Workspace (Slides, Vids), NotebookLM |
| Price | NB 2 Lite: ~$0.034/image (1K) | NB 2: $0.045 (512px) – $0.067 (1K) – $0.101 (2K) – $0.151 (4K) | NB Pro: $0.134 (1K/2K) – $0.24 (4K) | Batch API: 50% discount on all tiers |
| Price per 1M Tokens | NB 2 Lite: $0.25/1M input, $1.50/1M output | NB 2: $60/1M image output tokens | NB Pro: $2/1M input, $12/1M output (image output: $120/1M tokens per older source) |
| Release Date | Nano Banana: Aug. 26, 2025 | Nano Banana Pro: Nov. 20, 2025 | Nano Banana 2: Feb. 26, 2026 | Nano Banana 2 Lite: June 30, 2026 |
