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Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

Google's low-cost, fast tier of the Nano Banana (Gemini Flash Image) text-to-image model family.

Google
Closed
Released 30 Jun 2026

Where it ranks

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Image generation
Models · Cloud · 1,106 on Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)
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Image editing
Models · Cloud · 1,055 on Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)

Facts

Vendor: Google
Family: Nano Banana Lite
Released: 30 Jun 2026
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
API price: $0.03 per image (Gemini API paid tier, gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image, 1K image ($30 per 1M image output tokens); batch about $0.0168)
Last verified: 19 Oct 2026

Price from ai.google.dev, 19 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)	1,055	`Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)` Read from the leaderboard page's embedded data on 2026-10-19	19 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)	1,106	`Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)` AA-Image-T2I v2.1 overall; rank 15, 14864 samples; read from the page's embedded data; page shows no last-updated date	19 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
LMArena Image Edit Arena	1,314	`gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)` Overall category, read from lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset (image_edit/latest, published 2026-10-06)	6 Oct 2026	huggingface.co
LMArena Text-to-Image Arena	1,250	`gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)` from LMArena's official HF leaderboard dataset (text_to_image/latest, overall, published 2026-10-07; rank 15, 17804 votes); arena.ai blocks scripted fetches	7 Oct 2026	huggingface.co

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