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Nano Banana 2.1

Google's Flash-tier native Gemini image generation and editing model with 1K-4K output and search grounding.

Google
Closed
Released 6 Oct 2026

Where it ranks

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Image generation
Models · Cloud · 1,174 on Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)
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Image editing
Models · Cloud · 1,152 on Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)

Facts

Vendor: Google
Family: Nano Banana (Gemini Flash Image)
Released: 6 Oct 2026
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
License: proprietary
API price: $0.03 per image (1K (1024x1024) output, Standard tier: $30 per 1M image output tokens = $0.0336/image; 2K $0.0504, 4K $0.113)
Access: Free tier available
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Price from ai.google.dev, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)	1,152	`Nano Banana 2.1` AA-Image-Editing v2.1 overall; rank 3 of 71, 6745 samples; page shows no last-updated date	18 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)	1,174	`Nano Banana 2.1` AA-Image-T2I v2.1 overall; rank 4, 5961 samples; page shows no last-updated date	18 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
LMArena Image Edit Arena	1,428	`gemini-nano-banana-2.1` from LMArena's official HF leaderboard dataset (image_edit/latest, overall, published 2026-10-06; rank 6 of 59, 12985 votes); arena.ai blocks scripted fetches	6 Oct 2026	huggingface.co
LMArena Text-to-Image Arena	1,328	`gemini-nano-banana-2.1` from LMArena's official HF leaderboard dataset (text_to_image/latest, overall, published 2026-10-07; rank 6, 5310 votes); arena.ai blocks scripted fetches	7 Oct 2026	huggingface.co

Where you can use it

Earlier versions

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) · 26 Feb 2026
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