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Nano Banana 2
Released Feb 26, 2026
Google's Flash-tier Gemini image model (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) for fast, high-volume generation and editing. Deprecated in favour of Nano Banana 2.1.
- Price per image
- $0.067
- Max resolution
- 4096x4096
- AA arena Elo
- 1125
- LMArena Elo
- 1262
- Capabilities
- text to image, editing, reference images
- Licence
- Proprietary
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- 0.5K to 4K output
- Web Search and Google Image Search grounding
- Multi-reference input (up to 10 object images)
- Video-to-image input
Weaknesses
- Deprecated 2026-10-06 (no shutdown date yet)
- Twice the 1K price of Nano Banana 2.1
Preview launched 2026-02-26 (gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview, shut down 2026-06-25), GA 2026-05-28. Included because it is #7 on AA, although Google deprecated it on 2026-10-06 with migration to gemini-nano-banana-2.1. It is #11 on LMArena. The LMArena score is for the "[web-search]" variant entry. The guide's character-reference limit (5) came from a flattened table and is uncertain.
Links
API model strings
- google
gemini-3.1-flash-image