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Nano Banana 2 Lite
Released Jun 30, 2026
Google's lowest-cost, lowest-latency Gemini image model (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image) for high-volume generation and editing.
- Price per image
- $0.034
- Max resolution
- 1024x1024
- AA arena Elo
- 1096
- LMArena Elo
- 1250
- Capabilities
- text to image, editing, reference images
- Licence
- Proprietary
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- $0.0336 per image
- Built for ultra-low latency
- Up to 14 object reference images
- Ten aspect ratios from 21:9 to 9:16
Weaknesses
- 1K output only
- Not optimized for multiple reference inputs or multi-turn sequential editing
- No search grounding
GA 2026-06-30 per the Gemini API changelog. Included as a current Google model; it is outside both top 10s (AA #15, LMArena #15). maxResolution is the 1:1 1K size. Other aspect ratios at 1K have different dimensions.
Links
API model strings
- google
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image