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Nano Banana 2.1
Released Oct 6, 2026
Google's newest Flash-tier Gemini image model for generation and conversational editing, released as the replacement for Nano Banana 2.
- Price per image
- $0.034
- Max resolution
- 4096x4096
- AA arena Elo
- 1159
- LMArena Elo
- 1328
- Capabilities
- text to image, editing, text rendering, reference images
- Licence
- Proprietary
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- About half the 1K price of Nano Banana 2 ($0.0336 vs $0.067)
- Up to 14 reference images (10 object, 4 character)
- Web Search and Google Image Search grounding
- Text rendering described as improved over Nano Banana 2
Weaknesses
- No 0.5K (512px) output tier, unlike Nano Banana 2
GA on the Gemini API 2026-10-06 per the changelog. The changelog deprecates gemini-3.1-flash-image the same day and names this model as the migration target. LMArena score is marked Preliminary (±9). The deepmind.google Gemini Image page did not list 2.1 yet when checked. maxResolution is the 1:1 4K size from the Gemini image-generation guide's resolution table.
Links
API model strings
- google
gemini-nano-banana-2.1