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Nano Banana

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Gemini-based image generation and editing with strong character consistency.

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Trust score · Verified

3 data points checked · 2026-11-02

Model stack: VerifiedEntry price: VerifiedVersion: VerifiedHow this works →

Current version

2.1

Entry cost

Pricing is not explicitly published on this page for the Nano Banana model series.

Changes / 30d

5

The short answers · verified November 8, 2026

What is the latest version of Nano Banana?
The current shipped version of Nano Banana is 2.1, as of November 8, 2026.
How much does Nano Banana cost?
Nano Banana has no published flat entry price. Pricing is not explicitly published on this page for the Nano Banana model series.
What AI model does Nano Banana use?
Nano Banana runs primarily on Gemini 3 Pro Image.

Source: Google DeepMind — ai.google.dev · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

  • Conversational editing
  • Character consistency
  • Text rendering
  • Multi-image blending
  • 4K output
  • text-to-image
  • image editing
  • multi-turn image editing
  • SynthID watermark
  • conversational generation
  • image generation
  • Image generation
  • Image editing
  • Multi-turn image editing
  • SynthID watermarking
  • Text-to-image
  • Image-to-image
  • image understanding
  • conversational image generation
  • image-to-image
  • image-editing
  • Image understanding
  • watermarking
  • multimodal reasoning
  • conversational editing
  • image-generation
  • multi-turn-editing
  • multi-turn conversational editing
  • multi-turn sequential editing
  • synthid-watermark
  • text-and-image-to-image
  • Text-and-image-to-image
  • image-understanding
  • Watermarking
  • conversational image processing
  • Multimodal input
  • synthid watermark
  • multimodal input
  • conversational-editing
  • multimodal
  • multi-turn consistency
  • Watermarked output
  • Multi-turn consistency
  • Multimodal
  • Multi-turn sequential editing
  • Google Search grounding
  • google search grounding
  • grounding with search
  • Conversational image editing
  • conversational image editing
  • google-search-grounding

Pricing

  • Free Tier

    For developers and small projects getting started

    Free

  • Paid Tier

    For production applications requiring higher volumes and advanced features

    Free

Entry price over time

4 of 57 points reconstructed from Internet Archive captures (hollow dots) — dated by capture, not by when we first saw the page. View a capture

4/2/2024 · $011/8/2026 · $0

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Gemini 3 Pro Image

    Google DeepMind

    disclosed
  • gemini-2.5-flash-image

    Google DeepMind

    disclosed
  • gemini-3.1-flash-image

    Google DeepMind

    disclosed
  • gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image

    Google DeepMind

    disclosed
  • gemini-nano-banana-2.1

    Google DeepMind

    disclosed
  • Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image)

    Google DeepMind

    disclosed
  • Nano Banana 2 (gemini-3.1-flash-image)

    Google DeepMind

    disclosed
  • Nano Banana 2 Lite (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image)

    Google DeepMind

    disclosed
  • Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image)

    Google DeepMind

    disclosed

Context window

n/a

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

yes

Stack signals

  • python
  • javascript
  • rest

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

  • Nano Banana 2.1+1 aliasBanana · 3 products
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash Image+1 aliasGoogle · 2 products
  • gemini-3-pro-image+1 aliasGoogle · 2 products
  • gemini-3.1-flash-imageGoogle DeepMind · 1 product
  • gemini-3.1-flash-lite-imageGoogle DeepMind · 1 product
  • Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image)Google DeepMind · 1 product
  • Nano Banana 2 (gemini-3.1-flash-image)Google DeepMind · 1 product
  • Nano Banana 2 Lite (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image)Google DeepMind · 1 product

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • capability

    New capabilities: google-search-grounding

    50 tracked51 tracked · +google-search-grounding

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: conversational image editing

    49 tracked50 tracked · +conversational image editing

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Conversational image editing

    48 tracked49 tracked · +Conversational image editing

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2.1

    Nano Banana 2.12.1

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to Nano Banana 2.1

    2.1Nano Banana 2.1

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: grounding with search

    47 tracked48 tracked · +grounding with search

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: google search grounding

    46 tracked47 tracked · +google search grounding

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Google Search grounding

    45 tracked46 tracked · +Google Search grounding

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Multi-turn sequential editing

    44 tracked45 tracked · +Multi-turn sequential editing

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Multimodal

    43 tracked44 tracked · +Multimodal

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Multi-turn consistency

    42 tracked43 tracked · +Multi-turn consistency

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Watermarked output

    41 tracked42 tracked · +Watermarked output

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: multi-turn consistency

    40 tracked41 tracked · +multi-turn consistency

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2.1

    22.1

    source
  • model

    Nano Banana added gemini-nano-banana-2.1 to its model stack

    Gemini 3 Pro Image, Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image), Nano Banana 2 (gemini-3.1-flash-image), Nano Banana 2 Lite (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image), Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image), gemini-2.5-flash-image, gemini-3.1-flash-image, gemini-3.1-flash-lite-imageGemini 3 Pro Image, Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image), Nano Banana 2 (gemini-3.1-flash-image), Nano Banana 2 Lite (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image), Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image), gemini-2.5-flash-image, gemini-3.1-flash-image, gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image, gemini-nano-banana-2.1

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: conversational-editing, multimodal

    38 tracked40 tracked · +conversational-editing, multimodal

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2

    Nano Banana 22

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: multimodal input

    37 tracked38 tracked · +multimodal input

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to Nano Banana 2

    2Nano Banana 2

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2

    Nano Banana 22

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: synthid watermark

    36 tracked37 tracked · +synthid watermark

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to Nano Banana 2

    2.0Nano Banana 2

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2.0

    Nano Banana 22.0

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Multimodal input

    35 tracked36 tracked · +Multimodal input

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to Nano Banana 2

    2Nano Banana 2

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2

    Nano Banana 22

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to Nano Banana 2

    2Nano Banana 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: conversational image processing

    34 tracked35 tracked · +conversational image processing

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2

    Nano Banana 22

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to Nano Banana 2

    2Nano Banana 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Watermarking

    33 tracked34 tracked · +Watermarking

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image-understanding

    32 tracked33 tracked · +image-understanding

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2

    2.02

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2.0

    22.0

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Text-and-image-to-image

    31 tracked32 tracked · +Text-and-image-to-image

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2

    Nano Banana 22

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to Nano Banana 2

    2Nano Banana 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: text-and-image-to-image

    30 tracked31 tracked · +text-and-image-to-image

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2

    Nano Banana 22

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: synthid-watermark

    29 tracked30 tracked · +synthid-watermark

    source
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How to cite this page

Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/nano-banana

APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Nano Banana — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/nano-banana
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-nano-banana,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Nano Banana — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/nano-banana}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}