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Nano Banana

Google DeepMind · #5 most active of 19 in Image

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

83

Trust score · Mostly verified

3 data points checked · 2026-09-12

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

Current version

2

Entry cost

Free tier available for developers on Google AI Studio.

Changes / 30d

4

The short answers · verified September 11, 2026

What is the latest version of Nano Banana?
The current shipped version of Nano Banana is 2, as of September 11, 2026.
How much does Nano Banana cost?
Nano Banana has no published flat entry price. Free tier available for developers on Google AI Studio.
What AI model does Nano Banana use?
Nano Banana runs primarily on Gemini 3 Pro Image.

Source: Google DeepMindai.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

Pricing

  • Free Tier

    For developers and small projects getting started with limited access.

    Free

  • Paid Tier

    Pay-as-you-go pricing for production deployments.

    Free

Entry price over time

4 of 33 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 · $09/11/2026 · $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
  • 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.

  • Gemini 2.5 Flash Image+1 aliasGoogle · 2 products
  • Gemini 3 Pro ImageGoogle DeepMind · 1 product
  • 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
  • Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-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: 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
  • capability

    New capabilities: multi-turn sequential editing

    28 tracked29 tracked · +multi-turn sequential editing

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to Nano Banana 2

    2Nano Banana 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: multi-turn conversational editing

    27 tracked28 tracked · +multi-turn conversational editing

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2

    Nano Banana 22

    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: image-generation, multi-turn-editing

    25 tracked27 tracked · +image-generation, multi-turn-editing

    source
  • model

    Nano Banana added 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) to its model stack

    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

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: multimodal reasoning, conversational editing

    23 tracked25 tracked · +multimodal reasoning, conversational editing

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: watermarking

    22 tracked23 tracked · +watermarking

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Image understanding

    21 tracked22 tracked · +Image understanding

    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
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2

    Nano Banana 22

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image-to-image, image-editing

    19 tracked21 tracked · +image-to-image, image-editing

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to Nano Banana 2

    2Nano Banana 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: conversational image generation

    18 tracked19 tracked · +conversational image generation

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image understanding

    175

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Image generation, Image editing, Multi-turn image editing

    116

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image generation

    105

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana moved to 2

    Nano Banana Pro2

    source
  • model

    Nano Banana added gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image, gemini-3.1-flash-image, gemini-3-pro-image, gemini-2.5-flash-image to its model stack

    Gemini 3 Pro ImageGemini 3 Pro Image, gemini-2.5-flash-image, gemini-3-pro-image, gemini-3.1-flash-image, gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: text-to-image, image editing, multi-turn image editing

    55

    source
  • version

    Nano Banana Pro released with 4K output and better text rendering

    Nano BananaNano Banana Pro

    source
  • model

    Nano Banana added Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B to its model stack

    Gemini 1.0 Pro, Gemini 1.5 Flash, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Text Embedding 004Gemini 1.0 Pro, Gemini 1.5 Flash, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Text Embedding 004

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Multimodal reasoning, API access, Text embeddings

    4 tracked9 tracked · +Multimodal reasoning, API access, Text embeddings, Fine-tuning / Tuning, Grounding with Google Search

    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 2026-09-17, 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: 2026-09-17}
}