GPT Image
Text-to-image and editing with strong instruction following and text rendering.
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GPT Image vs Nano Banana
GPT Image (OpenAI) and Nano Banana (Google DeepMind) both sit in Image. Nano Banana is the cheaper entry point at Free tier available for developers on Google AI Studio.. GPT Image shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (8 vs 6). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | GPT Image OpenAI | Nano Banana Google DeepMind |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Image | Image |
| Version | gpt-image-2.5-sunburst | 2 |
| Entry cost | from $20/mo | Free tier available for developers on Google AI Studio. |
| Pricing tiers | ChatGPT Free free · ChatGPT Plus $20 · API free | Free Tier free · Paid Tier free |
| Model stack | DALL-E · DALL-E 3 · GPT Image 1.5 · GPT-4o · gpt-5.6 · gpt-6-astra · gpt-image-2 · gpt-image-2.5-sunburst | Gemini 3 Pro Image · gemini-2.5-flash-image · gemini-3.1-flash-image · gemini-3.1-flash-lite-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) |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 8 | 6 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Text rendering, Image editing, Reference images, Transparent backgrounds, Streaming previews, Image generation, Vision / Image analysis, Multimodal processing | Conversational editing, Character consistency, Text rendering, Multi-image blending, 4K output, text-to-image, image editing, multi-turn image editing |
Nano Banana
Gemini-based image generation and editing with strong character consistency.
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