Nano Banana
Gemini-based image generation and editing with strong character consistency.
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Nano Banana vs GPT Image
Nano Banana (Google DeepMind) and GPT Image (OpenAI) 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 (5 vs 4). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Nano Banana Google DeepMind | GPT Image OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Image | Image |
| Version | 2 | gpt-image-2.5-sunburst |
| Entry cost | Free tier available for developers on Google AI Studio. | from $20/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Free Tier free · Paid Tier free | ChatGPT Free free · ChatGPT Plus $20 · API free |
| Model stack | 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) | 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 |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 4 | 5 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Conversational editing, Character consistency, Text rendering, Multi-image blending, 4K output, text-to-image, image editing, multi-turn image editing | Text rendering, Image editing, Reference images, Transparent backgrounds, Streaming previews, Image generation, Vision / Image analysis, Multimodal processing |
GPT Image
Text-to-image and editing with strong instruction following and text rendering.
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