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We haven't written a description for this benchmark yet; see the card notes below for how each maker ran it.
- ModelScoreYour cost / mo
- 1Nano Banana 2 · Google1065 Elo
- 2Nano Banana 2.1 · Google1026 Elo
- 3Nano Banana 2 Lite · Google983 Elo
“Best value”: no other model here reports a higher score at a lower cost for your workload. Scores are self-reported by each maker with different settings, so treat close calls as ties.
How each maker reported it
- Nano Banana 2 p.4–5
Human side-by-side preference Elo (± CI omitted) from Google's model card, February 2026. Column 0 uses thinking plus text and image search. Newer Google models (Nano Banana 2.1) are not compared here.
- Nano Banana 2.1 p.5
Side-by-side human preference Elo (± CI) as of October 2026; infographic factuality is an autorater score (0–1). All numbers are Google's own.
- Nano Banana 2 Lite p.4–5
Human side-by-side preference Elo (± CI omitted) from Google's model card, June 2026. Competitor names are as printed in the card ('GPT 2 Response API Low' is OpenAI's GPT Image 2 at low quality via the Responses API).
Only each model's own maker's number is shown; scores a maker reports for rival models are left out.