Nano Banana 2.1
Image modelCard summarizedThe latest high-efficiency image generation and conversational editing model
● Re-checked 12 Oct 2026 · 73 facts · 0 corrections · 3 unconfirmedSource: Nano Banana 2.1 Model Card (8 pp)
Good for
- Creating and editing images with professional precision and quick iterations
- Clear text for posters and intricate diagrams
- Long-context real-world knowledge (infographics, historically accurate scenes)
Overview
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Nano Banana 2.1
The latest high-efficiency image generation and conversational editing model
Typical price
$0.0336 / image
1K (e.g. 1024×1024)
- Max resolution
- 4K (4096×4096; up to 12288×1536 at 8:1)
- Aspect ratios
- 14 options
- Modes
- text-to-image, image editing
- Released
- 6 Oct 2026
Nano Banana 2.1 is a member of the Gemini 3 series, based on Gemini 3.6 Flash. It takes text and images and generates images and text. In Google's human side-by-side evals it leads Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro on text-to-image and every editing category reported. p.2, p.5
gemini-nano-banana-2.1- Typical price
- $0.0336 / image
- Max resolution
- 4K (4096×4096; up to 12288×1536 at 8:1)
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1, 1:4, 1:8, 2:3, 3:2, 3:4, 4:1, 4:3, 4:5, 5:4, 8:1, 9:16, 16:9, 21:9
- Weights
- Closed
- Released
- 6 Oct 2026
- text-to-image
- image editing
- multi-turn editing
- multi-image fusion (up to 14 references)
- Google Search grounding
- Image Search grounding
- video-to-image