Nano Banana 2 Lite

Nano Banana 2 Lite joins the Nano Banana family as a streamlined image-generation and editing option built for speed and cost efficiency. According to Google's announcement, it is positioned within Gemini's Flash-Lite image lineage, serving as the fastest and most cost-efficient image model in its family. It reaches customers through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform on Google Cloud, where teams can access it alongside the rest of the enterprise model catalog for everyday creative workloads rather than heavyweight, long-running jobs.

The model is shaped for high-iteration creative use cases where latency and price per call matter more than absolute peak fidelity. Google's framing points to rapid ideation, A/B testing of ad variations, and powering large-scale social apps as the natural fit, reflecting a design that favors quick turnaround and predictable cost across many concurrent requests. Pairing it with text and image inputs lets product teams keep prompt-based control over edits while staying on a budget-friendly tier, making it a practical default for first-pass generation and bulk creative workflows that can later be escalated to higher-end image models when needed.

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Provider: Google
Model key: gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
Release date: Jun 30, 2026
Last updated: Jun 30, 2026
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-01
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Cost

Input token cost: $0.25
Output token cost: $30.00

Limits

Output tokens: 4,096 tokens
Context window: 65,536 tokens

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Coverage

TechCrunch reported on June 30, 2026 that Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, described as a significantly faster and more affordable update to its image generator line, with Google claiming approximately four-second latency and pricing of $0.034 per 1,000 images at 1K resolution. The article positions Nano Banana 2 Li The piece traces the model's lineage, noting it follows the original Nano Banana powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash and the February 2026 release of Nano Banana 2, which added more realistic image generation. It also places the launch in the context of consumer backlash over AI-generated imagery and Google's broader push into

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K-Dense published an independent controlled benchmark of Nano Banana 2 Lite on scientific figure generation on June 30, 2026, generating 240 figures across four image models with 20 prompts and three samples each, scored blind against the original prompt on a five-part rubric. Nano Banana 2 Lite returned a 1K scientifi The benchmark frames Nano Banana 2 Lite's value proposition as shifting scientific figure generation from batch waiting to interactive iteration across multi-figure research sessions, where revisions and dozens of visuals are routine. Rather than claiming dominance on raw single-image fidelity, the report positions the

Google

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Google Cloud confirmed the general availability of Nano Banana 2 Lite, formally designated "Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image," on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform on June 30, 2026, presenting it as the fastest and most cost-efficient image generation and editing model within the Nano Banana family. The post targets ente The Google Cloud announcement pairs Nano Banana 2 Lite with the public preview of Gemini Omni Flash for video generation and conversational editing, positioning the two together as best-in-class price-performance options for image and video within the Gemini ecosystem. Availability spans Google AI Studio, the Gemini AP