model

Nano Banana 2

AI image model used with character sheets and structured prompts to hold character identity stable across the production run.

Known aliases

3.1 Flash Image
Gemini 3.1 Flash Image
gemini-3.1-flash-image
Nano Banana 2.0

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current stories

build7 publishersConfirmed

Nano Banana 2.1's half-price images save money only on input-light jobs

Google priced Nano Banana 2.1 at half Nano Banana 2's per-image rate, $0.0336 for a 1K image, while tripling what it charges for input tokens. Reference-heavy edits can cost more after switching, and no published benchmark backs the quality claims.

Publishers:blog.vercel.comdecrypt.codev.tonokiapoweruser.comnotebookcheck.netruntimewire.comthe-decoder.com

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers

Builder: Builder 49%
Operator: Operator 37%
Investor: Investor 14%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption30
Hype gap+30
Incentives55
Confidence65

product1 publisherOne report

Teams leaving Nano Banana 2 by October 29 find Google's docs disagree on the 4K price

Google shuts off Nano Banana 2 on the Gemini API on October 29; its replacement, Nano Banana 2.1, lists at about half the price per image. Teams budgeting 4K should plan on the higher of two token counts in Google's own docs until an invoice settles it.

Publishers:reapi.ai

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+5
Incentives70
Confidence45

build1 publisherOne report

Reselling Qwen Image 2.1 now requires a separate licence from Alibaba

The 7B open-weight model fits on an RTX 3090 and scores 60.2 on the benchmark its own developers built, against 59.82 for Google's Nano Banana 2.0. The licence shipping with it forbids commercial resale.

Publishers:tomshardware.com

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption26
Hype gap+35
Incentives72
Confidence38

invest2 publishersConfirmed

OpenAI's Images 2.5 ties Nano Banana 2 at three categories each in Decrypt's rerun

Decrypt's rerun gives three of six categories to Google and the rest to OpenAI. The 50% latency cut is OpenAI's own figure, measured against Images 2.0, and the review does not include prices for the two new API tiers.

Publishers:cryptobriefing.comdecrypt.co

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption45
Hype gap+38
Incentives58
Confidence50

build1 publisherOne report

A GenAI comic pipeline cut iteration passes from 20+ to under 5, then lost on reception

Richard Rondeau's Veridian Resonance hit its engineering targets and still read as "AI slop" to viewers, so the next chapter moves effort back to visible manual drawing.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence26
Adoption14
Hype gap+14
Incentives68
Confidence34