build3 publishersConfirmed 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.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 58%
- Operator
- Operator 27%
- Investor
- Investor 15%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives55
- Confidence65
Greta Garbo's estate says it would consider AI film roles for her after SKF ran a 99-second advert starring an AI-made version of the star. The next buyer's executives will have to justify the casting without the history that made SKF a natural fit.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
build2 publishersConfirmed Ideogram 4.5 launched September 30 at $0.008 to $0.22 per image, pitched on repeated edits that leave the rest of the picture untouched. No independent test of that claim has been published, so teams paying per edit pass have to measure drift on their own assets.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
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.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives58
- Confidence50
A prompt meant for 10 rows ran on 28,000. That is the buying question now: not price per seat, but what one mis-scoped action costs before anyone notices.
Publishers:blog.hubspot.com
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives68
- Confidence38