Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
Released Jun 30, 2026Try it on:
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini image model, built for high-velocity developer pipelines and rapid-fire visual exploration. It delivers text-to-image generation...
Best overall rank
#5
Across all subsets · overall
Total arena votes
31,295
Across 10 (subset, category) entries
Providers on OR
2
Google AI Studio + others
First seen
2026-07-01
0 days tracked
Trend
Pricing
Per token
- Input (per 1M)
- $0.250
- Output (per 1M)
- $1.50
Per unit
- Web search
- $0.014/call
Capabilities
Modality
text+image->text+imageContext
66K tokens
Tokenizer
Gemini
Knowledge cutoff
2025-01-01
Max output
66K tokens
Moderation
Unmoderated
Supported parameters
include_reasoning
max_tokens
reasoning
response_format
seed
temperature
top_p
Providers
| Provider | Region / Tag | Context | Input/M | Output/M | Uptime 1d | Latency | Quant | Cache |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio | google-ai-studio | 66K | $0.250 | $1.50 | 99.97% | - | - | - |
google-vertex/global | 66K | $0.250 | $1.50 | 99.91% | - | - | - |
Per-category ranks
Image Edit
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #9 | Multi Image Edit | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1294 | 5,550 | |
| #15 | Overall | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1308 | 9,320 |
Text to Image
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ★ #4 | Photorealistic | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1266 | 2,392 | |
| ★ #5 | Art | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1257 | 790 | |
| ★ #5 | Cartoon | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1257 | 2,090 | |
| ★ #5 | Overall | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1251 | 5,462 | |
| ★ #5 | Text Rendering | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1277 | 1,792 | |
| #6 | 3d Modeling | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1221 | 574 | |
| #7 | Commercial Design | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1240 | 2,039 | |
| #8 | Portraits | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1245 | 1,286 |