Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
Released Jun 30, 2026image+text→image,text
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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
#7
Across all subsets · overall
Total arena votes
67,003
Across 10 (subset, category) entries
Providers on OR
2
Google AI Studio + others
First seen
2026-07-01
18 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
reasoning_effort
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 | 99.73% | - | - | - |
google-vertex/global | 66K | $0.250 | $1.50 | 99.30% | - | - | - |
Per-category ranks
Image Edit
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #14 | Multi Image Edit | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1286 | 12,539 | |
| #17 | Overall | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1314 | 26,611 |
Text to Image
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #6 | 3d Modeling | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1234 | 960 | |
| #6 | Art | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1258 | 1,335 | |
| #7 | Cartoon | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1259 | 3,532 | |
| #7 | Overall | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1250 | 9,392 | |
| #7 | Photorealistic | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1258 | 4,035 | |
| #7 | Text Rendering | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1273 | 3,116 | |
| #8 | Commercial Design | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1243 | 3,471 | |
| #11 | Portraits | harness: nano-banana-2-lite | 1249 | 2,012 |