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| Attribute | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image | Gemini 4 Carbongemini-4-carbon |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Request | $0.0336 / request | — |
| Billing | Pay Per Request | — |
| Cache Write (5m) | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M |
| Input | — | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | — | $10.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | — | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 66K | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | No | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | ||
| Category | image | chat |
| Charge type | Pay Per Request | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest and most cost-efficient multimodal image generation model, designed for high-throughput visual workflows and real-time applications. It supports text-to-image generation, image editing, and multi-image composition through a unified API, while also producing text outputs alongside images. Delivering image generation in approximately 4 seconds, it combines fast inference with strong character consistency, precise editing, and real-world knowledge. The model generates 1K-resolution images across 14 aspect ratios and embeds an invisible SynthID watermark in all outputs. Optimized for the best balance of quality, speed, and cost, Nano Banana 2 Lite is ideal for prototyping, developer pipelines, and large-scale visual content generation. | Gemini 4 Carbon is Google's frontier multimodal reasoning model, designed for advanced coding, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step problem solving. It supports text, image, audio, video, and file inputs, enabling integrated reasoning and analysis across diverse modalities. Optimized for long-horizon execution and demanding professional workloads, Gemini 4 Carbon supports up to 1M output tokens through continuation and configurable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high) to balance reasoning depth, latency, and cost. It is well suited for autonomous agents, software engineering, multimodal analysis, and large-scale workflow automation. |