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| Attribute | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image | Kimi K3.1 Prokimi-k3.1-pro | Gemini 4 Hydrogengemini-4-hydrogen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Request | $0.0336 / request | — | — |
| Billing | Pay Per Request | — | — |
| Cache Write (5m) | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M | $1.50 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M | $1.50 / 1M |
| Cache Read | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M | $1.50 / 1M |
| Input | — | $2.00 / 1M | $1.50 / 1M |
| Output | — | $10.00 / 1M | $7.50 / 1M |
| Web Search | — | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 66K | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | No | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | MoonShot AI | ||
| Category | image | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay Per Request | Pay As You Go | 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. | Kimi K3.1 Pro is Moonshot AI's flagship open-weight multimodal reasoning model, building on Kimi K3 with enhanced post-training for advanced reasoning and autonomous task execution. It features a 1M-token context window and native image and video understanding, enabling complex, long-context multimodal workflows. Optimized for long-horizon coding, 3D creation, financial research, and end-to-end agentic knowledge work, Kimi K3.1 Pro is well suited for autonomous software engineering, multimodal analysis, and complex professional workflows that require sustained reasoning and reliable execution. | Gemini 4 Hydrogen is Google's high-efficiency multimodal model in the Gemini 4 family, optimized for high-throughput agentic workflows, coding, and multi-model routing. It delivers strong performance at lower cost and latency than Gemini 4 Carbon, supporting text, image, audio, video, and file inputs for versatile multimodal applications. Designed for scalable production workloads and long-horizon execution, Gemini 4 Hydrogen supports up to 1M output tokens through continuation and configurable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, and xhigh) to balance reasoning depth, speed, and cost. It is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, complex workflow automation, and large-scale AI systems. |