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Nano Banana 2 Lite

Google·

Imagemultimodalcloud

Overview

Faster, lower-cost variant of Nano Banana 2 for rapid text-to-image generation (~4s per image).

Capabilities and innovations

Fast text-to-image (~4s)Text rendering in imagesLow per-image costImage editingLite tier of Gemini 3.1 Flash Image~$0.034 per generated imageLatency-optimized generation

Benchmarks

No benchmark values are recorded for this model.

  • GPQA Diamond: not reported by the vendor
  • Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools): not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Verified: not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Pro: not reported by the vendor
  • MMLU: not reported by the vendor
  • MMLU-Pro: not reported by the vendor
  • Terminal-Bench 2.x: not reported by the vendor
  • MMMU-Pro: not reported by the vendor

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