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Google's Nano Banana 2.1 image model ranked #4 on Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image and Image-Editing leaderboards at half the cost of Nano Banana 2. Based on Gemini 3.6 Flash, the model is available via Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, the Gemini app, and third-party providers.
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- SOURCE@artificialanlys“ranks higher in all 16 of the generation and editing capabilities we measure, with the largest gains in the Retail & Ecommerce and Productivity & Knowledge Work use cases”x.com
- SUPPORT@arena“This release is a substantial improvement from Nano Banana 2: +80 pts in Text-to-Image, +67 pts in Multi-Image Edit, and +38 pts in Image Edit!”x.com
- SUPPORT@nicdunz“embarrassing placements from google”x.com
- SUPPORT@lyraxana“renamed Nano Banana 2.5 to Nano Banana 2.1 but also changed it from Lite to Flash”x.com
- SUPPORT@testingcatalog“Output images at 1K (1024x1024px) consume 1120 tokens and cost $0.034 per image”x.com
- SUPPORT@mark_k“supports output up to 4K, multiple reference images, and Google Search grounding”x.com
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