--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "ed9f6eed1c94ed9fcbd4e235440c8125981fa768f1d329dada22707b177ae0b6" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/ed9f6eed?lang=en" title: "Google Nano Banana 2.1 Beats Pro Model at 4x Lower Cost" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-10-06T18:24:37.000Z" category: "Models" topics: ["google","inference","llm"] source_urls: ["https://marketbrief.now/ai/google-nano-banana-21-beats-pro-model-at-4x-lower-cost-e912052e","https://x.com/Google/status/2107501209154204148","https://x.com/Google/status/2107501211532382687","https://x.com/_philschmid/status/2107502894685749672","https://x.com/mrfanduu/status/2107497345260876141","https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2107499443532530001","https://x.com/lyraxana/status/2107295323819233403","https://x.com/mark_k/status/2107513352876425400"] summary: "Google released Nano Banana 2.1, an image generation and editing tool available through AI Studio, Google Cloud, and the Gemini app, priced at $30 per 1M tokens for image output." --- # Google Nano Banana 2\.1 Beats Pro Model at 4x Lower Cost > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-10-06T18:24:37.000Z **Category:** Models **Topics:** google, inference, llm ## Summary Google released Nano Banana 2\.1, an image generation and editing tool available through AI Studio, Google Cloud, and the Gemini app, priced at $30 per 1M tokens for image output\. ## Sources - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]()