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Nano Banana 2 Lite 🍌

Our fastest, most efficient Gemini Image model. Built to deliver high-speed generation and editing at our lowest cost yet.

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Lightning-fast latency

Explore, iterate, and keep your workflow moving with dramatically reduced latency.

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Cost-efficient at scale

Generate thousands of images at a fraction of the cost of heavier production models.

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No compromise on quality

The control and accuracy you expect from Nano Banana, accelerated. Maintain character consistency, edit visuals with precision, and lean on real-world knowledge.

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Create more for less with Nano Banana 2 Lite. Generate and edit images faster and more efficiently than ever before.

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Made for creators, business and developers. Built for rapid-fire visual exploration.

Lightning-fast latency

Explore, iterate, and keep your workflow moving with dramatically reduced latency.

Cost-efficient at scale

Generate thousands of images at a fraction of the cost of heavier production models.

No compromise on quality

The control and accuracy you expect from Nano Banana, accelerated. Maintain character consistency, edit visuals with precision, and lean on real-world knowledge.

From idea to image in seconds

From rapid prototyping to populating real-time apps, see how Nano Banana 2 Lite keeps your ideas flowing – without the wait.

Space Lift

Space Lift is an interior design app that lets you instantly reimagine any room. Upload an image of your space, and watch the app generate a variety of fully realized concepts, from Mid-Century Modern to Bohemian Chic. Swipe through each custom card to find the perfect design scheme for your home.

Gridscape

Gridscape’s infinite canvas lets you explore and learn about any topic. When you ask a question, an informational "node" maps out ideas using text and images generated with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite. Dive deeper using clickable pathways that explore related concepts.

Peek-A-Word

Transforming passive reading into an interactive learning journey, Peek-A-Word turns selected text into AI-generated visuals. Concise definitions and contextual imagery are generated in one space, without any distracting tab-switching to disturb flow of learning with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.

Anywhere

Be transported to dream destinations across the world with Anywhere, an interactive 3D globe created with Nano Banana 2 Lite. Attach an image to generate a series of personalized postcards at iconic global landmarks. Spin the globe, click on any photo, and uncover fascinating travel facts about your virtual vacation spots.

Comparisons

Our most efficient model to date, Nano Banana 2 Lite offers the best balance of quality and speed. From prompt adherence to details and control, see how it performs alongside our premier Nano Banana 2 model.

Prompt: A lone astronaut stands poised at the threshold of a futuristic corridor, their back to the viewer, gazing out towards a distant, mountainous landscape visible at the far end. The composition is perfectly symmetrical, using the clean, repeating lines of the brightly lit hallway to create a powerful vanishing point. The corridor itself is a marvel of sleek, sterile design, with glowing white panels on the walls and ceiling, and a highly reflective, cyan-tinted floor that mirrors the entire scene, doubling its visual impact. The astronaut, clad in a white and gold-trimmed spacesuit, is the central, human element in this otherwise impersonal, high-tech environment. The lighting is bright and even, giving the scene an ethereal, almost heavenly quality. The color palette is a minimalist blend of stark white, cool cyan, and the earthy tones of the distant planet. The artistic style is one of clean, utopian science fiction, evoking a sense of calm, wonder, and the beginning of a grand journey into the unknown.

Prompt: From a breathtakingly high, top-down perspective, the image captures a dramatic, abstract view of a coastline. The composition is dynamically split by a diagonal slash of land and sea, running from the upper right to the lower left. On the left, a deep, inky navy-blue ocean churns into a brilliant white surf that resembles delicate, intricate lace or the marbled patterns in polished stone. The foam crashes against a narrow strip of pale, sandy beach, which gives way to shallow waters of stunning aquamarine and turquoise. The land itself, occupying the upper right corner, is a textured, rugged terrain of ochre, beige, and dark, earthy tones, appearing almost like a geological cross-section. The overall effect is less of a literal landscape and more of a powerful, painterly abstraction. The camera angle removes all sense of a horizon, transforming the familiar elements of water, sand, and rock into a sophisticated composition of color, texture, and dynamic, diagonal energy. The scene feels both immense in scale and microscopic in its fine detail, capturing a moment of powerful, natural artistry.

Prompt: This cinematic, high-angle shot plunges the viewer directly into the action of soaring flight. A lone, dark bird, wings powerfully outstretched, glides with purpose through the center of the frame. The camera seems to be flying alongside it, capturing the majestic sweep of its wings against an epic backdrop. Below, a deep valley is completely choked with a sea of roiling white mist, swirling and shifting as if it were a living, breathing entity. The action is layered: the bird’s determined forward motion contrasts with the slow, churning chaos of the fog beneath it. Emerging from the mist, the dark, skeletal tips of a vast pine forest reach up like grasping hands. The entire scene is framed by the dark silhouettes of trees in the immediate foreground, creating a sense of vertigo and placing the viewer precariously on a high precipice, witnessing this primal scene unfold. The dramatic monochrome palette and sophisticated composition transform a simple act of flight into a thrilling, atmospheric event—a journey through a mysterious, untamed world where the only certainties are the driving beat of wings and the swirling abyss below.

Prompt: A perfect, clear glass sphere rests on a rippling water surface, captured in an artistic macro photograph. The composition is compellingly off-center, with the sphere placed to the left, its weight creating concentric circles that spread across the dark, reflective water. Inside the sphere, a miniature, dreamlike world is refracted and inverted: a swirling vortex of fiery orange and brilliant gold light, resembling a sunset galaxy or a city street blurred into a whirlwind of motion. The camera angle is extremely low, almost at water level, which exaggerates the sphere’s presence and the intricate patterns of the ripples. The lighting is dramatic and high-contrast; the background is dark, punctuated by soft, out-of-focus orbs of blue and orange light—a classic bokeh effect—that suggest a city at night. This gives the scene a cinematic and mysterious atmosphere. The sophistication lies in the masterful control of light, reflection, and refraction, turning a simple object into a vessel holding a tiny, dynamic universe, creating a profound sense of wonder and technical artistry.

Prompt: In a breathtaking display of surreal transformation, a cinematic moment of pure action unfolds against a textured, golden-brown canvas. From the right, a woman is seen in elegant profile, her lips a startling slash of red. Her quiet composure is violently contradicted by the explosive event taking place: her dark hair is erupting, bursting forth into a chaotic flock of black birds. These creatures are captured mid-flight, a dynamic swarm launching from her mind and sweeping across the frame to the left. The motion is palpable; you can almost hear the frantic beating of a hundred wings as they break free. Some birds are still tangled, emerging from the dark mass of her hair, while others are already soaring into the open space. This is not a gentle release, but a powerful, almost violent, act of creation or liberation. The camera captures this impossible metamorphosis head-on, focusing on the sheer force of the birds' exodus. This highly sophisticated image is a kinetic masterpiece, portraying an internal storm made external, a thought process so intense it literally takes flight in a beautiful, dark, and unstoppable flurry of action.

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“Nano Banana 2 Lite is fast and reliable, helping designers explore more ideas to craft unique images on Figma Weave's node-based canvas. It's ideal for rapid iteration while staying in the creative flow.”

Itay Schiff
Co-founder & Creative Director, Figma Weave

“We have been testing Nano Banana 2 Lite to power real-time image generation within Manus’s autonomous workflows—from slide decks to web pages. Its speed suits these scenarios well, allowing our AI Agent to iterate on visuals quickly and deliver results in seconds. The image quality is also impressive, coming close to the full Nano Banana 2. We look forward to continuing our partnership and building better experiences together.”

Tao Zhang
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Manus AI

“Speed is no longer a limitation. When generation is faster than imagination, creators can stay inside the idea instead of waiting on the tool. Nano Banana 2 Lite brings that feeling into the creative process, letting thoughts move into visuals almost instantly. For Artlist’s users, it means less time staring at a progress bar and more time creating, iterating, personalizing, and moving at the speed of culture.”

Idan Yonas
Director of AI Content & Innovation, Artlist

"For our voice-controlled TV game Wit's End, [instant-ramen] delivers consistent, high-quality 1k images ~2.7× faster than Gemini 3.1 Flash Image with incredibly tight latency variance. Its ability to handle text-to-image, edits, and multi-image composition in one drop-in API gives us Flash-Lite speed and cost with Nano-Banana quality. It’s what makes real-time generative play viable at scale."

Max Child
CEO, Weekend

“Our engine generates the world as players explore it, so image speed generation is essential. Instant-ramen is a huge upgrade, enabling accurate visuals, while doing it quick enough to keep up with the player's experience. Instant-ramen's speed and fidelity make on-the-fly art generation something we can use to power living visual worlds.”

Nick Walton
CEO & Co-Founder, Latitude

Performance

Nano Banana 2 Lite delivers exceptional results in Image Editing and Image Generation, particularly in its cost effectiveness and speed.

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Image Editing

Image editing Elo scores against competitors per arena.ai

Image Generation

Image generation Elo scores against competitors per arena.ai

Price per 1k resolution image

Creating your prompts

Use detailed prompts to take more control over the images you generate. Think about what you want to see – the characters, the setting, and the overall feel. The more detail you add, the closer the image will be to what you’ve imagined.

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Limitations

While Gemini can now create a wide range of images, we’re still working on improving key capabilities. You should always carefully check images you create – including text in images – for accuracy.

Visual and text fidelity

Not every image Gemini generates will be perfect – it can still struggle with small faces, accurate spelling, and fine details in images.

Data and factual accuracy

The model's real-world knowledge is extensive but not infallible. When generating infographics, annotating diagrams, or representing complex data, it may misinterpret information or produce factually incorrect results. Always verify data-driven outputs.

Translation and localization

The model is capable of generating and translating text in many languages, but it may struggle with grammar, spelling, cultural nuances, or idiomatic phrases.

Complex edits and image blending

Advanced features like masked editing, major lighting changes (like day to night), or blending multiple images may sometimes produce unnatural results, visual artifacts, or disjointed scenes.

Character features

The model excels at character consistency, but it may not always get it right. We're working to make this consistency even more reliable.

Safety

We use extensive filtering and data labeling to minimize harmful content in datasets and reduce the likelihood of harmful outputs. We also conduct red teaming and evaluations on content safety, including child safety, and representation.

Images created with Nano Banana 2 have all our latest privacy and safety features. This includes SynthID, our tool that embeds an invisible digital watermark directly into an image, allowing it to be identified as AI generated.

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Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image, may sometimes provide inaccurate or offensive content that doesn’t represent Google’s views.

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Don’t rely on LLMs for medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Any content regarding those topics is provided for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional.

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