Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 33k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Gemini 2.5
- Released
- 2025-04-01
- Context
- 33k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Cheapest of 4 routes · OpenRouter
About
Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) available via OpenRouter. Pricing: $0.3/1M input, $2.5/1M output.
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is a proprietary model in the Gemini 2.5 family. The structured metadata tracks a 33k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Google AI Studio, GCP Vertex AI, OpenRouter, and 1 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.3 input and $2.5 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 4Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.300 | $2.50 | - | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.300 | $2.50 | read $0.030 | Serverless |
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.300 | $30.00 | - | Serverless |
| Google AI Studio | $0.300 | $30.00 | - | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(13)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Comparison and alternatives
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What is the context window of Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)?
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) has a context window of 33k tokens.
How much does Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) cost?
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is available at $0.3/1M input tokens through Google AI Studio.
When was Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) released?
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) was released on 2025-04-01.
Which providers offer Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)?
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is available from 4 providers: Google AI Studio, GCP Vertex AI, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway.
Cheapest of 4 routes · OpenRouter