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Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)

Researched today

Last refreshed 2026-05-31. Next refresh: weekly.

ProprietaryMultimodalLong contextVision

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) is worth evaluating for long context and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Long context task fit, 1 tracked provider route, and research from 2026-05-31.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating long context and vision
  • Workloads that can use a 131k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows

Cheapest output

$60.00

Google AI Studio per 1M tokens

Provider routes

1

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-05-31

Researched today

fresh

Top use-case fit

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MBatch in / outRoute
Google AI Studio$0.500$60.00$0.250 / $30.00
Serverless

Benchmark peer barsfor Long context

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

Nano Banana 2 is the GA Gemini 3.1 Flash Image model for image generation and editing through the Gemini API. It accepts text, image, and PDF inputs, returns text and images, supports search grounding and thinking, and replaces the gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview model retiring on 2026-06-25.

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) has a 131k-token context window.

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) input tokens at $0.5/1M, output at $60/1M.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningBatch API

API Versions

gemini-3.1-flash-image

Rankings

Specifications

Released2026-05-28
Context131k
Max output32,768
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-01
Specializationimage-generation
LicenseProprietary
Trainingpretrained

Created by

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2014
Website

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