Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image ("nano-banana") blends several images, keeps characters consistent and edits by natural-language instruction; $0.039 per image via API.
Native image generation and editing inside Gemini 2.5 Flash, answering developer feedback that Gemini 2.0 Flash image output needed higher quality. Went viral in the Gemini app. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image reached GA 2025-10-02.
- Date
- Tuesday, 26 August 2025
- Lab
- Google DeepMind
- Kind
- model
- Access
- closed API
- Price
- $30 per 1M output tokens (about $0.039/image), 2025-08-26
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| API price per image | $0.039 1,290 output tokens at $30 per 1M | company |
Also catalogued in the media file under the same id.
Sources
- developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/
- ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog
- blog.google/technology/ai/google-ai-updates-august-2025/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_Banana
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