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Gemini Nano Banana 2.1

MAI-Image-2.5-Pro

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5-Pro creates and edits pictures from text descriptions, offered to developers through an API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet. rather than as a free download.

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The basics

Released

Not known

Jul 23

What it does

Knowledge cutoff

The latest events it learned about

Not published

Download

No: it runs on the maker's servers

Where to use it

Google's app: Gemini ↗

No app knownAlso for developers, through an API

Price and limits, for developers

Input

Per million tokens

$1.50

Not listed

Output

Per million tokens

$7.50

Not listed

Context window

How much it takes in at once

66K tokens about 49,000 words

Not listed

How they score

Pictures, by people's votes

LMArena text-to-image · LMArena

1,328#7 of 78

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Only Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 is in this ranking, which lists the most-voted models.

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