Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana)
Key facts
- Released
- Aug 26, 2025
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Makes images: Creates pictures from a description, or edits them.
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- Knowledge cutoff
- June 2024 · the latest events it learned about
- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “Nano Banana Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
Price and limits
What developers pay to use it through the 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., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.
- Input
- $0.30
- per million tokensCached: $0.075
- Output
- $30.00
- per million tokens
- Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- 33K tokens
- about 25,000 words
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- Longest answer
- 8K tokens (about 6,100 words)
From the lab's own listing on models.dev and OpenRouter, checked .
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Pictures, by people's votes#35 of 78
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst1,428
- 2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst1,406
- 34HunyuanImage 3.01,152
- 35Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana)1,148
- 36Seedream 4.51,148
Source: LMArena · LMArena text-to-image
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It came out 11 days after imagen 4 fast, the lab's previous model.
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