Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro)
Key facts
- Released
- Nov 20, 2025
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.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
- January 2025 · the latest events it learned about
- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “Introducing Nano Banana Pro”
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
- $2.00
- per million tokens
- Output
- $120.00
- 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.
- 66K tokens
- about 49,000 words
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- Longest answer
- 33K tokens (about 25,000 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#17 of 78
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst1,428
- 2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst1,406
- 16Seedream 5.0 Pro1,249
- 17Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro)1,246
- 18GPT Image 1.51,236
Source: LMArena · LMArena text-to-image
Compare Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro) with
It came out 86 days after Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana), the lab's previous model.
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