Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite)
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Knowledge cutoff: January 2025
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Sticker prices & cost-per-token
List rates as published by Gemini, before any volume or enterprise discounts.
$0.25
$15.00
65,536 tokens
65,536
tokens per response (includes reasoning tokens)
Closed weights
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| Effective | Price |
|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 – present |
Input cost: $0.25 / 1M, Output cost: $15.00 / 1M, Cached input cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache creation cost: $0.00 / 1M, 5-minute cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, 1-hour cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, Reasoning output cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache storage cost: $0.00 / 1M/hr
Corrected per_output_cost_per_million from 1.5 to 15.0 (/1M image tokens are $15). Pricing for batch output matches $0.0168 per 1K image. Models.dev had 30.0. Page confirms $15 (Batch), $30 (Standard).
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| Oct 5, 2026 – Oct 12, 2026 | Input cost: $0.25 / 1M, Output cost: $1.50 / 1M, Cached input cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache creation cost: $0.00 / 1M, 5-minute cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, 1-hour cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, Reasoning output cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache storage cost: $0.00 / 1M/hr |
| Aug 16, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026 | Input cost: $0.25 / 1M, Output cost: $30.00 / 1M, Cached input cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache creation cost: $0.00 / 1M, 5-minute cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, 1-hour cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, Reasoning output cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache storage cost: $0.00 / 1M/hr |
History
Last change detected October 12, 2026 (14 days ago) by an automated scan.
| Date | Changed by | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2026 | Unknown | Initial record created |
Source
https://ai.google.dev/pricingComparable models
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Reliability
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Frequently asked questions
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) (Gemini) costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens, as last published by Gemini.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) has a context window of 65,536 tokens (the maximum combined input and output it can handle in a single request).
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) sits in the small size tier. Size tiers run from micro (small enough to run on a device) through small, medium and large to extra large (frontier flagships), and are assigned from the model's family, naming and limits rather than its price.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) can generate up to 65,536 tokens in a single response. Reasoning (thinking) tokens count toward this limit.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite)'s training data runs through January 2025, so it may not know about later events. Coolhand records the cutoff at month precision, since providers often publish only the month.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) accepts image and text as input and produces image and text as output, as recorded in the Coolhand catalog.
No — the weights of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) have not been released, so it is only available through hosted APIs.
No, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) is currently active with no announced deprecation date.
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