Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
Google · released Jun 30, 2026
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini image model, built for high-velocity developer pipelines and rapid-fire visual exploration. It delivers text-to-image generation...
Specification
- Context window
- 66K
- Max output
- 66K
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jan 1, 2025
- Parameters
- Undisclosed
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Serving providers
- 2
- Moderated
- No
- Uptime
- 99.9%
Intelligence
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Not benchmarked
Coding
—
Coding Index
Agentic
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Agentic Index
Output speed
443 t/s
Median across providers
Latency
2.39s
Time to first token
Cost per task
$0.13
Estimated
Benchmarks
Where the score comes from
The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.
Evaluation scores
This model has not been put through the benchmark suite. Its speed, latency and pricing figures below are still measured.
Against its peers
Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey
- Claude Opus 5Anthropic63.1
- Claude Fable 5Anthropic62.1
- GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI60.9
- Kimi K3Moonshot AI59.7
- Qwen3.8 MaxQwen58.1
- Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic57.3
- Muse Spark 1.2Meta56.8
Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.
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| Model | Intelligence |
|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5 | 63.1 |
| Claude Fable 5 | 62.1 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | 60.9 |
| Kimi K3 | 59.7 |
| Qwen3.8 Max | 58.1 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | 57.3 |
| Muse Spark 1.2 | 56.8 |
Percentile among all indexed models
Pricing
What it costs to run
List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.
List price
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.25
- Output / 1M tokens
- $1.5
- Cached input / 1M
- Not offered
- Blended 3:1
- $0.563
One task, estimated
$0.13
- Input tokens
- 50,000
- Output tokens
- 80,000
- Profile
- Reasoning
Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).
Serving providers
Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.
Arena
Head-to-head generation quality
Elo from pairwise judgements, broken out by the kind of thing the model was asked to build.
- Overall Elo
- 1,268
- Win rate
- 55.5%
- Strongest at
- Graphic design
- Tournaments
- 14,949
Elo by category
Dot position on a 1,200–1,275 scale · Elo has no meaningful zero
- 1,268
- 1,260
- 1,224
Agent categories (full-stack apps, mobile apps) are only scored for models tested in agent harnesses.
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| Category | Elo | Win rate |
|---|---|---|
| Graphic design | 1268 | 55.5% |
| Image | 1260 | 53.9% |
| logo | 1224 | 48.5% |