Nano Banana 2
google's gemini 3.1 flash image — the best default for production work
not the top of any leaderboard, and still the model we'd default to — the balance of price, speed, resolution and character consistency is better than anything above it.
the naming is a mess, so to be clear: nano banana 2 is gemini 3.1 flash image, released in february. it is not a successor to nano banana pro in the quality sense — it is the fast line catching up, which it comprehensively has.
its standout capability is subject consistency: up to five characters and fourteen objects held stable across generations. for anyone producing a series — product shots, a character across a storyboard, a campaign that has to look like one campaign — that is worth more than a few elo points, and it is class-leading.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai image models
- pricing
- $0.067 / image at 1K direct from google
- website
- ai.google.dev
not the top of any leaderboard, and still the model we'd default to — the balance of price, speed, resolution and character consistency is better than anything above it.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.
more ai image models
GPT Image 2
we checked this$0.006 low / $0.053 medium / $0.211 high, at 1024×1024the only model that leads both generation and editing
Reve 2.1
we checked this~$0.04 / image on fal's reve endpointthe independent lab that reasons about layout before it draws