Google: Nano Banana
Nano Banana is an image generation model from Google released on Aug 21, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text and images, with a 33K token context window.
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It costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $0.075, 75% less than fresh input.
It supports prompt caching.
11 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, Vertex and Poe. The lowest input price is $0.21 per million tokens at Poe.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.30 / $30 per 1M
- Context
- 33K
- Max output
- 33K
- Released
- Aug 21, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jun 2024
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Nano Banana pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.30 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $30 / 1M tokens | |
| Cached input (read) | $0.075 / 1M tokens | 75% off input |
Nano Banana providers
11 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, Vertex and Poe. The lowest input price is $0.21 per million tokens at Poe. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google First party | $0.30 | $30 | $0.075 | 33K | 33K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | 33K | 66K |
| Vertex | $0.30 | $30 | – | 33K | 33K |
| Poe | $0.21 | $1.80 | $0.021 | 66K | n/a |
| 302.AI | $0.30 | $30 | – | 33K | 33K |
| Abacus | $0.30 | $30 | – | 33K | 33K |
| AIHubMix | $0.30 | $30 | $0.03 | 33K | 33K |
| Eden AI | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | 33K | 33K |
| Kilo Gateway | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | 33K | 8K |
| Merge Gateway | $0.30 | $2.50 | – | 33K | 33K |
| Qiniu | n/a | n/a | – | 33K | 8K |
What Nano Banana costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Nano Banana through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Nano Banana questions
How much does the Nano Banana API cost?
$0.30 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.075. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Nano Banana?
32,768 tokens of input, and it can write up to 32,768 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Nano Banana?
11 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, Vertex and Poe. The lowest input price is $0.21 per million tokens at Poe. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Is Nano Banana open source?
No. Google serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Nano Banana released?
Aug 21, 2025, with training data up to Jun 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Nano Banana?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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