Google: Nano Banana 2
Nano Banana 2 is an image generation model from Google released on Feb 26, 2026. It reads text, images, files and video and writes text and images, with a 131K token context window.
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It costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $60 per million output tokens.
12 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, Vertex and 302.AI.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.50 / $60 per 1M
- Context
- 131K
- Max output
- 33K
- Released
- Feb 26, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jan 2025
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Nano Banana 2 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 | $0.50 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $60 / 1M tokens |
Nano Banana 2 providers
12 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, Vertex and 302.AI. 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 | $0.50 | $60 | – | 131K | 33K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.50 | $3 | $0.05 | 131K | 33K |
| Vertex | $0.50 | $60 | $0.05 | 131K | 33K |
| 302.AI | $0.50 | $60 | – | 131K | 33K |
| Abacus | $0.50 | $3 | – | 1.05M | 33K |
| AIHubMix | $0.50 | $3 | – | 131K | 33K |
| Eden AI | $0.50 | $3 | – | 66K | 33K |
| FastRouter | $0.50 | $3 | – | 66K | 66K |
| Kilo Gateway | $0.50 | $3 | – | 131K | 33K |
| Merge Gateway | $0.50 | $3 | – | 33K | 33K |
| Requesty | $0.50 | $2 | – | 131K | 33K |
| Kenari | n/a | n/a | – | 131K | 33K |
What Nano Banana 2 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 2 through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Nano Banana 2 questions
How much does the Nano Banana 2 API cost?
$0.50 per million input tokens and $60 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Nano Banana 2?
131,072 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 2?
12 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, Vertex and 302.AI. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Is Nano Banana 2 open source?
No. Google serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Nano Banana 2 released?
Feb 26, 2026, with training data up to Jan 2025.
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 2?
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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