Create and edit images with Nano Banana Pro.
Nano Banana Pro is Google’s top image model, built on Gemini 3 and sold on control: Google describes it as creating and editing images with studio-quality precision, and it now sits inside a line of three current models.
Capabilities, specifications and access channels on this page come from Google’s own Nano Banana pages. Pricing, plan limits and regional availability are set by Google and change without notice.
What Nano Banana renders
These eight frames are Google’s own, published on the Nano Banana image-generation page. They are grouped the way that page groups them — camera and lighting first, then style taken from a reference, then text — and Google labels none of them with the model that produced it, so the credit below names the page rather than the Pro model.
Example images belong to Google and are reproduced with credit: Nano Banana image-generation page
What Nano Banana is
Google sells the Nano Banana line on two promises: it renders text you can actually read, and it holds a subject steady while you change everything around it. The top model is Nano Banana Pro, built on Gemini 3, and it now sits in a family of three.
Three models, one line
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) and Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image) are all current. Google’s model menu in the Gemini app exposes them as Fast, Thinking and Pro.
Editing, not just generation
Most of Google’s own demos start from a picture that already exists and change one thing: the light, the camera, the frame, or the material lifted off a reference.
Text is the differentiator
Google markets clear text for logos, invites, posters and comics in many languages, and publishes its own single-line error-rate chart rather than leaving the claim unbacked.
Consistency has a published ceiling
5 characters and 14 objects per workflow is the figure Google states. Design around that number rather than discovering it mid-project.
The three current Nano Banana models
Google lists three current models on the Nano Banana family page. The table reproduces what each card says; it is vendor positioning, not a benchmark.
| Model | What Google says | Choose it for |
|---|---|---|
| Nano Banana Pro | Gemini 3 Pro Image. Create and edit images with studio-quality levels of precision and control. | Text-heavy layouts, fine edits and multi-reference consistency. |
| Nano Banana 2 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. Pro-level image generation and editing, at Flash speed. | Production output where turnaround matters more than the last increment of control. |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite | Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image. Google’s fastest, most efficient image model, at its lowest cost yet. | High-volume drafts and iteration. |
Model names and one-line positioning are Google’s, taken from the family page. Google publishes no side-by-side quality comparison of Pro and Nano Banana 2, so this page makes none either.
What Google documents
Every claim below is on one of Google’s Nano Banana pages. Where Google publishes no figure, this page says so instead of estimating one.
Camera and lighting control
Wide angle, panoramic, close-up, depth of field, colour grade, day to night — all prompted as edits to a frame that already exists.
Style lifted from a reference
Take the texture, colour or style from a reference image and apply it to your subject. That is how the material studies in the gallery above were made.
Aspect ratios that keep the subject
Google’s demos move the frame between 1:1, 4:3, 5:3, 1.85:1, 2.39:1, 2.75:1, 4:1, 9:16 and 1:4 while the subject stays locked in place.
Text, including translation
Google documents clear text in many languages for logos, invites and posters, and its own chart puts single-line rendering error rates mostly under 10%.
Output up to 4K
Google documents generation and upscaling at 1K, 2K or 4K resolution.
Reference consistency, with a stated limit
Up to 5 characters and 14 objects can be kept consistent inside one workflow — and Google also says the model does not always get it right.
What Google publishes
Compiled from Google’s Nano Banana model pages. Anything Google has not published — price, generation limits, per-region availability — is marked as unpublished rather than filled in.
- Developer
- Google (DeepMind)
- Current model
- Nano Banana Pro — Gemini 3 Pro Image
- Also current
- Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) · Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image)
- Output resolution
- 1K · 2K · 4K
- Consistency
- Up to 5 characters and 14 objects per workflow
- Demonstrated aspect ratios
- 1:1 · 4:3 · 5:3 · 1.85:1 · 2.39:1 · 2.75:1 · 4:1 · 9:16 · 1:4
- Model IDs in Google’s own links
- gemini-3-pro-image-preview · gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview · gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
- Watermarking
- Imperceptible SynthID watermark, plus a visible AI mark in the Gemini app
- Model menu in the Gemini app
- Fast · Thinking · Pro
- Benchmarking
- Google publishes its own Elo and error-rate charts; no third-party benchmark is quoted here
- Pricing
- Not published here; set by Google
- Generation limits
- Not published here
Where Nano Banana runs
Google ships Nano Banana across several surfaces, and they are not equivalent: the model menu differs, the subscription that unlocks Pro differs, and the developer route is separate again.
Gemini app
Choose “Create images” in the tools menu. The model menu offers Fast, Thinking and Pro, and Google notes that Pro, Plus and Ultra subscribers can redo an image with Nano Banana Pro from the three-dot menu.
OpenGoogle AI Studio
Google’s prompt-to-prototype surface, linked from the model family page once per model.
OpenGemini API
The developer route to the same models. The image generation guide is the page Google links from its own model pages.
OpenGoogle Pics
Google’s separate image tool, listed beside the Gemini app as a place to create and refine pictures.
OpenGemini Enterprise Agent Platform
The enterprise surface Google lists for building, scaling and governing agents.
OpenNano Banana questions people search for
What is Nano Banana Pro?
It is Google’s top image model, built on Gemini 3, and the highest of the three current Nano Banana models. Google describes it as creating and editing images with studio-quality levels of precision and control.
Is Nano Banana free?
The pages this hub is built from publish no per-image price, so none is quoted here. Access runs through the Gemini app, Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, and the only thing Google says about who gets the Pro model is that Pro, Plus and Ultra subscribers can redo an image with it.
Which Nano Banana model should I use?
Pro when control and legible text decide the result, Nano Banana 2 when speed does and pro-level quality is enough, and Nano Banana 2 Lite for volume.
How much text can it render?
Google markets clear text in many languages for logos, invites, posters and comics, and its published chart puts the single-line error rate mostly under 10%. Small type and spelling are still documented weak points, so test the model with your own copy.
Do Nano Banana images carry a watermark?
Yes. Google says images carry an imperceptible SynthID watermark plus a visible mark in the Gemini app, and that you can upload an image to the Gemini app and ask whether Google AI generated it.
Where is image generation available?
Google says image generation works in all languages and countries where the Gemini app is available, with the caveat the page prints itself: compatibility and availability vary, limits apply, and it is 18+.
Latest Google Nano Banana Pro articles
Browse every published Google Nano Banana Pro article, from introductions to practical guides and developer documentation.
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Nano Banana Pro Pricing: What Google Publishes and What It Does Not
The pricing facts Google actually publishes for Nano Banana Pro, the routes that carry a cost, and one prompt priced three ways at third-party rates.
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Nano Banana Pro vs Midjourney: Which One Fits Your Workflow
Nano Banana Pro and Midjourney compared from each vendor's own documentation: versions, text handling, resolution, price models, and two briefs written twice.
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Nano Banana Pro Prompt Guide: The Official Frameworks
The three official Google prompting guides side by side, the framework Google repeats most often, and prompts rewritten from vague to buildable.
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Is Nano Banana Pro Free? What Google Actually Confirms
Google confirms limited free quotas, the surfaces that carry them and the watermark rule — plus why every free image count you have read disagrees.
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How to Use Nano Banana Pro
Where Nano Banana Pro runs today, how a first image comes together, one worked studio example with the full prompt, and what Google has not published.
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Nano Banana Pro API: Getting Started
Call the Nano Banana Pro API with a working curl request and a Python example using reference images, plus the billing facts Google has not published.
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