Google · image model · Released May 28, 2026Nano Banana Pro
Nano Banana Pro for higher-fidelity image generation and design-heavy edits.
- Arena score
- 1,390#14 of 61 · image editing
- Starting price
- $0.134per image · 1K–2K
- Largest size
- 4K4K (about 16 MP)
- References
- 14input images for editing
How it rates and what it costs
- Text to image arena
- 1,246 ±3#16 of 82 · 188,288 votes
- Image editing arena
- 1,390 ±3#14 of 61 · 685,788 votes
Arena scores come from blind, side-by-side human votes on the same prompts (higher is better; ± is the 95% range). Boards updated Oct 26, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026.
Listed prices
- 1K–2K
- $0.134/image
- 4K
- $0.24/image
Billed per token; Google’s listed cost per image.
Specs and prices checked Nov 2, 2026: Google Cloud Vertex AI pricing · OpenRouter, image generation models compared (Sep 11, 2026) . Labs change prices often.
The details
- Lab
- Type
- Image model
- Released
- May 28, 2026
- Inputs
- Text prompts, Reference images
- Output
- Images
- Can do
- Text to image, Image editing
- Resolutions
- 1K · 2K · 4K
- Largest image
- 4K (about 16 MP)
- Max reference images
- 14
- Images per request
- Up to 1
- Weights
- Proprietary
- Official price
- $2.00 / $120.00input / output per million tokens, on Google
- API model ID
gemini-3-pro-imageon Google- Availability
- 15 API hosts
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About Nano Banana Pro
How good is Nano Banana Pro?
In blind side-by-side votes, Nano Banana Pro scores 1,246 for text to image (#16 of 82) and 1,390 for image editing (#14 of 61). Higher is better; scores within about 6 points of each other are effectively tied.
Who makes Nano Banana Pro?
Nano Banana Pro is an image model from Google, released May 28, 2026.
What can Nano Banana Pro do?
Nano Banana Pro accepts text prompts and reference images and produces images. In practice: text to image and image editing.
Is Nano Banana Pro open source?
No. Nano Banana Pro is proprietary; you use it through Google’s API or partner apps.
Where can I use Nano Banana Pro?
It is listed by 15 API hosts we track; the model ID on Google is gemini-3-pro-image. The lab bills it per token: $2.00 input and $120.00 output per million tokens.
How much does Nano Banana Pro cost?
Nano Banana Pro costs from $0.134/image (1K–2K), up to $0.24/image (4K). Prices checked Nov 2, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Nano Banana Pro?
The closest image models from other labs, by release date, are Recraft V4.1 (Recraft, May 14, 2026), GPT Image 2 (OpenAI, Apr 21, 2026), Seedream 5.0 Pro (ByteDance Seed, Jul 11, 2026) and Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (xAI, Aug 7, 2026).