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Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) Pricing

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Input / 1M tokens

$0.250

Output / 1M tokens

$1.50

Context window

65,536 tokens

≈ 87 pages of text

Max output

66k tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0009

1,000 requests / month$0.9/mo 10,000 requests / month$9.00/mo 100,000 requests / month$90.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

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What it excels at

Handles high-volume text and image inputs at low cost via commercial API. Supports extended output lengths for batch-style document or visual processing.

The business tradeoff

Lite configuration shows measurable gaps in multi-step reasoning and instruction following versus standard Gemini Flash variants. Output token pricing remains higher relative to input, increasing cost for generation-heavy workloads.

Cheaper from Google

Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle$0.0002/ typical request Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025Google$0.0003/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI$0.0007/ typical request Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic$0.0032/ typical request Llama 3.3 70BMeta$0.0002/ typical request

Head-to-head

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) vs GPT-5.4 Nano →Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) vs Claude Haiku 4.5 →Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) vs Llama 3.3 70B →

Vendor list rates, as of Jun 30, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.