Nano Banana 2.1

Key facts

Where Nano Banana 2.1 sits in our data

• Released Oct 6, 2026 (week 41 of 2026), in October 2026. Other models in our data released that month: GPT-6.1 Terra, Kimi K3.1 Pro, Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (4GB), Voxtral 3, Mercury 3.
• The previous Google model we track is Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS (Sep 22, 2026), 14 days earlier.
• Google tools we cover: Gemini Notebook, Google ADK, Gemini CLI.
• All releases by date: AI model releases by month · new AI models this week.

How Nano Banana 2.1 differs from Nano Banana 2 Lite

Read from the recorded facts of the two models, not from a head-to-head test. We have not run either.

• We have a recorded price for Nano Banana 2.1 but none for Nano Banana 2 Lite.
• Output is image, against image, text.
• Nano Banana 2.1 came out 98 days after Nano Banana 2 Lite.
• Facts for the other model: Nano Banana 2 Lite.

What we tested

Nothing yet. We have not run Nano Banana 2.1 ourselves, so every fact on this page is Reported from the sources below. When we do test it, the scope will be stated here and in our test logs. See methodology.

Not verified, left out

We could not confirm these on a vendor page, so we do not state them.

• Input modalities were not captured. It ranks #6 (preliminary) on the Oct 7, 2026 LMArena text-to-image snapshot.

Sources

• Gemini API model page
• Gemini API pricing
• Gemini API changelog

More from Google

• Nano Banana 2 Lite (Jun 30, 2026)
• Gemini 4 Argon (Oct 13, 2026)
• Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS (Sep 22, 2026)
• Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS (Sep 22, 2026)
• Gemini 3.8 Live (Sep 15, 2026)
• Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (Sep 15, 2026)
• Gemini 3.8 Flash (Sep 2, 2026)

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