Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)

Google's multimodal model for processing text and images, built on the Gemini 3.1 Flash architecture with a 131K token context window.

Strengths

Handles both text and image inputs in a single pass, balancing inference speed with multimodal capability on the Gemini 3.1 generation.

Best for

Tasks requiring image understanding alongside text processing where the larger context window and multimodal support of newer Flash models are unnecessary.

Limitations

Superseded by later multimodal Flash releases (3.6 and 3.7) that offer 1M token context windows; text-only workloads are better served by the lightweight Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.