Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

Nano Banana 2 Lite is Google's lightweight multimodal model for processing text and images, built on the Gemini 3.1 Flash architecture with a 65K token context window.

Strengths

Handles image and text inputs with fast inference and low resource overhead compared to larger multimodal models.

Best for

Quick image analysis and text-to-image workflows where context length under 65K tokens is sufficient.

Limitations

Smaller context window than most other Google models in the current lineup, and older than the 2026-07 and 2026-08 releases which offer 1M token windows.