Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

Google's lightweight image-and-text model built on the Gemini 3.1 Flash architecture, designed for efficient multimodal tasks with a 65K token context window.

Strengths

Handles both image and text inputs efficiently, maintaining the speed advantages of the Gemini 3.1 Flash line while supporting visual understanding.

Best for

Applications requiring lightweight image recognition and text analysis where context window needs stay under 65K tokens and latency matters.

Limitations

Smaller context window than its sibling Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) at 131K tokens, and lacks video and audio capabilities found in newer Gemini 3.7 Flash models.