Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)
Google · Image generation · Released Jun 2026
Google's lightweight multimodal model for generating and understanding images alongside text, built on the Gemini 3 Pro architecture with a 65K token context window.
- Strengths
- Handles image and text inputs efficiently with a smaller footprint than larger multimodal models, making it suitable for resource-constrained deployments.
- Best for
- Applications requiring image understanding or generation paired with text, where latency and computational cost are priorities over frontier-level reasoning.
- Limitations
- The 65K token context window is smaller than later multimodal releases like Nano Banana 2 (131K tokens), and predecessor Nano Banana (released 2025-10) remains available as an alternative.
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$12.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.2
Context window
65K
Also billed
- Cache write
- $0.375 / 1M
- Audio input
- $2.00 / 1M
- Image input
- $0.000002 / image
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Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2026 | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.2 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 18 Jun 2026 | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.2 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |