Nano Banana 2.1
Google's fast image editor: your likeness survives big restyles, and requested text comes out spelled right.
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Price per image
$0.048
What is Nano Banana 2.1?
Nano Banana 2.1 is Google DeepMind's October 2026 update to Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), and it is our most-used model. It generates from text and edits from uploaded photos, and its stand-out trait is likeness: a person stays recognizable when they are turned into a toy, a plushie, a LEGO minifigure or a cinematic portrait. Google's update improves visual quality, prompt adherence, character consistency across edits, text rendering, and wide and panoramic aspect ratios. It is a fast generalist. For faithful recreations of a named cartoon franchise, other models come closer.
Strengths
- ✓Keeps a person's face recognizable through heavy restyles: toys, plush, LEGO and cinematic portraits.
- ✓Spells requested words cleanly on packaging, name tags, posters and information boards.
- ✓Fast enough to iterate on freely, and handles both text-to-image and photo edits in one model.
Weaknesses
- ✗Named cartoon franchise styles (The Simpsons, Wallace & Gromit) come out as generic look-alikes.
- ✗Decorative lettering you don't spell out, like coin borders or background signs, tends to come out as made-up glyphs.
- ✗Google's safety filter refuses some horror and franchise-character concepts outright, even when reworded.
Nano Banana 2.1 across our benchmarks
Fairy-Tale Poster
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Isometric Cafe Cutaway
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Phone-Screen Mirror Selfie
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Art Nouveau Travel Poster
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Same Character, Four Panels
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Only in the Reflection
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A Cat With a Horse's Body
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A Cat the Size of a Horse
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Cyan, Magenta, Yellow: Three Spotlights
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Three Spotlights, One Wall
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Three Lamps, Three Blocks
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Three Lamps, One Hand
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Railing Shadow on a Staircase
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Bioluminescent Deep-Sea Parade
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Two People, Long Shadows (Overhead)
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Two Arrows, One Glass of Water
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A Bowl of Wrong-Coloured Fruit
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Honey-Drip Typography
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Pencil in a Glass of Water
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Backyard Cryptid on a Trail Cam
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Two-Mirror Corner — Chrome Sphere Reflection Test
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Watercolor Botanical — Hummingbird and Trumpet Vine
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Bronze Age Comic Panel — Superhero Landing
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Empty Desert Highway at Sunset
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Pixel-Art RPG Shopkeeper, 32-Bit Era
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Bizarre Plush Toy Web Catalog
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Stack of Pancakes with Melting Butter
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Wes Anderson Hotel Lobby
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1960s Pulp Paperback Cover
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Hands Holding a Coffee Cup
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Tokyo Alley After Rain
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Vintage 1980s Cereal Box
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Windows 7 Desktop, Early 2010s
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Brutalist Cafe Sign at Golden Hour
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AI Movie Poster
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Vintage Bookshop Neon Sign
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Dramatic Mountain Silhouette
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Prompts that work with Nano Banana 2.1
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Action Figure in Blister Pack Prompt
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Plushie Soft Toy Prompt
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AI Character Sheet Prompt
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