What is Nano Banana 2.1?
Update to Nano Banana 2 with sharper text, steadier characters and half the API image price.
Who is Nano Banana 2.1 best for?
Nano Banana 2.1 is best for designers who need infographics and images with legible text at a low API cost.
Infographics and diagrams
Google's model card shows its biggest gains on infographic design and factuality, helped by grounding in Google web and image search.
Recurring characters
It mixes up to 14 reference images and keeps up to 4 characters and 10 objects consistent across a series.
Wide banners and tall posts
It makes 1K, 2K and 4K images in ratios from 1:8 to 8:1, with the tiling artifacts of Nano Banana 2 fixed.
High-volume image apps
At $0.0336 per 1K image, or half that with the Batch API, it costs half as much per image as Nano Banana 2.
How much does Nano Banana 2.1 cost?
Nano Banana 2.1 costs $0.0336 per 1K image on the Gemini API ($0.0168 with the Batch API), and in the Gemini app it needs a Google AI plan, from Google AI Plus at $4.99 a month.
- $0.0252 at 2K, $0.0567 at 4K
- $0.75 per million input tokens
- Half the Standard rate, for jobs that can wait
- $0.0504 at 2K, $0.113 at 4K
- $1.50 per million input tokens
- Image output billed at $30 per million tokens
- Nano Banana 2.1 in the Gemini app
- Redo any image with Nano Banana Pro
- Higher limits than the free app
- Nano Banana 2.1 in the Gemini app
- Higher Nano Banana access than Plus
Free Gemini app users get Nano Banana 2, not 2.1. Google AI Ultra starts at $99.99 a month. The Gemini API has no free tier for Nano Banana 2.1 (model code gemini-nano-banana-2.1), and paid API prompts are not used to improve Google's products. Text and thinking output costs $7.50 per million tokens. Grounding with Google Web and Image Search gives 5,000 free requests a month, shared with Gemini 3 and newer models, then $14 per 1,000. It is also in AI Mode in Search, Google Ads, Flow and Stitch. Prices are in US dollars. Full pricing on aistudio.google.com. We checked these prices on .
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Questions about Nano Banana 2.1
What is Nano Banana 2.1?
Update to Nano Banana 2 with sharper text, steadier characters and half the API image price.
Who is Nano Banana 2.1 for?
Nano Banana 2.1 is best for designers who need infographics and images with legible text at a low API cost.
Is Nano Banana 2.1 free?
Not in the Gemini app: free users get Nano Banana 2, and Nano Banana 2.1 needs a Google AI plan, from Google AI Plus at $4.99 a month. The Gemini API has no free tier for it either; a 1K image costs $0.0336.
How much does Nano Banana 2.1 cost?
Nano Banana 2.1's paid plans are Gemini API, Batch at $0.0168 per 1K image, Gemini API, Standard at $0.0336 per 1K image, Google AI Plus at $4.99 per month and Google AI Pro at $19.99 per month.
What are the best Nano Banana 2.1 alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are GPT Image 2, Seedream 5.0 Lite and MAI-Image-2.6.
Where can I try Nano Banana 2.1?
On its official website, gemini.google.
What changed from Nano Banana 2?
Google says Nano Banana 2.1 follows prompts better, renders text and infographics more accurately, keeps characters steadier over several turns and fixes tiling in wide 1:4 to 8:1 images at 2K and 4K. Its API image output costs half as much, $30 against $60 per million tokens.
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