Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) API Pricing
Google · Image · Proprietary · released 2026-06. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) has held the same list price since 2026-08-15. None of its 2 hosts undercuts the price quoted here. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.25 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.50 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 66K
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) market position
Image models bill per image as well as per token, so this page does not rank this one on token price.
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) licence, size and capabilities
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is recorded here as proprietary: access is through an API, priced by the token. Its parameter count is not published. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Image Gen, Reasoning, Code. Filling its 66K context window once costs $0.02 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $113 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $170 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $430 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $333 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $375 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $128 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $155 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $600 |
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 2 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
The price we publish is already the cheapest of the 2 hosts: Google at $0.25 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens. All of them charge within 10% of one another.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Google (the price shown above) | $0.25 | $1.50 |
| Google AI Studio (the price shown above) | $0.25 | $1.50 |
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) price history
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.25 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Common questions about Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) pricing
- How much does Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) cost?
- Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) costs about $113 at list prices.
- Has the price of Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) changed?
- Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.25 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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