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# Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) — unrated, priced in this catalogue · Undominated.ai

> Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image): $0.300/M in, $2.50/M out. No independent quality score in this catalogue — unrated, not ranked, not scored zero.

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MODEL PROOF

# Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)

Google · 07 Oct 2025

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED

## No independent LMArena score is published for this model.

 **$0.850** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

Reasoning tokens are billed separately.

Lifecycle: date passed · 02 Oct 2026

Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026

 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) Independent LMArena score Not independently rated
 Context window 32.77K
 Maximum output 8.19K
 Input modalities image, text
 Output modalities image, text
 Published input price $0.300 / 1M tokens
 Published output price $2.50 / 1M tokens
 Pricing kind fixed

Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below.

Price from Google: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.

 Every price dimension · USD per million tokens

| Input | $0.300 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $2.50 /M |
| Cached input | $0.030 /M |
| Cache write | $0.083 /M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown /M |
| Reasoning | $2.50 /M |
| Web search | $0.014 /call |

**Reasoning tokens are billed separately** at $2.50/M, on top of output. Its share of your bill depends on the reasoning tokens used.

### Who sells it

The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.

 1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions

Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.

| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seller Google google-vertex/global Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.030 Context limit 32,768 tokens Output limit 8,192 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.300 | Output $2.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.

#### Best rankings by task

 - Graphicdesign #10 1170
- Image #10 1185
- Logo #11 1170

Per-task Elo and rank from [Design Arena](https://designarena.ai), via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.

### Capability

| Context window | 32K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 8K |
| Input modes | image, text |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-01-31 |
| Open weights | no |

**Earliest possible retirement: 2026-10-02.** The date has passed. An endpoint still served the model when its offers were read on 2026-10-06. [Vendor notice, ai.google.dev, fetched 2026-09-30](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations)

### Provenance

| Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a.k.a. "Nano Banana," is now generally available. It is a state of the art image generation model with contextual understanding. It is capable of image generation,...

## Questions this page answers

 What does Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) cost?

$0.300/M in, $2.50/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

 Does Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) have an independent quality score?

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.

 What beats Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)?

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.

 Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

 Does a missing score mean Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) scored zero?

Unrated is not a score of zero.

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## Related

No independent quality score, so there is no dominator to name. Unrated is not a clean bill of health.

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