Google image model
Nano Banana 2.1 AI Image Generator
Nano Banana color in extreme frames, from 1:8 tall strips to 8:1 banners.
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At a glance
- Provider
- Best for
- Campaign images, product stories, and banners or posters at extreme aspects.
- Sizes
- 1K to 4K
- Reference images
- Up to 14
- Price
- 5 Credits at default settings
Character
Nano Banana 2.1 is the newer image model in the line: one image at a time, with 1K, 2K, and 4K and a wide set of frames.
Nano Banana 2.1 keeps the family’s appetite for color and scene, then gives the frame a real size. 1K is the study. 2K and 4K are the sizes you keep. Aspects run from a square and a story frame out to thin banners, so a poster and a wide strip can come from the same brief.
Each run makes one image. Text to Image starts from the sentence. Image to Image starts from references, up to fourteen, and the prompt says what stays and what changes.
Style
How Nano Banana 2.1 tends to see a picture.
Expressive color
Color carries the scene. Name a palette when it should feel chosen.
Lived-in detail
Rooms, tables, and streets pick up small narrative props without a full inventory.
Stylized realism
The default sits between a photograph and a crafted campaign image. Push either way in the prompt.
One frame at a time
The model returns a single image. A set is several runs, not one batch.
In practice
The work this model is built to carry.
Campaign images
A finished-enough frame for a concept presentation.
Product storytelling
An object in a place, with mood as well as form.
Banners and posters
Extreme aspects for a strip, a story, or a tall poster.
Reference edits
Restyle a source without giving up who or what it shows.
Briefing
Write one scene with a verb, then pick the frame. 'A baker leans over a copper tray, late shop light' at 4:5 is a different picture from the same sentence at 21:9.
Judge the crop at 1K. Move to 2K or 4K only after the framing is the one you want. For another reading, change one thing and run again.
Lock the crop first
Look at 1K before a 4K run. A wrong frame is the same picture, only larger.
One scene per prompt
The model tries to include everything you name. Keep the cast short.
One image per run
Ask for one image. Change the prompt or the reference, then run again.
How Nano Banana 2.1 compares
Not sure it is the right pick? Here is when another model is the better start.
- Nano Banana 2
Choose Nano Banana 2 for the main working Nano Banana model with a broad aspect set.
- Nano Banana Pro
Choose Nano Banana Pro when the idea is settled and the remaining work is a campaign-grade finish.
- Nano Banana 2 Lite
Choose Nano Banana 2 Lite for quick studies and alternate directions before you commit.
Nano Banana 2.1 FAQ
Nano Banana 2.1 is the newer image model in the Nano Banana line. It makes one image per run at 1K, 2K, or 4K, with a wide set of frames.
From squares and story frames out to thin banners, including 1:4, 4:1, 1:8, and 8:1, so a poster and a wide strip can come from the same brief.
Up to fourteen on Image to Image. The prompt should say what stays and what changes.
Each run makes one image. A set is several runs: change the prompt or the reference, then run again.
The price depends on the resolution, the number of outputs, and whether you use a reference image. At default settings, Nano Banana 2.1 costs 5 Credits. Create always shows the exact price before you start.
Yes. Images generated while a paid kitchen is in force include commercial use, including through the end of a period you already paid for. That permission stays with those images after the kitchen ends, subject to our Terms. Images generated with starter Credits, or while no paid kitchen is in force, are for personal, non-commercial use. See Pricing.
More in the Nano Banana family
Same family, different jobs. Pick by the work in front of you.
- Nano Banana
The original Nano Banana: playful ideas, made to look intentional.
- Nano Banana Pro
Bold color, finished for publication: faces, fabrics and fine detail hold up close.
- Nano Banana 2
The main Nano Banana for imaginative scenes, product stories and social frames.
- Nano Banana 2 Lite
The sketchbook Nano Banana: try ideas fast, then finish the winner on 2 or Pro.
Cook with Nano Banana 2.1
Create opens on this model. Write the prompt, set the frame, and keep the image on your private shelf.
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