Gemini Nano Banana 2.1
by GoogleChat
Image model for prompt-driven generation, editing, and visual design workflows
- Context
- 131K tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Released
- 2026-10-06
- Weights
- Closed
google/gemini-nano-banana-2-1 · also seen as vertex/gemini-nano-banana-2.1, vertex_ai/gemini-nano-banana-2.1, google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1-20261006
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-10-06
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image, Video
- Output
- Text, Image
- Context window
- 131,072 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 32,768
- Providers
- 2 + 4 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $1.50 in · $30 out per 1M tokens · 1 of 2 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-10-06
- Knowledge cutoff
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web search
- Computer useunknown
- System messages
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $1.50 in / $30 out per 1M tokens at Vertex on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
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