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Nano Banana 2.1

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Price
$0.034/image
Time
~6.8sper imageest.

$0.0336 per 1K image (Gemini API); 2K $0.0504, 4K $0.113. API id gemini-nano-banana-2.1. Arena entry river-route-29j0.

Rankings

Benchmark scores

~ italic, dashed = no published score yet, estimated from related benchmarks.

Image generation

AA Text-to-Image ArenaEstimated
~#6 of 37 (estimated)~1137 Elo
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1190
  3. #5MAI-Image-2.61147
  4. ~#6Nano Banana 2.1Estimated1137
  5. #6Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1122
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Text-to-ImageVerified
#5 of 321328 Elo
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1398
  3. #4MAI-Image-2.61334
  4. #5Nano Banana 2.11328
  5. #6Grok Imagine Image 2.01321
arena.ai · 2026-10-06
GenEvalEstimated
~#2 of 4 (estimated)~87.1%
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. ~#2Nano Banana 2.1Estimated87.1%
  3. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-BenchEstimated
~#3 of 4 (estimated)~87.9%
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Nano Banana 2.1Estimated87.9%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks