Google · 2026-10-06
Nano Banana 2.1 pricing
Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1) is Google's image generation and editing model on the Flash tier, succeeding Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro.
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What Nano Banana 2.1 costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $158 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $2,025 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $1,260 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Z.ai | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Alibaba Qwen | $0.03 | $0.13 | $0.006 | 1M | $2.91 |
| Ling 3.0 Flash VL | inclusionai | $0.06 | $0.18 | $0.012 | 131K | $4.86 |
| Ternary Bonsai 2 9B | prism-ml | $0.08 | $0.13 | $0.04 | 262K | $5.16 |
| Nex-N2.5-Pro | nex-agi | $0.075 | $0.25 | $0.015 | 262K | $6.38 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other Gemini models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 4 Argon | $2 | $10 | $0.10 | 1.05M | $210 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.825 | $4.13 | $0.083 | 1.05M | $86.62 |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | 1.05M | $78.75 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $43.50 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | 1.05M | $78.75 |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | $0.25 | $1.50 | – | 66K | $29.25 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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Nano Banana 2.1: questions
How much does Nano Banana 2.1 cost?
$1.50 per 1M input tokens and $7.50 per 1M output tokens. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0053.
What is Nano Banana 2.1’s context window?
65,536 tokens, with up to 58,982 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Nano Banana 2.1?
GLM 5.3 Flash costs $0.046 in and $0.074 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches Nano Banana 2.1’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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