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Nano Banana

Nano Banana is Google’s first Gemini image generation and editing model, now retired on Glif.

InputsTextImage
OutputsImage
SpeedFast
Price5 credits
CostLow
ReleasedAug 2025

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Nano Banana in practice

What it does and when to use it.

Model summary

Nano Banana is Google’s first Gemini image generation and editing model, now retired on Glif. It works from a text prompt and up to 10 reference images and makes one image per request. It suits general illustrations, photo edits and quick composites. Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2.1 replace it with more references and higher resolution. Glif charges per image.

Capabilities

Text to image
Image editing
Prompt refinement
High quality generation
Agent workflows
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Suggested use cases

  • Quick illustrations from a prompt
  • Photo edits from a written instruction
  • Simple composites from a few references

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