Google Unleashes Nano Banana 2 Lite: Faster, Cheaper AI Imaging
Google’s new Nano Banana 2 Lite AI image model is its fastest and most affordable yet, designed for rapid prototyping and idea exploration, offering a balance of speed and quality within the Gemini 3.1 family.
- Google DeepMind’s new Nano Banana 2 Lite model, part of the Gemini 3.1 family, offers a balance of quality and speed for AI image generation.
- The model can generate images in approximately 4 seconds in ‘low-thinking’ mode, significantly faster than the standard Nano Banana’s 20 seconds.
- Developers using the API will pay less, with an average cost of $0.034 per 1,000 images, and all outputs include SynthID watermarks.