NanoBanana 2 Lite
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- Google DeepMind
- C · CEO & Politics
- Koray Kavukcuoglu (SVP, day-to-day lead) — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2026
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Images
- H · Deployment
- Cloud (Gemini app + Interactions API)
- I · Inputs
- Text→Image
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA / UK
- K · Key Staffers
- Demis Hassabis (Chair, GDM; Chief Scientist, Alphabet), Shane Legg (Co-Founder, Chief AGI Scientist), Lila Ibrahim (COO), Sundar Pichai (Alphabet CEO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Image Generation
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Gemini API: $0.0336 per 1K-resolution image ($30/M image output tokens); input $0.25/M tokens
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 7/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 7/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 5/10 → 7.30
- R · What Makes It Special
- Google DeepMind's Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image), its fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini image model, built for high-volume, near-real-time work: Google says it returns text-to-image results in 4 seconds at $0.034 per 1K-resolution image while keeping reliable prompt adherence, character consistency and legible text. It replaces the original Nano Banana for developers and also runs in AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, NotebookLM, Google Photos and Flow.
- S · Stock / Status
- $344 (GOOGL, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @GoogleDeepMind
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Image Generation from Google DeepMind, released 2026.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“NanoBanana 2 Lite.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/google-deepmind-nano-banana-2-lite.html
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