# Nano Banana (T2I) > Nano Banana (T2I) is available on Artifio.ai — a unified AI workspace with a single pay-as-you-go wallet. - Canonical page: https://artifio.ai/models/google-nano-banana - Run it: https://artifio.ai/create/google-nano-banana - Modality: prompt to image - Model brand: google - Pricing: from about $0.020 per generation (exact cost shown in the workspace before you confirm; varies with selected options) - Typical generation time: ~25s (catalogue estimate) - Full pricing table: https://artifio.ai/pricing/models ## About Nano Banana (T2I) Nano Banana is the community nickname for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the image generation and editing model Google announced on August 26, 2025. The name comes from the anonymous "nano-banana" entry that appeared on the LMArena evaluation platform in the weeks before launch, where it collected over 2.5 million head-to-head votes before Google confirmed the model was theirs. This page covers the text-to-image side of the model: a prompt goes in, a finished picture comes out, with Gemini's world knowledge filling in real objects, places, and concepts that the prompt only names. On artifio.ai it runs in the same workspace as 100+ other models, paid per generation from a single wallet. ## Features - Generates images from natural-language prompts on the Gemini 2.5 Flash architecture, with a June 2025 knowledge cutoff listed in the Gemini API model card. - Accepts mixed text and image inputs within a 65,536-token input window and can return both images and text in one response. - Draws on Gemini's world knowledge, so a prompt can name a real landmark, animal, or diagram subject without paragraphs of descriptive scaffolding. - Keeps a character's appearance consistent across repeated prompts, which supports storyboards and recurring brand mascots. - Blends several input images into a single composition, such as placing a product photo into a generated scene. - Every output carries an invisible SynthID watermark that marks it as AI-generated. ## What people use it for - High-volume creative drafts where per-image speed matters more than maximum resolution. - Product mockups that keep the same object recognizable across many generated scenes. - Storyboard frames and comic panels that reuse the same character from prompt to prompt. - Interior and design concepts assembled from a mix of reference photos and text direction. - Social-media visuals produced conversationally, refining one image over several turns. ## Reported strengths - Ranked first on both the LMArena text-to-image and image-edit leaderboards at launch, with a 171-point Elo lead that LMArena called the largest in Arena history. - Google's API documentation positions it for high-volume, low-latency creative work, and its speed relative to larger image models was a launch selling point. - Subject and face consistency across edits and re-rolls was the capability that drove its viral adoption. - World-knowledge grounding produces sensible results for real-world subjects without elaborate prompting. ## Reported limitations - Output resolution tops out at 1024x1024 pixels; the 2K and 4K options arrived only with the later Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2 releases. - Google's own launch post flagged long-form text rendering, fully reliable character consistency, and fine factual detail as areas still being improved. - Content safeguards block some requests outright, and Google applies visible watermarking and metadata identifiers on consumer surfaces in addition to SynthID. - It is no longer the newest model in its family: Google replaced it with Nano Banana 2 Lite as the entry-level option in its own developer lineup in June 2026. ## Sources 1. Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, our state-of-the-art image model (Google Developers Blog): https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/ 2. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) model card (Google AI for Developers): https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-2.5-flash-image 3. Google Gemini's AI image model gets a 'bananas' upgrade (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/google-geminis-ai-image-model-gets-a-bananas-upgrade/ 4. Nano-Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image): Try it on LMArena (LMArena): https://arena.ai/blog/nano-banana/ --- About Artifio.ai: 100+ AI image, video, and audio models in one workspace with a single shared wallet — no per-model subscriptions. This is the markdown rendition of https://artifio.ai/models/google-nano-banana for AI assistants and crawlers; the HTML page is canonical.