Nano Banana 2 is Google's latest AI image generation model, combining the advanced capabilities of Nano Banana Pro with the lightning-fast speed of Gemini Flash. It offers enhanced world knowledge, production-ready specifications, subject consistency, and precise instruction following, all while delivering high-quality, photorealistic images rapidly.
Key Features
- Advanced World Knowledge: Utilizes Gemini’s real-world knowledge base and real-time web search data to accurately render specific subjects, aiding in creating infographics, diagrams, and data visualizations.
- Precision Text Rendering and Translation: Generates clear, legible text for marketing or greeting cards, with the ability to translate and localize text within images for global sharing.
- Subject Consistency: Maintains character resemblance for up to five characters and fidelity for up to 14 objects in a single workflow, enabling coherent storyboarding and narrative building.
- Precise Instruction Following: Adheres strictly to complex user requests, capturing nuanced ideas to produce exactly the desired image.
- Production-Ready Specs: Supports various aspect ratios and resolutions from 512px to 4K, ensuring sharp visuals for different formats like social posts or widescreen backdrops.
- Visual Fidelity Upgrade: Delivers vibrant lighting, richer textures, and sharper details while maintaining the speed expected from Flash.
Improvements Over Previous Versions
Nano Banana 2 closes the gap between speed and visual fidelity, making once-exclusive Pro features accessible to a broader audience. It supports rapid edits and iteration without sacrificing quality, making it suitable for both high-fidelity tasks and fast generation workflows.
Availability Across Google Products
Nano Banana 2 is rolling out across multiple Google platforms:
- Gemini App: Replaces Nano Banana Pro in Fast, Thinking, and Pro models; Pro access remains for specialized tasks.
- Search: Available in AI Mode and Lens on Google app and browsers, expanding to 141 new countries and eight additional languages.
- AI Studio + API: Preview available in AI Studio and Gemini API, also integrated with Google Antigravity.
- Google Cloud: Preview available with Gemini API in Vertex AI.
- Flow: Default image generation model for all Flow users at zero credits.
- Google Ads: Powers image suggestions during campaign creation.
Nano Banana 2 supports diverse workflows, offering users a choice between the high-fidelity Nano Banana Pro and the rapid, precise Nano Banana 2 with integrated image-search grounding. The model enhances creative control and accessibility while maintaining production-quality output at Flash speed.


