Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) API Pricing
Google · context window 66K · prices updated 2026-09-15
Where Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) sits on price
At $1.50 per million output tokens, Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is a mid tier model — 1.4× cheaper than the median output price of $2.08, which puts it cheaper than 60% and pricier than 40% of the models we track. It sits 13th cheapest of the 38 Google models we track. Output costs 6.0× more than input here, so anything that makes the model write less — tighter instructions, structured output, lower max_tokens — moves the bill more than trimming the prompt.
What real workloads cost on Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a mid-priced model — a $1.50/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win. | $0.0033 | $50.25 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0015 | $450 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0003 | $10.50 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) with caching and batch options.
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) price history
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)'s price has not moved since we began tracking it on Aug 2, 2026 — 44 days of stability in a market where 78 of the 334 models we track have repriced over the same period, including 6 of Google's own 38 models.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) vs GPT-5 Image Mini
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is GPT-5 Image Mini (OpenAI) — 33% more expensive on output, with $2.25 more per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See GPT-5 Image Mini pricing →More Google models
Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) API cost?
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens and no discounted cached-input tier. That works out to roughly 666,667 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the support chatbot workload cost on Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)?
Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) costs about $0.0033 per request and $50.25 per month on Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image). Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win.
› What does it cost to fill Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)'s 66K context window?
Sending 66K of input in a single request costs $0.0164 at $0.25 per million tokens — before any output. There is no cached-input tier on this model, so every repeat of that context is billed at full price. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) worth the price?
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) sits in the middle of the market (13 of 38 by price within Google). The honest test is a routing experiment: send the same 200 real requests to this model and to a tier below, and compare failure rate against the price gap — most teams find a majority of traffic never needed the pricier model.