Nano Banana 2.1 API Pricing
Google · context window 66K · prices updated 2026-10-30
Where Nano Banana 2.1 sits on price
At $7.50 per million output tokens, Nano Banana 2.1 is a premium tier model — 3.4× the median output price of $2.20, which puts it cheaper than 28% and pricier than 72% of the models we track. It sits 29th cheapest of the 37 Google models we track. Output costs 5.0× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
What real workloads cost on Nano Banana 2.1
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a premium-priced model — a $7.50/1M 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. | $0.018 | $270 |
| Coding agent — 300 sessions/day (60K in / 12K out) Multi-step loops re-read the same files; caching matters more than raw price. | $0.18 | $1620 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0019 | $56.25 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Nano Banana 2.1 with caching and batch options.
Nano Banana 2.1 price history
Nano Banana 2.1's price has not moved since we began tracking it on Oct 7, 2026 — 23 days of stability in a market where 102 of the 373 models we track have repriced over the same period, including 9 of Google's own 37 models.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Oct 7, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Nano Banana 2.1 vs GPT-5 Image
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is GPT-5 Image (OpenAI) — 33% more expensive on output, with $8.50 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.
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Nano Banana 2.1 API cost?
Nano Banana 2.1 costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens and no discounted cached-input tier. That works out to roughly 133,333 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the support chatbot workload cost on Nano Banana 2.1?
Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) costs about $0.018 per request and $270 per month on Nano Banana 2.1. Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win.
› What does it cost to fill Nano Banana 2.1's 66K context window?
Sending 66K of input in a single request costs $0.0983 at $1.50 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 2.1 worth the price?
Nano Banana 2.1 sits in the middle of the market (29 of 37 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.