Google Cuts Nano Banana 2.1 Image Costs in Half

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Google is making its latest image model cheaper to run while giving developers more control over how subjects and objects survive repeated edits.

The company released Nano Banana 2.1 on Tuesday, an image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3.6 Flash. It is rolling out across the Gemini app, Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Google Search’s AI Mode, Google Ads, Flow and Stitch.

The model accepts text and images, supports up to 1 million tokens of context, and can generate images at 1K, 2K and 4K resolutions. Google says it improves visual quality, text rendering, mask-based editing and consistency when the same subjects are edited repeatedly.

One of the bigger upgrades is multi-image editing. Nano Banana 2.1...

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