Nano Banana pricing: $0.0336 an image on 2.1, Pro $0.134

How much does Nano Banana cost per image?

Nano Banana costs 3.36 cents to 24 cents an image on Google's Gemini API, depending on the model and the size. Google bills the image you get back by the token. It also prints what that comes to for each size. We read every row from Google's Gemini API price list on 8 November 2026. The page now opens at aistudio.google.com. These are the standard pay-as-you-go prices, in US dollars:

None of these models is free on the API. Every one of them reads "Not available" in Google's free column. You need a billing account before you make the first image. Batch requests on Nano Banana 2.1 cost half: $0.0168 at 1K, $0.0252 at 2K and $0.0567 at 4K. Google says 1K images on 2.1 "consume 1120 tokens," 2K images 1,680 and 4K images 3,780. If you ground an image in Google Search, that's extra once you pass 5,000 free requests a month. It's $14 per 1,000 after that.

Which Nano Banana model is cheapest?

Nano Banana 2.1 is the cheapest of the models that go past 1K, at $33.60 for 1,000 of its images. Google's model page dates it October 2026, and the price list calls it "an update to Nano Banana 2." Google priced it at half of Nano Banana 2 at 1K and 2K. Here's the range for each of them, from the smallest size it sells to the largest:

So Lite lost its edge. Since October, 2.1 makes a 1K image for the same $0.0336 as Lite does, and it can go up to 2K and 4K as well. Lite still wins on what you send in, at $0.25 per million tokens against $1.50 for 2.1. That matters only if you send it long prompts or a lot of reference images. Google tells users of the old Nano Banana to move to Lite before the 15 March 2027 shutdown.

Nano Banana Pro charges the same $0.134 for 1K and 2K. So ask for 2K. It also bills you for each reference image that you send it, at 560 tokens, or $0.0011. Take $19.99, which is what a month of Google AI Pro costs. At 1K, it buys 594 images on Nano Banana 2.1 and 1,189 on 2.1 batch. It buys 298 on Nano Banana 2. On Nano Banana Pro, it's 149.

Is Nano Banana free in the Gemini app?

Yes. Google's Gemini app includes image generation and editing on the free plan, and its limits page shows that you can use Nano Banana 2 when you don't have a Google AI plan at all. It doesn't give a number, though. We read Google's US subscriptions page and that limits page on 8 November 2026:

Google's limits page prints no daily image count. It gives each of the plans a multiple of the standard usage instead, and it warns you that "Gemini Apps usage limits may change." Nano Banana Pro is available "in select countries," per the subscriptions page. To see where you are, open Settings, then Usage Limits, at gemini.google.com. Our Gemini image generation limit page tracks the old daily numbers and when each one changed.

What does a month of Nano Banana cost?

A small online shop's month costs about $20 on the API at standard rates, or about $12 with batch. Say that the shop makes 300 product shots at 2K on Nano Banana 2.1, and that it makes 20 hero images at 4K on Pro. Here's how the arithmetic works at the prices Google listed on 8 November:

The text of each prompt is billed on top of that as input, at $1.50 per million tokens on 2.1 and $2.00 on Pro. A short prompt adds well under a cent. Batch jobs aren't instant. They suit a catalog run better than a live edit. The same $19.92 would buy a month of Google AI Pro. It'd get you a share of a 4x allowance in the app. You wouldn't get a fixed image count or any API access.

Which Nano Banana sites are official?

Google sells Nano Banana in three places: the Gemini app, Google AI Studio with the Gemini API, and Google Cloud. Each of the prices on this page comes from a google.com or google.dev address. Sites with "nano banana" in the domain, like trynanobanana.io or officialnanobanana.com, aren't Google pages. Neither are API resellers like docs.apiyi.com. They set their own prices. A price there can be higher or lower than Google's.

Before you pay one of them, check the model ID that it names against the one in the table above. If a site can't tell you whether you're getting gemini-nano-banana-2.1 or gemini-3-pro-image, you can't compare its price with Google's. Walk away.

What does Nano Banana cost next to the rest of your AI stack?

Google AI Pro, ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro together cost $59.99 a month. That's the common three-chatbot stack, and two of those plans include an image model. We read Google's subscriptions page, OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus article and Anthropic's pricing page on 8 November 2026:

Whizi, which publishes this page, runs Nano Banana too. It's the Lite one. Its Whizi Image and Nano Banana rows both use Nano Banana 2 Lite. Whizi Pro includes 100 pictures a month across those rows, Flux and Stable Diffusion. Starter includes 5 and a free account 2. Whizi has no Nano Banana Pro and no Nano Banana 2.1, and it has no API. If all you need is images, then Google's API is cheaper than any of the subscriptions here, and that includes Whizi's. Whizi helps when you'd otherwise pay for two or three chatbots: cheapest way to use Claude and GPT does that math, and one subscription for all AI models shows what one plan covers. The steps for making a picture are in generate images in chat.