Realism at every size
Visual quality and realism improve across 1K, 2K and 4K output. Skin, thread and fabric hold up when you zoom into the 4K file.
Up to 4K · sharper lettering · frames from 8:1 to 1:8
Free Nano Banana 2.1 online: Google's new image model, up to 4K
Nano Banana 2.1 is Google's image model from 6 October 2026: sharper text, clean wide frames and up to 4K. The generator below runs it, and signed out you start free on GPT Image 2.5 with no account.
Nano Banana 2.1 came out on 6 October, and it is already in this generator at 30 credits a picture.
Our runs
Nano Banana 2.1 from this generator: one prompt, one edit
Both pictures came out of the generator on this page at 2K. The first is a prompt @churvikv shared on X, run word for word. The second is one edit of it: winter came, and the swans, the moon, the cottage and the brushwork stayed where they were.
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What Nano Banana 2.1 is
It is Google's update to Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image): the same fast Flash tier, with better pictures, better lettering and steadier faces. In the Gemini API it is called gemini-nano-banana-2.1.
What it does
The generator here runs the model itself, text to image and photo edits, at 1K, 2K or 4K. Signed out, start free on GPT Image 2.5 or the Free engine tab; Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro stay one pick away.
Every capability on this page traces to Google's Gemini API model page for 2.1 or its launch coverage, and every price to a published rate card.
Creative engine
The model at a glance
6 Oct 2026
Released
1K · 2K · 4K
Output sizes
None
Accounts needed to try
The Flash tier, upgraded
Google positions it as its high-efficiency model for image generation and conversational editing. It keeps Nano Banana 2's speed and cost class and raises quality, prompt adherence, text rendering and character consistency.
Where Google ships it
Google rolled the model out across the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, Google AI Studio, Flow, Stitch, Google Ads and the Gemini Enterprise platform, and to developers through the Gemini API.
Free and paid
Is Nano Banana 2.1 free? What you can run without an account
Nano Banana 2.1 runs from an account at 30 credits a picture. Without one, this ChatGPT image generator still gives you a picture: one 1K run of GPT Image 2.5, the model behind ChatGPT Images, and drafts on the Free engine tab.
One free GPT Image 2.5 picture, no sign-up
Signed out, pick GPT Image 2.5 in the model list and your first 1K picture comes back before anyone asks for an email. It is the same run the ChatGPT image generator on our homepage opens with.
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What Nano Banana 2.1 costs: 30 credits
Every 2.1 run is 30 credits at any size, edits included, shown before you press Generate. Nano Banana 2 is 50 and Pro is 70 on the same balance, and a failed run is refunded.
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The real model, not a lookalike
When you run 2.1 here it is Google's model itself, at the size you pick. For free drafts with no account, the Free engine tab runs our own model, Veida AI Image v1.
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Every picture you want on Pro and Max
Pro ($89.99 a month) and Max ($149.99) run it with no credit cost per image and no cap on how many: every retake, every variation, every size.
What changed
What changed in Nano Banana 2.1
Five improvements Google lists over Nano Banana 2, in Google's terms.
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Clean wide and panoramic frames
Tiling artifacts on wide and panoramic aspect ratios are fixed, and the ratio list runs out to 4:1, 8:1, 1:4 and 1:8 for banners, headers and tall phone stories.
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Sharper text and infographic layout
Lettering, labels and infographic layout render more accurately, so the words in your poster read the way you typed them.
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Faces that stay the same across edits
Multi-turn character consistency for up to four characters, and object fidelity for up to ten objects, across a sequence of edits.
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Half the API price
Google's per-image API rate is $0.0336 for a 1K picture, $0.0504 for 2K and $0.0756 for 4K, roughly half of Nano Banana 2. Here, a 2.1 run is 30 credits against 50 for Nano Banana 2.
First days
What people made with Nano Banana 2.1 in its first days
Posted on X by people who named the model. The eye is also a template in the generator above: tap it and the prompt is already written for you.
A macro eye, every fibre showing
One sentence of prompt, and the iris comes back with its fibres, veins and a window caught in the pupil. Made on Magnific, prompt included in the template.
A laugh caught in window light
A sunlit table, a head tilted mid-laugh and dust glowing in the light, posted as a gemini-nano-banana-2.1 output.
A flat illustration with clean shapes
Bold colour blocks, crisp edges and nothing smudged: the look for a sticker, a poster or an app screen.
A sci-fi scene with a story in it
An astronaut making a call from an old phone booth on a red planet, the ship hanging overhead. Made on getimg.
Which model
Nano Banana 2.1 vs Nano Banana 2, Pro and GPT Image 2.5
The comparisons people are searching this week, answered by what each model is for and what it costs here.
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Nano Banana 2.1 vs Nano Banana 2
2.1 is the newer Flash model and the one Google improved: realism, text, wide frames and faces across edits. Here it costs 30 credits a run against 50 for Nano Banana 2.
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Nano Banana 2.1 vs Pro
In Google's own tests, 2.1 in thinking mode outperforms Pro on several measures, including overall preference, infographic design and multi-character consistency. Nano Banana Pro is 70 credits a run here; 2.1 is 30.
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Nano Banana 2.1 vs GPT Image 2.5
Pick 2.1 for 8:1 banners, poster lettering and photo edits that keep the rest of the frame, at 30 credits a run. GPT Image 2.5, OpenAI's newest, is one pick away on the same account at 50.
How to use it
How to use Nano Banana 2.1 online in three steps
Nothing to install, and no step where you are asked who you are.
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Pick a template or write your shot
Tap the eye, the swan lake or the harbour portrait to load its prompt, or describe your own subject, light, framing and finish.
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Run it from your account
A 2.1 picture is 30 credits at 1K, 2K or 4K, in any ratio from 8:1 to 1:8. Signed out, start with one free GPT Image 2.5 picture instead.
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Edit instead of starting over
When a picture is close, upload it back with up to ten reference photos and say what to change. The swan lake pair above is one such edit.
Answers
Nano Banana 2.1 questions
Google released it on 6 October 2026 as a stable model, rolling it out across Google's products and the Gemini API that week. Some Gemini and Flow accounts showed it a day or two before others.
Here it is 30 credits a run at any size, with no per-image cost on Pro and Max. Signed out, the free picture on this ChatGPT image generator is one 1K run of GPT Image 2.5. Inside Google's apps, 2.1 follows your Google plan's limits and needs a Google account.
In the Gemini app, Google AI Studio, Flow, Stitch and AI Mode in Search on a Google account; through the Gemini API as gemini-nano-banana-2.1; and on this page from any account, at 30 credits a run.
Google's API rate is $0.0336 for a 1K image, $0.0504 for 2K and $0.0756 for 4K. Here it is 30 credits a run at any size, shown before you press Generate, and a failed run is refunded. On Pro and Max there is no per-image cost at all.
On Google's own published tests, 2.1 with thinking outperforms Nano Banana Pro on several measures, including overall preference, infographic design and multi-character consistency. Here it also costs 30 credits a run against Pro's 70.
Yes. Upload a photo, up to ten per run here, and describe the change. The model keeps what you did not mention, as the swan lake pair above shows.
1K, 2K and 4K, at 1K by default. Ratios run from square and the usual 16:9, 9:16, 4:3 and 3:2 out to 21:9, 4:1 and 8:1 wide and 1:4 and 1:8 tall.
Free pictures, the signed-out GPT Image 2.5 run included, carry a small veida.ai mark in one corner. A Nano Banana 2.1 run on credits or a plan downloads as the clean original.
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Where to go next
The models people compare it with, and the tools built on top of them.
Run Nano Banana 2.1 now
Pick a template, or bring your own prompt and your own photo: 30 credits a picture, or no per-image cost on Pro and Max.