Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
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google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image, listed by OpenRouter as "Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)", is a Google multimodal model accepting text and image input and producing text and image output. The OpenRouter catalog describes it as Google's fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini image model aimed at high-velocity developer pipelines, though this is vendor positioning rather than a measured result. It reports a 65536-token context, a 2025-01-01 knowledge cutoff, and optional reasoning with minimal effort by default. No independent model card was available in this source pack, and the catalog lists no benchmark data.[1]
Strengths
- Text and image input with text and image output in one model, per the OpenRouter catalog.[1]
- Configurable reasoning (none, minimal, or high effort; enabled at minimal by default) plus parameters like seed and temperature, per the catalog.[1]
- Catalog-reported 65536-token context window, sizable for mixed text-image prompts.[1]
Limitations
- Only OpenRouter catalog evidence is available; no independent model card or measured benchmarks were supplied, so all capability claims are source-reported.[1]
- Speed and cost-efficiency claims come from the catalog's own description and should be validated on real workloads.[1]
- Knowledge cutoff of 2025-01-01 and licensing terms are not documented in the evidence.[1]
Where to use it
Sources
- [1] OpenRouter catalog · Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Sources checked: Nov 13, 2026
About this model
Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini image model, built for high-velocity developer pipelines and rapid-fire visual exploration. It delivers text-to-image generation...
Specifications
- Model ID
- google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
- Canonical ID
- google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image-20260630
- Creator
- Added to OpenRouter
- 30.06.2026
- Context length
- 65,536
- Modality
- text+image->text+image
- Input modalities
- image, text
- Output modalities
- image, text
- Token pricing
- No per-token price in the source snapshot — see OpenRouter for the billing unit
- Knowledge cutoff
- 01.01.2025
- Expiration date
- —
Tasks and capabilities
A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.
| Task | Grade | Source-declared capability |
|---|---|---|
| General quality | No measurement | reasoning: optional · default minimal · efforts: high, minimal, none · parameters: include_reasoning, reasoning, reasoning_effort |
| Coding | No measurement | — |
| Agents | No measurement | — |
| Writing | No measurement | output: text |
| Reasoning | No measurement | reasoning: optional · default minimal · efforts: high, minimal, none · parameters: include_reasoning, reasoning, reasoning_effort |
| Document analysis | No measurement | — |
| Vision | No measurement | input: image |
| Image generation | No measurement | output: image |
| Audio | No measurement | — |
| Video | No measurement | — |
| Embeddings | No measurement | — |
Evaluations
No evaluations are supplied for this model.
How grades work
Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.
- S — S — top 10% of the cohort
- A — A — next 20% of the cohort
- B — B — next 30% of the cohort
- C — C — below the B band
Providers
Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.
| Provider | Context length | Price in /1M | Price out /1M | Latency p50 (30m, s) | Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s) | Uptime (30m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65,536 | — | — | — | — | 100% | |
| Google AI Studio | 65,536 | — | — | — | — | — |
Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026
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