Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash

Title: Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash

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We’re making it easier to experiment and scale your ideas with Nano Banana 2 Lite, our fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model, and Gemini Omni Flash for high-quality video generation and conversational editing.

Building with generative media is often about creative iteration. With these two models, developers can build comprehensive, end-to-end multimedia experiences that connect rapid image generation with video creation and editing. Whether your workflow requires generating thousands of images or editing multi-turn video sequences, you now have two new models to build faster, iterate seamlessly and bring your creative vision to life.

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image): Built for speed. Optimized for near-real-time, high-volume workflows where ultra-low latency is critical. Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image): The generalist workhorse. Delivers high quality at a lower latency, offering the best balance of performance and cost. Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image): Optimized for complex, professional use cases. It provides the most robust control and advanced reasoning for tasks where accuracy is more important than speed. Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image): Our legacy model. We recommend upgrading to Nano Banana 2 Lite for better quality, faster speeds and lower costs.

Conversational video editing: Refine and edit videos using natural language. Multimodal referencing: Combine inputs like images, text and video to maintain control and consistency over your scene. Real-world knowledge: Omni draws on Gemini’s knowledge such as history, biology and narrative logic to construct compelling videos. Text and action synchronization: Connect text and graphics directly to video actions, through simple prompting.

IntroducingNano Banana 2 Lite: Our fastest, most cost-efficient image model in the Nano Banana family yet, built for high throughput, speed and scale. Nano Banana 2 Lite is available today in Google AI Studio,Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. It is also rolling out today in Google consumer surfaces including AI Mode in Search, Gemini app and many other products. BringingGemini Omni Flashto developers: Our high quality, cost-efficient model for video generation and conversational editing, now available in Google AI Studio, the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for the first time. Omni Flash is also available in the Gemini app and Google Flow.

Today, we’re making it faster and easier to experiment, refine and scale your ideas with two major releases:

Watch a side-by-side comparison of image generation speed and quality between Nano Banana 2 Lite and Nano Banana 2 using a simple prompt.

Nano Banana 2 Lite (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image) is designed for rapid ideation and high-velocity developer pipelines where speed and cost are the primary constraints. It’s our recommended replacement for developers currently using our first version of Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image), you can swap it out now for immediate benefits across key performance dimensions.