Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image

Google Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) API pricing

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) costs $0.100 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million image output tokens on Oxyy. These are the pay-as-you-go prices after the current 60% discount (Launch Promo; standard price $0.250 input and $30.00 image output). Text output tokens are billed at $0.600 per million. It generates images from text prompts and can work from reference images. It is the lowest-priced Google image model on Oxyy; for every model and rate, see Gemini API pricing.

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...

ModalitiesImageTextImageText
Price$0.100 / $12.00 per 1M tokens in / image outAll Gemini API pricing
Context66K
ReleasedJun 30, 2026

Providers

Where this model runs, and what each route costs. Requests are sent to a healthy provider automatically; if one errors, the gateway retries against another serving the same model.

ProviderInput /MOutput /MCache read /M
Google$0.100$12.00—

Supported parameters (8)

include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningreasoning_effortresponse_formatseedtemperaturetop_p

The endpoint's own fields, shown in the quickstart below, are required as well; a request without them is rejected.

Pricing

What this model costs on Oxyy, pay as you go. "Charged" is the rate a request is billed at; the standard price is shown beside it for reference.

Input price
$0.100
per 1M input tokens · standard price $0.250
Image output price
$12.00
per 1M image output tokens · standard price $30.00
RateStandard priceChargedUnit
Input$0.250$0.100per 1M input tokens
Image output$30.00$12.00per 1M image output tokens
Text output$1.50$0.600per 1M text output tokens

Discount. Charged rates include the current "Launch Promo" discount of 60% on every rate.

UTC

Specifications

Model ID
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
Developer
Google
Type
Image generation
Input
Images and text
Output
Images and text
Context window
65,536 tokens
Max output
58,982 tokens
Released
Jun 30, 2026
Tokenizer
Gemini
Image input
Up to 20 MB each
Endpoint
/v1/images/generations

Quickstart

Call gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image with a POST to /v1/images/generations on https://api.oxyy.ai, using your Oxyy API key from the OXYY_API_KEY environment variable. The same key works for every model in the catalog.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.oxyy.ai/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["OXYY_API_KEY"],
)

response = client.images.generate(
    model="gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image",
    prompt="A lighthouse on a cliff at sunset, watercolor",
    n=1,
    size="1024x1024",
)
print(response.data[0].url)

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time. Daily totals, UTC.

Prompt47.7M
Completion57.5M

Prompt tokens measure input size. Completion tokens reflect total output length. Reasoning is not priced separately for this model, so it is not itemised here.

Frequently asked questions

What is Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)?
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...
How much does Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) cost?
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) costs $0.100 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million image output tokens on Oxyy. These are the pay-as-you-go prices after the current 60% discount (Launch Promo; standard price $0.250 input and $30.00 image output). Text output tokens are billed at $0.600 per million. You pay per request, with no subscription.
What can I send to Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)?
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) takes a text prompt and reference images (up to 20 MB each) and returns images and text.
Which API endpoint does Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) use?
Send a POST request to https://api.oxyy.ai/v1/images/generations with "model": "gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image", authenticated with your Oxyy API key. It is also served on /v1/images/edits, /v1/images/variations, /v1/chat/completions, /v1beta/models/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image:generateContent (Google Gemini SDK) and /v1/responses (Responses API).
When was Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) released?
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) was released on Jun 30, 2026.
What other models does Google have?
Google also offers Nano Banana 2, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS through Oxyy.

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