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| Attribute | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon | Kimi K3.1 Prokimi-k3.1-pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.25 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $1.50 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 66K | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | No | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | MoonShot AI | ||
| Category | image | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest and most cost-efficient multimodal image generation model, designed for high-throughput visual workflows and real-time applications. It supports text-to-image generation, image editing, and multi-image composition through a unified API, while also producing text outputs alongside images. Delivering image generation in approximately 4 seconds, it combines fast inference with strong character consistency, precise editing, and real-world knowledge. The model generates 1K-resolution images across 14 aspect ratios and embeds an invisible SynthID watermark in all outputs. Optimized for the best balance of quality, speed, and cost, Nano Banana 2 Lite is ideal for prototyping, developer pipelines, and large-scale visual content generation. | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. | Kimi K3.1 Pro is Moonshot AI's flagship open-weight multimodal reasoning model, building on Kimi K3 with enhanced post-training for advanced reasoning and autonomous task execution. It features a 1M-token context window and native image and video understanding, enabling complex, long-context multimodal workflows. Optimized for long-horizon coding, 3D creation, financial research, and end-to-end agentic knowledge work, Kimi K3.1 Pro is well suited for autonomous software engineering, multimodal analysis, and complex professional workflows that require sustained reasoning and reliable execution. |