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| Attribute | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image | Hy4 previewhy4-preview | Claude Fable 5.1claude-fable-5.1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Request | $0.7754 / request | — | — |
| Billing | Pay Per Request | — | — |
| Cache Write (5m) | Not applicable | $0.834 / 1M | $12.50 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | Not applicable | $0.834 / 1M | $20.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | Not applicable | $0.834 / 1M | $1.00 / 1M |
| Input | — | $0.834 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Output | — | $2.50 / 1M | $50.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | — | $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 | Tencent | Anthropic | |
| Category | image | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay Per Request | 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. | Tencent Hy4 Preview is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Tencent, featuring 770B total parameters with 49B activated per token. It is designed for coding agents, complex tool-driven workflows, and professional productivity tasks that require strong planning and reliable execution. Optimized for context continuity and sustained multi-step work, Hy4 Preview is well suited for long-horizon coding, agentic automation, tool orchestration, and complex real-world workflows. | Claude Fable 5.1 is an upgraded version of Fable 5, delivering broad improvements with particularly strong gains in agentic coding, long-running workflows, and professional knowledge work. It excels at large code refactors, front-end and visual code generation, financial analysis, and complex analytical tasks. Compared with Fable 5, it also produces more concise plans and summaries while maintaining strong performance across extended tasks, making it a natural upgrade for existing Fable workflows and a strong option alongside Opus 5 for reasoning-intensive applications. |