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| Attribute | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $0.75 / 1M | — |
| Output | $3.75 / 1M | — |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.75 / 1M | Not applicable |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.75 / 1M | Not applicable |
| Cache Read | $0.75 / 1M | Not applicable |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | — |
| Request | — | $0.7754 / request |
| Billing | — | Pay Per Request |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 1M | 66K |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | No |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | ||
| Category | chat | image |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay Per Request |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash-class model, delivering significant improvements over Gemini 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step reasoning. Designed to combine strong capability with Flash-tier efficiency, it is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, and high-throughput production workflows that require responsive performance without sacrificing reasoning quality. | 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. |