Nano Banana 2 AI image generator

Nano Banana 2 is an image model from Google DeepMind, released in February 2026 under the technical name Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. It makes images from a text prompt and reference images, and Google built it to draw readable text and keep characters consistent.

Yes. Gemini 3.1 Flash Image is the technical name of the model Google calls Nano Banana 2, released on February 26, 2026, and built on Gemini 3 Flash. On DreamBench it makes freeform images and character, prop and location sheets, and now runs on Google’s Nano Banana 2.1 update.

Google released Nano Banana 2.1 in October 2026 as its update to Nano Banana 2, with better image quality, closer prompt following, cleaner text and characters that hold up across edits, and marked Nano Banana 2 deprecated in the Gemini API, with no shutdown date announced. DreamBench already makes every Nano Banana 2 image on 2.1.

Google built Nano Banana 2 for fast generation and close instruction following, and it replaced Nano Banana Pro as the image model in the Gemini app. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers keep Nano Banana Pro for specialized tasks. DreamBench doesn’t offer Nano Banana Pro.

Freeform images, plus character, prop and location sheets and location schematics. Sheets are saved to your library and your videos can use them as references, so the characters and places you design here can appear in your scenes.

Yes. Google built Nano Banana 2 to draw readable text for posters, cards and mock-ups. DreamBench uses the model’s default image size, at which Google says small lettering can blur, and the model can still misspell words, so keep text short and large, put the exact words in double quotation marks, and check the image before you use it.

Every image Nano Banana 2 makes carries SynthID, Google’s invisible watermark, on DreamBench or anywhere else: it is part of what the model produces, not a setting. You can’t see it in the picture, but it lets the image be identified as AI-generated. DreamBench adds no watermark of its own to images.

It uses credits for each image you make, and one run can make up to 10. The table on this page shows the current rate, and you always see the exact cost before you generate.

Yes. On DreamBench, each Nano Banana 2 image uses credits, which come with a paid plan, and Nano Banana 2 is on every plan. The composer shows the exact cost before you generate. Google also includes Nano Banana 2 in its Gemini app and as Flow’s default image model, with the limits it sets there.

Yes. Google built it to keep several characters and objects recognizable across a set of images. On DreamBench, make a character sheet first, then attach it as a reference and name it with its @name in each brief; a run takes up to 8 reference images.

No. On DreamBench, Nano Banana 2 makes new images from your brief and reference images. Editing an uploaded photo and translating the text in it are features of Google’s own apps and API.

Google built it on Gemini 3 Flash, its high-speed model line, for quick generation and edits. On DreamBench the versions of a run arrive one after another, each landing in your library as soon as it’s ready.

Both developers list text among their models’ abilities, and both note that lettering can still come out wrong. Both are in DreamBench’s image mode, as is Seedream 5.0 Pro, so run the same brief on each and keep the version that reads best; their pages are linked below.

No. DreamBench offers Nano Banana 2 through its composer, in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install. Developers can use Google’s Gemini API, linked under Sources, where the prices and limits are Google’s, not DreamBench’s.

Yes. DreamBench’s Terms of Use allow personal and commercial use, including ads and client work. You need the rights to anything you upload.

Nano Banana 2 is on every DreamBench plan, from Starter at $9.99 a month. Every plan makes freeform images, character sheets, prop sheets, location sheets and location schematics with it, up to 10 images in one run.

From 1 to 10 in a single run, each at 6 credits, in any of 6 aspect ratios (1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16 and 21:9). You see the exact cost before you generate.

Press Create with Nano Banana 2, or pick it in the composer’s image mode, describe the image, choose how many and the aspect ratio, and generate. Add up to 8 reference images to steer the look.