AI Model Atlas / Google
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
One million input tokens cost $0.25 and one million output tokens $1.50. Context window: 66k tokens, about 109 A4 pages.
What it costs in practice
Pricing per million tokens doesn't mean anything to anyone, so I convert it to three tasks that people actually give to models. The usage assumptions are listed for each row so you can verify them.
| Task | Input | Output | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1500-word articlebrief plus finished text in English | 1,500 tokens | 2,200 tokens | $0.0037 |
| 100 chat queries700 tokens per question and 400 per answer | 70,000 tokens | 40,000 tokens | $0.08 |
| Hour of work with an agentagent reads repository and writes fixes | 250,000 tokens | 30,000 tokens | $0.11 |
Technical details
| Provider | |
| Modalities | image + text → image + text |
| Context window | 66k tokens (~109 A4 pages) |
| Maximum response | 59k tokens |
| Step-by-step reasoning | yes |
| Tool calling | no |
| Forced JSON format | yes |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-01-01 |
| Cache read | no data |
| Content moderation | no extra filter |
How it compares to the rest
The database contains 469 models. In terms of input pricing Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is more expensive than 34 percent of paid models. A longer context window is available in 432 models.
Input price history
2026-09-08 · $0.252026-11-11 · $0.25
The chart shows the price of a million input tokens on consecutive measurement days. History starts on the day I launched the atlas and grows with each day. I don't backfill data.
Alternatives at a similar price
Models from other providers whose cost for the same article comes out closest.
| Model | Input / M | Output / M | 1500-word article | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SonarPerplexity | $1.00 | $1.00 | $0.0037 | 127k |
| Command A+Cohere | $0.30 | $1.50 | $0.0038 | 192k |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek | $0.44 | $1.32 | $0.0036 | 1M |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Qwen (Alibaba) | $0.26 | $1.56 | $0.0038 | 1M |
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