Nano Banana's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Nano Banana's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Google's Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is an image generation and editing model, optimized for fast, high-quality results. Tested on LMArena as 'nano-banana', it quickly outperformed Midjourney and Flux in blind tests.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"google/gemini-2.5-flash-image" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
Also on Google Vertex AI
19 outputs from Nano Banana
Google's Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is an image generation and editing model, optimized for fast, high-quality results. Tested on LMArena as 'nano-banana', it quickly outperformed Midjourney and Flux in blind tests.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"google/gemini-2.5-flash-image" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
Also on Google Vertex AI
19 outputs from Nano Banana