Nano Banana 2 Lite's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Nano Banana 2 Lite's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini image model, built for high-velocity developer pipelines and rapid visual exploration. It delivers text-to-image generation in roughly 4 seconds, about 2.7x faster than Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, while keeping the character consistency, precise editing, and real-world knowledge of the Nano Banana family. A single drop-in API handles text-to-image, image editing, and multi-image composition, with outputs at 1K resolution across 14 aspect ratios carrying an invisible SynthID watermark.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
19 outputs from Nano Banana 2 Lite
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini image model, built for high-velocity developer pipelines and rapid visual exploration. It delivers text-to-image generation in roughly 4 seconds, about 2.7x faster than Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, while keeping the character consistency, precise editing, and real-world knowledge of the Nano Banana family. A single drop-in API handles text-to-image, image editing, and multi-image composition, with outputs at 1K resolution across 14 aspect ratios carrying an invisible SynthID watermark.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-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.
19 outputs from Nano Banana 2 Lite