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Nano Banana 2.1 is Google’s Flash-tier image generation and editing model. It accepts text and images, supports masked edits, and generates images at 1K, 2K or 4K resolution.

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Google's most capable Flash model at release, with gains over 3.7 Flash in software engineering, agent tasks and multi-step reasoning. It accepts text, images, audio, video and files across a 1M-token window, with up to 65,536 output tokens.

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Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash, for fast agent workflows, coding and multi-step reasoning. Text, images, audio, video and files across a 1M-token context.

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Google's Flash workhorse at the 3.6 mark, for coding, agent loops and web and app development. Built on 3.5 Flash, aiming at cleaner output with fewer unnecessary edits and less hedging, on roughly 17% fewer output tokens. Text, images, audio, video and PDFs across 1M tokens, up to 64K out.

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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image, the cheapest and fastest of Google's Nano Banana line. Text-to-image in roughly 4 seconds, about 2.7x faster than Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with the same character consistency. One API for text-to-image, editing and composition. 1K resolution, 14 aspect ratios, SynthID watermark.

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Google's Flash tier at the 3.5 mark, close to Pro on coding and reasoning at Flash cost and speed. Tuned for coding and parallel agent loops, taking text, image, video, audio and PDF input. Thinking effort defaults to medium and runs from minimal to high.

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The GA release of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, Google's cheapest multimodal tier. Text, image, video, audio and PDF in, for light agent work, simple extraction, and anything where latency and cost decide the design. Thinking runs minimal to high. Half the price of Gemini 3 Flash.

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An instruction-tuned mixture-of-experts from Google DeepMind: 25.2B total parameters, 3.8B active per token, which is how it reaches near-31B quality on a fraction of the compute. Text, images and video up to 60 seconds at 1fps. 256K context, native function calling, thinking mode. Apache 2.0.

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Google DeepMind's 30.7B dense multimodal model: text and image in, text out. 256K context, configurable thinking mode, native function calling, 140+ languages. Strongest on coding, reasoning and document understanding. Apache 2.0.

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Google's high-efficiency tier at the 3.1 mark. Beats Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on quality and gets close to 2.5 Flash, with the gains in audio and speech recognition, RAG snippet ranking, translation, extraction and code completion. 2.5x faster to first token than 2.5 Flash, at half the price of Gemini 3 Flash.

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Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview, sold as Nano Banana 2. Google's image generation and editing model at Flash speed and Flash pricing, aimed at iterative edits rather than one-shot renders.

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The 3.1 update to Gemini Pro: better software engineering scores, more reliable agent behaviour, fewer tokens spent getting there. Reasons across text, image, video, audio and code over a 1M token context. Adds a medium thinking level, and improves on structured work like finance and spreadsheets.

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Google DeepMind's Lyria 3, launched in the Gemini app. First Lyria with full vocal generation, automatic lyrics and multimodal input (text, image, video). Produces 30-second tracks with distinct verses, choruses and bridges, in 8 languages. No public API: it runs in the Gemini app and YouTube Dream Track.

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Gemini 3's Flash tier, for agent loops, multi-turn chat and coding assistance at much lower latency than Pro. 1M token context. Text, image, audio, video and PDF in, text out. Thinking level runs minimal to high, with structured output, tool use and automatic context caching.

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Google DeepMind's production music generation model available via Vertex AI. Generates 32.8-second instrumental clips at 48kHz from text prompts. Supports negative prompts to exclude unwanted elements and deterministic generation via seed parameter. All output is SynthID-watermarked.

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Gemini 3 Pro Preview with high reasoning effort enabled. Exposes full chain-of-thought process for enhanced transparency in complex problem-solving across text, code, and multimodal tasks.

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Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image model, sold as Nano Banana Pro. Generates and edits at up to 4K and routes prompts through Gemini's thinking mode for text rendering and multi-step instructions.

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The September 2025 checkpoint of Gemini 2.5 Flash, Google's workhorse tier for reasoning, coding, mathematics and science. Thinking is built in, and the max tokens for reasoning parameter caps how long it deliberates.

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The September 2025 checkpoint of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, the cheapest and lowest latency tier in the family. Thinking is off by default; turning it on through the Reasoning API parameter trades cost for intelligence.

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Google's Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) generates and edits images, tuned for speed. Tested on LMArena as 'nano-banana', where it beat Midjourney and Flux in blind tests.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash variant tuned for fast text-to-image generation and simple image edits.

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Google DeepMind's Gemma 3n at an effective 2B parameters inside a 6B architecture. The MatFormer design lets it nest submodels and recombine them through Mix-and-Match, which is how it runs on low-resource hardware. 32K context, multilingual.

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The lightweight tier of Gemini 2.5, tuned for low latency and cost rather than depth. Thinking is off by default to keep it fast; developers can switch it on through the Reasoning API parameter and pay for the extra intelligence.

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Imagen 4 Fast trades some quality for speed and cost.

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Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro, a reasoning model that thinks through a request before answering. Aimed at coding, mathematics and scientific work, and it held first place on the LMArena leaderboard at release.

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Imagen 4 Ultra trades speed and cost for image quality.

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Google's Imagen 4 text-to-image model, with strong detail and prompt adherence.

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The May 20 checkpoint of Gemini 2.5 Flash in its non-thinking form: it will not emit reasoning tokens, and is billed at the lower output rate. The paired :thinking variant is the one that reasons before answering.

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The May 20 checkpoint of Gemini 2.5 Flash with thinking enabled. It reasons before answering, is billed at the higher output rate, and takes a max tokens for reasoning parameter to cap how long it deliberates.

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Google's Gemma 3n at the E4B size, built to run on phones, laptops and tablets. Text, image and audio in, for transcription, translation and image analysis. Per-Layer Embedding caching and the MatFormer architecture activate only part of the model per request, which keeps memory use low. 32K context, 140+ languages.

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Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro preview: multimodal understanding, multi-step code, math and STEM, and long-context analysis over large datasets, codebases and documents. Knowledge cutoff January 2025.

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Google's Flash tier workhorse, with reasoning that can be switched on or off and a configurable thinking budget. The point is trading quality against cost and latency per request rather than per model.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash with thinking left on, so it reasons through a request before answering. The same workhorse model as the non-thinking variant, priced higher on output because thinking tokens are billed.

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Google's experimental Gemini 2.5 Pro: multimodal reasoning, a 1 million token context window, and video comprehension.

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Gemma 3 adds multimodality: vision-language in, text out. 96,000 token context, 140+ languages, better math, reasoning and chat, with structured outputs and function calling. The 12B is the second largest, after the 27B.

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Gemma 3 adds multimodality: vision-language in, text out. 131,072 token context, 140+ languages, better math, reasoning and chat, with structured outputs and function calling. The 27B is Google's largest Gemma 3, successor to Gemma 2.

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A faster and cheaper Imagen 3 variant for when speed and cost matter more than maximum quality.

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Google's high-quality text-to-image model focused on lighting, detail, and strong visual composition.

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Gemini 2.0 Pro builds interactive 3D environments from text descriptions and offers hypothetical reasoning for scientific simulations.

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An experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash variant that reasons through a problem before answering. Trades some latency for accuracy on multi-step questions while staying at Flash speed.

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Gemini 1.5 Pro handles infinite context with 99% retrieval accuracy at 750k tokens via Mixture-of-Experts and generates chapter summaries for 2-hour videos with 92% accuracy.

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Google's multimodal Gemini at release: natural language, multi-turn chat, code generation and image input.

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Google's PaLM 2, with better multilingual, reasoning and coding work than PaLM. Tuned for chat.

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