Google has officially rolled out Nano Banana AI, a revolutionary image creation and editing model and addition to its Gemini 2.5 Flash Image suite. The ground-breaking AI, now available through the Gemini app on Android, iOS, and web, is a generative AI technology revolution offering customers unparalleled photo creation and editing control with unparalleled consistency and accuracy. The launch has been an important milestone for Google in the race to compete in the fast-moving AI environment for creative products.
What is Nano Banana AI?
Nano Banana is Google’s newest generative image model intended to enable multi-turn editing and effortless photo blending while preserving the integrity of critical elements like people’s faces, pets, and objects within images. In contrast to common AI editors, which can manipulate visuals with multiple iterations of edit, Nano Banana maintains character and spatial integrity, providing a natural and artistic editing process. Users can call on sophisticated operations such as changing backgrounds, applying cartoon effects, merging several images, or adding fantasy objects without compromising the original look’s realism.
🍌 nano banana is here → gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview
– SOTA image generation and editing
– incredible character consistency
– lightning fast
available in preview in AI Studio and the Gemini API pic.twitter.com/eKx9lwWc9j
— Google AI Studio (@googleaistudio) August 26, 2025
Key Features and Capabilities
- Multi-turn Editing: The step-by-step editing process allows users to make incremental changes, such as replacing objects or inserting new objects while the AI maintains key details throughout.
- Photo Blending and Scene Creation: It facilitates the merging of several photos, like inserting a human and their animal companion into fictional new environments.
- Texture and Design Mixing: The AI is able to replicate designs or textures, like butterfly wings or flower petals, and transfer them onto other areas of an image.
- Watermark and Authenticity: Every generated image has an embedded visible watermark and Google’s SynthID imperceptible digital watermark for authenticity and openness.
- Natural Language Command: The model may be guided by text commands for easy image creation and modification.
Access and Price
Nano Banana is part of the Gemini app and offered for free and paid users. Free users have a capacity to create up to 100 image edits per day, and paid subscribers have ten times as much capacity to use. The model is also available to developers and enterprises through Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI on Google Cloud. The price of the API is $30 per million output tokens, with average image edits ranging around $0.039 each.
How is Nano Banana any Different
The model merges powerful reasoning with deep learning to comprehend the context of user requests, allowing for logical and imaginative image transformations that continue to make sense with multiple edits. Its capability to manipulate 3D relationships in 2D images, maintain text integrity, and sustain intricate spatial awareness sets it among the most advanced and versatile AI image editors available today. These features enable consumers — ranging from business-class designers to amateur creatives — to create top-notch, creative imagery with ease.
Implications for Creativity and Industry
Google’s Nano Banana AI breaks new ground in digital imagination by simplifying and making sophisticated image editing interactive, fun, and extremely accurate. It holds great promise for marketing, social media content generation, storytelling, and photo restoration applications. Its release reinforces Google’s vision to drive AI innovation and make content creation tools widely accessible globally.
Overall, Nano Banana AI establishes a new benchmark for generative AI photo editing through its exceptional combination of control, fidelity, and usability, marking a new era for all creators.
