Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite)
Googlefamily · Gemini 3.1ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.1-
Designed as the efficiency specialist of the image generation family, offering ultra-low latency and cost-effective image generation and editing.
Updated 16 min ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026
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Overview
Identity
- Canonical model
- Yesidentity confidence: mediumOne row per real model release. Artifacts (checkpoints, quantisations, conversions) and folded evaluation variants point here.
- Official checkpoints
- None recordedofficial_checkpoints = hf_repo identifiers carried by the model itself; artifacts are separate entities pointing here through canonical_id.
- Artifacts
- None recordedSeparate entities (checkpoint · quantization · conversion · packaging) pointing to this model through canonical_id.
- Provider deployments
- 2
- API aliases
- gemini-3.1-flash-lite-imagegoogle/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-imageIdentifiers under which providers and evaluators refer to this model.
- Folded evaluation variants
- 0Effort / thinking variants (…-high, …-non-reasoning) are result configurations of this model, not separate models. Their old URLs redirect here.
Openness
Openness not classified yet — no sourced evidence to place this model in the ontology.
Key facts
- Release date
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium
- Status
Source:Google AI for Developers (Gemini API docs)T1observed 14 h agohigh
- Knowledge cutoff
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium
- Official page
Source:Google AI for Developers (Gemini API docs)T1observed 14 h agohigh
- API model id
Source:Google AI for Developers (Gemini API docs)T1observed 14 h agohigh
- Openrouter id
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium
Architecture
- Tokenizer
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium
Capabilities
Modalities
- Modalities
- documentimagetextvideo
- Input
- documentimagetextvideo
- Output
- imagetext
Capabilities
Tool calling
No
Google AI for Developers (Gemini API docs) · T1
Structured output
No
Google AI for Developers (Gemini API docs) · T1
Reasoning
Yes
Google AI for Developers (Gemini API docs) · T1
Vision
Yes
Google AI for Developers (Gemini API docs) · T1
Audio
Unavailable
Fine-tuning available
Unavailable
- Context window
Source:Google AI for Developers (Gemini API docs)T1observed 14 h agohigh
- Max output
Source:Google AI for Developers (Gemini API docs)T1observed 14 h agohigh
- Knowledge cutoff
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium
- Tokenizer
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium
Providers & Pricing3
All offers in the price terminal →USD per 1M tokens as published by each provider; native units (per-request fees, flex/priority tiers) are kept verbatim. Rows are append-only — every price change is kept in the history below. Cost of a workload →
Price history
Output price · USD / 1M tokens 2 providers
- Google Gemini API
- OpenRouter
- OpenRouterfirst observed $1.512 Sept 2026
- Google Gemini APIfirst observed $1.511 Sept 2026
Input price · USD / 1M tokens 2 providers
- Google Gemini API
- OpenRouter
- OpenRouterfirst observed $0.2512 Sept 2026
- Google Gemini APIfirst observed $0.2511 Sept 2026
Versions & Artifacts0
Version history
Context windowfirst observation only
11 Sept 2026current
Knowledge cutofffirst observation only
11 Sept 2026current
Max outputfirst observation only
11 Sept 2026current
Statusfirst observation only
11 Sept 2026current
Each hop is a claim: click a value for its source, tier and observation time. Nothing is overwritten — a new observation closes the previous claim.
Artifacts 0
No artifact (checkpoint, quantisation, conversion or packaging) points to this model yet.
Timeline3
Full timeline →OpenRouter lists Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) at $0.25 in / $1.5 out per 1M tokens
openrouterGemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite): capabilities changed from ["Image generation", "Thinking"] to ["image_generation", "reasoning"]
CapabilitiesImage generation, Thinking→image_generation, reasoninggoogleGemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite): family changed from Gemini to Gemini 3.1
FamilyGemini→Gemini 3.1google
Change history101
Viewing AI Atlas as of 11 Sept 2026 — attributes exactly as the atlas knew them on that day; later corrections are not shown.
Back to today →Attributes as of 11 Sept 2026 22 claims in force
- Family
- Gemini
- Release date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Status
- active
- Context window
- 65.5K tokens
- Max output
- 4.1K tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jan 2025
- Modalities
- document, image, text, video
- Input modalities
- document, image, text, video
- Output modalities
- image, text
- Tokenizer
- Gemini
- API model id
- gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
- Capabilities
- Image generation, Thinking
- Latest update
- 2026-06
- Openrouter id
- google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Supported parameters
- include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, seed, temperature, top_p
- Tool calling
- No
- Versions
- {"stable":["gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image"]}
- Vision
- Yes
Familyfamily2
Release daterelease_date1
Statusstatus1
Context windowcontext_length1
Max outputmax_output_tokens8conflicting claims
Knowledge cutoffknowledge_cutoff1
Modalitiesmodalities8conflicting claims
Input modalitiesmodalities_input8conflicting claims
Output modalitiesmodalities_output1
Tokenizertokenizer1
API model idapi_model_id1
Official pageofficial_url1
Capabilitiescapabilities2
Capabilities rawcapabilities_raw1
Descriptiondescription48
Latest updatelatest_update1
Openrouter idopenrouter_id1
Openrouter listed atopenrouter_listed_at1
Reasoningreasoning1
Structured outputstructured_output8conflicting claims
Supported parameterssupported_parameters1
Tool callingtool_calling1
Versionsversions1
Visionvision1
Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →
Provenance
Attributed facts
24
Source tiers
T1T218 / 6
Freshest observation
16 min ago
Conflicts
28 flagged
Source documents 4
Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.
Data quality (60/100) measures how well AI Atlas knows this entity — completeness, primary-source ratio, freshness, conflicts — never how good the model is. Methodology →