Migrating from gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview to gemini-nano-banana-2.1
What changes when you move from gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview to gemini-nano-banana-2.1: prices, limits, features and parameters, read from each company's own pages.
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Jan 15, 2026 at the earliest
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | Not published | $1.50first seen October 6, 2026 · source | — |
| Output | Not published | $7.50first seen October 7, 2026 · source | — |
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
Tokens| Limit | gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | Not published | 131,072 tokensfirst seen October 6, 2026 · source | — |
| Max output tokens | Not published | 32,768 tokensfirst seen October 6, 2026 · source | — |
Benchmarks
Same benchmark, source and setting on both sides| Benchmark | gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena Text to ImageArena. Ranges don't overlap. | 1150 ±2 | 1328 ±9 | +178 |
| Arena Image EditArena. Ranges don't overlap. | 1293 ±2 | 1428 ±6 | +135 |
A score from one source is never compared with another source's, and company-reported scores are compared only within the same company; settings named where they differ. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.
Features and parameters
Compare modelsNo feature is published for both models, so none can be compared.
Not published for gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview: Structured outputs, Function calling, Prompt caching, Batch API, Image input, PDF input, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Context window, Max output tokens.
Not published for gemini-nano-banana-2.1: Fine-tuning, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at either model.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-nano-banana-2.1 | Google Cloud Vertex AI | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 | none announcedActive |
Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.
Checklist
- Change the model string from
gemini-2.5-flash-image-previewtogemini-nano-banana-2.1.
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview, gemini-nano-banana-2.1.