Google DeepMind is rolling out Nano Banana 2 Lite as a generally available image model that handles generation and editing in roughly four seconds while Gemini Omni Flash enters preview for conversational video work inside the Gemini API and AI Studio.
Introducing Nano Banana 2 Lite 🍌 and Gemini Omni Flash 🔮, our new generative media models in the Gemini API and AI Studio!
Nano Banana 2 Lite is extremely fast (<4s image) & cheap ($0.034 / 1K image).
Omni Flash is SOTA at video editing at $0.10 / sec, same as Veo 3.1 Fast!
At $0.034 per thousand resolution images the Lite variant undercuts its predecessor by about half while dropping latency from twenty seconds to four, which lines up with the charts shared in the announcement.
Omni Flash is offered in preview at ten cents per output second with multi-turn natural-language editing supported, though exact rate limits and free-tier allowances remain unspecified in the launch materials.
Positive users praise Google’s Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash models for their pricing, low latency, and usefulness in apps, while negative users dismiss the release as useless and demand Gemini 3.5 Pro instead.
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We’re shipping 2 major releases: 🔘 Nano Banana 2 Lite: our fastest and cheapest Gemini Image model 🔘 Gemini Omni Flash: now available via the Gemini API and in @GoogleAIStudio to help developers generate and edit high-quality videos.
Love how Google continues to drive down the cost of building with their models.
<4s image and $0.034 / 1K image. Wow!
We have a bunch of stuff (education & research) we're building @dair_ai using Nano Banana and Gemini.
Testing out Nano Banana 2 Lite and sharing more soon.
Introducing Nano Banana 2 Lite 🍌 and Gemini Omni Flash 🔮, our new generative media models in the Gemini API and AI Studio!
Nano Banana 2 Lite is extremely fast (<4s image) & cheap ($0.034 / 1K image).
Omni Flash is SOTA at video editing at $0.10 / sec, same as Veo 3.1 Fast!
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, a 4-second image model, alongside Gemini Omni Flash.
Image generation usually breaks creative work because every trial costs time, money, and attention.
The lighter image model lowers that friction with 4-second outputs at $0.034 per 1K-resolution image.
Chaining both models is the real product shape, not either model alone.
Nano Banana 2 Lite makes reference images, then Gemini Omni Flash animates them.
Google positions it as the replacement for gemini-2.5-flash-image across high-volume developer pipelines.
Users still need prompt adherence, stable characters, and readable text during fast visual testing.
Gemini Omni Flash extends the workflow from image drafts to editable 10-second video outputs.
It accepts text, image, and video inputs, then edits clips through conversation.
Pricing: $0.10 per second of video output, matching Veo 3.1 Fast.
Gemini Omni Flash currently generates 10-second clips and lacks API audio reference support.
Google says the API accepts video references up to 3 seconds, but Gemini Omni Flash does not process them correctly yet.”
Interactions API keeps session context, so users can stack 3 sequential edits.
Introducing Nano Banana 2 Lite 🍌 and Gemini Omni Flash 🔮, our new generative media models in the Gemini API and AI Studio!
Nano Banana 2 Lite is extremely fast (<4s image) & cheap ($0.034 / 1K image).
Omni Flash is SOTA at video editing at $0.10 / sec, same as Veo 3.1 Fast!
The speed of Nano Banana 2 Lite is going to enable so many new use cases where there is a high degree of latency sensitivity, honestly feels like magic.
I also expect Omni to open up a whole new category of (video) use cases like Nano Banana itself did!
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni-flash-nano-banana-2-lite/
Introducing Nano Banana 2 Lite 🍌 and Gemini Omni Flash 🔮, our new generative media models in the Gemini API and AI Studio!
Nano Banana 2 Lite is extremely fast (<4s image) & cheap ($0.034 / 1K image).
Omni Flash is SOTA at video editing at $0.10 / sec, same as Veo 3.1 Fast!
📽️ We also just made Omni Flash available via the API!
It's uncanny to see how cleanly it can make edits to video using *just* natural language. Test it out in @googleaistudio and @FlowbyGoogle today - which video do you think is the original? 🐕🤖
We’re shipping 2 major releases: 🔘 Nano Banana 2 Lite: our fastest and cheapest Gemini Image model 🔘 Gemini Omni Flash: now available via the Gemini API and in @GoogleAIStudio to help developers generate and edit high-quality videos.
@OfficialLoganK We need Gemini 3.5 Pro. Didn't you guys say it would be released this month? Or are you just too incompetent to release it?
@ajay__pawriya yes!
Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite now available in the API 🔥
Nano Banana 2 Lite is the fastest banana, images in ~4s, $0.034 per image (`gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image`)
Omni api docs: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/omni
We’re shipping 2 major releases: 🔘 Nano Banana 2 Lite: our fastest and cheapest Gemini Image model 🔘 Gemini Omni Flash: now available via the Gemini API and in @GoogleAIStudio to help developers generate and edit high-quality videos.
@OfficialLoganK Are they available on vertex API?
@OfficialLoganK logan, out of context, does Gemini 3.5 pro delay like anthropic and openai latest model? or are you hopeful for a smooth launch?
@OfficialLoganK Just x3.5 more expensive then the superior gpt-image 2.0 (low) What's the point?
Shipping today: Nano Banana 2 Lite (GA) and Gemini Omni Flash API (preview). 🚀
Nano Banana 2 Lite (`gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image`) generates images in ~4 seconds at $0.034. Omni Flash generates and edits video through conversation at $0.10/sec up to 10s videos (same price as Veo 3.1 Fast.).
Omni Flash (`gemini-omni-flash-preview`) combines Gemini's world knowledge (physics, history, cultural context) and is our first model shipped natively for the Interactions API. You get real multi-turn video editing. "Make it sunset." "Add rain." "Swap the product." The API keeps your session context, so each edit builds on the last (up to 3 sequential edits per session).
@OfficialLoganK @ajay__pawriya I thought vertex doesn’t exist anymore….? Huh
@OfficialLoganK Sub 4 seconds and 3 cents per image is wild. The pace at which these are getting faster and cheaper is hard to keep up with.
@OfficialLoganK Cool, now where is 3.5 Pro
@OfficialLoganK Incredible!
@OfficialLoganK Missing only Gemini-3.5-pro now
@OfficialLoganK the only thing that's "cheap" about Nano Banana 2 lite is it's quality
🩷 @NanoBanana 2 Lite is my go-to now for image generation and editing! Very, *very* high quality, at only a small fraction of the price of our other 🍌s.
✨Bonus: Omni is now available via the API! Go forth and automate creating and editing *even videos* with natural language, not just images.
We’re shipping 2 major releases: 🔘 Nano Banana 2 Lite: our fastest and cheapest Gemini Image model 🔘 Gemini Omni Flash: now available via the Gemini API and in @GoogleAIStudio to help developers generate and edit high-quality videos.
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