Nano Banana models: every version compared

Before Nano Banana, most image models were good at creating images but struggled to edit them without changing the person's face or the product's details. Gemini's native image models reason over the whole image and your instruction, so you can say "put her in a rainy Tokyo street at night, keep her face and outfit" and get a believable, consistent result.

Key abilities across the family:

• Character and product consistency across edits and multiple images
• Multi-image fusion (combine a person, a product and a background)
• Conversational, multi-turn editing
• World knowledge for realistic scenes and diagrams
• SynthID invisible watermarking

• Thumbnails, carousels and quick social visuals: Nano Banana 2 — fast, detailed and affordable.
• Designs with lots of text (posters, infographics, packaging mockups): Nano Banana Pro.
• Simple edits and many iterations: original Nano Banana.
• Character sheets for video: generate a consistent character with Nano Banana 2, then animate it with Seedance, Kling or OmniHuman.

For photoreal product imagery and precise edits, also compare FLUX.2; for typography-heavy graphics and transparent logos, see Ideogram.

1. Say what to keep and what to change: "Keep the model's face, hair and pose. Change the background to a sunny Mediterranean terrace."
2. Reference images by role: "Use image 1 for the person, image 2 for the sneakers."
3. Describe light and camera: "soft window light from the left, 50mm, shallow depth of field."
4. Iterate in small steps rather than asking for ten changes at once.
5. For text in images, put the exact words in quotes and specify font style and placement (Pro handles this best).