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Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) now on AI Gateway

Google's Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, offering fast, low-cost image generation at $0.034 per 1K images. The model generates images alongside text in under 4 seconds and supports multi-turn editing, with pricing roughly half that of Nano Banana 2 and a quarter of Nano Banana Pro.

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Nano Banana 2 Lite from Google is now available on AI Gateway. This Flash-Lite-tier image model is built for fast, low-cost generation. It generates images alongside text in <4s and can edit existing images across multiple turns.

The cost is also lower than previous Nano Banana models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates 1K images at $0.034 each, about half the cost of Nano Banana 2 and roughly a quarter of the cost of Nano Banana Pro at the same resolution.

This model is multimodal. Use streamText

or generateText

to generate images alongside text responses.

To use Nano Banana 2 Lite, set model

to `google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image`

in the [AI SDK](https://ai-sdk.dev/):

Here is the example output from the above prompt:

You can also try Nano Banana 2 Lite in the model playground. AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in custom reporting, Zero Data Retention support, budgets for API keys, and more.

AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) requests.

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