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New model: Nano Banana 2.1 (Google)

Google released Nano Banana 2.1 on 2026-10-06, a gemini-flash-based model with text, image and video input, a 131k context window and 33k max output, according to the model listing on llmstatus.ai. Google has announced no retirement date for the model, which is also listed as google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1. The listing points developers to a provider announcement on models.dev and to llmstatus.ai tooling that scans repositories for models with announced end-of-life dates.

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New model: Nano Banana 2.1 (Google)
Image: Llmstatus (auto-discovered)

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Google · gemini-nano-banana-2.1

Released2026-10-06

Retiresno announced date

gemini-flashtext+image+video131k context33k max out

also matches:

`gemini-nano-banana-2.1`` google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1`
[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/google-vertex/gemini-nano-banana-2.1)

Does your code call Nano Banana 2.1?

$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash

Then mm status in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.

Get alerted before it retires →

source & further reading
llmstatus.ai — original article Gemini 3.6 Flash deprecated Pixtral 12B deprecated New model: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Google)
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