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.

GG● Healthy Nano Banana 2.1 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 → https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up