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🇺🇸 United States🎨 Image generationReleased February 2026

Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2)

Google
Verdict

Strong value for high-volume usage.

Overview

Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana 2, generates and edits images in the Gemini app and via the Gemini API, with optional web search.

Skill profile

Not disclosed

Strengths

  • Competitive input pricing

Limitations

  • High output cost
  • No documented EU residency

Who is it for

A good fit if…
  • you want to control cost or self-host
Skip it if…
  • your budget is tight
  • you handle sensitive data with no EU option

Access & availability

Paid API per token

Key specifications

Context
0
Input price
$0.50/M
Output price
$60.00/M
Speed
Price not auditedBenchmarks not audited

What it costs per month

Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.

Via API
$308 / month
283 € · 20.0 M tokens
Self-hosted
Closed weights: no self-hosting

Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.

nAIvigate Trust Index

19/100

What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.

8/20 criteria documented · 40 % · provisional: 50 % documented criteria or fewer

Data0
0/5 · 30 %
Sovereignty10
3/3 · 20 %
Transparency25
3/4 · 15 %
Enterprise0
0/6 · 20 %
Licence85
2/2 · 15 %
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Data
EU data residencynot documented
No transfer outside EUnot documented
No training on your datanot documented
Configurable retentionnot documented
Zero Data Retentionnot documented
Sovereignty
Self-hostable (open weights)
EU hosting offered
European vendorcountry: US30
Transparency
Published licence (URL)
Public, sourced pricing
Published compliance commitments
Subprocessor list publishednot documented
Enterprise
DPA availablenot documented
SSO / SAMLnot documented
SCIM provisioningnot documented
Audit logsnot documented
SOC 2 / ISO 27001not documented
Private endpoint / VPCnot documented
Licence
Commercial use allowed
Licence typeproprietary70
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Data & compliance

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EU data residencyNot documented
Data processing agreement (DPA)Not documented
Transfer outside the EUNot documented
Training on your dataNot documented
Configurable retentionNot documented
Zero Data RetentionNot documented
Self-hostableNo
Declared hostingUS
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Quality of this card’s data

35/100

This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.

2/6 documented · 1/6 primary sources

API pricingofficial
Context windowmissing
Arena Elomissing
Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…)missing
LicencenAIvigate assessment
Data & compliancemissing
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Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
Architecture
Size
Cutoff date
Inputs
text, image
Outputs
image
License
proprietary
Hosting
US
Hallucination score
Estimated cost (API)
Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
≈ $0.0615
1M in + 1M out
≈ $60.50
All benchmarks
Arena Elo
MMLU
GPQA
HumanEval
SWE-Bench
MATH

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