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Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

How do these models stack up? Below is an expert side-by-side comparison of specifications, context window capacity, live pricing per million tokens, and standardized benchmark scores for Gemini 3.5 Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image).

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Gemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's high-efficiency multimodal model, bringing near-Pro level coding and reasoning at Flash-tier cost and speed. It is highly optimized for coding proficiency and parallel agentic execution...

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Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini image model, built for high-velocity developer pipelines and rapid-fire visual exploration. It delivers text-to-image generation...

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Technical Specifications

SpecificationGemini 3.5 FlashNano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Context Window1,048,576 tokens65,536 tokens
Agent Suitability88/100N/A
Time to First Token (TTFT)200 msN/A
Deployment Modelmanaged apimanaged api
Production Stabilitystablestable
API AvailableYesYes
Released Date2026-05-192026-06-30

API Pricing Comparison

Input Price per Million Tokens

Gemini 3.5 Flash

$1.50

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

$0.25

Output Price per Million Tokens

Gemini 3.5 Flash

$9.00

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

$1.50

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Benchmark Performance Metrics

Scores show the raw performance percentages verified across key evaluation suites. Higher bars indicate superior accuracy and capability in that domain.

MMLUGeneral knowledge & multi-task understanding
9050.0%vsN/A
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
HumanEvalPython coding & logic synthesis
9210.0%vsN/A
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
MATHComplex mathematical problem solving
8500.0%vsN/A
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
GPQAGraduate-level expert reasoning
6820.0%vsN/A
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
HellaSwagCommonsense reasoning and inference
9780.0%vsN/A
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
MT-BenchMulti-turn conversation flow quality
920.0%vsN/A
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

Gemini 3.5 Flash Quirks & Gotchas

  • ▸Excellent multimodal performance — native video understanding
  • ▸Tool calling via Google's native function_declarations in Vertex AI

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) Quirks & Gotchas

No developer gotchas reported.