Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) vs R1
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 Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) and R1.
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a.k.a. "Nano Banana," is now generally available. It is a state of the art image generation model with contextual understanding. It is capable of image generation,...
R1
DeepSeek R1 is here: Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active in an inference pass....
Technical Specifications
| Specification | Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | R1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | |
| Context Window | 32,768 tokens | 163,840 tokens |
| Agent Suitability | N/A | N/A |
| Time to First Token (TTFT) | N/A | N/A |
| Deployment Model | managed api | self hostable |
| Production Stability | stable | stable |
| API Available | Yes | Yes |
| Released Date | 2025-10-07 | 2025-01-20 |
API Pricing Comparison
Input Price per Million Tokens
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
$0.30
R1
$0.70
Output Price per Million Tokens
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
$2.50
R1
$2.50
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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.
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) Quirks & Gotchas
No developer gotchas reported.
R1 Quirks & Gotchas
No developer gotchas reported.