Nano Banana 2.1 now available on AI Gateway
Quick Answer
Google's Nano Banana 2.1 is now available on AI Gateway, enhancing image generation with features like product recontextualization and mask-based editing.
Quick Take
It delivers photorealistic results at Flash-tier latency and cost, accessible via the AI SDK, OpenAI-compatible API, or AI CLI.
Key Points
- Supports product recontextualization and mask-based editing for enhanced image manipulation.
- Delivers photorealistic skin tones and intricate materials at low latency and cost.
- Accessible via AI SDK, OpenAI-compatible API, or Vercel's open-source AI CLI.
- AI Gateway offers unified API for model calls, usage tracking, and performance optimizations.
- No markup on provider pricing, including for Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) requests.
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~2 min readNano Banana 2.1 from Google is now available on AI Gateway. It improves image generation and editing over earlier Nano Banana models.
This release targets product recontextualization, mask- and ink-based editing, and factuality. Product recontextualization places an existing product in a new scene. Mask- and ink-based edits change only the region marked by a mask or by strokes drawn on the image. Factuality is how accurately images depict real-world subjects.
The model renders photorealistic skin tones, intricate materials, sharp lighting, and coherent backgrounds at the latency and cost of a Flash-tier model.
Call it through the AI SDK or the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API, or the AI CLI. AI CLI is an open-source command-line tool from Vercel Labs for generating text, images, video, and audio from your terminal. It runs on AI Gateway, so any Gateway model ID works with -m.
Use google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1 as the model name. Generated images are returned in result.files:
Try Nano Banana 2.1 in imagen.sh, or the model playground.
AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in custom reporting, Zero Data Retention support, budgets for API keys, routing rules, and more.
AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) requests.
You can view all image models available on AI Gateway.
— Originally published at vercel.com
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