Nano Banana Pro vs Nano Banana

Nano Banana Pro costs $3.50 per 1M input tokens and $35.00 per 1M output tokens, whereas Nano Banana costs $2.00 input and $20.00 output. Overall, Nano Banana is the more cost-effective model for high-volume API pipelines. Both models support prompt caching discounts of up to 90% for repeated prompt prefixes.

Nano Banana Pro supports a context window of 66K tokens (~49k words), while Nano Banana supports 33K tokens (~25k words). Therefore, Nano Banana Pro can process more textual data and document context in a single prompt.

Nano Banana Pro scores at the frontier of coding benchmarks, while Nano Banana scores competitively for software generation. For complex autonomous debugging and agentic engineering, Nano Banana Pro provides robust code generation and tool calling.

Nano Banana Pro features native chain-of-thought extended thinking mode with configurable reasoning effort. In contrast, Nano Banana provides chain-of-thought reasoning depth for complex math and science.

Nano Banana Pro generates approximately 50 tokens per second, while Nano Banana delivers 60 tokens per second. In latency-sensitive production environments, Nano Banana provides faster time-to-first-token (TTFT) and higher streaming response velocity.

Yes! High-efficiency architectures route high-frequency routine classification and conversational tasks to Nano Banana to save operational costs, and dynamically escalate complex architectural queries or reasoning tasks to Nano Banana Pro. This tiered routing pattern cuts overall API bills by up to 70%.