Gemini 3.1 Flash with image generation capabilities. High-efficiency image generation model with support for text rendering, reference images, search grounding, and thinking mode. The efficient counterpart to Gemini 3 Pro Image.
What Nano Banana 2 is good at
Rankings based on human votes in the Lumenfall Arena, where real users pick their favorite without knowing which model made which image. Excels at #1 Anime (Image Editing), #1 Portrait (Text-to-Image), #1 Portrait (Image Editing), #1 Product, Branding & Commercial (Text-to-Image), #3 Text Rendering (Text-to-Image), and #4 Photorealism (Image Editing) , placing in the top 20% of all competing models.
Nano Banana 2 Strengths
Nano Banana 2 outperforms most competing models here
Portrait
Image EditingProduct, Branding & Commercial
Text-to-ImageText Rendering
Text-to-ImagePhotorealism
Image EditingOther categories
Nano Banana 2 competes but doesn't rank as highly