GoogleNano Banana 2.1
Nano Banana 2.1 is a Google proprietary reasoning model, released 6 Oct 2026. It is not yet ranked: no independent benchmark results so far, only pricing and metadata. At $8.63 per million tokens blended it is among the most expensive ranked models.
- Blended price
- $8.63/M
- $1.50 in · $30.00 out
- Output speed
- –
- First answer
- 7.85 s
- Context
- 131k
- Full answer
- –
- Cost per run
- –
- Released
- 6 Oct 2026
No independent quality benchmark results yet — only pricing and metadata.
Where to run it
Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.
| Provider | Speed | First token | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Quantisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio | – | 8.64 s | $1.50 | $7.50 | 66k | – |
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.150 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0096 | $0.0092 | – |
| Summarise a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.036 | $0.024 | – |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.054 | $0.048 | – |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.210 | $0.149 | – |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0090 | $0.0070 | – |
See also
Data as of 11 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Nano Banana 2.1: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, https://www.benchleader.com/models/gemini-nano-banana-2-1, data as of 11 Oct 2026.