Google Gemini API image generation (Nano Banana / Imagen) pricing and free tier

Google Gemini API image generation (Nano Banana / Imagen) pricing, checked against the vendor's pricing page.

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API per 1,000 images
$67 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2), 1K image: $0.067 (Standard). Nano Banana 2.1, 1K: $0.0336. Gemini 3 Pro Image, 1K/2K: $0.134.)
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Google Gemini API image generation (Nano Banana / Imagen) plans (checked Oct 18, 2026 on the vendor's pricing page, tax as stated by the vendor)
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Google Gemini API image generation (Nano Banana / Imagen) links and sources

Websiteai.google.dev
Pricing pagehttps://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
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API per 1,000 images$67Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2), 1K image: $0.067 (Standard). Nano Banana 2.1, 1K: $0.0336. Gemini 3 Pro Image, 1K/2K: $0.134. Source

Google states Imagen 4 in the Gemini API is scheduled to shut down on 2026-08-17. Vertex AI Imagen pricing could not be read and is unconfirmed.

Google Gemini API image generation (Nano Banana / Imagen) pricing questions

How much does the Google Gemini API image generation (Nano Banana / Imagen) API cost?

$67 per 1,000 images (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2), 1K image: $0.067 (Standard). Nano Banana 2.1, 1K: $0.0336. Gemini 3 Pro Image, 1K/2K: $0.134.), from the vendor's pricing page checked on .

Lowest monthly prices of other AI image generator tools

Lowest-priced plan billed monthly
ServiceMonthlyFree tier
Krea$9100 compute units/day. 1 concurrent generation.
Playground$1510 images per 3 hours (comparison table says 5). 3 credits/month. 2 downloads/day.
Ideogram$2030 credits/week. Sign-in with Google, Apple or Microsoft only. Images are public.

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