Nano Banana 2.1 AI Image Generation

Nano Banana 2.1 is the newest release in Google's Nano Banana image line, added to FlyAIgh in October 2026 and now the default image model on the generate page. Google built it for sharper detail and for edits that hold: you can keep refining the same picture over several rounds — change the jacket, then the light, then the background — without the parts you did not touch drifting away.

It does both text-to-image and image editing. In edit mode it takes up to 14 reference images at once plus a text instruction, which is enough to combine a product, a model, a location and a style reference in one request. It also has the widest framing choice of any image model on FlyAIgh: fourteen aspect ratios, from 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 and 9:16 through 3:2, 2:3, 5:4 and 4:5, the ultrawide 21:9, and the extreme 1:4, 4:1, 1:8 and 8:1 strips for banners and scrolling layouts.

Output comes at 1K, 2K or 4K, and the price follows the resolution: 2 credits at 1K, 3 at 2K and 7 at 4K. Reference images do not add to the price. That makes 2.1 the cheapest Nano Banana at every resolution — less than Nano Banana 2 and well below Nano Banana Pro — and one of the cheapest 4K options on the platform.

Like the rest of the Nano Banana line, it is strong at photorealism, faces, hands and readable on-image text, and it is the model to try first for product shots, social graphics, blog illustrations and multi-round retouching. It is weaker than Midjourney for a distinctive artistic look.

Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2 have their own pages. Pro costs 8 to 13 credits and remains a strong choice for finished hero images with dense text; Nano Banana 2 is the earlier text-to-image model. For most new work, start with 2.1. Like every model on FlyAIgh, it runs on the same credit wallet — no Google Cloud project or Gemini subscription.