How much does Nano Banana 2 Lite cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Nano Banana 2 Lite costs about $4,575 per month at Google's list prices ($0.25 per 1M input tokens, $30.00 per 1M output tokens).

Does Nano Banana 2 Lite support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for Nano Banana 2 Lite.

How long is Nano Banana 2 Lite's context window?

Nano Banana 2 Lite accepts up to 65,536 tokens (66K) of context and returns up to 4,096 tokens per response.

Nano Banana 2 Lite API Pricing

Google · released Jun 30, 2026 · 66K context · API model ID gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image

Nano Banana 2 Lite by Google API pricing: $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Nano Banana 2 Lite prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.25
Output	$30.00
Cache read	Not published
Cache write	Not published

Google's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

$4,575

per month

per day: $152.50
per request: $0.0152

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$4,575/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$2,550/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$2,175/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 65,536 tokens
Max output: 4,096 tokens
Input: text, image
Output: text, image
Knowledge cutoff: January 2025
Open weights: No
Tool calling: Yes
Reasoning: Yes
Structured outputs: No

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Nano Banana 2 Lite cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Nano Banana 2 Lite costs about $4,575 per month at Google's list prices ($0.25 per 1M input tokens, $30.00 per 1M output tokens).
Does Nano Banana 2 Lite support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for Nano Banana 2 Lite.
How long is Nano Banana 2 Lite's context window?: Nano Banana 2 Lite accepts up to 65,536 tokens (66K) of context and returns up to 4,096 tokens per response.