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nano-banana-2.1

Create images with Google Nano Banana 2.1 API. Stable, affordable access for product visuals, ads, and creative workflows, with optional search grounding.

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Nano Banana 2.1 Pricing

Parameters	Price	Original Price	Discount

Resolution: 4k	$0.1282 per image	$0.1350 per image	95%
Resolution: 2k	$0.0570 per image	$0.0600 per image	95%
Resolution: 1k	$0.0380 per image	$0.0400 per image	95%
Web search surcharge (when enabled)	$0.0133 per generation	$0.0140 per generation	95%
Image search surcharge (when enabled)	$0.0133 per generation	$0.0140 per generation	95%

Examples

README

Fast & Affordable Nano Banana 2.1 API (Google AI Image Generation)

Nano Banana 2.1 API brings Google's high-efficiency image generation model to Flaq AI for developers and creative teams. Create detailed visuals from natural-language prompts with improved prompt adherence, realistic detail, and clearer text rendering than Nano Banana 2. Flexible output quality and aspect ratio controls make this Google image API useful for everything from quick concepts to polished campaign assets.

Key Features of Nano Banana 2.1 API

High-Quality Text-to-Image Generation: Turn descriptive prompts into detailed images with improved realism, composition, and visual clarity.
Stronger Prompt Adherence: Guide subjects, lighting, style, and layout in natural language while keeping the generated image closer to your creative direction.
Clearer Text and Layouts: Create visuals with more accurate typography and infographic composition for marketing and informational content.
Flexible Output Quality: Choose from multiple resolutions up to 4K to balance image detail and credit use for each project.
Versatile Aspect Ratios: Produce square, portrait, landscape, and panoramic images for a wide range of placements.
Optional Search-Grounded Creation: Use web or image search when a prompt benefits from current information or visual references.
Efficient Creative Iteration: Explore prompt variations through an affordable API suited to repeatable image production workflows.

How to Use Nano Banana 2.1 API for Image Generation on Flaq AI

Input: A natural-language prompt describing the subject, composition, style, and any text to include.
Output: Generated images at the selected resolution and aspect ratio.
Aspect Ratios: Multiple standard and panoramic formats for social posts, ads, editorial graphics, and banners.
Capabilities: Text-to-image generation, prompt-guided composition, improved text rendering, optional web and image search, and flexible quality controls.

Best Use Cases for Nano Banana 2.1 API Integration

Marketing Creative: Generate campaign concepts, display ads, and branded visuals from detailed briefs with flexible layouts.
Social Media Content: Adapt image ideas to portrait, square, and landscape placements across publishing channels.
Infographics and Editorial Graphics: Create image concepts that combine visual storytelling with more legible text and structured layouts.
Product Concept Visualization: Explore packaging, lifestyle scenes, and presentation mockups before production.
Rapid Design Exploration: Produce prompt variations for creative review and refine promising directions through an efficient API workflow.

Note: Keep prompts and any search-grounded content within Google's safety guidelines.

Each enabled search option adds a fixed charge per generation; see current pricing.

Nano Banana 2.1 vs Competitors: Comparative Analysis

Nano Banana 2.1 vs. Nano Banana 2: Nano Banana 2 remains a capable high-efficiency image model. Nano Banana 2.1 builds on it with improved visual quality, prompt adherence, text rendering, and cleaner panoramic output while retaining an efficient generation workflow.
Nano Banana 2.1 vs. Nano Banana Pro: Nano Banana Pro is designed for the most demanding graphic design and precision creative tasks. Nano Banana 2.1 offers a more cost-effective choice for teams that need strong visual quality and frequent image generation.
Nano Banana 2.1 vs. Nano Banana 2 Lite: Nano Banana 2 Lite emphasizes the lowest latency and cost for large-scale production. Nano Banana 2.1 is better suited to briefs that call for richer detail, stronger text rendering, and more careful composition.
Nano Banana 2.1 vs. GPT Image: GPT Image supports creative image generation and editing in the OpenAI ecosystem. Nano Banana 2.1 provides a Google model option with optional web and image search grounding and flexible panoramic layouts on Flaq AI.
Nano Banana 2.1 vs. FLUX.2: FLUX.2 supports production image generation and editing with reference-based control. Nano Banana 2.1 brings Google's prompt understanding and optional search-grounded creation to teams building image workflows on Flaq AI.

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API Examples

JavaScriptPythoncURL

Submit Example

// Step 1: Submit generation request
const response = await fetch('https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/task', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    model_name: 'nano-banana-2.1',
    prompt: 'A beautiful sunset over mountains',
    width: 16,
    height: 9,
    resolution: '2k',
    enable_web_search: true,
    enable_image_search: false
  })
});

const { data } = await response.json();
const taskId = data.task_id;

Polling Example

// Step 2: Poll for results
const taskId = data.task_id;

const pollResult = async (taskId) => {
  const res = await fetch(`https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/${taskId}`, {
    headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' }
  });
  return res.json();
};

while (true) {
  const pollResultData = await pollResult(taskId);
  const status = pollResultData.data.task_status;

  if (status === 'succeed') {
    console.log(pollResultData.data.task_result.images[0].url);
    break;
  }

  if (status === 'failed') {
    console.error(pollResultData.data.task_status_msg);
    break;
  }

  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 10000));
}

Submit Example

# Step 1: Submit generation request
import requests

response = requests.post(
    'https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/task',
    headers={
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'
    },
    json={
        'model_name': 'nano-banana-2.1',
        'prompt': 'A beautiful sunset over mountains',
        'width': 16,
        'height': 9,
        'resolution': '2k',
        'enable_web_search': True,
        'enable_image_search': False
    }
)

result = response.json()
task_id = result['data']['task_id']

Polling Example

# Step 2: Poll for results
task_id = response.json()['data']['task_id']
poll_url = f"https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/{task_id}"

while True:
    poll_result = requests.get(poll_url, headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'}).json()
    status = poll_result['data']['task_status']
    if status == 'succeed':
        print(poll_result['data']['task_result']['images'][0]['url'])
        break
    if status == 'failed':
        print(poll_result['data']['task_status_msg'])
        break
    time.sleep(10)

Submit Example

# Step 1: Submit generation request
curl -X POST https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/task \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model_name": "nano-banana-2.1",
    "prompt": "A beautiful sunset over mountains",
    "width": 16,
    "height": 9,
    "resolution": "2k",
    "enable_web_search": true,
    "enable_image_search": false
  }'

Polling Example

# Step 2: Poll for results
# Replace {task_id} with the task_id returned from the submit response
curl -X GET "https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/{task_id}" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

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Nano Banana 2.1 Pricing

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Fast & Affordable Nano Banana 2.1 API (Google AI Image Generation)

Key Features of Nano Banana 2.1 API

How to Use Nano Banana 2.1 API for Image Generation on Flaq AI

Best Use Cases for Nano Banana 2.1 API Integration

Nano Banana 2.1 vs Competitors: Comparative Analysis

Use the Nano Banana 2.1 Model Directly in Powerful AI Tools

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