Google has announced a significant upgrade to its image-generation model, introducing enhanced editing capabilities, higher resolution outputs, improved text rendering accuracy, and integrated web search functionality.
The new model, dubbed Nano Banana Pro, is built upon Google’s latest large language model, Gemini 3, which was released earlier this week. This move signals Google’s intensified competition in the advanced AI image synthesis market.
What is Nano Banana Pro?
Google positions Nano Banana Pro as a professional-grade tool designed to offer creators unprecedented control over generated imagery. The model empowers users to fine-tune specific aspects such as camera angles, scene lighting, depth of field, focus, and color grading directly through text prompts.
A major leap from its predecessor is the resolution capability. While the original Nano Banana model was capped at 1024 x 1024 pixels, Nano Banana Pro enables the generation of high-fidelity 2K and 4K images.
This advanced performance, however, comes with trade-offs. Google explicitly notes that Nano Banana Pro operates slower and is more computationally expensive than the original model.
For context, the standard Nano Banana model was priced at $0.039 per 1024px image. In contrast, Nano Banana Pro costs $0.139 for each 1080p or 2K image and $0.24 for every 4K image generated, reflecting the increased resource demands.
Key Features of Nano Banana Pro
The upgrade introduces a suite of powerful features aimed at both professional designers and content creators:
- Enhanced Prompt Accuracy: The model demonstrates a superior ability to follow complex and nuanced requests, including creating composite images and executing precise text edits within the visuals.
- Realistic Detail Rendering: Skin textures, fabric weaves, and various scene elements are rendered with sharp, micro-level details that significantly boost photorealism.
- Advanced Image Editing: Users can rapidly perform sophisticated edits such as removing objects or people, changing text overlays, adjusting lighting conditions, and comprehensively reworking scenes.
- Multi-Image Composition: This feature allows for the seamless combination of characters from different images, transferring hairstyles, and merging diverse elements into a cohesive final artwork.
- Likeness Preservation: The model excels at maintaining facial consistency for characters across multiple generated scenes and various artistic styles.
- Style Conversion: Easily transform standard photographs into a range of artistic styles, including illustrations, cartoons, and 3D renders.
- Product Visualization: Generate high-quality product mockups, packaging shots, and lifestyle marketing images directly from prompts.
- Availability: The model is active now within Google Gemini for users with image generation enabled.
- Resolution Roadmap: Google has confirmed that even higher-resolution 2K and 4K model variants are in active development and planned for future release.
How to Access Nano Banana Pro
Google is integrating Nano Banana Pro across its ecosystem of AI tools. The Gemini app now defaults to using the new model for image generation. Users on the free subscription tier will have access to a limited number of generations with Nano Banana Pro before the system reverts to the original Nano Banana model.
Subscribers to Google’s premium tiers—AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra—will receive significantly higher generation limits, though the company has not yet disclosed specific numbers. These subscribers will also gain access to Nano Banana Pro within NotebookLM for enhanced creative workflows.
In the United States, Google is integrating the model into its search engine for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers when using AI mode. Ultra-tier subscribers gain an additional advantage with access to the model within Google’s video tool, Flow. Furthermore, enterprise customers will find Nano Banana Pro available within Google Workspace applications, specifically Google Slides and Google Vids, for streamlined presentation and video creation.
For developers, Nano Banana Pro is accessible via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and the company’s newly launched integrated development environment, Antigravity.
Final Thoughts on Nano Banana Pro
Nano Banana Pro represents a substantial step forward from its predecessor, particularly in the areas of texture rendering, prompt fidelity, complex compositing, and granular edit control. It handles challenging generation tasks—such as close-up portraits, intricate props, and multi-character scenes—with a remarkable level of detail that makes it a viable tool for serious creative projects.
While its higher operational cost may deter casual use, for professionals seeking high-resolution, editable, and highly detailed AI-generated imagery, Nano Banana Pro establishes a new benchmark within Google’s AI arsenal. Its widespread integration across Google’s product suite underscores the company’s strategy to embed advanced AI capabilities directly into the tools users rely on daily.
