Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)

Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)

google · Released Nov 20, 2025
Intelligence #9 / 612
82.0 our score
Speed #78 / 287
136.6 tok/s
Input Price #505 / 612
$2.00 per 1M tokens
Output Price #541 / 612
$12.00 per 1M tokens
Context #409 / 612
65,536 tokens

Analysis Summary

Google's Nano Banana Pro is a vision-capable variant of the Gemini 3 Pro family, offering strong reasoning performance with an intelligence index of 39.6 and exceptional scores across math, coding, and science benchmarks. Its multimodal output capability (text+image) is a genuine differentiator, and the model handles complex analytical tasks with reliability.

For businesses, this model suits image-aware workflows, technical content generation, and analytical tasks requiring strong math or science reasoning. The 65K context window is a meaningful constraint compared to the full Gemini 3 Pro Preview, limiting use on long documents or large codebases. Agentic performance is moderate rather than leading.

At $2 input and $12 output per million tokens, pricing is on the higher side for a context-limited variant. Teams needing image generation alongside reasoning will find it useful, but those prioritising long-context or agentic work should consider the full Gemini 3 Pro Preview instead.

Assessed July 10, 2026

Editorial notes

Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview variant delivers strong reasoning, exceptional math and coding benchmarks, and native vision with image output, though its 65K context window and premium pricing limit broader deployment.

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DFO Verdict

Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview variant delivers strong reasoning, exceptional math and coding benchmarks, and native vision with image output, though its 65K context window and premium pricing limit broader deployment.

#9 of 612 overall

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond 90.8%
HLE 37.2%
MMLU Pro 89.8%
AIME 2025 95.7%
SciCode 56.1%
LiveCodeBench 91.7%
TerminalBench Hard 41.7%
τ²-Bench 87.1%
IFBench 70.4%
LCR 70.7%

Magenta = intelligence Ā· Ink = technical/agentic Ā· Cyan = content & long-context Ā· Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.

39.6 Intelligence IndexĀ·64.4 Agentic IndexĀ·95.7 Math Index

How Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) compares

Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) ranks #38 of 393 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #36 of 300 for agentic tasks. Its 66K-token context window is larger than 33% of the models we list. At $2.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 17% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 99% of models #9
Speed: faster than 73% of models #78
Price: cheaper than 17% of models #505
Context: larger than 33% of models #409
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers Ā· $ per 1M tokens
Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) $2.00 in $12.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 $10.00 in $50.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 $5.00 in $25.00 out
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $2.00 in $12.00 out

Dark bar = input Ā· light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers Ā· tokens
Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) 66K

1M tokens ā‰ˆ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence6.5Technical7.3Value6Content8.1
Performance profile

Strongest on content. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $2.00 $0.002000
Output $12.00 $0.012000

What would Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

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About Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)

Nano Banana Pro is Google’s most advanced image-generation and editing model, built on Gemini 3 Pro. It extends the original Nano Banana with significantly improved multimodal reasoning, real-world grounding, and..

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Frequently asked questions about Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)

How much does Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) cost?

Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)?

Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) has a context window of 65,536 tokens (66K).

What can Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) do?

Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) supports image/vision input.

Who created Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)?

Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) is developed by Google and was released on November 20, 2025.