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

google · Released Nov 20, 2025
DFO score #63 / 698
45.2 leaderboard score
Speed #94 / 338
136.6 tok/s
Input Price #582 / 698
$2.00 per 1M tokens
Output Price #633 / 698
$12.00 per 1M tokens
Context #489 / 698
65,536 tokens

Analysis Summary

Nano Banana Pro, listed as Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview, is Google's multimodal model with text and image input and output. Its benchmark profile includes strong reasoning, math, and coding results, alongside useful instruction-following and long-context measures. The context window is 65,536 tokens, and the model supports image input and generation, making it distinct from text-only options in this batch.

For a marketing agency, the combination suits visual content workflows that need both language and image capabilities, as well as coding or analytical work. The listed input price is $2 and output price is $12, which makes it harder to justify for routine high-volume calls. Treat the preview designation as a reason to test carefully in production. Adopt it for multimodal tasks where a single model's text and image abilities offer clear workflow value.

Assessed September 23, 2026

Editorial notes

Nano Banana Pro pairs strong reasoning and coding benchmarks with image generation, image understanding, and a 65K context window; its listed prices are high for routine traffic.

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DFO Verdict

Nano Banana Pro pairs strong reasoning and coding benchmarks with image generation, image understanding, and a 65K context window; its listed prices are high for routine traffic.

#63 of 698 overall Down 2 this week

Benchmarks

Intelligence Index 27.4 #63 of 436 · Artificial Analysis
Coding Index Not published yet Artificial Analysis
Agentic Index Not published yet Artificial Analysis
Creative Writing Not rated Arena rating
Instruction Following Not rated Arena rating
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%

Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 12, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 2, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control. Bars: magenta = reasoning, ink = coding and agents, cyan = instructions and long context.

Artificial Analysis has not published coding or agentic results for Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) yet. Until it does, the model sits below tested models on the Coding and AI Agents lists.

Artificial Analysis no longer lists this model, so its indexes are converted from their older scale to stay comparable.

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

Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) ranks #63 of 436 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 66K-token context window is larger than 30% of the models we list. At $2.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 17% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 91% of models #63
Speed: faster than 72% of models #94
Price: cheaper than 17% of models #582
Context: larger than 30% of models #489
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) $2.00 in $12.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out

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

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

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

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

$18.00/mo Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) $0.0060 per request
$31.68/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $0.01 per request
$15.84/mo Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 · best value $0.0053 per request

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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..

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.

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