Tech giant offers state-of-the-art image generation with improved text rendering, web search capabilities, and professional-grade controls.
Google has unveiled Nano Banana Pro, its latest artificial intelligence image generation model, marking a significant upgrade in the company's creative AI toolkit. Built on the recently released Gemini 3 Pro platform, the new model offers enhanced capabilities for creating high-fidelity visuals with accurate text rendering, real-time information integration, and professional editing controls.
The launch comes just months after Google introduced the original Nano Banana model, based on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. According to the company's official blog, Nano Banana Pro represents "a big step in image editing that empowered casual creators to express their creativity," but now extends those capabilities to professionals requiring more sophisticated results.
Enhanced Capabilities and Real-Time Integration
One of Nano Banana Pro's standout features is its integration with Google Search, enabling the model to access real-time information when generating images. Users can create infographics based on current weather data, visualize recipes pulled from the web, or generate educational content grounded in up-to-date facts.
"With Gemini 3's advanced reasoning, Nano Banana Pro doesn't just create beautiful images, it also helps you create more helpful content," Google stated in its announcement. The model can produce context-rich educational materials, accurate infographics, and diagrams that reflect real-world knowledge.
The model also excels at text rendering, described by Google as "the best model for creating images with correctly rendered and legible text directly in the image." This capability extends across multiple languages, allowing users to localize content or create designs featuring anything from short taglines to longer paragraphs in various fonts, textures, and calligraphic styles.
Professional-Grade Creative Controls
Nano Banana Pro introduces studio-quality controls that put advanced editing capabilities directly into users' hands. The model allows for localized editing of specific image sections, adjustment of camera angles, sophisticated color grading, and scene lighting transformations—including converting daylight scenes to nighttime or creating bokeh effects.
The upgrade in resolution is substantial: while the original Nano Banana was capped at 1024 x 1024 pixels, Nano Banana Pro supports 2K and 4K output, making images suitable for both social media and print applications.
In terms of composition complexity, the model can blend up to 14 objects or images within a single creation while maintaining consistency and resemblance of up to five people. This is a significant advancement for projects requiring character or brand consistency across multiple elements.
Pricing and Availability
The enhanced capabilities come at a higher price point than its predecessor. While the original Nano Banana costs $0.039 per 1024px image, Nano Banana Pro costs $0.139 for each 1080p or 2K image, and $0.24 for 4K images.
Free-tier users of the Gemini app will receive limited quotas to try Nano Banana Pro, after which they'll revert to the original model. Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers receive higher generation thresholds, though exact limits were not disclosed.
The model is being rolled out across Google's ecosystem, including the Gemini app, NotebookLM for subscribers, Google Ads for advertisers globally, and Workspace applications like Google Slides and Vids. Developers can access it through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and the company's new integrated development environment, Antigravity. Ultra subscribers will also find it in Flow, Google's AI filmmaking tool.
Transparency and AI Detection
In a move to increase transparency around AI-generated content, Google is embedding all Nano Banana Pro images with SynthID, its imperceptible digital watermark technology. The company has introduced a new verification feature in the Gemini app that allows users to upload any image and ask if it was generated by Google AI.
Free and Google AI Pro tier users will see a visible watermark—the Gemini sparkle—on their generated images for easy identification. However, Google AI Ultra subscribers and those using Google AI Studio will have access to images without the visible watermark, "recognizing the need for a clean visual canvas for professional work."
The launch positions Google competitively in the rapidly evolving AI image generation market, where companies like OpenAI, Midjourney, and Stability AI have established strong presences. By offering free trials with limited quotas and tiered subscription options, Google appears to be pursuing a strategy that balances accessibility for casual users with premium features for professionals.
