# Nano Banana 2 Lite 1k API pricing | cheapaiapi

> Nano Banana 2 Lite 1k API. Price per image: $0.024 (one completed output). Its $0.024 per-image starting price ranks 1 of 10.

Canonical: https://cheapaiapi.org/models/nano-banana-2-lite-1k

A lower-cost 1K image route for high-volume apps and latency-sensitive user flows.

Price per image **$0.024** — one completed output.

## Public image starting-price rank

Current database-backed public starting-price snapshot.
- `nano-banana-2-lite-1k` — $0.024 per image, rank 1 of 10 public image SKUs.

Equal prices share a rank. Model capabilities and output resolutions differ. [View the full live ranking](https://cheapaiapi.org/models/#image-starting-price-ranking).
[November 2026 API pricing study](https://cheapaiapi.org/research/api-pricing#image-prices) — dated public starting prices, source data, and methods.

## Best for

Thumbnails, social content, product previews, and frequent in-app generations.

## Endpoint

`/v1/images/generations`.

[API docs](https://cheapaiapi.org/docs)
## Price per image.
Prices are USD per image generation for the listed model and resolution.

| Model | CheapAIAPI | fal.ai | OpenRouter |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Nano Banana 2 Lite 1k](https://cheapaiapi.org/models/nano-banana-2-lite-1k) | $0.024 | [$0.043](https://fal.ai/models/google/nano-banana-2-lite) (+78%) | [$0.035](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/multimodal/image-generation) (+43%) |

- Nano Banana 2 Lite 1k fal.ai source checked 2026-10-04.
- Nano Banana 2 Lite 1k OpenRouter paid response checked 2026-07-03.

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```

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