# Nano Banana 2.1 API pricing | cheapaiapi

> Nano Banana 2.1 API. Price per image from: $0.028 (1K · all resolutions below). Its 3 image variants appear in the public starting-price ranking.

Canonical: https://cheapaiapi.org/models/nano-banana-2.1

Balanced image generation at 1K, 2K, or 4K for production apps that need quality without Pro pricing.

Price per image from **$0.028** — 1K · all resolutions below.

## Public image starting-price rank

Current database-backed public starting-price snapshot.
- `nano-banana-2.1-1k` — $0.028 per image, rank 3 of 10 public image SKUs.
- `nano-banana-2.1-2k` — $0.038 per image, rank 4 of 10 public image SKUs.
- `nano-banana-2.1-4k` — $0.06 per image, rank 7 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

Consumer image creation, iterative edits, detailed product visuals, and large exports.

## 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 2.1 1K](https://cheapaiapi.org/models/nano-banana-2.1) | $0.028 | [$0.04](https://fal.ai/models/google/nano-banana-2.1) (+43%) | [$0.049](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/multimodal/image-generation) (+73%) |
| [Nano Banana 2.1 2K](https://cheapaiapi.org/models/nano-banana-2.1) | $0.038 | [$0.059](https://fal.ai/models/google/nano-banana-2.1) (+55%) | [$0.065](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/multimodal/image-generation) (+70%) |
| [Nano Banana 2.1 4K](https://cheapaiapi.org/models/nano-banana-2.1) | $0.06 | [$0.134](https://fal.ai/models/google/nano-banana-2.1) (+123%) | [$0.125](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/multimodal/image-generation) (+108%) |

- Nano Banana 2.1 1K fal.ai source checked 2026-10-13.
- Nano Banana 2.1 1K OpenRouter paid response checked 2026-10-07.
- Nano Banana 2.1 1K fal.ai reference — Representative short prompt (~100 input tokens), medium thinking; fal.ai endpoint table checked 2026-10-13; actual total varies with input and thinking-token use.. Reference only, with no quality-equivalence or savings claim.
- Nano Banana 2.1 2K fal.ai source checked 2026-10-13.
- Nano Banana 2.1 2K OpenRouter paid response checked 2026-10-07.
- Nano Banana 2.1 2K fal.ai reference — Representative short prompt (~100 input tokens), medium thinking; fal.ai endpoint table checked 2026-10-13; actual total varies with input and thinking-token use.. Reference only, with no quality-equivalence or savings claim.
- Nano Banana 2.1 4K fal.ai source checked 2026-10-13.
- Nano Banana 2.1 4K OpenRouter paid response checked 2026-10-07.
- Nano Banana 2.1 4K fal.ai reference — Representative short prompt (~100 input tokens), medium thinking; fal.ai endpoint table checked 2026-10-13; actual total varies with input and thinking-token use.. Reference only, with no quality-equivalence or savings claim.

## Integrate with your coding agent

Copy one prompt. The agent will read the current API contract before changing your code.

```text
Read https://cheapaiapi.org/llms.txt
and https://cheapaiapi.org/docs,
then integrate CheapAIAPI into this project using model nano-banana-2.1-1k, nano-banana-2.1-2k, nano-banana-2.1-4k.
```

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