Seedream 5.0 Lite vs Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image): side-by-side summary

Seedream 5.0 Lite and Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Seedream 5.0 Lite, from bytedance-seed, is priced at $0.035/image on OpenRouter.

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), from Google, has a 131,072-token context window and is priced at $0.50/M tokens input, $3/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Seedream 5.0 Lite: Not published
• Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image): 131,072 tokens

Price

• Seedream 5.0 Lite: $0.035/image
• Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image): $0.50/M tokens input, $3/M tokens output

Provided by

• Seedream 5.0 Lite: bytedance-seed
• Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image): Google

• Seedream 5.0 Lite model details, providers and pricing
• Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) model details, providers and pricing