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Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1) is Google's image generation and editing model on the Flash tier, succeeding Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro. It improves product recontextualization, mask- and ink-based editing, and factual accuracy, and renders photorealistic skin tones, detailed materials, lighting, and coherent backgrounds. It accepts text and image inputs, returns images with optional text, and supports 1K, 2K, and 4K output plus extended aspect ratios via the image_config API Parameter.

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a speech-to-text model from Google. It is suited for synchronous transcription that needs word-level timestamps or speaker diarization, with support for up to eight speakers. Audio can be up to one hour, or 30 minutes when timestamps or diarization are enabled.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS is a text-to-speech model from Google and the fast, high-throughput member of the 3.8 TTS family alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS. It is suited for conversational voice-agent pipelines, high-volume read-aloud, and voice replication workloads where latency and cost matter more than maximum expressiveness. It accepts the same speech configuration as Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, including the 30 prebuilt studio voices, and supports Google's Voice Design and Voice Replication through voice_... identifiers.

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS is a text-to-speech model from Google and the successor to Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview. It is the creative tier of the 3.8 TTS family, suited for narration, character work, and multi-speaker dialogue where voice fidelity, acting nuance, and regional dialect coverage matter more than latency. It accepts the same speech configuration as its predecessor, including the 30 prebuilt studio voices, and supports Google's Voice Design (custom voices from a text description) and Voice Replication (voices cloned from a short sample) through voice_... identifiers.

Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash model with significant gains from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning.

Gemini 3.7 Flash is a multimodal model from Google for fast agentic workflows, coding, and complex multi-step reasoning. It is designed for tasks that require responsive performance and reliable multi-step problem solving.

Gemini 3.6 Flash is a high-efficiency model from Google for coding, agentic workflows, and web and app development. It is designed to produce polished outputs with fewer unnecessary edits and less hedging, while reducing token use and the number of model calls needed to complete a task.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is a high-efficiency model from Google with upgraded agentic capabilities. It is suited for subagents that execute focused tasks within complex, multi-agent workflows.

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini image model, built for high-velocity developer pipelines and rapid-fire visual exploration. It delivers text-to-image generation in roughly 4 seconds — about 2.7× faster than Gemini 3.1 Flash Image — while keeping the character consistency, precise editing, and real-world knowledge of the Nano Banana family. A single drop-in API handles text-to-image, image editing, and multi-image composition. As a multimodal model it also returns text alongside images. Outputs are generated at 1K resolution across 14 aspect ratios and carry an invisible SynthID watermark so they can be identified as AI-generated. Positioned as the best balance of quality and speed in the Nano Banana 2 line, it lets you generate thousands of images at a fraction of the cost of heavier production models — ideal for prototyping, real-time apps, and visual workflows at scale.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, a.k.a. "Nano Banana 2," is Google’s latest state of the art image generation and editing model, delivering Pro-level visual quality at Flash speed. It combines advanced contextual understanding with fast, cost-efficient inference, making complex image generation and iterative edits significantly more accessible. Aspect ratios can be controlled with the image_config API Parameter

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 high-fidelity visual synthesis. The model generates context-rich graphics, from infographics and diagrams to cinematic composites, and can incorporate real-time information via Search grounding. It offers industry-leading text rendering in images (including long passages and multilingual layouts), consistent multi-image blending, and accurate identity preservation across up to five subjects. Nano Banana Pro adds fine-grained creative controls such as localized edits, lighting and focus adjustments, camera transformations, and support for 2K/4K outputs and flexible aspect ratios. It is designed for professional-grade design, product visualization, storyboarding, and complex multi-element compositions while remaining efficient for general image creation workflows.

Gemini Embedding 2 is Google's first multimodal embedding model. We currently support mapping text and images into a unified vector space for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It supports input context up to 8,192 tokens and flexible output dimensions from 128 to 3,072 (recommended: 768, 1536, or 3,072). Designed for cross-modal similarity — you can embed a text query and retrieve the most relevant images, or vice versa — making it well-suited for multimodal search, recommendation, and document understanding pipelines.

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's high-efficiency multimodal model, bringing near-Pro level coding and reasoning at Flash-tier cost and speed. It is highly optimized for coding proficiency and parallel agentic execution loops, supporting text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs. Defaults to medium thinking effort for faster and more cost-efficient responses, with full support for thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for fine-grained cost/performance trade-offs.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is Google’s GA high-efficiency multimodal model optimized for low-latency, high-volume workloads. It supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, and is designed for lightweight agentic workflows, simple data extraction, and applications where responsiveness and API cost are the primary constraints. Supports full thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for fine-grained cost/performance trade-offs. Priced at half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash.

Gemini Embedding 2 Preview is Google's first multimodal embedding model. We currently support mapping text and images into a unified vector space for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It supports input context up to 8,192 tokens and flexible output dimensions from 128 to 3,072 (recommended: 768, 1536, or 3,072). Designed for cross-modal similarity — you can embed a text query and retrieve the most relevant images, or vice versa — making it well-suited for multimodal search, recommendation, and document understanding pipelines.

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at a fraction of the compute cost. Supports multimodal input including text, images, and video (up to 60s at 1fps). Features a 256K token context window, native function calling, configurable thinking/reasoning mode, and structured output support. Released under Apache 2.0.

Gemma 4 31B Instruct is Google DeepMind's 30.7B dense multimodal model supporting text and image input with text output. Features a 256K token context window, configurable thinking/reasoning mode, native function calling, and multilingual support across 140+ languages. Strong on coding, reasoning, and document understanding tasks. Apache 2.0 license.

Full-length songs are priced at $0.08 per song. Lyria 3 is Google's family of music generation models, available through the Gemini API. With Lyria 3, you can generate high-quality, 48kHz stereo audio from text prompts or from images. These models deliver structural coherence, including vocals, timed lyrics, and full instrumental arrangements. Lyria 3 Pro can generate full-length songs with verses, choruses, bridges.

30 second duration clips are priced at $0.04 per clip. Lyria 3 is Google's family of music generation models, available through the Gemini API. With Lyria 3, you can generate high-quality, 48kHz stereo audio from text prompts or from images. These models deliver structural coherence, including vocals, timed lyrics, and full instrumental arrangements. Lyria 3 Clip can generate short clips, loops, previews.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases. It outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on overall quality and approaches Gemini 2.5 Flash performance across key capabilities. Improvements span audio input/ASR, RAG snippet ranking, translation, data extraction, and code completion. Supports full thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for fine-grained cost/performance trade-offs. Priced at half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview, a.k.a. "Nano Banana 2," is Google’s latest state of the art image generation and editing model, delivering Pro-level visual quality at Flash speed. It combines advanced contextual understanding with fast, cost-efficient inference, making complex image generation and iterative edits significantly more accessible. Aspect ratios can be controlled with the image_config API Parameter

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools is a variant of Gemini 3.1 Pro that improves tool selection behavior by preventing overuse of a general bash tool when more efficient third-party or user-defined functions are available. This specialized preview endpoint significantly increases function calling reliability and ensures the model selects the most appropriate tool in coding agents and complex, multi-tool workflows. It retains the core strengths of Gemini 3.1 Pro, including multimodal reasoning across text, image, video, audio, and code, a 1M-token context window, and strong software engineering performance.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google’s frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance, improved agentic reliability, and more efficient token usage across complex workflows. Building on the multimodal foundation of the Gemini 3 series, it combines high-precision reasoning across text, image, video, audio, and code with a 1M-token context window. Reasoning Details must be preserved when using multi-turn tool calling, see our docs here: https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#preserving-reasoning. The 3.1 update introduces measurable gains in SWE benchmarks and real-world coding environments, along with stronger autonomous task execution in structured domains such as finance and spreadsheet-based workflows. Designed for advanced development and agentic systems, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview improves long-horizon stability and tool orchestration while increasing token efficiency. It introduces a new medium thinking level to better balance cost, speed, and performance. The model excels in agentic coding, structured planning, multimodal analysis, and workflow automation, making it well-suited for autonomous agents, financial modeling, spreadsheet automation, and high-context enterprise tasks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and coding assistance. It delivers near Pro level reasoning and tool use performance with substantially lower latency than larger Gemini variants, making it well suited for interactive development, long running agent loops, and collaborative coding tasks. Compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash, it provides broad quality improvements across reasoning, multimodal understanding, and reliability. The model supports a 1M token context window and multimodal inputs including text, images, audio, video, and PDFs, with text output. It includes configurable reasoning via thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high), structured output, tool use, and automatic context caching. Gemini 3 Flash Preview is optimized for users who want strong reasoning and agentic behavior without the cost or latency of full scale frontier models.

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 high-fidelity visual synthesis. The model generates context-rich graphics, from infographics and diagrams to cinematic composites, and can incorporate real-time information via Search grounding. It offers industry-leading text rendering in images (including long passages and multilingual layouts), consistent multi-image blending, and accurate identity preservation across up to five subjects. Nano Banana Pro adds fine-grained creative controls such as localized edits, lighting and focus adjustments, camera transformations, and support for 2K/4K outputs and flexible aspect ratios. It is designed for professional-grade design, product visualization, storyboarding, and complex multi-element compositions while remaining efficient for general image creation workflows.

gemini-embedding-001 provides a unified cutting edge experience across domains, including science, legal, finance, and coding. This embedding model has consistently held a top spot on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) Multilingual leaderboard since the experimental launch in March.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It offers improved throughput, faster token generation, and better performance across common benchmarks compared to earlier Flash models. By default, "thinking" (i.e. multi-pass reasoning) is disabled to prioritize speed, but developers can enable it via the Reasoning API parameter to selectively trade off cost for intelligence.

Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It includes built-in "thinking" capabilities, enabling it to provide responses with greater accuracy and nuanced context handling. Additionally, Gemini 2.5 Flash is configurable through the "max tokens for reasoning" parameter, as described in the documentation (https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#max-tokens-for-reasoning).

Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s state-of-the-art AI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It employs “thinking” capabilities, enabling it to reason through responses with enhanced accuracy and nuanced context handling. Gemini 2.5 Pro achieves top-tier performance on multiple benchmarks, including first-place positioning on the LMArena leaderboard, reflecting superior human-preference alignment and complex problem-solving abilities.