Third-party test: Google's Nano Banana 2.1 beats ChatGPT Images, 5x faster and cheaper
prajdabre · x · 2026-10-07
Blogger aiforsuccess tested Google's Nano Banana 2.1 against ChatGPT Images and calls it no contest: cheaper, roughly 5x faster, and better quality. It reportedly excels at photorealistic generation and is strong at image editing.
The retweeter, prajdabre, says he's happy to see his work appreciated, implicitly corroborating the model's performance. Note this is a third-party impression without published benchmarks.
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