Nano Banana 2.1 Pushes the Quality-Price Frontier: Three Ranks Higher at Half the Price
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-09
Artificial Analysis: Google halved Nano Banana 2.1's 1K price while raising quality, pushing out the quality-vs-price frontier. No cheaper model scores higher on AA-Image-T2I v2.0, models that do score higher cost 6x more, and in image editing it matches MAI-Image-2.6 at 14% lower cost.
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