Gemini 3.1 Flash Image
Pricing as of July 2026$0.500/1M input · $60.00/1M output · 131K context · Google
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Pricing Details
GoogleImage generation model (Nano Banana 2). The stored output rate is the IMAGE output rate of $60.00/1M; text and thinking output bills separately at $3.00/1M. Google's official migration target for Imagen 4, which shuts down 2026-08-17. The billing unit changed with that migration: Imagen 4 charged a flat per-image fee that ignored resolution ($0.02 fast / $0.04 standard / $0.06 ultra), while this model meters pixels. Per image, confirmed against Google's own pricing footnote: 747 tokens at 0.5K = $0.045, 1,120 at 1K = $0.067, 1,680 at 2K = $0.101, 2,520 at 4K = $0.151. So Imagen 4 Fast to 1K is 3.36x and Ultra to 1K is only 1.12x. A 2K image at $0.101 is 2.52x the Imagen 4 Standard tier, and would be 5.04x from Fast, but which Imagen 4 tiers actually offered 2K is disputed between two live Google pages: the Vertex output-resolution page (updated 2026-08-04) lists Standard and Fast, while the Gemini API Imagen guide (updated 2026-07-16) lists Standard and Ultra. They agree only on Standard, so only the 2.52x figure rests on undisputed docs. Batch halves everything (input $0.25, image output $30.00, text $1.50) with a 24h window, and this is asymmetric in the new model's favour because Imagen 4 was never batch-eligible - Google's Batch API is generateContent-only and Imagen used :predict. Do not cross-apply Gemini 3 Pro Image token counts (1,120 at 2K, 2,000 at 4K) to this model; the 1,680 and 2,520 figures here come from the pricing footnote and Vertex model docs and are the only ones that reproduce the published per-image prices, so using the Pro numbers under-reads a 2K image by 50%. Thinking is on by default and cannot be disabled via the API; thinking tokens are billed at the $3.00 text rate (up to two interim thought images are not billed) and Google publishes no typical per-request count, so every per-image figure above is a floor. Cached input $0.05/1M. No free tier. Grounding $14/1,000 requests after 5,000 free/month. Output is PNG only with SynthID always applied; numberOfImages, negativePrompt, imageFormat, personGeneration and addWatermark have no equivalent. Can return FinishReason.NO_IMAGE - a success response with no image. Multi-image per prompt is bounded by the 32,768 output cap (~29 at 1K). GA 2026-05-28, no announced shutdown. Estimated tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$0.5
Output / 1M tokens
$60
Context Window
131K
Max Output
33K
Price History
Launched at current price on 2026-05-28. No price changes recorded.
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