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# Nano Banana 2.1

An update to Nano Banana 2 — same speed and cost, with better visual quality, prompt adherence, character consistency and text rendering.

## Overview

Evolution of Nano Banana 2, released by Google on October 6, 2026.

Keeps Nano Banana 2's speed and cost-efficiency while getting closer to Nano Banana Pro on quality.

### Key Updates

* **Better visual quality & realism:** Improved across 1K, 2K and 4K outputs (1K by default).
* **Stronger multi-turn consistency:** Characters hold better across successive edits.
* **Clean wide formats:** Fixes tiling artifacts on wide and panoramic ratios (1:4, 4:1, 1:8, 8:1) at 2K and 4K. Useful for banners and web headers.
* **Improved text rendering & infographics:** More accurate text and layouts for ads, infographics and text-heavy visuals.
* **Web & image search grounding:** Can retrieve real-time information and reference images to generate up-to-date visuals.
* **Configurable thinking:** Minimal, medium (default) or high. Higher levels help on complex layouts and infographics, at the cost of speed.