Free Gemini users can now create images with real-time data, readable text, and more.
Google has made its advanced Nano Banana AI image model available to free users. Nano Banana 2, also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, is being launched today in the Gemini app and other Google AI platforms. This update brings high-speed intelligence from Gemini Flash to visual creation, making complex images faster, more affordable, and easier to produce.
Like the Nano Banana Pro, the Nano Banana 2 model utilizes real-time information, web search images, and Gemini’s real-world knowledge base. According to Google DeepMind product manager Naina Raisinghani, this provides relevant data for creating infographics or diagrams and enhances the accuracy of rendering specific subjects.
Previously exclusive features of Nano Banana Pro, such as generating images with accurate text and localized translation, are now available to free Gemini users and through AI Mode in Google Search without a subscription to Google AI Plus, Pro, or Ultra.
Nano Banana 2 offers more creative control than the original model, with improvements in lighting, textures, and details, and the ability to meet complex image requirements. Users can maintain up to five characters and 14 objects consistently in a single workflow, with full control over aspect ratios and resolutions up to 4K.
The new model will replace Nano Banana Pro in the Gemini app’s various generation modes, though AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can still use Nano Banana Pro for specialized tasks. The model is also available in AI Mode in Search, Google Lens, the Google app, and browsers, and is the default image generation model in Google’s AI video tool, Flow.