Nano Banana 2 Lite turns a long, detailed brief or your own photo into the exact image you pictured, running on the free credits you get at login.
Every model below runs on the same credit balance, so a draft made here can face a bigger model in two clicks.
Every image below was posted on X by its maker, model named. Take their exact prompts and run them in one click.
An r/Bard reply put it plainly: see the prompt on Lite before spending attempts on a bigger model.
Subject, setting, light, any exact words in quotes.
15 credits a draft, whether you type a prompt or upload a photo.
Swap the outfit, then the background, so each draft shows what the change did.
The prompt already works, so the same words carry to Nano Banana 2 or Pro for the final render.
Google made it the free-quota image model in AI Studio. Here your free login credits run it in the browser: no API key, no quota screen, nothing to install. The weights are private, so there is nothing to download.
Creative engine
Write up to 2,000 characters: every object, colour and word you want in the frame.
It is the free model that takes your picture: swap an outfit, a background or a colour.
One flat price per image, so you can rerun an idea without doing sums.
"It gets so many details right," an r/Bard post said, then ticked off a whole list. This owl poster came back with its glowing queen and a two-colour headline, word for word.
A creator on r/LTXvideo switched to it for video starting frames after other models kept breaking anatomy. Here one prompt returned the same man and horse in four poses.
Fill the frame with the face and describe it feature by feature. This low-key portrait keeps the skin texture and every loose strand of hair.
Creators posted these with their images, word for word. Run one on free credits, or write your own in up to 2,000 characters.
Name the animal, name the object, then say how the object forms the face.
a photo of an arabian cobra, but the head is replaced with a stapler, seamless, perfect animal-object combination, the object matches the animal coloring, and they feel naturally together, aspects of the object cleverly form the face like a pareidolia (none of the original animal face is visible), seamless and perfectly integrated
An ordinary morning, then the one absurd twist, then the film look.
Surreal humorous editorial photograph, cinematic photorealism on 35mm film: a woman in a bathrobe with a towel wrapped around her head brushing her teeth at a pedestal sink, a mirror floating in mid-air in front of her, a clawfoot bathtub beside her, but the entire bathroom is perched on a tiny grassy island floating above an endless sea of clouds with distant mountain peaks on the horizon, deadpan. Natural true-to-life color grade, soft morning light, realistic tones, deep natural shadows, fine film grain and soft halation, no color filter, editorial cinematic realism, absurd deadpan surrealism, vast negative space
Replies from public Reddit threads, quoted as written. Each name links to the comment.
The models people weigh it against, and where it comes out ahead.
Lite runs on your free credits and costs three quarters of a 1K Nano Banana 2 image. Draft here, then take the keeper to Nano Banana 2 for the final render.
See Nano Banana 2“It does generate much faster than regular Nano banana 2 from my experience”
Half the credits of a 1K Pro image, and on Kavel Lite also edits your photos, which Pro here does not.
See Nano Banana Pro“Yep, currently NB lite has better instruction following than NB2 or even NB Pro.”
Google's own launch post recommends upgrading from the first model to Lite, and here it costs three quarters as much.
See the first Nano Banana“it's leauges above the original NB.”
Both edit photos on Kavel. Lite is the one your free credits run, and Google built it for speed.
Run the same prompt on GPT Image 2“quality wise gemini is better and also output time of the gpt is like 40 to 45 seconds per image which is very bad experience”
The questions people ask most in the threads.
Yes. Log in and Kavel adds free credits with no card, and those credits run Nano Banana 2 Lite. It is the image model a free account opens on. The price shows before you generate.
15 credits an image, and a photo edit costs the same as a text prompt. Failed runs are refunded automatically, unless the prompt broke the content policy.
Yes. Google's launch post names it Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image), API id gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image. Here you pick it by name and skip the API key.
Google built it for rapid ideation, and on Kavel it runs on free credits. Draft and test prompts here, then run the one you like on Nano Banana 2 or Pro.
Yes. Upload the picture and describe the change, such as a new outfit, background or colour. Ask for one or two changes per run, so each result shows exactly what that change did.
Frame the face close and describe its features. When one frame looks right, upload it as the reference for every next image instead of starting from text again.
Yes. Describe the character once, then number the frames with a pose each, as in the four-frame horse example. Upload the frame you like to Kavel's image-to-video generator to animate it.
Yes. Give each object, count and colour its own clause, and put any text in quotes. The prompt box takes up to 2,000 characters, and the prompt cards above show full briefs.
The picture in your head is one prompt away. Paste a proven prompt or upload your photo, and make it now on your free credits.
