Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)

Google's Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) demonstrates competitive response times, ranking in the 49th percentile for speed across benchmarks. Its pricing is moderate, falling into the 37th percentile. A standout feature is its exceptional reliability, boasting a 99% success rate, indicating minimal technical failures. The model exhibits perfect accuracy in handling hallucinations, correctly identifying fictional concepts, and is noted as the most accurate model at its price point and among models of similar speed for this task. It shows strong performance in Instruction Following (87th percentile accuracy) and particularly excels in Coding (96th percentile accuracy) and Reasoning (92nd percentile accuracy), where it also offers cost-efficient inference. General Knowledge, Email Classification, Ethics, and Mathematics benchmarks show solid, though not always top-tier, accuracy. While its duration for some tasks like Mathematics and Coding is longer, its cost efficiency in these areas is notable. Overall, Nano Banana 2 is a highly reliable model with strong capabilities in image generation and editing, demonstrating particular strengths in avoiding hallucinations, coding, and complex reasoning, while maintaining competitive speed and moderate pricing.