# Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) now on AI Gateway

DevFeed: [Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) now on AI Gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/nano-banana-2-lite-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-image-now-on-ai-gateway-1023.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://vercel.com/changelog/nano-banana-2-lite-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-image-ai-gateway>)

Author: Jerilyn Zheng

Published: 2026-06-30T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Vercel News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/vercel-news.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [vercel ai sdk](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vercel-ai-sdk.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-models.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-gateway.md>), [ai-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-models.md>), [gemini](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gemini.md>), [image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/image.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [pricing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pricing.md>)

## AI overview

Vercel AI Gateway now offers Google's Nano Banana 2 Lite, a multimodal image model for fast, lower-cost image generation and multi-turn image editing. It supports generating images alongside text through the AI SDK and is available in the model playground.

## Source excerpt

Nano Banana 2 Lite from Google is now available on AI Gateway. This Flash-Lite-tier image model is built for fast, low-cost generation. It generates images alongside text in <4s and can edit existing images across multiple turns. The cost is also lower than previous Nano Banana models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates 1K images at $0.034 each, about half the cost of Nano Banana 2 and roughly a quarter of the cost of Nano Banana Pro at the same resolution. This model is multimodal. Use streamText or generateText to generate images alongside text responses. To use Nano Banana 2 Lite, set model to google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in the AI SDK: Here is the example output from the above prompt: You can also try Nano Banana 2 Lite in the model playground. AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in custom reporting, Zero Data Retention support, budgets for API keys, and more. AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) requests. Read more