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Google's update improves quality, text, and consistency.
Pick it in the model selector.
Nano Banana 2.1 is live in Recraft Studio.
Google's update to Nano Banana 2 improves visual quality, text rendering, and consistency, and you can pick it from the same model selector as the rest of the Gemini image lineup.
What changed in Nano Banana 2.1 Google published the model on October 6, 2026, as gemini-nano-banana-2.1 .
It updates Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) and keeps Flash-level speed and cost.
Google positions it as the more efficient counterpart to Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image).
The documented updates, from the Gemini API model page : Better visual quality and realism at 1K, 2K, and 4K.
The default output is 1K.
Tiling artifacts fixed on wide and panoramic ratios (1:4, 4:1, 1:8, 8:1) at 2K and 4K.
Better text rendering and infographic layout.
Multi-image fusion of up to 14 reference images: character consistency for up to 4 characters, object fidelity for up to 10 objects.
Grounding with Google Web and Image Search.
Thinking levels: minimal, medium (the default), and high.
Those are Google's API capabilities.
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