Nano Banana for Under 1¢ an Image: 2.1 vs 2 vs Pro, Same Prompt

The cheapest Nano Banana image on HiAPI costs $0.011. During Black Friday week (Nov 24–30 PT) it works out to about $0.0085, and a $500 top-up buys around 59,000 of them. Below: list and Black Friday prices for all three versions, and the same prompt run through each, so you can see what the extra cents buy.

Three versions, $0.011 to $0.05 an image

*At the $500 tier: $500 top-up + $50 bonus + $100 spend-back = $650 of credit, so each image costs 500/650 of list price. Smaller top-ups get less; see the budget table.

One thing in this table surprises people: Pro costs the same at 1K and 2K. If you use Pro, ask for 2K.

Same prompt, three models: see the difference

We ran the same e-commerce prompt on each model at 4:3, 1K, while writing this:

E-commerce product photo: a matte sage-green ceramic coffee mug on a light oak table, soft morning window light from the left, a small chalkboard sign next to it that reads "BLACK FRIDAY", shallow depth of field, clean background, photorealistic.

All three spelled "BLACK FRIDAY" correctly and kept the mug, the oak and the window light. The differences are in staging: Pro moved the scene into a kitchen with a pour-over in the background. For a product shot like this, 2.1 did the job at the lowest price. The three images together cost $0.06.

A $500 Black Friday top-up buys about 59,000 images

Totals assume one top-up and the topped-up amount spent on image, video or audio models during the event. Spend-back is paid on December 3.

If you have a catalog refresh, ad-variant batch or dataset job planned for December, running it Nov 24–30 is the cheapest week to do it.

Which one to use for what

• Nano Banana 2.1: product shots, catalog images, edits with up to 10 reference images. The cheapest at every resolution.
• Nano Banana Pro at 2K: hero images and prompts with lots of instructions.
• Nano Banana 2: only if an existing pipeline is tuned to it. 2.1 costs less at every resolution.

Per-model detail: Nano Banana 2.1 pricing · Nano Banana Pro pricing

See the Black Friday offer →

FAQ

Do Nano Banana images count toward spend-back? Yes. All image, video and audio spend between Nov 24 and Nov 30 (PT) counts.

Is there a Nano Banana discount code? No code. The bonus and spend-back apply automatically.

Does editing (image-to-image) cost more? No. Editing and text-to-image use the same model and the same per-image price.