Three months after unveiling its lightweight Nano Banana image generator, Google LLC has introduced Nano Banana Pro, a significantly upgraded version designed to produce more complex visual content including infographics with accurate, readable text. The new model is accessible for free through the Gemini app, while paid Google users and enterprise customers will receive higher rate limits and the option to remove the Gemini watermark.
Enhanced reasoning and Google Search integration
One of the biggest upgrades in Nano Banana Pro is its reasoning capability, which allows the model to fetch information directly from Google Search. This makes it particularly useful for educational content, data-driven visuals and explainer infographics. For instance, when asked to create an infographic explaining large language models, it can pull accurate explanations from the web and incorporate them into the design.
Improved text generation and multilingual support
The original Nano Banana model was known for its multi-turn editing, where users could repeatedly refine an image. Nano Banana Pro retains that function but improves the quality, clarity and correctness of text rendered inside images. According to Google DeepMind product manager Naina Raisinghani, “Nano Banana Pro is the best model for creating images with correctly rendered and legible text directly in the image.” The model can translate text into multiple languages, allowing brands to automatically localise their marketing creatives for international campaigns.
New creative controls: camera angle, lighting & aspect ratios
Google has introduced more granular creative controls, enabling users to specify camera angles, lighting conditions, colour grading and aspect ratios. These features give designers, advertisers and developers far more flexibility when producing brand-consistent visuals.
Watermarks and content authenticity tools
To maintain transparency around AI-generated images, all visuals contain an invisible watermark signalling AI origin. Free and Pro-tier Google accounts will see a visible watermark, while Google AI Ultra and Google AI Studio customers receive no visible watermark. Google is also rolling out a feature in the Gemini app that lets users scan images for invisible watermarks, with support for audio and video expected soon.
Integrated across Google’s product ecosystem
Nano Banana Pro is being embedded across several Google products, including Antigravity—the new AI-powered code editor—Google Ads for accelerated creative production, the Flow AI filmmaking tool and Google AI Studio for developer integration. The launch comes seven months after OpenAI introduced gpt-image-1, signalling intensifying competition in the AI-driven visual content space.