Nano Banana Flash on VisionX.
The fast Google route — and the only image engine that grounds on live search.
What Nano Banana Flash is on the roster
Nano Banana Flash is Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash Image model, the fast generalist of the family. On VisionX it is the route to reach for when turnaround and factual accuracy matter more than maximum fidelity.
It is also the only image engine on the whole roster that can call Google Web Search and Image Search while it renders, which is what makes it the right pick for infographics, charts and anything depicting current facts. Nano Banana 2.5 is kept alongside it as the prior generation, sharing the same ceilings.
Grounded in live search
Calls Google Web and Image Search mid-render. No other image route on the roster does this.
The deepest Google reference stack
Up to 14 reference images per call, which is what holds a cast and a product line together across a set.
Text that stays legible
Posters, cards, menus and mockups come back with clean lettering rather than dream-alphabet shapes.
Fast enough to explore
Turnaround suits live look-dev with a client on the call, and A/B-ing creative variants in one session.
What Nano Banana Flash actually does
Six things Flash does, one of which nothing else on the roster can do at all.
Grounded in live search
Flash can call Google Web Search and Image Search while it renders, so an infographic, chart or diagram is built against real current facts rather than against whatever the model remembers. No other image route on the roster does this.
Live groundingType that survives the render
Posters, cards, menus and mockups come back with clean, legible lettering at sensible sizes, which is what makes Flash usable for anything with copy baked into the frame.
Text renderingThe deepest Google reference stack
Up to fourteen reference images in a single call — Google documents that budget as roughly ten objects plus four characters — which is what holds a cast and a product line consistent across a shoot.
Multi-referenceFast enough to explore
Turnaround suits live look-dev with a client on the call, and generating creative variants to compare inside one working session.
SpeedEdits that leave the rest alone
Swap, relight or restyle one element through a follow-up prompt and the rest of the scene stays where it was, instead of the whole frame being re-imagined around the change.
Conversational editsProvenance built in
Google applies an imperceptible SynthID watermark to every image these models generate. It travels with the file whether or not you ask for it.
SynthIDEvery variant, exactly as the studio runs it
These rows are read live from the engine registry and the pricing engine. What you see here is what the composer quotes.
Self-serve rates run as low as $0.085 per VX at scale. The composer quotes the exact VX for your shot, references included, before you run it.
What teams route to Nano Banana Flash
What Flash gets picked for.
Infographics that have to be right
Charts, weather panels and data visuals built against live search results rather than against a plausible-looking guess.
Product mockups and ad creative
Studio-lit product shots from a description, with the pack geometry held by reference images.
Cards, posters and typography
Anything where legible on-image copy is the deliverable rather than a caption added afterwards.
Multi-character sequences
A fourteen-deep reference stack keeps the same faces and wardrobe across a set of panels.
Rapid social iteration
Fast enough to generate and compare creative variants inside one working session.
Restoration and touch-ups
Targeted edits that lift a casual photograph towards a studio-grade frame without restaging it.
Nano Banana Flash against the alternatives
Where Flash wins, and where you should route elsewhere.
| Capability | Nano Banana Flash | Nano Banana Pro | GPT Image 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live search grounding | Web + Image Search | Web Search | No |
| Reference images per call | Up to 14 | Up to 11 | Most on the roster |
| Max resolution here | 2K | 4K | 2K |
| Speed | Fast | Slower | Standard |
| Best at | Grounded facts, fast iteration | Photographic realism | Type accuracy, literal layout |
Reference counts and resolution ceilings are read from the VisionX engine registry, not from vendor marketing — Google documents a higher native ceiling for Flash than we offer, and this lists what the composer will actually deliver. Grounding and speed describe the vendors’ documented behaviour as of July 2026.
Same Cast, same wallet, different look
Route a board line to Nano Banana Flash, then run the identical shot on another family and compare takes. Identity lives in your Cast, not in any one model, so switching engines never strands the campaign.