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Ranked by blended API price (75% input + 25% output, USD per 1M tokens). Free promotional listings excluded.

Ranked by blended API price (75% input + 25% output, USD per 1M tokens). Free promotional listings excluded. Source: OpenRouter. Variants (reasoning effort, batch) are folded into one row.

#ModelCapabilityReasoningCodingContext$/M
1Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Google———66K$0.56
2Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)Google———33K$0.85
3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google———66K$1.13
4Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Google———131K$1.13
5GPT-5 Image MiniOpenAI———400K$2.38
6Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)Google———66K$4.50
7Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Google———131K$4.50
8GPT-5.4 Image 2OpenAI———272K$9.75
9GPT-5 ImageOpenAI———400K$10.00
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