Nano Banana - Oxen.ai

Try Nano Banana in the Workbench

Run this model interactively, tune parameters, and compare outputs.

Model ID: nano-banana nano-banana is an image generation model (sometimes referred to as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) that excels in efficient on-device image synthesis, high prompt adherence, and advanced text rendering within images. It is designed for both speed and quality, enabling image generation at native 1024x1024 resolution while maintaining consistent quality across various aspect ratios and device types. The model’s main strengths are its ability to process and generate photorealistic images with accurate text integration, its efficiency on mobile and cloud hardware, and its strong semantic understanding of prompts. It reliably interprets and renders complex scenes, textual elements, and styles, outperforming previous diffusion models in prompt adherence and visual coherence, especially for applications requiring accurate text in images and mobile deployment. Some other noteworthy features of nano-banana include mask-free inpainting (editing image regions with natural language rather than pixel masks), layout-aware outpainting (extending images while preserving perspective and lighting), and high style transfer consistency, making it suitable for professional branding, creative workflows, and mobile-first applications.

Metric	Value
Parameter Count	450 million (base); up to 8 billion (enterprise scaling)
Mixture of Experts	No
Context Length	Unknown
Multilingual	Yes (supports text rendering in multiple languages)
Quantized*	Yes

*Quantization is specific to the inference provider and the model may be offered with different quantization levels by other providers.

Example request

Use the Workbench as a request builder: configure parameters for this model in the UI, then open the API tab to copy the exact cURL or Python call.

Sync
Async
Async with SSE

See the image editing reference for more details.

Minimal
Basic parameters
All parameters

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/images/edit \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana",
  "prompt": "<prompt>"
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/images/edit",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "nano-banana",
        "prompt": "<prompt>"
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/images/edit \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana",
  "prompt": "<prompt>",
  "input_image": [
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
  ]
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/images/edit",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "nano-banana",
        "prompt": "<prompt>",
        "input_image": [
            "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
        ]
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/images/edit \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana",
  "prompt": "<prompt>",
  "input_image": [
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
  ],
  "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/images/edit",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "nano-banana",
        "prompt": "<prompt>",
        "input_image": [
            "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
        ],
        "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

See the async queue reference for more details.

Minimal
Basic parameters
All parameters

# Enqueue, capture the generation id.
GEN_ID=$(curl -s -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana",
  "prompt": "<prompt>"
}' | jq -r '.generations[0].generation_id')

# Poll until the generation reaches a terminal status.
while true; do
  STATUS=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/$GEN_ID" | jq -r '.status')
  echo "Status: $STATUS"
  case $STATUS in succeeded|failed|cancelled) break;; esac
  sleep 5
done

# Print the result.
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/$GEN_ID" | jq .

import os
import time
import requests

HEADERS = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
}

enqueue = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue",
    headers=HEADERS,
    json={
        "model": "nano-banana",
        "prompt": "<prompt>"
    },
)
enqueue.raise_for_status()
generation_id = enqueue.json()["generations"][0]["generation_id"]

while True:
    data = requests.get(
        f"https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/{generation_id}",
        headers=HEADERS,
    ).json()
    if data["status"] in {"succeeded", "failed", "cancelled"}:
        break
    time.sleep(5)

if data["status"] == "succeeded":
    print(f"Result: {data['result_url']}")
else:
    print(f"Generation {data['status']}: {data.get('error_message')}")

# Enqueue, capture the generation id.
GEN_ID=$(curl -s -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana",
  "prompt": "<prompt>",
  "input_image": [
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
  ]
}' | jq -r '.generations[0].generation_id')

# Poll until the generation reaches a terminal status.
while true; do
  STATUS=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/$GEN_ID" | jq -r '.status')
  echo "Status: $STATUS"
  case $STATUS in succeeded|failed|cancelled) break;; esac
  sleep 5
done

# Print the result.
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/$GEN_ID" | jq .

import os
import time
import requests

HEADERS = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
}

enqueue = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue",
    headers=HEADERS,
    json={
        "model": "nano-banana",
        "prompt": "<prompt>",
        "input_image": [
            "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
        ]
    },
)
enqueue.raise_for_status()
generation_id = enqueue.json()["generations"][0]["generation_id"]

while True:
    data = requests.get(
        f"https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/{generation_id}",
        headers=HEADERS,
    ).json()
    if data["status"] in {"succeeded", "failed", "cancelled"}:
        break
    time.sleep(5)

if data["status"] == "succeeded":
    print(f"Result: {data['result_url']}")
else:
    print(f"Generation {data['status']}: {data.get('error_message')}")

# Enqueue, capture the generation id.
GEN_ID=$(curl -s -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana",
  "prompt": "<prompt>",
  "input_image": [
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
  ],
  "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
}' | jq -r '.generations[0].generation_id')

# Poll until the generation reaches a terminal status.
while true; do
  STATUS=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/$GEN_ID" | jq -r '.status')
  echo "Status: $STATUS"
  case $STATUS in succeeded|failed|cancelled) break;; esac
  sleep 5
done

# Print the result.
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/$GEN_ID" | jq .

import os
import time
import requests

HEADERS = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
}

enqueue = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue",
    headers=HEADERS,
    json={
        "model": "nano-banana",
        "prompt": "<prompt>",
        "input_image": [
            "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
        ],
        "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
    },
)
enqueue.raise_for_status()
generation_id = enqueue.json()["generations"][0]["generation_id"]

while True:
    data = requests.get(
        f"https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/{generation_id}",
        headers=HEADERS,
    ).json()
    if data["status"] in {"succeeded", "failed", "cancelled"}:
        break
    time.sleep(5)

if data["status"] == "succeeded":
    print(f"Result: {data['result_url']}")
else:
    print(f"Generation {data['status']}: {data.get('error_message')}")

See the async queue reference for more details.

Minimal
Basic parameters
All parameters

# Enqueue, capture the generation id.
GEN_ID=$(curl -s -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana",
  "prompt": "<prompt>"
}' | jq -r '.generations[0].generation_id')

# Stream the SSE channel, grab the data line that follows a
# media_generation_completed event for our id, and pretty-print it.
curl -sN -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" https://hub.oxen.ai/api/events \
  | awk -v id="$GEN_ID" '
    /^event: media_generation_completed$/ { expect=1; next }
    /^data: / && expect {
      payload = substr($0, 7)
      if (index(payload, "\"generation_id\":\"" id "\"")) { print payload; exit }
      expect = 0
    }
  ' | jq .

import json
import os
import requests

API_KEY = os.environ["OXEN_API_KEY"]
AUTH = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

enqueue = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue",
    headers={**AUTH, "Content-Type": "application/json"},
    json={
        "model": "nano-banana",
        "prompt": "<prompt>"
    },
)
enqueue.raise_for_status()
generation_id = enqueue.json()["generations"][0]["generation_id"]

with requests.get(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/events",
    headers=AUTH,
    stream=True,
) as stream:
    event_name = None
    for line in stream.iter_lines(decode_unicode=True):
        if line.startswith("event: "):
            event_name = line.removeprefix("event: ")
        elif line.startswith("data: ") and event_name == "media_generation_completed":
            payload = json.loads(line.removeprefix("data: "))
            if payload.get("generation_id") == generation_id:
                print(payload)
                break

# Enqueue, capture the generation id.
GEN_ID=$(curl -s -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana",
  "prompt": "<prompt>",
  "input_image": [
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
  ]
}' | jq -r '.generations[0].generation_id')

# Stream the SSE channel, grab the data line that follows a
# media_generation_completed event for our id, and pretty-print it.
curl -sN -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" https://hub.oxen.ai/api/events \
  | awk -v id="$GEN_ID" '
    /^event: media_generation_completed$/ { expect=1; next }
    /^data: / && expect {
      payload = substr($0, 7)
      if (index(payload, "\"generation_id\":\"" id "\"")) { print payload; exit }
      expect = 0
    }
  ' | jq .

import json
import os
import requests

API_KEY = os.environ["OXEN_API_KEY"]
AUTH = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

enqueue = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue",
    headers={**AUTH, "Content-Type": "application/json"},
    json={
        "model": "nano-banana",
        "prompt": "<prompt>",
        "input_image": [
            "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
        ]
    },
)
enqueue.raise_for_status()
generation_id = enqueue.json()["generations"][0]["generation_id"]

with requests.get(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/events",
    headers=AUTH,
    stream=True,
) as stream:
    event_name = None
    for line in stream.iter_lines(decode_unicode=True):
        if line.startswith("event: "):
            event_name = line.removeprefix("event: ")
        elif line.startswith("data: ") and event_name == "media_generation_completed":
            payload = json.loads(line.removeprefix("data: "))
            if payload.get("generation_id") == generation_id:
                print(payload)
                break

# Enqueue, capture the generation id.
GEN_ID=$(curl -s -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana",
  "prompt": "<prompt>",
  "input_image": [
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
  ],
  "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
}' | jq -r '.generations[0].generation_id')

# Stream the SSE channel, grab the data line that follows a
# media_generation_completed event for our id, and pretty-print it.
curl -sN -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" https://hub.oxen.ai/api/events \
  | awk -v id="$GEN_ID" '
    /^event: media_generation_completed$/ { expect=1; next }
    /^data: / && expect {
      payload = substr($0, 7)
      if (index(payload, "\"generation_id\":\"" id "\"")) { print payload; exit }
      expect = 0
    }
  ' | jq .

import json
import os
import requests

API_KEY = os.environ["OXEN_API_KEY"]
AUTH = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

enqueue = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue",
    headers={**AUTH, "Content-Type": "application/json"},
    json={
        "model": "nano-banana",
        "prompt": "<prompt>",
        "input_image": [
            "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/repos/elau/assets/file/main/bloxy/bloxy_cropped_512x512.png"
        ],
        "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
    },
)
enqueue.raise_for_status()
generation_id = enqueue.json()["generations"][0]["generation_id"]

with requests.get(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/events",
    headers=AUTH,
    stream=True,
) as stream:
    event_name = None
    for line in stream.iter_lines(decode_unicode=True):
        if line.startswith("event: "):
            event_name = line.removeprefix("event: ")
        elif line.startswith("data: ") and event_name == "media_generation_completed":
            payload = json.loads(line.removeprefix("data: "))
            if payload.get("generation_id") == generation_id:
                print(payload)
                break

Fetch model details

The models endpoint returns the full model object, including its json_request_schema.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/models/nano-banana

Request parameters

Required parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
`prompt`	`string`	—	Text description of what you want to generate, or the instruction on how to edit the given image. Use @Image1, @Image2, etc. to reference the input images.

Optional parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
`input_image`	`array<string>`	—	Optional reference image(s) to edit. Leave empty to generate from the prompt alone. Reference them in the prompt as @Image1, @Image2, etc.
`aspect_ratio`	`string`	`"16:9"`	Aspect ratio for the generated image One of: 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, 2:3.

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