Nano Banana 2 - Oxen.ai

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Model ID: nano-banana-2 Nano Banana 2 is a text-to-image model that generates images from text descriptions.

Example request

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Sync
Async
Async with SSE

See the image generation reference for more details.

Minimal
All parameters

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/images/generate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana-2",
  "prompt": "<prompt>"
}'

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/images/generate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "nano-banana-2",
  "prompt": "<prompt>",
  "aspect_ratio": "auto",
  "resolution": "2K",
  "enable_web_search": true,
  "safety_tolerance": "6"
}'

See the async queue reference for more details.

Minimal
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-2",
  "prompt": "<prompt>"
}' | jq -r '.generations[0].generation_id')

# Poll the single generation until it 404s (terminal state).
while curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/$GEN_ID" | grep -q "^200$"; do
  sleep 5
done
echo "Done. See the 'Async with SSE' tab to receive the result URL."

# 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-2",
  "prompt": "<prompt>",
  "aspect_ratio": "auto",
  "resolution": "2K",
  "enable_web_search": true,
  "safety_tolerance": "6"
}' | jq -r '.generations[0].generation_id')

# Poll the single generation until it 404s (terminal state).
while curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/queue/$GEN_ID" | grep -q "^200$"; do
  sleep 5
done
echo "Done. See the 'Async with SSE' tab to receive the result URL."

See the async queue reference for more details.

Minimal
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-2",
  "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 .

# 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-2",
  "prompt": "<prompt>",
  "aspect_ratio": "auto",
  "resolution": "2K",
  "enable_web_search": true,
  "safety_tolerance": "6"
}' | 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 .

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-2

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.

Optional parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
`aspect_ratio`	`string`	`"auto"`	Aspect ratio for the generated image One of: auto, 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, 2:3, 4:5, 5:4, 21:9, 4:1, 1:4, 8:1, 1:8.
`resolution`	`string`	`"2K"`	Resolution of the generated image One of: 1K, 2K, 4K.
`enable_web_search`	`boolean`	`true`	Enable web search for the image generation task. This will allow the model to use the latest information from the web to generate the image.
`safety_tolerance`	`string`	`"6"`	The safety tolerance level for content moderation. 1 is the most strict (blocks most content), 6 is the least strict. Default value: 4 One of: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

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