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Design & brand
Nano Banana
Google's image generation and editing model, known for keeping subjects consistent.
Google's image generation and editing model, known for keeping subjects consistent.
Nano Banana is the nickname (now the official product name) for Google's image generation and editing model family inside Gemini. Beyond generating images from text, its signature skill is editing: upload a photo or a product shot, describe the change, and it keeps the subject consistent across edits and scenes.
It runs in the Gemini app and through the API, and it is one of the models third-party platforms like Higgsfield expose. Character and product consistency across generations is the reason it became the default for a lot of marketing and brand imagery work.
Nano Banana is in Ian Kilpatrick's brand-iteration kit from Session 008: once you have collected designs you like (his starting point is Behance), you use image generators, he named Midjourney and Nano Banana in the same breath, to create the things that get close, then take what works and tweak it until it is your own. Good artists borrow, great artists steal, then AI accelerates the tweaking.
Its particular strength for brand work is editing and consistency: it can take an existing image (your logo, your product, your mascot) and place or restyle it while keeping it recognizably the same thing, which is exactly what iterating on brand imagery demands. It is also one of the models aggregated inside Higgsfield, where Alec does his generation, so you may already have access to it there.
Non-designers doing what Session 008 prescribed: iterating toward a brand look by generating, comparing, and refining. If your image work involves an existing thing that must stay recognizable, your logo on a hat, your product in a scene, Nano Banana's editing consistency is the differentiator over pure text-to-image tools.
Genuine substitutes for Nano Banana that we've also run on stage:
Yes, Nano Banana has a free tier. Free in the Gemini app with daily limits; higher limits with Google AI subscriptions; API priced per image.
Free in the Gemini app with daily limits; higher limits with Google AI subscriptions; API priced per image.
Ian Kilpatrick used it in Session 008 for named alongside Midjourney for iterating brand imagery until it gets close.
Non-designers doing what Session 008 prescribed: iterating toward a brand look by generating, comparing, and refining. If your image work involves an existing thing that must stay recognizable, your logo on a hat, your product in a scene, Nano Banana's editing consistency is the differentiator over pure text-to-image tools.
Tools we've also used live that can stand in for Nano Banana: Midjourney, Higgsfield.
| Category | Design & brand |
|---|---|
| Pricing | Free in the Gemini app with daily limits; higher limits with Google AI subscriptions; API priced per image. |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Used live in | Session 008 |
| Operator(s) | Ian Kilpatrick |
| Website | gemini.google.com |
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A designer, developer, and serial entrepreneur writing code since age 10. He has worked with Disney, the Golden Globes, and the AMAs, and now runs a fleet of AI agents doing real work every day.
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