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Image generation · Oct 13, 2026
Who is SOTA in Image generation?
Gemini Nano Banana 2.1

Text-to-image preference from LMArena. As of Oct 13, 2026, Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 holds Image generation. On the cost-quality frontier for Image generation: nothing scores better for less than…

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Google DeepMind		ParetomediumOn the cost-quality frontier for Image generation: nothing scores better for less than $3.00 per 1M blended tokens.
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