# Gemini image (Nano Banana): pricing, free tier and commercial licence

> Gemini image (Nano Banana) (2D, pixel art & sprites). Checked 2026-10-17 against the vendor's own pages. Free tier commercial use: commercial use allowed. Paid commercial use: commercial use allowed.

- Website: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/image-generation
- Verification: price verified, licence verified
- Free tier: Gemini app: image generation with 1K downloads without a Google AI plan (2K with one). Google AI Studio: models 'can be tested' free. Gemini API free tier: 'Not available' for image models
- Paid price (as shown): Gemini API pay-as-you-go: Nano Banana 2.1 $30 per 1M image tokens (about $0.034 per 1K image, $0.113 per 4K); Nano Banana 2 $60 per 1M (about $0.067 per 1K image) (Batch is half price for Nano Banana 2.1 ($15 per 1M image tokens). Gemini app limits depend on the Google AI plan (not reviewed))
- Credits / cost per asset: Nano Banana 2.1 (Standard): $0.0336 per 1K, $0.0504 per 2K, $0.113 per 4K image
- Licence, free tier: Google Terms of Service (effective Jul 30, 2026): 'Google won't claim ownership over that content'; no commercial-use restriction. On unpaid use (AI Studio, free quota) Google uses prompts and outputs to improve its products and human reviewers may read them
- Licence, paid: Gemini API Additional Terms (effective Mar 23, 2026): 'Google won't claim ownership over that content'; paid prompts and responses are not used to improve Google products. Prohibited Use Policy: don't claim AI content was made solely by a human
- Export / engine support: PNG images from 0.5K to 4K; every image carries an invisible SynthID watermark (the Gemini app can also add a visible one)
- API / MCP access: Gemini API (REST and SDKs), Batch API, Google AI Studio
- Engine integrations (vendor-stated): not stated
- IP indemnity from vendor: offered_some_plans; you indemnify vendor: yes
- Affiliate program: unverified

Note: Imagen is shut down in the Gemini API; Nano Banana models replace it. The API is for users 18+ and can't be used in apps directed at, or likely to be used by, under-18s, which matters if your game generates images at runtime. Google Cloud's generative AI indemnity covers Gemini and Imagen on its Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) API, not the Gemini Developer API or AI Studio.

## Sources

- [https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/image-generation](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/image-generation)
- [https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)
- [https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms)
- [https://policies.google.com/terms](https://policies.google.com/terms)
- [https://policies.google.com/terms/generative-ai/use-policy](https://policies.google.com/terms/generative-ai/use-policy)
- [https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17405358](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17405358)
- [https://cloud.google.com/terms/generative-ai-indemnified-services](https://cloud.google.com/terms/generative-ai-indemnified-services)

## Changelog

- 2026-10-17: Added to index; baseline snapshot of pricing/terms pages taken.

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