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Hands-on model tests, production tutorials, prompt techniques, and current API pricing for generative media teams.
GPT Image 2 vs Nano Banana 2: Side-by-Side With the Same Prompts
GPT Image 2's marquee text-rendering advantage has narrowed — Nano Banana 2 renders English and CJK headlines just as accurately, and even adds contextually appropriate label text on its own. Nano Banana 2 produces more believable photorealism (portraits, product photography), while GPT Image 2 keeps a slight edge on editorial typography craft. Nano Banana 2 effectively ignores precise aspect-ratio requests — square or near-square is what you get. GPT Image 2 honors 3:2, 2:3, and 9:16 reliably. Regular 1K pricing: GPT Image 2 is $0.03 per image, Nano Banana 2 is $0.036 — 20% more. Speed is comparable on average.
GPT Image 2 API Pricing: Cost per Image vs OpenAI, fal and Kie
HiAPI matches Kie at 1K, costs less at 2K and 4K, and sits below the medium-quality price on OpenAI, fal and WaveSpeed. On HiAPI, GPT Image 2 is $0.03 / $0.04 / $0.06 at 1K / 2K / 4K, for text-to-image and image-to-image alike. Real outputs at all three resolutions show when 2K or 4K is worth paying for.
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