Head to head

Nano Banana vs GPT-5.4 Image 2

Price, context, inputs and filters. No benchmarks theatre.

Nano Banana costs 12× less per message.

GPT-5.4 Image 2 holds 4.2× more context.

Fact

Made by

Google

OpenAI

Content tier

Mainstream

Intelligence

Quick

Smart & Cheap

Price per message

~1.63 credits≈ 61 messages for $1

~19.57 credits≈ 5 messages for $1

Context window

66K tokens≈ 101 pages of text in one go

272K tokens≈ 418 pages of text in one go

Reads

Text, Images

Writes

Text, Images

Tool use

No - plain chat

Served via

OpenRouter, Unbottled AI

Status

Current

A typical message: 16K tokens in, 1.5K out. Short replies cost less. 1 credit = $0.01.