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Is BananaBanana affiliated with Google?
Short answer
No. BananaBanana LLC is an independent company with no affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement from Google. It buys access to Google's production models — the Gemini image models, Veo 3.1, Gemini Omni Flash and Gemini Flash TTS — and sells generation on a prepaid balance. Gemini, Veo and Google are trademarks of Google LLC. You need no Google account, and your billing relationship is with BananaBanana LLC alone.
- Affiliation with Google
- None
- Models used
- Google Gemini, Veo 3.1, Gemini Omni Flash, Gemini Flash TTS
- Google account required
- No
- Who bills you
- BananaBanana LLC
- Who sets the prices
- BananaBanana — they are not Google's list prices
- Trademarks
- Gemini, Veo, Google — Google LLC
Facts on this page were checked against the live platform on .
What the relationship actually is
The same relationship any customer of a cloud API has with its provider: we pay for model access, run the requests and are responsible for everything on our side of the wire. Nothing about that makes the service official, endorsed or supported by Google, and we do not describe it that way anywhere.
The models are the production ones, not distilled copies or lookalikes trained elsewhere. What differs from using Google directly is the wrapper: a prepaid balance instead of a cloud billing account, a studio and an MCP server instead of raw API calls, and per-generation pricing we set ourselves.
Which failures belong to whom
Google's side. Whether a prompt is refused, whether the output-side safety classifier blocks a finished file, how long a video takes, and capacity errors when a model is oversubscribed. No parameter we expose overrides the classifier that inspects finished output — that one cannot be turned off by anyone.
Our side. Pricing, charging, refunds, storage, the studio, the MCP and x402 endpoints, rate limits and support. If a generation fails for any reason, the charge comes back to your balance automatically — that is our obligation, not the model provider's.
When you should buy from Google instead
If you need a written service-level agreement, a signed data-processing agreement, invoicing in a specific form, or a guarantee about the jurisdiction in which each request is processed, buy the models from Google Cloud directly. Those are exactly the things a small independent operator cannot promise, and pretending otherwise would be the dishonest answer.
The case for coming here is the opposite one: no cloud account or API keys to set up, top-ups from about a dollar, a balance that never expires, one price per generation with automatic refunds on failure, and access from an agent without a browser.
Where this is documented
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Are the prices the same as Google's?
No. Prices are ours, set per generation and shown before you press the button. They are not a resale of Google's list price and they change independently of it.
Does BananaBanana get access to my Google account?
No. Signing in with Google is optional and gives us only your account identifier and email — nothing in your Google Cloud, Drive or Gemini history.
Is the model quality identical to using Google directly?
The models are the same production models, at the same resolutions and durations. Differences you notice come from parameters and prompt handling, not from a smaller model behind the scenes.
Why does the footer carry a Google disclaimer?
Because using a trademark to describe compatibility requires saying plainly that you are not the trademark owner. The disclaimer is that statement.
Questions next door
Who operates BananaBanana?
BananaBanana is operated by BananaBanana LLC, registered at 157 Revaz Uridia St., Tbilisi 0101, Georgia. It is an independent company, not a Google product or partner, and it sells metered access to Google's image, video and speech models. The same details appear in the terms of service, the privacy policy and the site footer, and support runs through one inbox that answers billing questions within three business days.
Read the answerWhy was my AI image blocked by the safety filter?
Because one of two independent filters fired. The first checks your prompt before anything is drawn and can be relaxed; the second inspects the finished pixels and cannot be turned off by anyone. A relaxed filter only affects the first. Since every run draws a different picture, a borderline prompt that fails the second stage often passes on a retry — and a blocked generation is refunded, so the retry costs only time.
Read the answerTry it on your own prompt
New accounts start with $0.20 of balance — no card, nothing expires.