BananaBanana Guide: All 7 AI Models, Prices, Features

BananaBanana is a pay-as-you-go AI image and video generation platform that runs seven Google models behind one USD balance: three Nano Banana image tiers, three Veo 3.1 video tiers, and Gemini Omni Flash. There's no subscription, no card on file, and no Google Cloud setup. You top up with crypto and pay per result.

The short version, if you're comparing options:

• Images cost $0.03 to $0.20 each, depending on model and resolution (512px to 4K).
• Silent video starts at $0.10 for a 4-second 720p clip on Veo 3.1 Lite.
• Video with sound starts at $0.18 on Veo Lite; Gemini Omni Flash is a flat $1.00 per clip with audio always included.
• Deposits: 20+ cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. No credit card, no subscription, nothing to cancel.
• Controls: seed, negative prompt, reference images, first and last frames, clip extension. Most of the raw API surface, in a web UI.
• New accounts get a $0.10 starting balance, and failed generations are refunded automatically.

We published the first version of this post on launch day, and it was honestly three bullet points and a promise. This is the payoff: a full tour of the platform as it runs in July 2026, with every sample below generated through our own pipeline for this article.

What can you make on BananaBanana?

Pictures and short video clips, in most practical variations of both.

Images go from quick 512px drafts to 4K exports, in ten aspect ratios from square 1:1 to cinematic 21:9. You can attach reference images when a product or a character has to stay consistent across a series. A cheap image takes a few seconds; the top model needs closer to half a minute.

Video splits into two philosophies. The Veo 3.1 family gives you control: an exact duration of 4, 6, 7 or 8 seconds, resolution up to 4K, and a soundtrack you can switch off. You can start from your own image as the first frame, pin a last frame, or extend a finished clip by 7 seconds. Feed the same picture as first and last frame and you get a clean loop. Omni Flash is the opposite deal: always 720p, always with sound, 3 to 10 seconds at the model's discretion, and you iterate by describing changes in plain language instead of re-prompting from scratch.

A quieter difference from most wrapper sites: we expose nearly the full parameter surface of Google's API instead of a single prompt box. Seed, negative prompt, a prompt-enhancement toggle, ten aspect ratios, subject references, first and last frames, clip extension, the audio switch. If you've ever abandoned a tool because it hid the one setting you needed, that was us too, which is why the generator doesn't. The honest gap: Google Search grounding, the Gemini feature that pulls real-time data like weather maps into an image, isn't wired up yet.

Around the models sits the boring but important stuff: generation history in your profile, automatic refunds when Google's side fails, and an interface translated into 11 languages.

Nano Banana image models: Lite, standard, and Pro

All three image models come from Google's Nano Banana family, and the split is simple. Lite is for volume, Nano Banana 2 is for resolution headroom, Pro is for the assets people will actually stare at.

Rather than describe the difference, here's the same prompt through all three models: a photorealistic bottle of banana soda on a rain-wet market counter at dusk, with a paper label reading "BANANA SODA".

Lite ($0.03) nails the mood and the headline lettering, then quietly gives up on the fine print: the small line under the logo is decorative gibberish. For an illustration nobody zooms into, that's usually fine.

Nano Banana 2 ($0.06 at 1K) renders a fully legible label, down to an invented "EST. 1974" and a volume mark, and frames a wider street scene. The menu board it added in the background is mangled, though.

Pro ($0.11) wins on typography and light: crisp retro letters with a drop shadow, readable script underneath. Funny detail: even Pro misspelled its own invented tagline as "Small Balch". Image models have come a long way with text; proofreading is still your job.

We also ran Lite through production for a week and wrote up where the cheap model is enough if you want the budget angle in depth.

Veo 3.1 video: Standard, Fast, and Lite

The three Veo tiers share the same controls on our generator; the price difference buys output quality, mostly visible in physics and fine motion. According to Google's Veo documentation, the family supports native audio, image-to-video, and resolutions up to 4K, and that matches what we see through the API, with one platform note: Veo 3.1 Lite tops out at 1080p.

Prices below are ranges from a 4-second to an 8-second clip:

The clip above is Veo 3.1 Fast: a 6-second silent dolly-in over a breakfast table at golden hour, generated for this post. It cost $0.52 at 720p. Watch the steam and the curtain; that kind of believable motion is what separates Veo from cheaper video models, and Fast keeps most of it at a third of the Standard price.

A clip usually lands within a few minutes. When Google's capacity is strained, the platform restarts the operation by itself, up to four times, and shows the retry counter while you wait. If it still can't deliver, you get the money back. Same policy when the safety filter eats results: a full block refunds everything, a partial one refunds proportionally.

My rule of thumb after months of running these: Lite for storyboards and social drafts, Fast as the daily driver, Standard when water, fabric or collisions have to look right, or when the delivery spec says 4K.

Omni Flash: video with sound you edit by chatting

Gemini Omni Flash is the odd one out. It came out of Google's June 30, 2026 release in public preview, outputs only 720p at 24 fps, always generates a soundtrack, and picks its own clip length between 3 and 10 seconds. You can't set the duration. On BananaBanana it costs a flat $1.00 per generation regardless of what length the model chooses, which takes the lottery out of Google's per-second billing.

Turn the sound on for this one. The pancake clip is a single Omni Flash generation: one text prompt describing maple syrup pouring onto a stack of pancakes, an explicit "single continuous shot, no scene cuts" instruction (Omni loves to edit in extra shots if you don't say this), plus an "Audio:" line asking for the soft drizzle of syrup over a quiet kitchen room tone. No separate audio work. The model chose 10 seconds on its own.

One prompting lesson from making this clip: Omni keeps whatever is already happening in the first frame and quietly drops actions scheduled to start later. My first drafts asked for a pancake flip "around the middle of the clip" and got ten seconds of nothing three times in a row. The version that worked describes the syrup as already pouring in the very first frame and continuing for the entire clip. Write the action in present progressive, not as a timeline.

The feature that earns the price is conversational editing. Every finished Omni video gets an edit button: describe a change ("make it night, keep everything else the same"), pay another $1.00, and the model re-renders the clip with your correction while keeping most of the original. If the source interaction has expired on Google's side, the attempt is refunded and the video is marked as expired. We took the model apart in a separate Omni Flash API review, including everything the preview API doesn't support.

How do payments and refunds work?

Your balance is in USD and only goes down when a generation succeeds. Deposits on the web are crypto, processed by 0xProcessing: BTC, ETH, SOL, TON, BNB, LTC, TRX, XRP, DOGE and BCH, plus USDT, USDC, DAI and TUSD stablecoins across ERC-20, BEP-20, Solana, TON and Base networks. That's over 20 options, and stablecoins on cheap networks like TON or Solana are what most of our users pick in practice. There's a full crypto deposit walkthrough if you're sending your first transfer.

Signing up takes an email and comes with $0.10 of credit, enough for three Lite images before you decide anything. If someone shared a promo code with you, activate it once and every deposit you make gets a +10% bonus on top. Deposit size adds its own bonus too, 5% on $50+ and 10% on $100+, and the two stack: $100 with an active code credits $120.

No card form, anywhere

There is no place on the platform to enter card details. Not at signup, not at checkout. If you've ever subscribed to an AI tool for one project and then paid for four idle months because cancelling lived three menus deep, you know exactly why this matters. A deposited balance is yours until you spend it; when it runs out, nothing keeps charging you for existing. The flip side, stated plainly: no card also means no fiat payments today, so you need crypto. A $10 stablecoin transfer on TON costs a few cents in fees and takes about five minutes the first time, seconds after that.

We broke down why the platform has no card form at all and how pay-per-image compares with subscriptions in separate posts. The refund logic is worth spelling out here, because generative APIs fail more often than anyone advertises. A generation that ends in a failed state refunds the full price automatically. No support tickets involved. Full price lists live on the pricing section.

What about Telegram?

A Telegram Mini App is in development, and it's the biggest item on the near-term roadmap. The plan: open the bot and you're signed in through your Telegram account, no password and no email form. Top-ups there will work with Telegram Stars, TON, or USDT on TON, which finally covers the people who'd rather not touch a crypto exchange at all. And the bot will message you when a generation finishes, so you can start a video, close the app, and come back when it's done instead of babysitting a progress bar.

Parts of this already run in internal testing, but none of it is public yet, so treat this section as a promise rather than a feature list. Everything else in this post is live today on the web version.

Referral program: 5% to 15% of every deposit

You can create up to three promo codes in your profile. Anyone who activates your code gets +10% added to every deposit they make, and you earn a commission on those deposits: 5% to start, 10% once your referrals pass $1,000 in total top-ups, 15% past $2,000. The code stays attached to the buyer's account, so the bonus and your commission apply to each deposit automatically, not just the first one.

Two honest caveats. You can't activate your own code, and signups from the same network as yours don't count toward commissions; the fraud checks are strict on purpose.

FAQ

How much does AI image generation cost on BananaBanana?

From $0.03 per image (Nano Banana 2 Lite at 1K, or Nano Banana 2 at 512px) up to $0.20 for a 4K image on Nano Banana Pro. There's no subscription; you pay per image from a prepaid balance.

Is there a free trial?

Every new account starts with $0.10 of credit, which covers three images on the cheapest model. No card details are needed to register, just an email.

Do I need a credit card or a subscription?

No. There is no card form on the platform and no subscription tier. You deposit crypto into a USD balance and pay per generation; an unused balance doesn't expire and can't auto-charge anything.

Which cryptocurrencies does BananaBanana accept?

BTC, ETH, SOL, TON, BNB, LTC, TRX, XRP, DOGE, BCH, and the stablecoins USDT, USDC, DAI and TUSD across ERC-20, BEP-20, Solana, TON and Base networks. Payment with Telegram Stars is planned as part of the upcoming Telegram Mini App.

Can I generate AI video with sound?

Yes, two ways. Veo 3.1 models have an audio toggle (a 4-second clip with sound starts at $0.18 on Veo Lite), and Gemini Omni Flash always generates audio at a flat $1.00 per clip.

What happens if a generation fails?

The full price is refunded to your balance automatically. For video, the platform first retries capacity errors on its own, up to four times; if Google's safety filter blocks part of the output, the unfilled part is refunded proportionally.