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Nano Banana 2.1 vs MiniMax H3 Image

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Models Hardware

Nano Banana 2.1

Google DeepMind

Sources:models.devOpenRouter

MiniMax H3 Image

MiniMax

Sources:OpenRouter

Benchmark results

Arena Text to Image
Arena rating · Higher is better
- Nano Banana 2.1
  1328
  Arena #7CI 1319 to 1337
- MiniMax H3 Image
  Not reported
Runs and sources
Nano Banana 2.1
default132895% CI 1319 to 1337 · 4,966 votes
MiniMax H3 Image
Not reported
Source:Arena Text to Image leaderboard, 2026-11-09
Arena Image Edit
Arena rating · Higher is better
- Nano Banana 2.1
  1427
  Arena #9CI 1421 to 1433
- MiniMax H3 Image
  Not reported
Runs and sources
Nano Banana 2.1
default142795% CI 1421 to 1433 · 12,071 votes
MiniMax H3 Image
Not reported
Source:Arena Image Edit leaderboard, 2026-11-09

Each model's best published result is shown; "Not reported" means no matched evaluation, not a score of zero. Arena and DeepSWE ranks are the leaderboards' own; other ranks are among catalogue models with a score. Results from different harnesses or settings are not directly comparable.

Arena ratings: Arena (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset), licensed CC BY 4.0. Ratings come from pairwise human votes and are only comparable within one leaderboard; the interval is Arena's 95% confidence interval. Model names are matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog.

Model specifications

Release date

October 6, 2026

November 10, 2026

Context window

66K

Native context

—

Max output tokens

58,982

3,686

Knowledge cutoff

—

Open weights

Closed

Open weights

Parameter count

—

API pricing · USD per 1M tokens

Input

$1.50

$2.30

Output

$7.50

$0.00

Cached input

—

Cache write

—

Capabilities and modalities

Input modalities

image, text

text, image

Output modalities

image, text

image

Tool calling

Supported

—

Reasoning option

Supported

—

Supported options

include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, seed, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_p

max_tokens, temperature, top_p

Capabilities

—

Architecture and availability

Architecture

—

Model families

—

Tokenizer

Gemini

Other

Instruction format

—

License

—

Providers

Provider endpoints

Ollama variants

Metadata source

ai-research

A dash means the field is not reported. Provider-specific performance and pricing may differ.

Benchmark results

Arena Text to Image

Arena Image Edit

Model specifications

API pricing · USD per 1M tokens

Capabilities and modalities

Architecture and availability