Google: Nano Banana 2.1 vs timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k

Google: Nano Banana 2.1 comes out ahead on the data we track: 6 advantages and none for timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k.

Key numbers

SpecGoogle: Nano Banana 2.1timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k
ProviderGoogleHugging Face
Input price (per 1M tokens)$1.50n/a
Output price (per 1M tokens)$7.50n/a
Blended price (3:1 input/output)$3.00n/a
Cheaper than … of all models we track20%n/a
Context window66K tokens (~98 pages)n/a
Larger context than … of all models11%n/a
Max output per response59K tokens (~44,200 words)n/a
Input typesimage, texttext
Output typesimage, textimage
Free variantNoNo
Listed since2026-10-06n/a

What it costs for real workloads

Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.

Workload (per month)Google: Nano Banana 2.1timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1kDifference
Customer-support chatbot
50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens)
$263n/a—
RAG search over documents
20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens)
$255n/a—
Coding / tool-using agent
2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens)
Doesn't fit contextn/a—
Batch summarisation
10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens)
$165n/a—
Long-document analysis
500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens)
Doesn't fit contextn/a—

Capabilities side by side

CapabilityGoogle: Nano Banana 2.1timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1kWhat it lets you do
Tool / function calling✓ Yes—call your APIs and run agent loops
Structured output (JSON schema)✓ Yes—return JSON that validates against your schema
Reasoning / thinking mode✓ Yes—spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems
Image input✓ Yes—read screenshots, charts and scanned pages
Audio input——take speech or audio directly
File / PDF input——accept documents without your own parsing step
Image output✓ Yes✓ Yesgenerate images, not just text
Built-in web search✓ Yes—answer from live web results
Seed (reproducible sampling)✓ Yes—repeat a generation for tests and evals
Log-probabilities——read token confidence for classification and scoring

From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.

Price history

Which should you choose?

Choose Google: Nano Banana 2.1 if…

  • you need tool / function calling — to call your APIs and run agent loops; timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k does not advertise it
  • you need structured output (JSON schema) — to return JSON that validates against your schema; timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k does not advertise it
  • you need reasoning / thinking mode — to spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems; timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k does not advertise it
  • you need image input — to read screenshots, charts and scanned pages; timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k does not advertise it
  • you need built-in web search — to answer from live web results; timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k does not advertise it
  • you need seed (reproducible sampling) — to repeat a generation for tests and evals; timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k does not advertise it

Choose timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k if…

No advantage on the data we track — pick it for provider preference or output quality on your own prompts.

Frequently asked questions

Is Google: Nano Banana 2.1 better than timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k?

Google: Nano Banana 2.1 comes out ahead on the data we track: 6 advantages and none for timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k.

Do Google: Nano Banana 2.1 and timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k support function calling and JSON output?

Tool calling — Google: Nano Banana 2.1: yes, timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k: not advertised. JSON-schema structured output — Google: Nano Banana 2.1: yes, timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k: not advertised.

Can Google: Nano Banana 2.1 or timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k read images?

Only Google: Nano Banana 2.1 accepts image input; timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k is text-only for input.

Is Google: Nano Banana 2.1 or timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k free to use?

No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.

About the two models

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