It has been a bananas week for Google AI news. At the beginning of the week, Google dropped Gemini 3, a major overhaul to its chatbot and all its integrations. Now, its viral AI image editor and generator is getting the Gemini 3 treatment. A brand new version of its popular nano banana model, called nano banana pro, is out now
Google's original nano banana model was released earlier this summer. Since then, people have generated over 5 billion images with Gemini, bringing in over 10 million new Gemini users who signed up during the first few weeks of its availability. Now, the pro model aims to be even better, with the ability to generate readable text, upscale images up to 4K and handle multiple reference images in a single prompt. You can also ask Gemini to detect AI-generated images, a necessary tool as the latest AI models (like nano banana) have made it extremely difficult to discern real content from AI.
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We won't know how the model lives up to those promises until we get our hands on it. Here's how to access nano banana pro. For more, check out Google's new AI image detector and the best AI image generators.
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How to find and use nano banana pro in Google
There are a couple of ways to access nano banana pro through Google. Here are all the different methods.
- Anyone for free: Gemini (mobile apps or web browser)
- Google AI Studio
- Playing subscribers (Ultra only): Google's AI filmmaking platform Flow
- Paying subscribers in the US: AI Mode in Google Search
- Paying subscribers globally: NotebookLM
- Google Workspace users can use it in Google Slides and Vids
Nano banana pro is also available through Google's developer tools, including the Gemini API, Vertex AI and the recently announced Google Antigravity platform. Google enterprise users don't have access yet but should soon.
Select "Create images" and "Thinking" model to access the newest version of the model. You can use nano banana pro for free through Gemini, but you'll be bumped back to the original model once you've run through your quota of pro images. If that happens and you still want to generate with the more powerful model, you might want to consider a paid subscription.
How to make unlimited nano banana pro images through Adobe
Since its annual creative conference, Adobe has been offering its users unlimited generations through Dec. 1. And since Adobe added nano banana pro to Adobe Firefly and Photoshop (for generative fill only), it's actually going to be much cheaper and easier to use nano banana pro through Adobe -- like hundreds of dollars cheaper.
If you're already paying for some form of Adobe's Creative Cloud or Firefly, you can select nano banana pro from the list of outside, third-party models and start generating.
You will need to pay for some form of Adobe before you can create an unlimited number of nano banana pro images. But it's cheaper to sign up for the lowest Firefly plan ($10 per month) than it is to become a Google One subscriber (beginning at $20 per month). Your free Firefly generations will run out in two weeks, but that's enough time for you to determine whether the model is something you'll want access to regularly. It's certainly better to pay Adobe $10 for two weeks for unlimited nano banana pro access than pay $250 for Google's version of an unlimited plan (that's technically capped at 25,000 generation credits).
After Dec. 1, Firefly's standard plan gives you 2,000 generation credits per month and access to its many AI models. Google's AI Pro plan only gives you 1,000 credits per month, but you also get access to its other paywall-restricted platforms like Flow and other perks like 2TB of Google storage. It's all about where you like to create and whether that $10 subscription difference matters a lot to you.
For more, check out Google's new AI image detector and how to use Photoshop's AI tools.
