Google Unveils Nano Banana Pro AI Model To Generate Studio Quality Images & Designs

by Aaron Leong — Friday, November 21, 2025, 10:30 AM EDT

With the arrival of Google’s Nano Banana Pro (officially the Gemini 3 Pro Image model) the AI image generation landscape has once again moved forward into deeper usefulness and hyper-realism. Along with the creative power it now gives users, Nano Banana Pro brings up more debates over digital authenticity and image manipulation, especially in the way it continues to handle watermarks.

One of the biggest improvements that Nano Banana Pro introduces is with text creation and handling. Where earlier models (not just Google's, mind you) were known to notoriously distort words and/or insert nonsensical lettering, the new version now renders legible, accurate text directly inside images.

This is huge because it unlocks the ability for users to create things like complex infographics and technical diagrams or marketing posters in multiple languages while preserving style, etc. Built on the advanced reasoning core of Gemini 3 Pro, this capability moves the tool from purely stylistic art generation to functional, data-driven visual communication. The model’s integration with Google Search makes the historical map, recipe, or biological rendering that you're making more factually accurate since generated information will be derived from real-time web information.

plant image — *Create infographics with information pulled from Google Search database (click to enlarge)*

For professional use, Nano Banana Pro supports up to 4K resolution and allows for high-granularity adjustments to elements like camera angle, depth of field, and color grading via simple text prompts. Perhaps most powerful is its capacity for complex compositions: the model can seamlessly blend up to fourteen input images into a single scene and, crucially, maintain the consistent resemblance of up to five individuals across different generated images. Such ability can go a long with for storyboarding, character development, and large-scale advertising campaigns. Its availability is broad, rolling out in the Gemini app, Google Workspace tools like Slides and Vids, and through developer APIs.

combined image — *Create complex images with up to 14 inputs (click to enlarge)*

While free users get a limited quota before being reverted to the older 2.5 model, unlimited high-fidelity generation hasn't changed. Google’s direct subscription, the AI Pro plan, starts at $20 per month but imposes limits. Intriguingly, the most cost-effective route to generating unlimited Nano Banana Pro images currently is through Adobe, which has just integrated Nano Banana Pro into its suite of services. For example, Adobe Firefly's plan runs $10 per month, whereas it's $20 to be a Google One subscriber.

In terms of fears relating with verifiable content, Google uses an invisible SynthID watermark to allow Gemini to detect its own AI-generated images. Ironically, while free and standard paid users will see a visible watermark, top-tier, $250-per-month Ultra subscribers are offered the option to remove visible watermarks entirely. This policy has drawn sharp scrutiny, as it reserves the ability to create near-undetectable, photorealistic deepfakes for Google’s most affluent users, making the already-difficult task of discerning AI content from real photography arguably impossible for the average Joe.