Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 17, 2026noindex (thin pair)

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) vs Krea 2 Medium Turbo benchmark

Name: Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) vs Krea 2 Medium Turbo AI benchmark comparison
Creator: CompareLLM
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Comparing verified benchmark accuracy, speed, and token pricing between Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) and Krea 2 Medium Turbo. Review the complete breakdown below to determine which model best fits your performance and budget requirements.

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Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

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Krea

Krea 2 Medium Turbo

Sub-2 second interactive generation engine delivering ultra-affordable $15/1k image generation.

Turbo / $15/1kImg Elo 1,223$15/1k imgs

Top Rival Showdowns for Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

All Matchups

Compare vs:vs GPT Image 2 (High)vs Reve 2.1 vs FLUX.2 [max]vs Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)vs Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro

Image Quality Leader

No shared data

Single model data

Generation Speed Leader

No shared data

No latency data

Value per Dollar Leader

No shared data

Unpriced

Head-to-Head Comparison

Overall Matchup Breakdown

Category wins across reasoning intelligence, generation speed, and token cost.

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) (0)vsKrea 2 Medium Turbo (5)

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image): 0W (0%)Overall: Krea 2 Medium TurboKrea 2 Medium Turbo: 5W (100%)

← Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Krea 2 Medium Turbo →

🏆Krea 2 Medium Turbo(3/3)

Visual Quality & Adherence

Arena Preference Elo, prompt fidelity & typography score

Benchmark

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)vsKrea 2 Medium Turbo

Image Elo

—vs1,223

Prompt adherence

—vs89.8%

Text rendering

—vs87.5%

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image): 0WKrea 2 Medium Turbo: 3W

🏆Krea 2 Medium Turbo(1/1)

Generation Latency

Time to render full-resolution image snapshot (seconds)

Benchmark

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)vsKrea 2 Medium Turbo

Generation time

—vs1.5s

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image): 0WKrea 2 Medium Turbo: 1W

🏆Krea 2 Medium Turbo(1/1)

Cost Efficiency

API inference cost per 1,000 generated images

Benchmark

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)vsKrea 2 Medium Turbo

Price per 1k images

—vs$15/1k

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image): 0WKrea 2 Medium Turbo: 1W

Side-by-Side Benchmark Matrix

Image Elo

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo1,223

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

Generation time

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo1.5s

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

Price per 1k images

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo$15/1k

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

Prompt adherence

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo89.8%

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

Text rendering

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo87.5%

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

Benchmark	Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)	Krea 2 Medium Turbo	Advantage Delta
Image Elo	—	1,223 seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Generation time	—	1.5s seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Price per 1k images	—	$15/1k seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Prompt adherence	—	89.8% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Text rendering	—	87.5% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—

Interactive Simulator (USD)

Workload Cost & Savings Calculator

Simulate monthly production API costs in USD (US Dollar).

Save up to 100% with Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

Monthly Image Production Volume25k images / month (25000 imgs)

Quick Presets:

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)$0.00 / mo

Rate: $0/1k

Krea 2 Medium Turbo$375.00 / mo

Rate: $15/1k

Estimated Cost Delta

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is estimated to save $375.00/month ($4,500/year).

Based on 25k images generated

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatinsufficient data

Need list prices.

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGinsufficient data

Need context sizes.

Screenshots / visionKrea 2 Medium Turbo

Krea 2 Medium Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	insufficient data	Need list prices.
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	insufficient data	Need context sizes.
Screenshots / vision	Krea 2 Medium Turbo	Krea 2 Medium Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

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LIVE BENCHMARK

Google

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

Elo n/a

SWE-bench—

Speed (tok/s)66k

Input / 1M Tokens$0.25/1M

Output / 1M Tokens$1.5/1M

Krea

Krea 2 Medium Turbo

Elo n/a

SWE-bench—

Speed (tok/s)—

Input / 1M Tokens$15/1k

Output / 1M Tokens$15/1k

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) or Krea 2 Medium Turbo?: We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.
Which is better at coding, Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) or Krea 2 Medium Turbo?: SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.
Which is cheaper to run in production?: List prices are missing for at least one model.
Which is faster, Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) or Krea 2 Medium Turbo?: We do not have TTFT for both models.
Which has the larger context window?: Context window is missing for at least one model.
Can I self-host either model?: Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.
Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?: No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.
What does preference Elo mean on this page?: Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) and Krea 2 Medium Turbo Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

Similar Head-to-Head Comparisons

All Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) matchups →|All Krea 2 Medium Turbo matchups →

Krea 2 Medium Turbo vs Krea 2 Large (previous krea)Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) vs Krea 2 Medium Turbo Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) vs Krea 2 Medium Turbo Nano Banana 2 Lite vs Krea 2 Medium Turbo GPT Image 2 (High) vs Krea 2 Medium Turbo Reve 2.1 vs Krea 2 Medium Turbo

Side-by-Side Benchmark Matrix

Image Elo

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo1,223

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

Generation time

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo1.5s

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

Price per 1k images

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo$15/1k

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

Prompt adherence

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo89.8%

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

Text rendering

Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo87.5%

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

Benchmark	Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)	Krea 2 Medium Turbo	Advantage Delta
Image Elo	—	1,223 seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Generation time	—	1.5s seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Price per 1k images	—	$15/1k seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Prompt adherence	—	89.8% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Text rendering	—	87.5% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatinsufficient data

Need list prices.

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGinsufficient data

Need context sizes.

Screenshots / visionKrea 2 Medium Turbo

Krea 2 Medium Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	insufficient data	Need list prices.
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	insufficient data	Need context sizes.
Screenshots / vision	Krea 2 Medium Turbo	Krea 2 Medium Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) or Krea 2 Medium Turbo?

We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.

Which is better at coding, Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) or Krea 2 Medium Turbo?

SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.

Which is cheaper to run in production?

List prices are missing for at least one model.

Which is faster, Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) or Krea 2 Medium Turbo?

We do not have TTFT for both models.

Which has the larger context window?

Context window is missing for at least one model.

Can I self-host either model?

Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.

Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?

No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.

What does preference Elo mean on this page?

Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) and Krea 2 Medium Turbo Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.