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Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image model, an AI system that generates high-resolution images from text prompts, offered through platforms like Runway.
Krea says its Krea 3 editor returns 2K image edits in under 8 seconds at $0.06 each. The speed and cost comparisons with Google and OpenAI come from Krea's own launch page, so teams should rerun them on their own edits.
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Google's Nano Banana 2.1 lists at about a third of Nano Banana Pro's 2K price and a quarter of its 1K price, a dev.to comparison shows. Its speed and reliability numbers come from the author's own API platform, so the list price is the firmer reason to switch defaults.
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Google priced Nano Banana 2.1 at half Nano Banana 2's per-image rate, $0.0336 for a 1K image, while tripling what it charges for input tokens. Reference-heavy edits can cost more after switching, and no published benchmark backs the quality claims.
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Google shuts off Nano Banana 2 on the Gemini API on October 29; its replacement, Nano Banana 2.1, lists at about half the price per image. Teams budgeting 4K should plan on the higher of two token counts in Google's own docs until an invoice settles it.
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Greta Garbo's estate says it would consider AI film roles for her after SKF ran a 99-second advert starring an AI-made version of the star. The next buyer's executives will have to justify the casting without the history that made SKF a natural fit.
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Ideogram 4.5 launched September 30 at $0.008 to $0.22 per image, pitched on repeated edits that leave the rest of the picture untouched. No independent test of that claim has been published, so teams paying per edit pass have to measure drift on their own assets.
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Decrypt's rerun gives three of six categories to Google and the rest to OpenAI. The 50% latency cut is OpenAI's own figure, measured against Images 2.0, and the review does not include prices for the two new API tiers.
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A prompt meant for 10 rows ran on 28,000. That is the buying question now: not price per seat, but what one mis-scoped action costs before anyone notices.
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