Nano Banana Pro vs Grok 4

1. Studio-quality image generation

• Built on Gemini 3 Pro for exceptionally high fidelity.
• Improved accuracy in composition, physics, lighting, and artistic style.

2. Precise creative controls

• Fine-tune lighting, camera, color grading, focus, and physical realism.
• Ideal for professional production workflows requiring creative direction.

3. Advanced text rendering & localization

• Produces crisp, accurate text inside images (signs, menus, labels, UI elements).
• Can localize text across different languages while preserving layout and style.

4. Multi-input creative workflows

• Supports up to 14 reference images for composite ads or mockups.
• Generates consistent resemblance for up to 5 individuals.
• Works with 2K and 4K resolution outputs.

5. Strong world knowledge

• Understands and reasons about real-world concepts.
• Generates factual assets like diagrams, maps, and educational content.

6. Google Search grounding (when enabled)

• Retrieves real-time web data to improve factual accuracy.
• Useful for data-driven graphics, infographics, and historically accurate visuals.

7. Enhanced editing capabilities

• Handles local edits, transformations, pose changes, and reference-based modifications.
• Maintains stylistic consistency during image-to-image operations.

8. Developer-friendly ecosystem

• Fully integrated into Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and Antigravity platform.
• Supported in Adobe, Figma, and agentic development workflows.

9. SynthID provenance watermark

• Every generated or edited image includes an invisible SynthID watermark.
• Ensures content authenticity and responsible AI usage.

1. Flagship-level reasoning and math performance

• Designed for world-class reasoning depth, precision, and multi-step logical chains.
• Excels at STEM, mathematics, symbolic operations, proofs, and analytical workloads.

2. Powerful multimodal understanding

• Supports text, images, and other modalities.
• Handles cross-modal reasoning tasks requiring context synthesis.

3. Extreme capability across diverse tasks

• Positioned as a top-tier 'jack of all trades' model.
• Strong in natural language, coding, knowledge retrieval, and structured generation.

4. Large 256K context window

• Enables analysis of long documents, entire codebases, multi-document packs, and extensive agent sessions.
• Supports workloads that require persistent reasoning across large inputs.

5. Advanced developer tooling support

• Function calling for tool-augmented workflows.
• Structured outputs for predictable, schema-controlled generation.
• Integrates smoothly with agents and complex automation pipelines.

6. Efficient caching for cost reduction

• Cached input tokens discounted to $0.75 / 1M tokens.
• Encourages RAG, retrieval pipelines, and multi-step conversational workflows.

7. Production-ready performance

• Stable rate limits: 480 requests per minute.
• High token throughput: 2,000,000 tokens per minute.
• Available across multiple xAI regional clusters.

8. Optional Live Search augmentation

• Add-on: $25 per 1K sources.
• Enhances factual accuracy and real-time information retrieval.