Nano Banana 2 Image Editing

POST/v1/run

Nano Banana 2 is Google's new state-of-the-art image generation and editing model

Request body

Submit an async generation request. The model field selects the model; other fields are model-specific input parameters.

stringmodelrequired

Model identifier. Set to google/nano-banana-2/edit.

Default: google/nano-banana-2/edit

array<string>imagesrequired

The URLs of the images to use for image-to-image generation or image editing.

stringpromptrequired

The text prompt to generate an image from.

Default: Make a 3 panel comic in a gritty, noir art style with high-contrast black and white inks. Put the character in a humurous scene.

Optional<string>aspect_ratio

The aspect ratio of the generated image.

Allowed values: 21:9, 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4, 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 2:3, 9:16, 4:1, 1:4, 8:1, 1:8

Optional<string>output_format

The format of the generated image.

Allowed values: jpeg, png

Default: png

Optional<string>resolution

The resolution of the image to generate.

Allowed values: 0.5K, 1K, 2K, 4K

Default: 1K

Optional<boolean>enable_web_search

Enable Google web search grounding to provide background context for image generation.

Default: false

Optional<boolean>enable_image_search

Enable Google image search to retrieve web images as visual background reference for generation.

Default: false

Response Schema

The submit endpoint returns an accepted generation task. Poll the result endpoint with the returned id for terminal outputs or errors.

Optional<string>error

Error message if the task failed. Empty on success.

stringidrequired

Unique identifier for the generation task.

Optional<string>model

Model ID used for the prediction.

Optional<array>outputs

Array of generated content. Empty when status is not completed.

stringstatusrequired

Status of the task: pending, running, completed, failed, or timeout.

Allowed values: pending, running, completed, failed, timeout

Model capabilities

array<string>capability_tagsrequired

Capabilities declared by the model registry.

Default: image-to-image, commercial

stringexecution_moderequired

Execution mode declared by the model registry.

Default: auto

# 1. Submit a generation request
curl -X POST https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "google/nano-banana-2/edit",
  "images": "https://ai.google.dev/static/gemini-api/docs/images/man_in_white_glasses.jpg",
  "prompt": "Make a 3 panel comic in a gritty, noir art style with high-contrast black and white inks. Put the character in a humurous scene.",
  "aspect_ratio": "21:9",
  "output_format": "png"
}'

# 2. If the response is still running, poll the returned id
curl https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/run_abc123 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY"

Response202 Accepted

{
  "id": "run_abc123",
  "model": "google/nano-banana-2/edit",
  "status": "running",
  "outputs": []
}