Gemini-3-Pro-Image-Preview (Nano Banana Pro) is a high-performance image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro. It delivers enhanced multimodal understanding and real-world semantic reasoning, enabling fast creation of well-structured visual content such as infographics, product sketches, and multi-subject scenes. It can also leverage real-time knowledge through Search grounding. The model excels in text rendering, consistent multi-image blending, and identity preservation, while offering fine-grained creative controls like localized edits, lighting and focus adjustments, camera transformations, and flexible aspect ratios. It’s ideal for rapid design, concept previews, product visualization, and everyday image generation workflows.
Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview vs GLM 5.2
Output tokens cost $12.00 per million on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and $3.94 per million on GLM 5.2. Input tokens cost $2.00 per million on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and $1.13 per million on GLM 5.2. Cached input tokens are billed at $2.00 per million on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and $0.28 per million on GLM 5.2. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 2.4s on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and 0.6s on GLM 5.2. Measured output throughput is 101.3 tok/s on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and 47.3 tok/s on GLM 5.2.
GLM 5.2GLM-5.2 is Z.ai’s flagship model for the era of long-horizon tasks. With a truly usable 1M-token context window, it can handle project-level engineering context, execute long-running tasks more reliably, follow engineering standards more consistently, and complete the full development workflow from requirements to multi-platform deployment in a single task.
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview, GLM 5.2?
GLM 5.2: $3.94/M output tokens; Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview: $12.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
GLM 5.2: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview at 101.3 tok/s and GLM 5.2 at 47.3 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview accepts text and image input and supports thinking; GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
Can I call Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and GLM 5.2 with the same API key?
Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.
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