GPT-5 Codex vs Nano Banana
OpenAI vs Google — benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities side by side.
- •Nano Banana is cheaper ($0.30 vs $1.25 per 1M input)
- •GPT-5 Codex has a larger context window (400K)
| GPT-5 Codex | Nano Banana | |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence index | 87.1 | — |
| Developer | OpenAI | |
| Type | Multimodal | Multimodal |
| Access | API only | API only |
| Context window | 400,000 tokens | 32,768 tokens |
| Input price | $1.25 / 1M | $0.30 / 1M |
| Output price | $10.00 / 1M | $2.50 / 1M |
| Speed | 180 tok/s | — |
| Released | September 23, 2025 | October 7, 2025 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Image, Text |
| Output modalities | Text | Image, Text |