Nano Banana 2 for Text in Image — Ads and Covers

Most image models still lie about typography

If the frame must include a readable product name, Nano Banana 2 is the Pixogen answer. Flow 1 will invent glyphs. That is why /glossary/nano-banana exists and why this guide is not another “best photoreal” rewrite.

This page is the Pixogen-specific version of the topic. Credit numbers below match the generate button in the studio as of August 2026. If a model ships a new badge, we update the routing note here within a day — that is the newsroom rule, not a landing-page rewrite.

Credit math

2 credits per still. Draft the layout in Klein, hero in Banana.

Credits never expire. Failed jobs refund automatically. Do not budget as if a missed render is gone. Packs start at 200 credits for $19.99; a launch week for a persona is usually cheaper than one stock-license bundle.

Pipeline on Pixogen

Layout sketch → Banana → editor cleanup. Education covers love this path.

Internal links that belong on this job: the matching tool landing, the pipeline hub, and one glossary term. Do not leave a guide live without those three. Related reading lives in Learn and Academy, not in a footer dump.

Model routing

/models/nano-banana-2.

If you are choosing an engine for the first time, open /models/compare. Portraits, motion, lipsync and photoreal each have a different default. Wan 3.0 is the motion hero as of this writing; Nano Banana 2 still wins in-image text.

Mistakes that waste credits

• Using Banana for a skin close-up.

Publish checklist

1. Lock identity before you batch.
2. Write the credit total on the brief so the client sees the number before the job.
3. Export clean — no watermark — then brand in your editor.
4. Ping the changelog if this guide rode a model drop.

See /use-cases/education, /ai-image-generator.