Magic Hour vs Elyumfor Nano Banana 2
Elyum bills 3 credits ($0.03) only when you keep a 1K take. Magic Hour lists the model and does not publish a per-image price.
Nano Banana 2 is Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Image model. It is a fast text-to-image and image-editing engine that holds faces, logos, and product geometry across a prompt change or an edit pass. Studios use it for SKU-identical product stills: the bottle, the label crop, and the person's face stay themselves when you rotate the camera or rewrite the background. It also puts readable words on signs and packaging. On Elyum it lives on the Nano Banana 2 page with text-to-image, image editing, and eleven aspect ratios.
The weights are the same. The bill is not. Elyum lists a kept 1K take at 3 credits ($0.03) and charges only after you KEEP it. Magic Hour lists Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana 2 Lite on its models page, and per-model cost is often undisclosed until generation. Elyum does not lock the model behind a paid seat. Elyum pricing starts at Free (up to 150 credits once (our algorithm may grant them)). Magic Hour puts every tool on Creator, Pro, and Business, then caps export quality: Creator 1024px, Pro 1472px, Business 4K. We refund a KILL in full. Magic Hour's failed-generation terms were not extracted, so they stay unpublished here.
Magic Hour is the broader workshop. Face swap, lip sync, and character replacement sit next to the image model. The Magic Hour alternative page is the map of that gap. Elyum does not have a timeline editor, stock footage, avatars, a mobile app, team seats, or a community feed. If you came for Nano Banana 2 plus those extras, Magic Hour is the fit. If you came to burn through angles and throw most of them away, keep-or-kill is the meter that matters. Same model, also compared at Magic Hour vs Elyum for Nano Banana Pro.
Nano Banana 2 on Magic Hour
Creator exports stop at 1024px. That is the first Magic Hour limit that hits Nano Banana 2 on a paid plan. Creator, Pro, and Business each include every tool; the plan buys resolution, credits, and queue, not access. Magic Hour's pricing page lists Creator at $19/mo ($12/mo yearly, 144,000 credits/year, 1024px), Pro at $39/mo ($25/mo yearly, 300,000 credits/year, 1472px), and Business at $99/mo ($66/mo yearly, 840,000 credits/year, 4K). Paid exports are watermark-free. Paid subscribers may use outputs commercially under Magic Hour's Terms of Service.
What you will not find is a published Nano Banana 2 credit price. Magic Hour model pages often leave cost as TBD (Seedance 2.0 is the example). Pay-as-you-go packs are $1 = 400 credits ($10/4,000 to $160/64,000), or 0.25 cents per credit, which does not help until the image draw is listed. A free tier exists. Third-party reviews say 400 starter credits with no stated expiry; the official pricing page did not itemize that figure. Free video and audio may carry a watermark. This page does not state what a bad Nano Banana 2 render costs on Magic Hour. Refund terms were not extracted.
Nano Banana 2 on Elyum
On Elyum, Nano Banana 2 is 3 credits per kept 1K render ($0.03), 4.5 credits at 2K ($0.04), and 6 credits at 4K ($0.06). 1 credit equals $0.01. Those numbers are the keep price, not the preview. Every render comes back as a free take. You KEEP the ones you want (that is the only charge) or KILL the rest for an automatic full refund. A failed generation is never charged. Kills are one a month on Free; paid plans kill freely. Ultra at $69/mo is fair-use unlimited on this model. Kept files download clean, no watermark, commercial use included. Routes: text-to-image and image editing.
Plus is $9/mo, Pro is $29/mo, Ultra is $69/mo, and you can top up. Pro and Ultra include fair-use unlimited image generation on selected image models; this one is called out as unlimited on Ultra. Credits sit in one balance with 50+ other models. You can also run the same studio from Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor through the MCP docs, or via the REST API. Magic Hour ships a REST API for async media jobs, usage-priced separately from the web subscription. Those keep-or-kill rules apply on MCP and API jobs too.
What a Nano Banana 2 take costs
| Scenario | Magic Hour | Elyum |
|---|---|---|
| One 1K render you keep | Not published | 3 credits ($0.03) at 1K |
| Ten 1K renders, keep three | Not published (no per-image Nano Banana 2 price) | 3 credits ($0.03) |
| A failed generation | Not published | $0 (failed generations are never charged) |
| Monthly plan needed to access the model | No extra model fee on paid plans. Creator $19/mo, Pro $39/mo, Business $99/mo. Free is basic features only. | No. Free plan, up to 150 credits once (our algorithm may grant them), can run it |
| Watermark on a paid export | False (paid plans are watermark-free) | None. Kept takes download clean |
| One 4K render you keep | Not published. 4K export is a Business cap ($99/mo). | 6 credits ($0.06) at 4K |
Elyum: 1 credit = $0.01, charged only when you keep a take. Magic Hour figures from its own pricing pages and independent reviews, verified 2026-09-07; sources at the end. Full rate card on the Nano Banana 2 page.
Where the two differ
Elyum charges at KEEP only. Previews are $0. Magic Hour prices by credits and often does not disclose the per-model cost until generation. The Nano Banana 2 draw is not published. An OutlierKit review of Magic Hour cited confusing credit usage and pricing structure.
On Elyum a KILL is a full refund (one kill a month on Free; paid plans kill freely). A failed generation is never charged. Magic Hour has a refund-policy page, but the terms were not extracted, so this page does not state a Magic Hour refund.
Magic Hour caps export quality by plan: Creator 1024px, Pro 1472px, Business 4K. Elyum prices the model's own 1K, 2K, and 4K outputs (3.2, 4.8, 6 credits) without that plan-pixel ladder.
Magic Hour bundles 100+ tools (face swap, lip sync, character replacement) around the model. Elyum is one credit balance across 50+ models and no timeline, stock, avatars, mobile app, team seats, or community feed.
Magic Hour ships a REST API for async media jobs, usage-priced separately from the web subscription, and reports 99.9% API uptime. Elyum has a REST API plus MCP for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor.
Paid Magic Hour subscribers may use outputs commercially under Magic Hour's Terms of Service; free-tier terms were not fully specified. Elyum includes commercial use on kept takes, with no watermark.
Pick Magic Hour when
- You want Nano Banana 2 in the same tab as face swap, lip sync, and character replacement (100+ tools).
- Creator, Pro, and Business each include every tool. You buy credits and a resolution cap, not a feature gate.
- You need Magic Hour's REST API (usage-based, 99.9% uptime claimed) next to the web studio.
- Business at $99/mo ($66/mo yearly) unlocks 4K export and 840,000 credits/year.
Pick Elyum when
- A kept 1K take is 3 credits ($0.03). 2K is 4.8 ($0.05). 4K is 6.4 ($0.06). Previews are free.
- KILL refunds the take in full. Failed generations are never charged. Paid plans kill without a monthly cap.
- Ultra ($69/mo) is fair-use unlimited on Nano Banana 2.
- One balance across 50+ models, plus MCP from Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor.
Nano Banana 2 in three styles, rendered on Elyum
Getting the most out of Nano Banana 2
- Name the hold before the change. Attach a product or face still, then lock it in words: same bottle, same label geometry, or same person, same freckle map. Then name the new angle or backdrop. Flash Image follows the lock more than the wish.
- Write the camera as a shot list. 35mm, eye-level three-quarter, 90cm table, key from camera left, sweep #F4F1EA. Vague product-photo language will not match the next SKU.
- For type in the frame, paste the exact line and name the surface (label reads NORDIC OATS 400g, Helvetica Bold, white on navy). Asking it to add some text produces decorative lettering.
- One change per edit pass. Attach the still, lock the product, change only the background or only the light. Five edits in one prompt is how geometry drifts.
- Set aspect ratio before you generate. 1:1 for PDP tiles, 4:5 for paid social, 16:9 for a hero. Elyum exposes eleven ratios. Cropping after breaks a matching set.
- Do not prompt motion. Nano Banana 2 outputs stills. Dolly, turn, and then she walks belong on a video model.
Frequently asked questions
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