The system requirements for Nano Banana 2 are intentionally minimal to support deployment in constrained environments. At a minimum, the library requires a 64-bit operating system with at least 256 MB of available RAM for baseline operation. Linux is the primary supported platform and receives the most thorough testing across distributions, including Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine, and RHEL-compatible systems. macOS is also fully supported for development use. Windows support is available for the Python and Go clients but is not recommended for production workloads due to differences in process scheduling behavior.
For CPU, Nano Banana 2 makes no assumptions about instruction set extensions beyond the standard 64-bit baseline. It does not require AVX, SSE4, or other SIMD extensions to run, though it will use them if available to accelerate certain data processing operations. This makes it suitable for deployment on older or low-power hardware. Disk requirements depend on your workload configuration—persistent queue storage and logging can consume disk space proportional to your data volume, but the base installation footprint is under 50 MB.
Runtime dependencies vary by language. The Python SDK requires Python 3.8 or later. The Go client requires Go 1.21 or later. The Rust crate requires a Rust toolchain version 1.70 or later for compilation. If you are running Nano Banana 2 inside a Docker container, the project provides official base images on Docker Hub that include all necessary runtime dependencies pre-installed. These images are available in both full and slim variants, with the slim variant stripped of development tools to minimize the final image size.