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Social Media Image Sizes (2026 Cheat Sheet)

The right image sizes for Instagram posts and stories, YouTube thumbnails, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, TikTok and Pinterest, with one-click resizing.

Upload the wrong size and the platform crops your image or compresses it into mush. These are the sizes that look right. The image resizer has presets for all of them.

Instagram

FormatSize (px)Ratio
Square post1080 × 10801:1
Portrait post (most screen space)1080 × 13504:5
Story / Reel1080 × 19209:16
Profile picture320 × 3201:1 (shown as a circle)

To post a whole photo without Instagram cropping it, use Resize for Instagram in "Pad" mode.

YouTube

Thumbnail1280 × 720 (under 2MB)
Channel banner2560 × 1440 (safe area 1546 × 423)
Profile picture800 × 800

Facebook

Shared link / post image1200 × 630
Cover photo851 × 315 (upload 1640 × 624 for sharpness)
Story1080 × 1920

X (Twitter)

In-feed image1600 × 900 (16:9)
Header1500 × 500
Profile picture400 × 400

LinkedIn, TikTok and Pinterest

LinkedIn post1200 × 627
LinkedIn banner1584 × 396
TikTok1080 × 1920
Pinterest pin1000 × 1500 (2:3)

File size tips

Platforms recompress everything you upload. Uploading a clean JPG at quality 85-90 at exactly the right size gives them less to mangle. If you get an "image too large" error, compress it first.

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