Facebook Image Sizes (2026)
All the dimensions Facebook uses today, with safe zones and a one-click resizer for each.
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All Facebook image sizes for 2026
Facebook uses around a dozen distinct image sizes across profiles, pages, groups, events, the feed, Stories, Reels, Marketplace and ads. The table below lists every one of them with the ratio, the minimum Facebook accepts, the size we recommend uploading and where the image actually appears. Each row links to a dedicated page with a preview tool for that placement.
| Placement | Displayed / recommended | Ratio | Minimum | Where it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profile cover, desktop | 820 × 312 · upload 1640 × 624 | 2.63:1 | 400 × 150 | Top of the profile; safe centre 640 × 312 |
| Profile cover, mobile | 640 × 360 (same file) | 16:9 | 400 × 150 | Sides trimmed, top and bottom extended |
| Page cover | 820 × 312 · upload 1640 × 624 | 2.63:1 | 400 × 150 | Identical to the profile cover |
| Event cover | 1920 × 1005 | 1.91:1 | 1200 × 628 | Event page and invitations |
| Group cover | 1640 × 856 | 1.91:1 | 820 × 428 | Group header; shorter on phones |
| Profile picture | upload 1000 × 1000 | 1:1 | 320 × 320 | Circle at 170 (desktop), 128 (phone), 40 (feed), 32 (comments) |
| Page profile picture | upload 1000 × 1000 | 1:1 | 320 × 320 | Same circle; pad logos 10–15 % |
| Feed post, landscape | 1200 × 630 | 1.91:1 | 600 × 315 | Smallest footprint in the feed |
| Feed post, square | 1080 × 1080 | 1:1 | 600 × 600 | Feed, carousels, most ads |
| Feed post, portrait | 1080 × 1350 | 4:5 | 600 × 750 | Tallest shape the feed shows uncropped |
| Story | 1080 × 1920 | 9:16 | 1080 × 1920 | Full screen; top and bottom 250 px under the UI |
| Reel | 1080 × 1920 | 9:16 | 1080 × 1920 | Buttons on the right, caption bottom-left |
| Link share image (og:image) | 1200 × 630 | 1.91:1 | 600 × 315 | Below 600 × 315 it becomes a small square thumbnail |
| Ad image | 1080 × 1080 or 1200 × 628 | 1:1 / 1.91:1 | 600 × 600 / 600 × 314 | Square covers feed, Stories and right column |
| Carousel card | 1080 × 1080 | 1:1 | 600 × 600 | All cards in one ratio |
| Marketplace listing | 1200 × 1200 | 1:1 | 600 × 600 | Listing grid and product page |
| Video thumbnail | 1280 × 720 | 16:9 | match the video | Custom cover for uploaded video |
| Any photo upload | max 2048 px long edge | any | — | Files under ~4 MB, sRGB JPG or PNG |
The five sizes that matter most
Cover photo, 820 × 312. The one people search for most. The same file is shown at 640 × 360 on phones, so the sides go and the top and bottom grow; only the central 640 × 312 is visible everywhere. Export at 1640 × 624 and check both crops with the cover photo checker.
Profile picture, 1000 × 1000. Facebook accepts anything from 320 × 320, masks it into a circle and shows it as small as 32 px next to comments. A face that fills half the frame survives all of that; a full-body shot does not. The profile picture preview renders all four sizes.
Event and group covers, 1920 × 1005 and 1640 × 856. Both 1.91:1, both different from the 2.63:1 page cover; reusing a page cover here is the most common cropping mistake. Details on the banner sizes page.
Portrait post, 1080 × 1350. The 4:5 ratio takes about 2.4 times the vertical space of a 1.91:1 landscape image in the feed and is the tallest shape shown without cropping. The post size guide covers square, landscape and the Story overlays.
Story and Reel, 1080 × 1920. Full-screen 9:16 with the top and bottom 250 px reserved for Facebook's own controls. Design inside the central 1080 × 1420 and nothing important gets covered.
What changed recently
The pixel numbers themselves have been stable for several years, which is good news if you have templates: the cover moved from 851 × 315 to 820 × 312 and the profile picture from 160 to 170 px during the 2017–2018 redesign, the event cover went from 1920 × 1080 to 1920 × 1005, and the group cover was trimmed from 1640 × 922 to 1640 × 856 in 2020. None of those has changed since, and nothing has changed for 2026.
What keeps changing is how the images are displayed. The mobile profile layout now centres the profile picture under the cover instead of overlapping its corner. The feed favours 4:5 portrait over landscape and crops anything taller. Reels have become the default vertical video format and share the 1080 × 1920 canvas with Stories, but with a different set of overlays. Link previews from external sites have shrunk in the feed, so a proper 1200 × 630 og:image matters more, not less. And the ad system now serves one square 1080 × 1080 asset to most placements, which is why square has become the safe default for anything you might promote.
How Facebook compresses images
Every upload is decoded, resized into several renditions (the sizes in the table plus thumbnails), re-encoded as JPEG and stripped of metadata and colour profiles. Three consequences follow. First, anything larger than 2048 px on its long edge is shrunk before it is compressed, so a 6000 px photo gains nothing over a 2048 px one. Second, colour profiles are discarded: a file exported in Adobe RGB or Display P3 is treated as sRGB and comes out flat. Third, PNGs are usually converted to JPEG unless they are small graphics, and a photographic PNG often ends up looking worse than the same picture exported as a 90 % JPG, because Facebook picks the quality setting, not you.
You cannot switch the compression off, but you can give it less to do. Upload at the exact display size (or exactly 2×), in sRGB, as a JPG at 85–92 % quality, under about 4 MB. For a cover photo Facebook's own advice has long been an sRGB JPG under 100 KB. On the phone app, open Settings → Media and turn on Upload photos in HD and Upload videos in HD; the defaults upload reduced versions on mobile data. And avoid saving an image from Facebook and re-uploading it: each round trip adds another generation of artefacts.
Cheat sheet
Need a size that is not here, or a PNG or WebP? The Facebook image resizer has every preset plus a custom width and height.
