Compress a video for Discord

Discord's upload limits

Discord's File Attachments FAQ says the free upload limit is 20 MB as of August 2026, up from 10 MB. Nitro Basic raises it to 50 MB and Nitro to up to 1 GB (Discord Support). Discord also says it is trying out other limits, so some accounts may see a larger one.

Discord now checks the size of the file you pick before it compresses anything, on desktop and on phones alike, so the file has to be under the limit as it is. This tool aims about 3% under the size you set, and counts 1 MB as 1,000,000 bytes, a little less than the 1,048,576 bytes some apps count, so a clip made for 20 MB stays under either way.

With the sound at 128 kbps. A longer clip still fits: Auto moves to 30 fps or a smaller picture until it does, and tells you what it picked before you start.

60 fps game clips

Game captures and many phone clips run at 60 frames per second. Every frame costs bits, so at 20 MB a 60 fps clip either stays short or loses detail. For clips over 30 fps, Auto tries 30 fps at each picture size before it shrinks the picture: a sharp 30 fps clip usually looks better than a blurry 60 fps one of the same size.

If smooth motion matters more to you than sharpness, set Frame rate to Same as the video and pick a picture size; the panel shows the bitrate before you start. In our tests a 30-second 1080p clip at 60 fps came down to 7.8 MB at 720p and 30 fps in 5 to 7 seconds, and kept at 1080p and 60 fps it fit in 25 MB.

Keep only the moment

A long recording rarely needs to be posted whole. Open Compress only part of the video under the preview, drag the handles or type the times, and the size you set is for that part only. The new clip starts exactly where you chose, because every frame is encoded again.

Halving the length doubles the bits each second gets, which does more for the picture than any other setting. Removing the sound helps a little too, when the clip has nothing worth hearing.

Clips from your phone

Discord lists MOV files, and MP4 files with H.264, HEVC or AV1 video, among what you can upload, so a phone clip is turned away for its size, not its format. Since Discord now checks the size before compressing, it says desktop and iOS uploads should generally be easier than before, while Android users, whose files tend to be larger, may hit the limit more often than they used to (Discord Support).

To fit a phone clip, open this page in the phone's browser (Safari on an iPhone, Chrome on Android), pick the clip from your gallery and keep 20 MB. A minute of 1080p comes out at 720p, and a 4K clip is brought down to a picture size that fits; the panel names it before you start. Then download the MP4 and post it from the Discord app.

Discord's own video settings

In the Discord mobile app, the Chat settings have a Video Uploads choice for the quality of videos you send, with a Data Saver option for quicker uploads. Discord says the size limit is checked before that compression, so a file over the limit is too big even if the app would shrink it (Discord Support).

Compressing here first gives you a file that is under the limit before you open Discord, and you decide the picture size, the frame rate and the part to keep.

Your clip stays yours

The clip is compressed inside this page by your own browser, so the only time it leaves your device is when you post it to Discord yourself. The MP4 you post carries no title, recording place, date or device name from the original file, and no watermark.

This tool always writes H.264 video in an MP4, one of the video formats Discord lists.