Preset · 10 MB target
Compress a video to 10 MB
Discord's free upload limit is 10 MB. Drop your clip below and it will be squeezed to just under 10 MB right on your device — no upload, no Nitro, no watermark.
How long is 10 MB of video?
There's no single answer, because it's a trade between length and picture quality: the longer the clip, the less detail fits in the same 10 MB. The table below is what this compressor actually produces from a typical phone recording — full HD, 30 frames a second, with sound.
| Video length | What 10 MB gives you |
|---|---|
| 30 seconds | Nearly full HD — hard to tell from the original |
| 1 minute | About half of full HD each way — still clear on a phone |
| 3 minutes | Small picture — fine inside a chat window, soft on a laptop |
| 5 minutes | Small picture; watchable, but blocky on a big screen |
| 10 minutes | Thumbnail-sized; watchable, but blocky when enlarged |
Past about 14 minutes, 10 MB stops being enough for a picture worth watching. Rather than hand you mush, the compressor offers to keep the opening stretch that fits, or tells you the smallest size that would work for the whole clip. For an exact figure before you start, the bitrate calculator does the sum for your own video's length and resolution.
Fitting a video into Discord's free limit
Discord checks the exact byte count, so 10.2 MB fails where 9.9 MB sails through. This tool works out exactly how much to compress so your video's length fits the limit, reserves space for audio, compresses, then verifies the final size — re-encoding automatically if the first pass came out even slightly over. You always get a file Discord will accept.
Be realistic about what 10 MB holds: a 20–30 second gameplay clip still looks sharp; a 2-minute clip lands around 540–720p and looks fine in chat; a 10-minute video at 10 MB is heavily compressed by any tool's math — for those, consider whether a trimmed highlight says it better. When space gets tight, the tool lowers resolution and frame rate in sensible steps instead of smearing every frame into blocks. The sound is kept clear enough not to crackle, because viewers forgive soft pixels faster than broken audio.
Everything runs right in your browser, using your device's own power, so compressing is usually faster than watching the clip — and your video is never uploaded anywhere.