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Instagram image and video sizes
Instagram's own help page moved: the tallest feed post it documents today is 3:4, not the 4:5 every other guide still prints.
Every frame below is drawn to scale against the others in its section, and every number carries the Instagram page we read it on. Click a size to copy it.
Feed posts
Instagram publishes a window, not a size. Anything between 1.91:1 and 3:4 keeps its own resolution up to a width of 1080 px; anything outside gets cropped to fit.
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- Feed post, tallest1080x1440
- The tallest frame Instagram documents. The 4:5 crop most guides call the maximum now sits inside the window rather than at its edge.
- 3:4min width 320 · 1080x1440 maxhelp.instagram.com
- Feed post, 4:51080x1350
- Still inside the supported window, and still the size Meta's own ad tooling asks for. Safe everywhere.
- 4:5help.instagram.com
- Feed post, square1080x1080
- Meta's recommended minimum for Instagram Feed, and what a carousel crops every later slide to when the first slide is square.
- 1:1www.facebook.com
- Feed post, widest1080x566
- The widest frame Instagram accepts before it crops.
- 1.91:1help.instagram.com
Reels and stories
Both fill a 9:16 phone screen. Instagram documents the ratio and a floor, not a target, so 1080 x 1920 is 9:16 taken to Instagram's own 1080 px ceiling.
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- Bottom 40%: caption, handle and buttons
Meta names one measurable band: leave the bottom 40% free of text, logos and key elements. The top and side edges carry chrome too, but Meta publishes no pixel figure for them, so nothing is drawn there.
- Reel1080x1920
- Instagram documents an aspect window up to 9:16 and a 720 px floor rather than a pixel size. 1080 x 1920 is that ratio at the width Instagram stops scaling down.
- 9:16min width 720up to 20 minhelp.instagram.com
- length: help.instagram.com
- Reel cover420x654
- Instagram's own recommended cover size, and it cannot be changed after the reel is published.
- 1:1.55help.instagram.com
- Story1080x1920
- A story also takes any feed ratio from 1.91:1 to 4:5 - it just gets letterboxed into the vertical frame.
- 9:16600x1067 minwww.facebook.com
Profile photo
The one number on this page Instagram does not publish.
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- Profile photo320x320
- Cropped to a circle, so keep the subject clear of the corners.
- 1:1www.facebook.comno official figure
Questions
- What size is an Instagram post in 2026?
- 1080 px wide. The height depends on the shape you want: 1440 px for the tallest frame Instagram documents (3:4), 1350 px for the familiar 4:5, 1080 px square, or 566 px for the widest (1.91:1). Instagram keeps a photo at its own resolution as long as it is between 320 and 1080 px wide and inside that ratio window.
- Is Instagram still 1080 x 1350?
- Yes, and it is still a good default - but it is no longer the tallest option. Instagram's help page now documents the window as 1.91:1 to 3:4, which at 1080 px wide reaches 1440 px tall.
- What are Instagram story dimensions?
- 1080 x 1920 px, a 9:16 ratio. Meta's own recommendation is 1080 x 1920 with a 600 x 1067 minimum. A story will also carry any feed ratio between 1.91:1 and 4:5; it just leaves space above and below.
- How long can an Instagram reel be?
- Up to 20 minutes of recorded clips. Instagram adds one warning in the same paragraph: reels over 3 minutes will not be recommended to new audiences, so 3 minutes is the practical ceiling if reach matters.
- What size is an Instagram reel cover?
- 420 x 654 px, roughly 1:1.55, and Instagram will not let you change it after the reel is posted.
Sources, verified 2026-08-25
Pixels are the half of the rules the platforms publish and our engine does not enforce. The other half - file formats, size caps, how many images fit in one post, what our API path will accept - is generated from the engine's own table at Instagram specs. Neither page restates what the other one owns.
- [help.instagram.com]A photo keeps its own resolution at a width between 320 and 1080 px as long as its aspect ratio is between 1.91:1 and 3:4 - at a width of 1080 px, a height between 566 and 1440 px. Anything wider is sized down to 1080 px.help.instagram.comverified 2026-08-25
- [www.facebook.com]Meta's recommended minimum image size across placements: 1080 x 1080 px for Instagram Feed, Instagram Stories, Instagram Reels, Facebook Stories and Facebook Reels; 1080 x 1080 for a 1:1 Facebook Feed image and 1440 x 1800 for a 4:5 one.www.facebook.comverified 2026-08-25
- [help.instagram.com]A reel uploads at an aspect ratio between 1.91:1 and 9:16, with a minimum frame rate of 30 FPS and a minimum resolution of 720 pixels. The recommended cover photo size is 420x654 (1:1.55).help.instagram.comverified 2026-08-25
- [help.instagram.com]You can record one or multiple clips that add up to 20 minutes. Reels over 3 minutes will not be recommended to new audiences.help.instagram.comverified 2026-08-25
- [www.facebook.com]For 9:16 creative in Stories, Reels and Feed, keep the top, bottom and side edges free of key creative elements, text and logos. If a reel carries disclaimers, leave the bottom 40% free of text, logos and other key elements.www.facebook.comverified 2026-08-25
- [www.facebook.com]Instagram Stories: recommended resolution 1080 x 1920, minimum 600 x 1067. All feed dimensions are supported, 1.91:1 to 4:5. Images show for 5 seconds by default.www.facebook.comverified 2026-08-25
- [www.facebook.com]Instagram publishes no profile-photo size anywhere we can find. The picture renders as a circle, and Meta's guidance for the equivalent Facebook Page picture is to upload 320 x 320 px - which is what we show here, marked, rather than a number we made up.www.facebook.comverified 2026-08-25no official doc confirms this number