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Discord character limit and media specs
A Discord post holds up to 2,000 characters, with 10 images, 10 video, a PDF document. Every number below is the one our publishing engine enforces before a Discord post goes out, with the source it came from and the date we last read it.
Text[text]
| Max length | 2,000 Unicode code points |
|---|---|
| Counting | Counted in Unicode code points: one plain character is one, and a link costs its full length. |
Media
| Constraint | Images[image] | Video | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per post | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Formats | .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .webp | .mp4, .mov, .webm | |
| Max size | 20 MB | 20 MB | 20 MB |
| Max length | - | - | - |
| We publish it | yes | yes | yes |
We publish text, images, video and PDF documents here.
Mentions
User/role mentions need snowflake ids (<@id>) - plain text unless verified.
The guidance our own agent carries for Discord, verbatim.
How our publisher handles it
The notes our publishing engine carries for Discord, verbatim - what our adapter does, not only what the platform allows.
- At most 10 attachments per message in total, and 25 MiB for the whole message.
Questions
- How long can a Discord post be?
- 2,000 characters. Counted in Unicode code points: one plain character is one, and a link costs its full length.
- How many images can one Discord post have?
- Up to 10: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .webp, up to 20 MB each.
- What video does Discord accept?
- 10 video per post: .mp4, .mov, .webm, up to 20 MB each.
- How do you tag an account on Discord?
- User/role mentions need snowflake ids (<@id>) - plain text unless verified.
Sources, verified 2026-09-29
Each citation names where the number came from. Anything we could not confirm in an official document is marked, because a number nobody will stand behind should look different from one that is.
- [text]discord.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook#execute-webhook content up to 2000 characters, wait=true returns the messagediscord.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook#execute-webhookverified 2026-09-29
- [image]discord.com/developers/docs/reference#uploading-files 20 MiB per file default, Nitro/boost raise it; create-message 25 MiB per requestdiscord.com/developers/docs/reference#uploading-filesverified 2026-09-29
- [attachments]discord.com/developers/docs/topics/opcodes-and-status-codes 30015 max 10 attachments per messagediscord.com/developers/docs/topics/opcodes-and-status-codesverified 2026-09-29
- [link]discord.com/channels/<guild>/<channel>/<message> = Copy Message Link; support.discord.com 206346498 names it, shape not spelled outdiscord.com/channels/verified 2026-09-29no official doc confirms this number
- [rateLimit]discord.com/developers/docs/topics/rate-limits: per-webhook bucket, never hardcode, honor retry_after; no per-minute number publisheddiscord.com/developers/docs/topics/rate-limitsverified 2026-09-29