Limit reference
Telegram file size limit
Aim for
2GB
As of , Telegram allows files up to 2GB, or 4GB with Telegram Premium. It is rarely the constraint that sends anyone looking for a compressor.
By plan
Telegram limits by tier
What the same file is allowed to be, depending on the plan you are on or the route you send it by. Only the default free path is ever offered as a preset — the rest are here so you can see whether changing route is cheaper than compressing.
Free
2GB
Premium
4GB
The tool
Compress a file to fit Telegram
Video, images or PDFs, already set to 2GB. Runs on your machine — nothing is uploaded.
2Add your file
Video, images and PDFs, all compressed on your own machine. No upload, no account, no watermark, no limit on how many files.
Reference
Other platform limits
Every one of them dated, and the advertised number next to the one that works.
- Discord20MBVerified 26 Sep 2026
- WhatsApp16MBVerified 26 Sep 2026
- Gmail18MBVerified 26 Sep 2026
- Outlook15MBVerified 26 Sep 2026
- Notion5MBVerified 11 Oct 2026
- Microsoft Teams100MBVerified 11 Oct 2026
- GitHub25MBVerified 11 Oct 2026
- Slack1GBVerified 26 Sep 2026
- Reddit1GBVerified 26 Sep 2026
- YouTube256GBVerified 11 Oct 2026
- Google Drive5TBVerified 11 Oct 2026
- Dropbox2TBVerified 11 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn5GBVerified 11 Oct 2026
- WeTransfer3GBVerified 11 Oct 2026
Background
Why the limit bites, and what to do about it
- MB vs MiB, and why your 25MB file is not 25MB25MB means either 25,000,000 or 26,214,400 bytes depending on who is counting, and almost nobody says which. Here is how to be right either way.
- Why is my video file so big?A 30-second clip can be 4MB or 400MB. The difference is bitrate, resolution, frame rate and length — and only one of them is worth changing first.