Limit reference
YouTube file size limit
Aim for
256GB
As of , YouTube accepts videos up to 256GB or 12 hours, whichever is less. The limit that actually stops people is the 15-minute cap on unverified accounts, which phone verification removes.
The tool
Compress a file to fit YouTube
Video, images or PDFs, already set to 256GB. 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
- Telegram2GBVerified 26 Sep 2026
- Slack1GBVerified 26 Sep 2026
- Reddit1GBVerified 26 Sep 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.