Facebook size guide

Facebook Link Image size: 1200 x 630 pixels.

The Facebook Link Image size in 2026 is 1200 by 630 pixels, a 1.91:1 landscape frame. Keep text and logos inside the central 1120 by 550 pixel safe zone; the platform's interface covers 40 px at the top and 40 px at the bottom and 40 px on the left and 40 px on the right. Upload JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP; up to 8 MB.

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Dimensions
1200 x 630

pixels, width by height

Aspect ratio
1.91:1

Exact ratio 40:21

Safe zone
1120 x 550

area free of interface

File
≤ 8 MB

JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP

Safe zone and crops

Drawn to scale from the numbers above. The PNG template has the same guides so you can design on top of it.

Square thumbnail 1:140 px covered by the interface40 px covered by the interface1200 x 630
Shaded bands are covered by buttons, captions or the profile name. Keep text and logos inside the dashed 1120 x 550 area.

Source: Meta for Developers (Sharing), checked 2026-09-11.

Also accepted: 1.91:1 ratios, minimum 600 px wide. Meta asks for at least 1200 by 630, with 600 by 315 the minimum for the large card and 200 by 200 the absolute floor.

Resize your image to 1200 x 630

Runs in your browser. Fill and crop for photos, fit with padding when nothing may be cut.

JPG, PNG or WebP. It is resized to exactly 1200 x 630 in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Fit
Format

Output size

1200 x 630

Facebook: Link preview

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Facebook: Link preview

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How Facebook handles the link preview size

When a link is posted, the preview picture comes from the og:image tag on the page, not from anything uploaded to Facebook. Meta's sharing documentation asks for at least 1200 by 630 pixels for high resolution screens, gives 600 by 315 as the minimum for the large card format, 200 by 200 as the absolute floor and 8 MB as the file cap, and says to stay as close to 1.91:1 as possible so the card fills without cropping.

Any other shape is cut to 1.91:1 from the centre, which costs a square image 48 percent of its height. Some surfaces, including Messenger and certain mobile link types, fall back to a small square thumbnail instead, so a subject that still reads inside a centred square is worth building in. That is what the 40 pixel margin in the safe zone below is for.

Personal posts can no longer override the preview picture, and Pages can only edit it once the domain is verified, so the og:image on your own site is the thing to get right. Facebook caches what it fetched, so run the URL through Meta's Sharing Debugger after you change the tag. The same 1200 by 630 file also serves LinkedIn, X, Slack and WhatsApp previews, which makes it the one landscape asset worth keeping alongside your 1080 by 1350 posts.

Questions about Facebook link image sizes

  • 1200 by 630 pixels at 1.91:1. Meta's sharing documentation gives 600 by 315 as the minimum for the large card, 200 by 200 as the absolute floor and an 8 MB file cap, and crops anything that is not close to 1.91:1 from the centre.

  • Fix the og:image tag on the page, then paste the URL into Meta's Sharing Debugger and choose Scrape Again. Facebook caches the first image it fetched, and a personal post has no manual override, so clearing the cache is the only route.

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