Instagram size guide
Instagram Profile Picture size: 320 x 320 pixels.
The Instagram Profile Picture size in 2026 is 320 by 320 pixels, a 1:1 square frame. The full frame is visible in the feed. Upload JPG, PNG; up to 30 MB.
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- Safe zone
- Full frame
- File
- ≤ 30 MB
nothing covered
JPG, PNG
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.
Source: Instagram Help Center, figure as widely published.
Resize your image to 320 x 320
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JPG, PNG or WebP. It is resized to exactly 320 x 320 in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Instagram: Profile picture
320 x 320
How Instagram handles the profile picture size
Instagram stores the profile picture at 320 by 320 pixels and draws it as a circle: about 110 pixels across on your profile in the app, 150 on the web, and as small as 32 pixels next to a comment or on a Story ring. The safe zone below is zero on every side because the crop is not a rectangle. The circle is inscribed in the square, so the four corners are always thrown away and a design that fills the square loses them.
Upload a square. Give the mark roughly 30 pixels of clear space inside the edge and keep text off the bottom, where the curve cuts in hardest. A logo mark reads at 32 pixels; a full wordmark does not, which is why most small brands put the mark here and the words in the name field. PNG keeps a flat logo cleaner than JPG, which tends to halo around hard edges.
A larger source such as 1080 by 1080 is fine and is what you would export anyway from the same logo file you place on a 1080 by 1350 post, but Instagram scales it down to 320 on its side, so fine detail is lost either way. Instagram does not publish a profile picture spec page and the help page cited here could not be fetched, so 320 by 320 is the long reported stored size rather than an official figure.
Questions about Instagram profile picture sizes
320 by 320 pixels. Upload a square at least that large; anything bigger is scaled down. It is displayed as a circle at about 110 pixels in the app and 32 pixels beside comments, so test the mark at thumbnail size before you commit to it.
Usually the source was under 320 pixels, or it was a screenshot of an already compressed logo. Export fresh from the original artwork at 320 pixels or more, PNG for a flat mark and JPG for a photograph, and avoid sending it through a messaging app first.
Other Instagram sizes
Instagram Post
1080 x 1350 pixels, 4:5.
Size guideInstagram Square Post
1080 x 1080 pixels, 1:1.
Size guideInstagram Landscape Post
1080 x 566 pixels, 1.91:1.
Size guideInstagram Story
1080 x 1920 pixels, 9:16.
Size guideInstagram Reel
1080 x 1920 pixels, 9:16.
Size guideInstagram Reel Cover
1080 x 1920 pixels, 9:16.
Size guideInstagram Carousel
1080 x 1350 pixels, 4:5.
Size guideInstagram Highlight Cover
1080 x 1920 pixels, 9:16.
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