Discord Video Compressor

Drop your video into the box above. The target is already set to 19 MB, just under Discord's free limit, so you can press Compress Video Now straight away; the plan underneath shows the resolution and quality it will use before you start. When it finishes, play the result, check the size, and download it. If you have Nitro, choose Custom and enter 49 (Nitro Basic) or 490 (Nitro) instead.

Discord's upload limits

Discord raised the free limit from 10 MB to 20 MB on August 13, 2026. Many "Discord compressors" — and the 8 MB ones from before 2024 — still aim far lower, which throws away more than half the quality you are allowed. The limits, the history and why some files under 20 MB still fail are covered in our guide to theDiscord file size limit.

What fits in 20 MB

Nineteen megabytes is about 160 megabits, and it has to cover every second of picture and sound. How good the result looks depends mostly on how long the clip is. This is what the compressor chooses for a typical 1080p phone or screen recording:

Up to a minute stays sharp; up to two looks good on a phone, which is where most Discord clips are watched. For anything longer, trim it to the part worth sharing, orsplit it into several pieces and send each one. Halving the length roughly doubles the quality you can afford.

Why it does not come back at 20.4 MB

The usual way to "compress to a size" is to divide it by the duration and hand the encoder that bitrate. Encoders treat a bitrate as a target, not a promise, so the file often lands a few percent over and Discord rejects it. This compressor sets aside room for the sound and the file's own structure first, gives the picture only what is left, then weighs the finished file. If it is over, it re-encodes with a corrected budget — up to four passes — so the file you download fits. If a clip is too long for any watchable picture to fit, it tells you instead.

Game clips and screen recordings

Clips from OBS, ShadowPlay or the Xbox Game Bar are often 60 fps and recorded at a high bitrate. At a 20 MB budget the compressor lowers the resolution before it starves each frame, because a clean 720p clip looks better in a Discord embed than a blocky 1080p one. If your recorder saved a WebM or MKV, drop it in as it is — the output is an MP4 that plays inline on desktop and mobile.

Why it runs in your browser

Online compressors upload the whole video, compress it on a server and send it back — slow for a large recording and a privacy risk for anything personal. This one uses your device's own hardware video encoder, so a 200 MB clip never has to travel anywhere, and there is no watermark, sign-up or file-count limit.