Compress a video for Discord

1. Choose the video, or drop it on the page: a clip from OBS, your graphics card's recorder, your phone or anything else.
2. Leave Discord (20 MB) picked. The estimate shows the picture size and quality you'll get.
3. Press Compress video, and wait about as long as the video plays.
4. Download the MP4 and drag it into Discord.

A file's size is its bitrate times its length, so the same 20 MB holds a short clip in full HD or a long one at a smaller size. For a 30 fps video with sound:

60 fps footage needs more bits for the same look, so fits a little under these; the compressor allows for its frame rate.

• Without Nitro: 20 MB a file. Discord doubled it from 10 MB in August 2026, on every platform, so guides that say 8 or 10 MB are out of date.
• Nitro Basic: 50 MB.
• Nitro: up to 1 GB, doubled from 500 MB in 2026.

The limit is per file. Two halves of a long clip, each under 20 MB, go up as two messages: cut them with the video splitter.

Game footage is the hardest kind to squeeze: everything on screen moves, often at 60 frames a second. Trim to the moment first with the video trimmer, then compress: fifteen seconds at 20 MB looks far better than a minute. TikTok and Shorts take far bigger files, so there's nothing to compress for them; read how to compress a video for the rest.