Instagram profile picture size
The Instagram profile picture size is 320x320 pixels, a ratio of 1:1. Check yours in the browser and see what the circular mask cuts from the corners.
Every Instagram profile picture size
| Where it is used | Pixels | Ratio | What the number is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stored upload | 320x320 | 1:1 | What Instagram keeps when you set a profile photo. |
| Drawn on your profile | 110x110 | 1:1 | The size your picture is actually rendered at on a phone profile. |
| Source to crop from | 1080x1080 | 1:1 | Start here and crop down: a larger square leaves room to reframe. |
Check an image you already have
Choose a file and this says whether it fits, and what gets cropped if it does not.
Resize it to these pixelsEvery Instagram profile picture size, in pixels
A profile picture is the smallest image on Instagram and the one seen most often, because it appears beside every post, every comment and every story ring you will ever publish.
- Stored upload: 320x320px, a ratio of 1:1. What Instagram keeps when you set a profile photo.
- Drawn on your profile: 110x110px, a ratio of 1:1. The size your picture is actually rendered at on a phone profile.
- Source to crop from: 1080x1080px, a ratio of 1:1. Start here and crop down: a larger square leaves room to reframe.
- It is stored square and drawn as a circle, so the corners of whatever you upload are never visible to anybody.
- At the size a phone profile draws it, a wordmark is a grey smudge. One letter, a symbol or a face fills the circle and reads.
- Beside a comment it is smaller still, which is the size most people ever actually see it at.
- Instagram does not let you reposition an avatar afterwards the way it does a post, so the crop you upload is the crop you keep.
Check a file you already have against the Instagram profile picture size
Avatars go wrong in a way no other image does: they are nearly always cropped out of something else, and the crop is round. Measuring the file first tells you whether the circle is about to take the top of a head off.
- Pick the target first. This page carries 3 Instagram profile picture sizes, and a verdict only means something against one of them.
- Choose your image. It is opened by this browser tab and measured on a canvas, so the file never leaves the machine you are sitting at and there is no queue or upload to wait for.
- Read the result: an exact match at 320x320, the same 1:1 shape at a different scale, or a crop with the axis that loses pixels named.
- If it is wrong, open the Instagram resizer linked underneath. It exports to these exact numbers instead of leaving the decision to the platform.
- Keep the face or the mark in the middle of the square with a clear margin, because the circle cuts the corners and a story ring takes a little more.
What Instagram does when the shape is wrong
A profile picture that is not square is not rejected. Instagram takes a square out of the middle of it and then draws a circle inside that, so two crops run in sequence on the file you hand over.
- A portrait photo loses its top and bottom, and since faces usually sit in the upper half, the top is what goes.
- A wide logo loses both ends, which on a wordmark means the first and last letters.
- A small file is enlarged to the stored size, and because the avatar sits beside sharp interface type it looks softer there than it would anywhere else.
What a profile picture has to do at thumbnail size
The size is the easy part, and the rest is a design question with a single rule: it has to be recognisable at the width of a fingernail, beside fifty others, on a screen that somebody is scrolling past.
- A face reads smaller than a logo does, which is why personal accounts win the circle so easily.
- High contrast against the background survives the shrink. Thin strokes, gradients and drop shadows do not.
- Keep it the same across networks. The avatar is how people recognise you in a list, and changing it costs more than it gains.
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Related free tools
- Instagram image resizerResize any image to the exact dimensions Instagram expects: square post 1080x1080, plus every other Instagram size. Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded.
- Instagram post sizeThe Instagram post size is 1080x1080 pixels, a ratio of 1:1. Check a file against it in your browser and see which edges the square feed crop would eat.
- Instagram carousel sizeThe Instagram carousel size is 1080x1350 pixels, a ratio of 4:5. Check every slide in the browser: one odd shape sets the crop for the whole carousel.
Frequently asked questions
How this tool works, what it cannot do, and what happens to what you put into it.
What is the Instagram profile picture size?
320x320 pixels, a ratio of 1:1. Instagram stores a square and draws a circle inside it, and displays that far smaller again, so the upload size is about having room to crop rather than about detail.What if my image is not 320x320?
A square is taken out of the middle automatically and then rounded. The upload never fails, but whatever sat at the edges of your picture will not be inside the circle.Is my image uploaded when I check it?
No. The file is opened by your own browser, measured, and forgotten when you close the tab. It is never sent to us, so there is nothing on our side to keep, leak or delete.Why does my Instagram profile picture look blurry?
Usually because it was enlarged from something small, such as a screenshot of another avatar or a logo pulled off a website. Start from the largest square you have, crop it there, and upload that. Since the picture is stored small there is no advantage in a huge file, but there is a real penalty for one that started tiny.Is my data private?
Yes. This tool does its work in your browser, so whatever you type, paste or upload stays on your device. Nothing is sent to our servers, which is also why it keeps working if you go offline after the page has loaded.Is this really free?
Yes. Every tool here is free with no account, no credit card and no usage cap. They exist so that the people who need our scheduling product find us, which only works if the tools are genuinely useful on their own.Do I need an account?
No. Open the page and use it. An account is only for OctoSpark itself, where you plan, schedule and publish a whole calendar rather than fixing one post at a time.Can I use the output commercially?
Yes. Anything you produce here is yours, including for client and commercial work. We claim no rights over it and we do not watermark it.