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Instagram profile picture size: 320 × 320 px

The square avatar, at the size Instagram actually stores it at.

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Instagram profile picture size at a glance

Why 320 × 320 is enough — and why to upload more

Instagram stores profile pictures at 320 × 320 and displays them far smaller: roughly 110 pixels in the app and 150 on the web. Anything larger than 320 is discarded. That makes this one of the few sizes on the site where the ceiling is genuinely low, and where a 4000-pixel logo file gains you nothing at all.

The rule that matters more than the pixel count is the mask. The file is square and the display is a circle, so the corners are cut off — about 21 percent of the area of a square is outside its inscribed circle. A logo that fills its square edge to edge loses its corners; a wordmark set across the full width loses its first and last letters.

At 110 pixels, detail disappears. A full company wordmark is unreadable at that size, which is why almost every brand avatar is a monogram, an icon or a face. Build the mark inside a circle drawn at 320 pixels, then look at it at 110 before you upload it — if it does not read there, no amount of resolution will help.

How to resize an image to 320 × 320

  1. Drop your image on the panel above — or paste it, or drop several at once to do a batch.
  2. The width and height are already set to 320 × 320, and the aspect lock is off so both numbers are honoured exactly.
  3. If your source is a different shape, crop it to 1:1 first — resizing a different ratio straight to these numbers stretches it.
  4. Pick an output format. JPEG for photographs, PNG for flat colour, text and anything needing transparency.
  5. Download. Nothing was uploaded at any point — the resize ran on your own machine, in this tab.

Questions

Should I upload something bigger than 320 × 320?

Uploading a somewhat larger square is harmless and gives Instagram a cleaner source to downsample, but nothing above 320 is stored. What matters is that it is square and that the subject sits inside the circle.

Why does my logo look cut off?

Because the square is masked to a circle. Leave a margin of roughly 10 percent on all four sides and nothing lands in the trimmed corners.

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