Reduce any image to under 5MB without sending it to a server. Near-lossless quality at this size, perfect for stock photos, professional delivery, and 5MB upload limits.
Last updated: August 2026
5MB
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JPEG, WebP
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Drop image here to compress to 5120KB
JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC. All processing stays in your browser.
Already have a result and want a different size or format? Just change the target field or click JPEG or WebP, no need to drop the file in again.
Five steps from file to download. Everything stays in your browser.
Drop or select your image
Drag any JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or HEIC file onto the tool. The file stays entirely on your device. No upload happens.
The tool checks your file size
If your image is already under 5MB, you will be told immediately and offered the option to download the original. No unnecessary compression.
Quality 100 is checked first
A full-quality encode is tried before anything else, and used directly if it already fits under 5MB. If it doesn't, the tool searches down to the highest quality that fits, running in a background worker so the tab stays responsive. If quality alone would have to drop low enough to look genuinely bad, it also trims dimensions slightly rather than deliver a poor result, though this is rare at a 5MB target.
Fine-tune without starting over
Change the target size or switch between JPEG and WebP afterward and the tool recompresses automatically, no need to drop the file in again.
Download your compressed image
The result appears with a preview and file size stats. Click download to save the compressed file to your device.
5MB is the largest target on this site and is aimed at professional workflows where quality is the primary concern.
Stock photo agencies
Many agencies require submissions between 2MB and 6MB. Compressing an oversized RAW export to 5MB meets these limits while preserving all commercial detail.
Professional photography delivery
Delivering a full wedding or event shoot via cloud link works best when individual files are under 5MB. Clients download faster and storage costs are lower.
Design platform uploads
Figma, Canva and similar tools have practical file size limits for image assets. Keeping source photos under 5MB prevents slow imports and large project file sizes.
Large format print files
Print shops and on-demand printers often accept files up to 5MB for standard products. This target keeps the file within platform limits while retaining enough detail for quality printing.
Getting a file under 5MB is rarely the hard part, almost any reasonable photo compresses well within that budget. The tool actually checks a full quality 100 encode first, and for most photos at a 5MB target that already fits, so no search is needed at all and you get the maximum quality the format allows. Only if quality 100 overshoots does it search downward for the highest quality that fits, rather than guessing at a fixed value. That search, and the fast-path check before it, both run in a background Web Worker, so even a large source file doesn't lock up the tab while it processes.
There's also a safety net most compressors don't bother with. If hitting 5MB somehow required dropping quality low enough to look genuinely bad, the tool won't just deliver that. Instead it trims the pixel dimensions down slightly and re-runs the quality search at that smaller size. At a 5MB target this almost never triggers, it exists mainly to protect the much smaller targets on this site, like compress to 100KB, where a strict file size and a large source photo are more likely to collide.
Once a result appears, changing the target size field or switching between JPEG and WebP doesn't require dropping the file in again. The tool keeps the decoded image cached and reruns compression automatically, typing a new target waits briefly until you stop typing, clicking a format button applies immediately. That's useful here in particular, since it's easy to start at 5MB and realize afterward that a platform's actual limit is closer to 2MB or 1MB.
If you're coming from a camera or an iPhone, your source file may already be in a format this tool doesn't output directly. HEIC and HEIF photos are accepted as input, but if you'd rather convert first and inspect the result before compressing, use HEIC to JPG as a separate first step. The same applies to PNG source files, they're accepted here too, but the output is always JPEG or WebP, never PNG.
For professional delivery, file size usually isn't the only thing that matters. If the shoot includes location data you'd rather not share, run the compressed file through remove EXIF data as well, compression alone already strips this, but it's worth confirming if privacy matters for the shoot. If you need to protect proofs before a client has paid, an watermark added before compression is a common step. And if a specific platform actually caps pixel dimensions rather than file size, pair this with the resize tool first.
Choosing JPEG for an image with transparency
JPEG output has no transparency support at all, so any transparent areas will not survive. If the tool detects transparency in your source and JPEG is selected, it warns you and offers a one-click switch to WebP, which keeps transparency intact.
Assuming dimensions never change
In the vast majority of cases at a 5MB target, only encoder quality is adjusted. But the tool will reduce dimensions slightly as a last resort if quality alone would have to drop low enough to look genuinely bad. Check the result panel, if scaling happened, it's shown there as a percentage of the original.
Using 5MB when the real limit is much smaller
5MB is the largest target on this site and is meant for professional workflows. If you're actually uploading to a job portal, government form or exam site, those usually cap uploads far lower, often 100KB to 500KB. Check the platform's stated limit rather than assuming 5MB is always safe.
Confusing file size with pixel dimensions
Compressing to 5MB reduces file size, not the image's pixel dimensions. If a platform actually needs smaller dimensions (for example, a maximum width), use the resize tool separately.
Missing the already-under-target banner
If your file is already smaller than 5MB, the tool shows a banner and skips compression entirely rather than re-encoding it. It's easy to miss this and assume compression ran when it didn't.
Assuming the encoder is capped somewhere below 100
It isn't. The tool checks a full quality 100 encode first and only searches downward if that overshoots your target. At a generous 5MB budget, quality 100 fits for most photos, so you're often getting the maximum quality the format allows with no compromise at all.
5MB is the practical ceiling for many professional image platforms. Photography submission portals, stock image agencies, print-on-demand services and some social platforms cap uploads at 5MB. RAW exports from high-megapixel cameras can be 20MB to 50MB, so compressing to 5MB reduces file size significantly while keeping quality at a professional standard.
For almost any photo taken with a smartphone or consumer camera, a full quality 100 encode. The tool checks quality 100 first, before searching at all, and at a generous 5MB target that full-quality encode very often already fits under the budget. Only if it doesn't does the search step down to find the highest quality that fits, there's no artificial ceiling below 100.
Yes. Many stock agencies accept JPEG submissions up to certain file size limits. If your exported file is larger than the agency's ceiling, compressing to 5MB meets their technical requirements while keeping the image commercially usable. Always check the agency's specific pixel dimension requirements in addition to file size.
Cropping never happens on this page. Dimensions are also left untouched in the vast majority of cases, the tool only reduces encoder quality. The one exception is when quality would have to drop low enough to look genuinely bad in order to fit under 5MB. In that rare situation, the tool reduces dimensions slightly rather than hand you a low-quality result, and shows this on the result panel as a percentage of the original size. At a 5MB target this fallback is rarely triggered.
The tool detects this immediately and shows a banner confirming your image is already below the 5MB target, with its exact current size. It will not compress the file unnecessarily. You can download the original file directly, lower the target size, or drop a different image.
JPEG or WebP, whichever you select. PNG, AVIF, HEIC and HEIF are all accepted as input, but this tool always outputs JPEG or WebP, there is no PNG output option here. If your PNG has a transparent background, choose WebP output, since JPEG does not support transparency and will lose it.
JPEG is the safer default, it's accepted everywhere, including platforms and portals that don't recognize WebP. WebP typically reaches the same file size at a somewhat higher visual quality, and it's the only output option here that preserves transparency. If the destination platform's format requirements aren't specified, JPEG is the lower-risk choice.
This is very unlikely at a 5MB target, since even a large photo usually compresses well within that budget. If it does happen, for an extremely high-resolution or high-detail image, the tool delivers the smallest, best-quality result it could find and flags on the result panel that the exact target wasn't reached. Try a lower-resolution source image if this occurs.
Yes. The tool keeps the decoded image cached, so adjusting the target size field or clicking JPEG or WebP after a result already appears triggers an automatic recompress rather than asking you to drop the file in again. Typing a new target waits briefly until you stop typing before it recompresses, switching format applies right away.
No. The quality check and search both run in a background Web Worker rather than on the page's main thread, so the tab stays responsive and scrollable even while a large RAW export or high-resolution photo compresses.
No. The image is decoded to raw pixels and re-encoded during compression, so EXIF metadata, including GPS location and camera details, is not carried over to the output file.
No. Compression runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly, including the background worker that runs the encoding loop. Your image is never sent anywhere.
This page compresses one image at a time. If you're delivering a full shoot or a batch of files, you'll need to run each one through separately here.
Almost never at this target. Dimensions only change if the tool cannot hit 5MB at an acceptable quality using compression alone, which is rare for a 5MB budget. If it does need to scale down, the exact scale used is shown on the result panel.
Only if you choose WebP output. JPEG output has no transparency support at all, so any transparent areas in your source image will not be preserved if you compress to JPEG. If the tool detects transparency in your source and JPEG is selected, it shows a warning explaining this, with a one-click button to switch to WebP.
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