Profile Picture Size Guide: Every Platform's Dimensions in 2026
Every platform wants a square image and then shows it as a circle. That single fact explains most of the profile-picture problems people run into: heads that get cut off, logos with their edges shaved away, avatars that look sharp on one app and blurry on another. This guide collects the current dimensions for the platforms people actually use, and, more usefully, explains the handful of rules that make a photo work on all of them at once.
The one rule that covers almost everything
If you remember nothing else: upload a square image at 800 × 800 px or larger. Platforms downscale beautifully and upscale terribly, so a generous square gives every service enough pixels to render you crisply, including on Retina and high-DPI screens where a small image looks soft. You almost never need to match each platform's exact display size; you just need to feed it enough resolution in a 1:1 ratio and let it do the cropping.
Profile picture sizes by platform (2026)
"Display size" is how large the avatar actually appears; "recommended upload" is what you should hand the platform so it has headroom. When in doubt, go with the upload column.
| Platform | Display | Upload | Shape | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 400 × 400 px | 800 × 800 px | Circle | Stored square, shown as a circle on profile and in feeds. | |
| 110 × 110 px | 1080 × 1080 px | Circle | Displays tiny, but the high-res copy is used in the Stories ring. | |
| 170 × 170 px | 720 × 720 px | Circle | Square on your profile header, circular almost everywhere else. | |
| X (Twitter) | 400 × 400 px | 800 × 800 px | Circle | Max 2 MB; animated GIFs are not allowed for the avatar. |
| TikTok | 200 × 200 px | 1080 × 1080 px | Circle | Reads at thumbnail size in the feed, keep it bold and simple. |
| YouTube | 98 × 98 px | 800 × 800 px | Circle | Channel icon; min 98px but upload larger. PNG/GIF, max 4 MB. |
| Discord | 128 × 128 px | 512 × 512 px | Circle | Shown beside every message; high contrast wins at 40px. |
| 192 × 192 px | 640 × 640 px | Circle | Compressed heavily, close-up faces survive best. | |
| 165 × 165 px | 600 × 600 px | Circle | Business and personal profiles both display as a circle. | |
| Twitch | 300 × 300 px | 600 × 600 px | Circle | Max 10 MB; JPG, PNG, or GIF. |
| GitHub | 420 × 420 px | 800 × 800 px | Rounded square | One of the few that keeps soft corners rather than a full circle. |
| Slack | 512 × 512 px | 1024 × 1024 px | Rounded square | Displayed with rounded corners in the sidebar and message list. |
Why the circle ruins so many photos
Platforms store your square upload but mask it to a circle for display. The corners of your image, up to about 21% of its total area, are simply hidden. If your composition relies on anything in those corners (the top of your head, a shoulder, text in a logo), it disappears the moment the mask is applied. The fix is to compose with the circle in mind: keep your face or subject centered, leave 10–15% breathing room on all sides, and put your eyes roughly a third of the way down from the top.
A simple pre-upload checklist
- • Square it first. A 1:1 crop means the platform never makes surprise cropping decisions for you.
- • Center the subject. Assume the corners will be cut and the edges will be tight.
- • Start big. 800–1080 px square is plenty; below 400 px starts to look soft.
- • Export as PNG if you want a transparent, pre-circled image you can reuse anywhere.
- • Check the small size. Zoom out to 15%, if you can't tell who it is, simplify the shot.
How to make a perfectly sized circular avatar
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