Compress Video for Discord
Shrink any video under Discord's 10 MB free upload limit — right in your browser, no watermark.
Free · No signup · Files never leave your device
Drag and drop a video file
or click to browse
Pick a quality preset or an exact target size — like 25 MB for email — after choosing a video.
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How it works
Drop your video
It stays on your device — nothing is uploaded.
Compressed to 10 MB locally
The video is re-encoded right in your browser — hardware accelerated when your browser supports it. Adjust the target size or add a downscale first if you like.
Download and share
Get an MP4 that fits Discord — free, no watermark.
Getting a clip under 10 MB without ruining it
Ten megabytes is tight — about the hardest target of any major platform — so how you compress matters. The two biggest levers are length and resolution: a 30-second clip at 720p fits comfortably in 10 MB at decent quality, while a 5-minute 4K video cannot. If your video is long, cut it down to the moment you actually want to share with our video trimmer first, then compress.
Gaming clips deserve a special note: fast motion and high detail are the most demanding content to encode, so expect visible compression on long high-action clips. Enabling the downscale option (720p is plenty for a chat embed) frees up bitrate where it counts.
Hardware-accelerated when your browser supports it
On Chrome and Edge, compression uses your machine's hardware video encoder via WebCodecs, so even multi-hundred-megabyte files finish in well under real time. Everything happens on your device — the video is never uploaded to a server, which also means no queue and no size-based pricing.
Frequently asked questions
Free accounts can upload files up to 10 MB. Nitro Basic raises the limit to 50 MB and full Nitro to 500 MB. This page presets a 10 MB target so the result uploads on any account; you can change the target if you have Nitro.
You set a target size and the compressor calculates the video bitrate needed to land just under it, leaving a small margin for the container. If the target is too small for the video length, it warns you before starting instead of producing unwatchable quality.
It depends on how far the video needs to shrink. Halving a file is usually invisible; squeezing a 500 MB video under 10 MB is very noticeable. Two things help a lot: trim the video to just the part you need first, and enable the resolution downscale option — fewer pixels means more bitrate per pixel.
Discord doesn't compress videos — files over your limit are simply rejected. Compressing locally first keeps you in control of the quality trade-off and produces an MP4 that plays inline in the chat.
Yes. The video compressor is completely free, with no signup, watermarks, or limits. We make money from our video translation service, not from this tool.
No. The compression happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly. Your file never leaves your device — you can even disconnect from the internet once the page has loaded.