Compress an image to 200KB

Enough headroom that quality stops being the problem.

Drop images here

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Output

Compress

Target size

KBWe tune quality (and scale down if needed) until each image fits under the target.

Max dimensionpx (optional)Caps the longest edge. Images smaller than this are never enlarged.

Step 1Drop your imagesAnywhere on the page
Step 2Set target 200 KBAlready selected for you
Step 3Download the resultOne file or a zip

This limit shows up most often on document uploads rather than photograph fields. Forms that ask for a 50KB passport photo will frequently allow 200KB for the accompanying mark sheet or identity proof, precisely because a page of text needs the extra bytes to stay readable.

Where 200KB does bite is on modern phone photos. A 48-megapixel image straight from a recent handset can be 8MB or more, and squeezing that to 200KB without touching its dimensions means a very low quality setting. In that situation, setting a max dimension of around 1600px produces a noticeably better result than letting quality absorb the entire reduction — you rarely need full sensor resolution for an upload.

If you are compressing several pages of a scanned document, keep the settings identical across all of them. Mixed quality between pages of the same document looks careless to whoever reviews it.

Quality preserved

Little to sacrifice

At 200KB the interesting question stops being how much quality you must sacrifice and becomes whether you need to sacrifice any. Most single photographs reach this size near the top of the quality range, which means the output is effectively indistinguishable from the original.

Not sure it held up? Every result has a Compare button — drag the divider to see your original against the processed version at full size.

Common questions

Will 200KB be enough for a multi-page document scan?

For each page individually, yes. Compress the pages separately so each gets its own 200KB budget rather than trying to fit the whole set into one file.

My phone photo looks soft at 200KB. What should I change?

Set a max dimension of about 1600px. A very large source forced to 200KB spends its entire budget describing pixels you do not need, and reducing the dimensions first leaves far more quality for the pixels that remain.

Is there any benefit to going below the limit?

Only speed of upload. If the form accepts 200KB there is no advantage to submitting 40KB, and you lose quality for nothing. Aim just under the stated limit.